Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-01

DASTARDLT CONSPIRACT THROTTLED
Our local demo-pop contemporary has
n peculiar habit of putting up a straw
man and then knocking him down and
stamping on him with both feet like a
goat This is exactly what it is doing
in relation to the candidacy of Attorney
General Brown for United States sen
ator.
For some memorable reason no ordi-
nary mind reader can discern, the
for long time has been butting its
horns against the attorney general until
IT has worked itself into a snoutrage.
Under the pretext that Brown was
usurping its functions of playing hot
and cold on the railroad issue and the
square deal, he has been lampooned,
cartooned and run through a hot man
gle. To cap the climax, a story was
concocted that Brown had held a secret
conference at Fremont with Ross Ham
mond. r. Il. Schneider and General Man.
ager Bidwell OF the Northwestern rail-
way, who are charged with then and
there, unlawfully and feloniously con-
spring against the peace and dignity
Of the republican party, in particular
and the people of Nebraska in general,
TO have Browns measure taken by the
corporation tailors for senatorial toga,
there and thereafter to become the serv-
ant and bond slave of said fabricator
of senatorial togas for the term of six
years, and. furthermore, for several
more terms, without equivocation or
provocation. To this unholy compact
the aforesaid Brown and the other
aforesaid conspirators, towit: Ross
Hammond. Reuben h. Schneider and
George f. Bidwel, are charged with
having unlawfully affixed their hands
and seal, before the Notorious Public,
and further deponent saith not.
And now come the accusers and i'm
peachers of the aforesaid Brown and
his accomplices and ask the high court
Of public opinion to pass sentence upon
them, without mercy or other evidence,
although they expressly and emphatic
ally deny in toto having been parties to
the alleged conspiracy against the peo-
pie of this commonwealth, but. on the
contrary, aver that at least two of the
persons named can prove an alibi, viz:
That while George +. Bldwell admits
that he is general manager Of the North
western railway at this time and may
be some other time, he denies being
within fifty miles of Fremont at the time
he is accused OF being assembled in star
chamber with the other persons named
in the indictment; and further, that the
aforesaid Schneider, in his capacity as
manager of grain elevators, was en-
gagged at the hour named in said indict-
ment in operating tanning mill,
separating the grain from the chaff, to
be shipped from Fremont. in the county
Of Dodge, to the Fake mill, in the city of
Omaha.
1t is known to all men in these parts
that the court Of public opinion Is not
to be trified with and will take no sub
stitutes for its victims any more than
the federal court, which declined to in
carcerate Rev. Beecher in place of Rev.
Ware, and that supreme tribunal has
adjudged the various and sundry de-
PENDANTS guilty in advance. A motion
for a new trial having been summarily
denied and sentence solemnly pro-
nounced, they are peremptorily re-
manded into the chamber of horrors of
the Senior Yellow, where they are to
remain on exhibition from day to day
until the close of the senatorial cam
paign.