Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-07
I'LL HITCHCOCK PAY IT BACK3

rorr-NrRtys Neb.. Nov. Especial I'm
this weeks issue Of his newspaper. the
columbus Telegram Edgar Howard, over
his own signature edtorialy propounds
sono very embarrassing questions 10 MT
Hitchcock He writes as follows:
Last week Mr. Hitchcock raised the cry
that I had mutilated some Of the notes ne
gave and some of the checks ne recelVeu
when he got the money from the state
treasurer.
,,yvhy does he not publish an engraving
OF the original notes and checks? He mas
tho originals in his possession IT is now
fourteen days since / asked him to publish
enprayinRs OF the originals. Surely II
have been guilty OF anything OF that klno
Mr. Hitchcock could Immediately catch me
at It.
The fact is that Mr.. Hitchcock Is power
less TO prove his assertions. The engraV-
irgs which ] published in The Omaha bee
and Lincoln Journal we're taken from the
original photographs The same engravings
appear in the Telegram this week Mr..
Hitchcock did not know that / had any |
photographs Of his letters. notes and checks
with reference to the borrowing OF the
state money. He bundozed BARLEY into
giving him back all the originals. Had he
known photographs had been taken ne
would not have been 80 bold In calling me
a lar Now he is In a desperate situeuon'
He has confessed that he did have deal
ings with BARLEY, after swearing that ne
never had such dealings. He has con-
fessed that he received money from Bart
ley after swearing that he never secured
a cent OF money from him. Having con-
fessed so much, what shall we now say
when in the last hours Of the campaign he
still pleads that the records of his shame
have been mutilated, while steadfsstly re-
fusing 70 grant my request of him to pub
lish the originals?
because He Dare Not.
If the man Is innocent why does he not
establish MS innocence BY letting the peopie
see all the original evidences Of his dealings
with BARLEY?
1T is because he dare not Every move
he makes plunges him deeper and deeper
into the mlre OF his own shame That is
why / asked him TO print engravings OF all
the written transactions he had with Bart
ley 1t gave him chance to clear MS
skirts. am still pleading with him to print
In his own newspaper engravings OF all
letters and all writings connected with the
borrowing Of the state money He has
published only one letter. That was the
letter he blackmailed BARLEY into giving
him when he settled his 5000 account with
BARLEY, as late as 1904, paying BARLEY only
he Justly owed to the state treasury.
''Nyhy has Hitchcock refused to publish
.he original evidences OF his own guilt?
That question can be best answered by
asking another question:
who ever knew a criminal 10 produce
In court any evidence against himself?'
More ssDenr'' Letters.
The Telegram prints a cartoon made by a
n
OF burglarlzing his way into the United
States senate with Bartley's 5000 loan
sticking out of his pocket with this addi-
tlonal explanation;
We can imagine the men who are stand
ing just inside the senate door, waiting for
Hitchcock 10 break in. The one most
anxious 70 welcome Hitchcock 10 the senate
Is LOrmer OF illinois, He wears upon his
brow the brand OF shame, placed there By
the fact that his seat was purchased with
the money Of the big trusts and the criml-
nal corporations. Lorimer would rejoice II
the people OF Nebraska would elect bird
OF his own feather 10 sit beside him in the
senate.
1t is up TO the people Of Nebraska to
say whether or not our state and the demo
cratic party Of Nebraska shall be dis
Rraced BY sending Joe Bartley's partner "a
Join Lorimer In the national senate. No
democrat who loves his party can afford
to- cast his vote In favor OF man whose
election would be q lasting disgrace and
shame 20 the democratic party.
. "Mr. Hitchcock is now sending thousand,
OF personal letters to the voters in Platt,
county, appealing for their votes. In eaci
letter he addresses The man 20 whom tn,
letter Is sent very affectionately as M,
Dear Mr. Brown, MY Dear hr, Jones,
and my dear everybody, II will be re
membered that he always addressed 10,
Bartley in the same affecuOnAte terms
But those dear letters will not catch an!
fish In Platte county. The people OF Platt
sOunty do not belong to the sucker family.
.'They Paid Il Back"
There are other articles in the pape
bearing or the same subject one, headed
They Paid II Back" as follows:
In 1850, following the hot-wind soourg
In Nebraska, the legislature loaned fror
the state treasury a few thousand dollar
o farmers who could not buy seed whes
ana oats for that years sowing
The record reads that every farmer /
Nebraska has paid hack to the state treas
ury the money he borrowed from the stat,
'Mr Hitchcock stiil owes to the stat
money, principal and interest more tina
5000 az this time money that he bOrroWe
from state Treasurer BARLEY.
rs the law OF the state made to max
farmers pay back the money they boz
rOwed from the state treasury, while pei
uniting men OF the Hitchcock kind 70 r,
pudiate their debts due the state trasury
what do YOU think Of Il, boys-you VIII
struggled through that awful situation
1884 and 1885? Think Il over, boys. Dl
= the farmers do right WHOM they paid bac
the money they had borrowed from n