The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-11-02
BEFORE AND AFTER.

As the Grand Island Democrat seems
to be the loudest newspaper In the OPP
position in its rawlings about Burlington
influence and passes in connection with
the candidacy of Webster S. Morlan,
the Republican nominee for congress
man, it seems mete and right to refer to
an article that appeared In that paper
early in the campaign, and compare 1t
with the facts OF the campaign at the
present time:
longer a passive" politician. He was nomi-
mated by the Republicans of this, the Fifth,
district for congress. Mr.. Morlan is a lawyer,
and there is no better lawyer in the state. He
is a Republican, but an anti-expansionist of
the outspoken sort; neither is he a high pro-
%tectionist. He is a Quaker in religion, and in
the church received his sobriquet of deacon"
But, better than all, Morlan is a gentleman by
nature. He is a first-class man; but in poll
tics is essentially a creation of the Burlington
railroad. This not being a b. &. M. year in
Nebraska, it is too bad to sacrifice him; for a
corporation spokesman is already defeated
Grand Island Democrat. April 27tb, 1000.
A perusal of the above article and a
comparison of the same with later ut
terances must irresistibly force the
reader to the conclusion that the editor
has been inspired" by the Fusion
management i'll his later attempts to
play the demagogue and by throwing
dust seek to obscure the real facts in the
campaign. 1t is the trick of the design
ing and constituencies politician trying
to fool the people. for it is a generally
known fact that Mr.. Shallenberger's
chairman is a Democratic Burlington
honLar of HacfIruS acf,RCIanv calPctRi
for his ability to secure Burlington passes
and use Burlington influence 1t is also
just as generally and widely known that
Mr.. Shallenberger's advisers and mani
pulators all over the district are Burling-
ton lawyers, as is the case in Red Cloud,
Beaver City, Alma, Elwood, Culbertson
and other points. And it is openly
alleged that the Fusion chairman has
distributed passes than any legis-
lative candidate on the Republican ticket
has dreamed of. On the other hand the
chairman of the Republican congress
ional committee has been painfully
short of the persuasive paste-boards and
Mr.. Morlan's friends all too we'll know
that his pass-giving, since his election,
has been confined to strictly railroad
business.
Not only, it seems, is the Fusion man.
agement seeking to thus draw attention
away from the fact of the Fusion nomi-
nee being distinctly 'next" to all this
dreadful Burlington influence and passes,
but to cover over Mr.. Shallenberger's
record as a gold-bug banker, as an op-
ponent o. Populism, and to afford a cover
for extensive trading of votes.
The record is that he was a"Cleveland
Sound Money Lacquer" a gold-bug at
heart, who helped throw Mr.. Bryan
over the transom in the convention of
1894, but who finally saw the lights' in
1896, quit hating and knitting Populists
down in Harlan county, and has since
peer any old thing for Office.
Again, he is a banker, who, though
owning a controlling interest in the
Bank of Alma, denies his business by
withdrawing his name from the station
cry and advertisements of his bank and
announces himself as a breeder of fine
cattle. His record as a usurer and pur-
chaser of notes secured by fake doctors
and others from unsuspecting farmers
and afterward forcing their collection
because he was ar "%innocent purchaser"
were not considered the proper caper to
take before the farmers of the district
for their votes. Hence the "~stop-thief"
cry of corporation-infuence rot.