Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-26
Echo of Nine Years Ago Resounds in
the Ears Of the Late Partner Of
Joe BARLEY.
ASSAULT ON STUEFER COMES HOME
Question Asked Then Gets Its Loud
Answer Today.
PART OF TREASURY SHORTAGE
Money Borrowed from BARLEY and
Not Paid Back.
WILL HE LET METCALFE TALK
Friends Of Latter at LincoIn Hope
His Lips VIII he UnseuIed 70
Tcn His Version Of the
Deaf.
IL HE AZ METCALTE TALK
lFrom Q sod correspondentl

LINCOLN oct Bot Special )-Gilbert NJ.
/ Hitchcock, democratic nominee for United
States senator. and former partner OF
Joseph s. BARLEY lu the state treasury
shortage through hts World Herald ad-
vertscd for Information some nine years
ago and nc IS just now getting his answer.
AZ that time Mr.. Hitchcock was asking
State Treasurer Smefer where somc S2s7.O0o
state money was deposited or who had &C.
just why he wanted to know where that big
slice OF money was located was not az
plain then as Il is since IL has become
known that he was a borrower from
| former state treasurer. Tho people then
had an idea Mr. Hitchcock WAS doing his
duty as the editor OF a newspaper to get
Information for the public.
In the issue Of tho World-IIorald October
T. 1901, there appears a cartoon, This
pictures state Treasurer Stuofer with three
cards, two aces aud Joker, In one hand
held before him and with one hand held
behind him. on the three cards In view
these statements ara printed: Total ON
hand S6i2, ,9ia13" Total in depository
banks, S3954lSl3" on the Joker is this,
Never mind about the balance of S96152i.
I'VE got that put away Beneath the
cartoon is this line; Let's sec the other
hand, Mr.. stuefer."
Mr.. Hitchcock had to wait nine years
before that other hand was exposed to
the public. And even now when he has
had nine years in which to prepare himself
! for the shock. Mr. Hitchcock was not
ready Tho hidden hand just now ex-
posed shows that when he made his at
( tacks on Mr. stuefer Mr. Hitchcock was
enjoying the fruits Of Joseph S. Bartley's
shortage
! What Hitchcock wanted TO Know.
! In the same issuo Of the World-Herald
Mr.. Hitchcock said some things whicn
VIII be remembered by many good citizens
apd which Il NOT out Of place st this
\ time and IN TINS ca1hpa9gu fterRaidf
"Nyin any fair man deny that tho "a.
publican state treasurer has insulted the
/ people of this state BY a statement which
protends TO tell them where the public
funds are deposited, and yet fails to dis
close the whereabouts of more than S250O)g?
! M. Stueffer would better have re-
/ Trained from making any statement al all.
/ lie has confirmed the suspicion enter
/ tained by Il very large number of people
that the republican state treasurer does
not take the people into his confidence"
Suppose Joe BARLEY had taken the
/ people into his confidence when he was
convicted said state house man today.
| where would Gilbert Nj. Hitchcock be
now? Would he be running for senator?
| Would he have been nominated by the
/ democrats?"
October s. 1901, the worId-Herald con
tanned editorial portion OF which
! follows:
when Joseph s. BARLEY retired from
the office Of state treasurer the books
showed a balance on hand OF $4,000
/ But the money was unaccounted for. The
people Of Nebraska have had sufficient
| experience with the balance on hand
proposition, They want 10 know where
their money is deposited"
/ E%ar Howard exposed the hidden
hahu" Of the BARLEY administration. It
was the hand of Gilbert NJ Hitchcock
And it still clutches the roll It got from
Joseph S. BARLEY.
what Counts Now.
II is the memory of the awful campaign
Mr., Hitchcock made against another Bart
ley beneficiary like himself, that Is oaus-
Ing much Of the condemnation of MIR
Hitchcock; IT Is the fact that he has not
/ yet paid back to BARLEY the money he
! borrowed that is causing such widespread
! distrust OF Hitchcock; II is the fact that
! though able TO pay, he took advantage OF
! the statute Of limitation, which run while
his benefactor was In prison and repudi-
ated his debt to a needy man, that IA
turning state against him; II Is the fact
! that he called his benefactor a black
mailer and published an untrue defense
OF his action, as we'll as the fact that he
was the beneficiary OF a treasury short
age, that Is causing many honest men 10
turn from him as a thing unclean. And IL
! is his treatment OF Richard j. Metcalfte
I that is filling friends OF the associate
editor Of the COmmoner with Indignation
First Hitchcock tried TO make Metcalfe
the scapegoat and lay all the blame OF his
connection with the treasury shortage at
! the door of the Commoner associate editor.
Next he quoted Metcalfe TO show that he
Hitchcock, was not personally responsible
for the savage and ld-blooded attacks on
Goold. republican beneficiary OF the Bart
ley shortage,
As he has dragged Mr Metcalfe into tho
muss in his endeavor 20 get as many people
mixed up az possible, viii Mr. Hitchcock
authorize Mr. Metcalfe 10 give the whole
story to the public? VIII Mr. Hitchcock
invite Mr.. Metcalfe TO tell what he knows
about Hitchcock borrowing money from the
state treasurer and failing to pay IL baclyY
These questions have been suggested by
many people around the state house since
the exposure OF the Bartlcy-Iutchcock
partnership.
WIN Never D0 a..
However no one here who has been asked
really believes that Mr.. Hitchcock will ever
request Mr.. Metcalfe TO tell OF the many
times he as an employe OF Hitchcock was
sent 10 BARLEY with requests for money or
with requests 20 get loans extended.
ar. Hitchcock, knowing Of his own guilt.
refused 20 permit the democratc state COM
mttee 10 allow Joseph s. BARLEY to ap-
pear and answer questions regarding his
relationship with the senatorial candidate
lie refused 20 take his chances with Judge
Oldham. his friend gud defender. when
BARLEY offered 10 submit proof OF Edgar