The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-10-26

Graves by the Burlington railroad
west OF the Missouri river.
Judge r. T.. Evans, cx-district judge
of the Eighth judicial district of Ne
braska, said today:
con one occasion since Judge
Graves has been district judge ! went
into the Burlington depot at Omaha
with him. | bought "A ticket and Judge
Graves did not We were both bound
for Lincoln. We went into the same
car and sat behind him. ! was In.
terested in knowing whether or not he
paid his fare. when the conductor
came along Judge Graves handed n
card to him The conductor looked
at the card, returned it to Judge
Graves and passed on"
When Judge Graves went to Hot
Springs and Deadwood, why did he go
around by Omaha, Lincoln and through
the southern part of the state over the
Burlington, rather than by the North
western, which would have saved him
many hours and miles OF travel. II he
was paying fun railroad fare? Did he
pay cash over this longer route just
for the sake Of throwing his money
away, or did he use Burlington pass?
Judge Graves was nominated be-
cause his democratic friends had been
led to believe that Ibis pocket had
never been polluted with political or
other kind of free railroad pass" He
was nominated because his democratic
! friends believed that his battlecry, "A
pass is a bribe," would carry him into
the halls OF congress and that he
needed no other qualification. Judge
Graves was nominated because his
friends were led to believe that he
could stand up on the platform they
made for him.
On the first day people believed that
platform. A little later Judge Graves
admitted in a letter that he had So
licited passes over the M. & o. rail
road-a line that runs through his
district--for his wife and mother-in-
law. A little while after that he adj
mitted that he had asked for a pass
for his housemaid to Denver and re-
turn. and the pass was granted. Now
he Is forced to admit that he has re-
ceived pass for himself from the
Burlington railroad every year since
he was elected Judge. The pass
that was issued to him last January
has never been returned, although his
friends have been telling all this time
how he "sent them back" He rode
from Omaha to Lincoln over Il J same
Burlington railroad by showing a caro-
to the conductor.
Judge Graves says that to accept 6
railroad favor is bride. He said thai
before he was discovered to have &C
copied railroad favors
And after few short weeks it has
been made known that he has solicit
ed and received passes over roads II
his district for at least his wife, hi!
mother-in-law, and his domestic. He
admits that he has received passe
from the Burlington for himself AM
having admitted these things one afte
another, will Judge Graves deny tina
he has in his possession a Burlington
pass today, that he has travelled from
Omaha to Lincoln on a pass, and tina
he went to the Black Hills on pass
If he is right and pass is bride
what is it for a man to allow hi
friends to clothe him in virtues whicl
he has not just for the sake Of sordi,
votes and personal advancement?
Judge Graves managers are quoting
from the Stanton Picket an articl
which that paper never printed, 70
the purpose of deceiving the voters
His pockets, by his own statement
have been polluted"
His bluff has been called. TIL
Third district has had enough.