Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-05
LESLTrs NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

| county judge.
| In every campaign in which have ac-
lively participated within the past thirty
years candidates for office whom l have
opposed on the ground of being incompe-
| tent, disreputable, dishonest or tainted
by a bad record. have invariably sought
! to ward of unfavorabe criticism by
pronouncing the charges against them
as malicious falsehoods or charges fab
| ricated against them because they would
| not do my bidding. In this respect you
are no exception.
Instead of calmly and candidly meet
| ing the charges that have been preferred
against you, you try to distract public
attention from yourself just like the
| sleight of hand performer who asks his
audience to watch the fishes in the jar
while he is removing the birds from the
cage. 1 apprehend, however, that when
the returns come in next Tuesday night
you will discover that you have under
rated the intelligence and moral stamina
of this community. l feel sure the great
majority of the fathers, brothers and
sons of Omaha and Douglas county will
not confde to your care and keeping the
estates on which their mothers, wives,
children or sisters may become depend
, emit
Even If the contemplate innuendOes
! embodied in your interrogatories were
all absolutely true, they would consti-
| tute no excuse for placing upon the
bench man who has never had Il law
practice, or for electing as judge of pro
bate a man who for years has levied
lawless fees upon helpless heirs and put
them in his own pocket.
According to your shameless confess
sion, your ideal of a judge is Duncan
NJ. Vinsonhaler, and you ask the citi-
zens of Omaha to vindicate him by
electing you as his successor. You not
only propose to continue the profitable
county court industry by which married
couples are confidenced into paying 81
for a nickel chrome marriage certificate,
| but you also propose to continue the
head tax for posting notices to legatees
and allow your clerks to pocket notarial
fees, which under the law should be paid
into the county treasury.
Your impertinent interrogatories have
no terrors for me. l am not a man
afraid of his record, nor a man who
lodges an issue. l propose to answer
each of your questions without evasion
| or equivocation, although they have no
relevancy to your qualifications for jul
dicial office or trustwOrthiness as Gus
tOdian of widows and orphans funds.
| You ask:
| l. Has he q. w. Woodrough, democratic
candidate for county judge agreed with
| you that The Bee shall have the publlca-
ton of the county court notices?
TO this l answer emphatically, No. 1
| have made 10 conditions whatever with
Mr.. Woodrough for patronage. Neither
have l asked nor authorized anybody to
make them for me.
| 2 Has he (woodrough) agreed to grant
and refuse processes for political reasons at
| your request?
! This is an insult by innuendo to Mr..
| Woodrough as well as to myself Mr..
Woodrough is the law partner Of Will
liam +. Gurley, and has been, at least
on one occasion, employed in libel
suit against The Bee. My preference
for him over you is voluntary and with
| out personal or political obligation. Be
ing a democrat he could not grant or
refuse me judicial processes for political
reasons, if / were disposed to ask for
| them.
g. Has he CWoodrough) agreed to permit
| you TO dictate the clerical help that he
should employ in his office?
TO this question l answer emphatic
ally, No. The only thing l have asked
him to do is to take off the lid and clean
| the grafters out.
| T. Has he Cwoodrough) agreed TO support
you for United States senator next fail, as
I have been asked to do?
| This question stamps you as con-
| temptible prevaricatOr. There is not
man or woman living, including the
members of my own family, to whom
have even intimated that am candi-
! date for United States senator, and
certainly would never have asked your
support even If l were an avowed can
| didate.
s. Has he CWoodrougm agreed to take
! Bee building stock as security for funds of
widows and orphans loaned to the owner of
! the stock?
This is a replica by innuendo of para
graph one embodied ih Judge Vinson-
haler's appeal on your behalf. which
reads as follows:
| ]. L. Rosewater wanted to borrow from
| the Riley guardianship fund $4,000 and Of
fered Bee building stock collateral, which
| 1 refused.
There is just a semblance of truth in
this allegation, but it constituted no
grievance against Vinsonhaler on my
part About 1889 l borrowed $4,000
| for the construction of the Bee building
| from the Omaha Savings bank on what
it's managers considered first-class col
/ Ia toroI incInJing n COO OOa ITO InS,tr