Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-17
HITCHCOCK MARES REPLY
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World-Herald and I were indebted to about
every bank in Omaha, to many banks in
other cities and towns and to individual
friends and money lenders generally. My
credit was poor and much OF my property
was mortgaged. 1 cannot remember the
aggregate amount OF my Indebtedness, but
IL was probably over $4,000, divided per-
haps among thirty or forty individuals and
banks.
"Twelfth-One of these individuals, in
making a settlement with BARLEY, turned
over to him a note for 5000 which 1 had
given to that banker and secured by a
second mortgage. I did not know that the
note and second mortgage had been
transferred by the banker to BARLEY until
several years later, when the first mort
gage on the property was foreclosed and
the property sold. 1t did not bring enough
to satisfy The first mortgage. l lost the
property, the owner Of the second mort
gage lost his security and the loan com
pany secured a deficiency judgment against
me.
! Later on when BARLEY was pardoned
out Of the pententary he demanded pay
ment of the 5000 second mortgage note
which he had purchased but which had
not only been foreclosed in court when
lost the property, but outawed by the
statute OF limitations.
Letter to Treasurer.
IT demanded to know how he had come
into possession Of it and he wrote me the
| following letter:
In reply to your request for a statement
| as to the manner in which / secured your
/ note from -, l will state: In January,
bank. II twas was in my my own own name and con-
/ tained my private funds. In December Of
same year there was drawn out OF this
| which you made to and which he
/ later turned over to me. The money
HSi. SGso ms' from my own gRER f2TPE RRr
| In the above letter I am inclined to
/ think BARLEY intended TO say that he
opened his private bank account in 1898,
although his letter~reads 1903 1 do not
care which date he intended. II it was
1898, he bought my note of the banker sew
eral years before he became a defaulter,
and bought 1t, as he says, from his private
funds. II II was, as he states, 1903, then
| II was years after the mortgage was fore
closed and the note outlawed and at a
time when he had nothing but a personal
account and had been out of office six
! years.
In any event, the note was outlawed
when BARLEY demanded payment Of it.
1t was not legal obligation nor was 1t a
I
already lost in the mortgage foreclosure
much more than the note represented
Nevertheless, 1 turned over to r. L. Met
| calfe, the editor OF the World-Herald and
also a friend OF Mr.. BARLEY, the adjust
ment Of Bartley's outlawed claim, and they
settled it, the note being surrendered.
Letter from hartley.
"l3. Edgar Howard calls attention to the
fact that in writing Barley 1 addressed
him as state treasurer How else could
he be addressed while in Lincoln? The
notes were OF course made payable to j. s.
! BARLEY but to send a letter through the
mails some designation is customary, and
I dictated the letter to my stenographer
just as writer's often address me as Con
gresham Hitchcock even when writing on
! World Herald business
"Fourteenth-It is true that the World
Herald demanded, in 1901, that Mr. Goold,
4 a republican nominee for regent. withdraw
fro mthe ticket. It did so because BARLEY
made the public statement that Goold had
borrowed from him s., 600 OF state funds
and that not a penny Of this amount had
ever been returned. The difference be-
tween Mr., Goods position and my own is
! sufficiently obvious. While l am ready
| to assume the responsibility for publica-
tons that appear in my paper, / know alb
| solutely nothing about the Goold matter
or its intended publication till I saw II
In the World-Herald. But two men knew
OF that before II was published, MI Met
calfe, the editor who had fun charge Of
the paper, and Mr. Hunt, the reporter
whom he sent TO interview BARLEY.
Death shock 40 All.
Fifteenth. / told the story and told II
as accurately as l can recall events which
| so back fifteen or eighteen years That
dark period OF desperate struggle TO keep
the WOrld-Herald alive, from 1880 10 1900
was filled with excitement. Nebraska. was
In politics a storm center. and the World
Herald had 70 take the brunt OF all the
fight against Bryan democracy and popu-
| lism. There were times when the World
Herald suffered the displeasure OF bust
ness interests and encountered heavy
losses. There were times when money
lenders and banks tried 70 force me 20
change the policy OF the paper. For two
years OF that period Bryan himself was
editor OF the World-Herald while
struggled in the business office TO keep the
sheriff at bay and the salaries paid Then
Bryan was nominated for the presidency