Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-10
LOOKING FOR WARD
AND BACKW ARD
lCo0unuod from scventcenth rage)

widow Of John y. Logan out OF thousands
of dollars.
There is your great friend OF the soldier.
There Is no nced OF my going further SO far
as be is concerned. beyond ,his hat ! want
to know how can John l.. Webster or MIR.
Kennedy or any other man who values his
reputation in this community as-o .iat'
themselves with aud counteuanco the lead
crshi1 Of such a man. / want t. know
whether the republicans OF Douglas county
propose 20 so down in defeat by having any
relations whatever with that kind Cf creature
as is denounced in that paper. There was
mover more C0rsGwmuto rogue or con-
soi-nccloss swindlcr in any public position
In th!s city and ] will stand the consC-
qucnccs when this Is published for him to
60 in.o court and disproyc anything that I
have said.
OH ana W~tcr DO Not Assimilatc.
Wa are told that the rocau, detection in
the republican ranks is due {, tire difference
between Webster and RoseNatcr, ana they
say that il Webster and II sowatcr could get
together all deaflectiou would disappear AMI
harmony would hc restored. Now | want to
say right here that oil and water don't get
together very easy. applause and laugh
tc'D have no personal grievance against
Nj Webster. / Geyor had any personal
N'"'' VI N.''' "''''' "Au "9 '1'"''h "' '''N'-
vidually there are no differences that call
fer arbitration The difference hctwecp
myself and Mr.. Webster is purely Of
political nature. but thcso political d,Gor-
oEcCg arc as wide as was the blosdy chasm
between the north and south ana cannot be
brldged.
tlIet ana tareNcst | diHcr with MI. Web
ster mot because ne asplres to the lNltcd
Statea senate or to any other oilce, Tor
am no competitor OF his in any sense. ! am
opposed to him because his career has been
L great detrimcnt to republican supremacy
IN Nebraska, and has eNcrted dCmorali2ing
influence upon tho party Mr.. webster be-
lonE1 to that class cf partisan1 who never
SEQ anything 20 wrons in their own party
and never raise their voice against any
abuse however great so long al Il is com
mittcd by men of their own political creed
have known NJ. Webster for thirty years
and l have never heard him say one word
that would Indicate HIS disapprJyal OF cor
ruption and dishonesty in men entrusted
with positions OF responsibility and trust
and no has never uttered syllable that
would indicate that he has any sympathy
with the rank and file Of the party In It's
conflict with public thieves. That be
ing his makeup, there is moth
ms in common between us and
there never can be- l regard 1t the duty
of every man aspiring to party leadership
to sound the alarm when the party is |
threatened with disaster by faithle5s Ctll !
Cials that have been elected by the party |
deem 1T the duty of every true repub- !
lican to discountenance corruption and help !
to keep his party on the path Of integrity. |
This has been my standard and ideal of |
true republicanism. When l entered the |
political arena the first time l was elected |
to the legislature on the same ticket with |
David Butler, as a republican, but when l
became convinced that Butler had used his |
position as governor Of Nebraska for mer-
cenary ends l became an active leader in
the movement for his impeachment by the
legislature, which was republican. When we
had set that example the party was braced
up and strengthened. had no more conten-
tion with David Butler then than | have with
John L. Webster now. After we had
purged the party CT corruption it steadily
increased in numbers and ten years ago
we gave Harrison $4,000 majority. Had the
party continued to maintain high
standard of integrity on the part of it's
officers it would have been in power today
But the party gradually declined and de-
and by 1893 the state house was
permeated wim rank dishonesty 50 that
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tilr,' ,,l ,oi,,s, T., aoI,usin,, ,"itt, +bioying
nroo,I, -, ,a,,t,Iioor nav,
ho. or tbo 1egisIat,,ro ,ctod for the inn
noocb,ont hut Iobn l. Webster came 10
Ia fro,,t m - ,,,1rptor,, dafondor of tba
imneoched oTcials and nv exerting his
talents for nersuasive sonbistrv he man
,pod to clear tbon Two of the suDreme
irdpes voted NOT puiIty with a reprimanl,
and the chief iustice voted guilty. Had Mr..
Webster been clear-sighted and
rusty leader he would have fore
seen that the failure to
set an example against iobbery ana re,k-
less neglect of duty was bound to seriously
shake nublic confidence in the party. With
1rounsa as governor the places made vacant
oy mpeachment would have been filled by
clean and capable republicans. But Web
,ter's indIscreet defense Of the impeacbablas
was not done without compensation. In due
.ime Webster was able to draw pay for his
services through the liberality of Joe Bart
ev. lust as he managed to extract
no 0OO fror, the state treasury later on for
,lugglng M tbe maximum rate law
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