Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-18

assaults upon the editor and bushwhacking warfare
upon the paper.
From its inception until his death, Mr.. Rosewater
remained the chief editor and owner of The Bee
which for years has occupied front rank among the
great newspapers Of America. Having firmly estab-
shed his paper Mr. Rosewster conceived the idea Of
erecting monumental newspaper building and this
project carried out by the erection Of The Bee
building which begun in 1887 and completed in
1889 This structure is perfectly fireproof and al
the time it was built covered larger of ground
than any other newspaper building erected either
side of the Atlantic.
The later years of his life were given much more
to public affairs and made him a figure Of national
prominence as political adviser Of presidents ana
party leaders, and as a champion of the people In
many popular movements. AS member of the res
publican national committee he had active charge %
the presidential campaign in Nebraska in 1892 and
he delegate-at-large to the philadelphia con-
vention in 1900 in which he also secretary OF
the committee resolutions that framed the plat
form. He the advisory committee Of the
national party organization in 1896 in 1900 and In
1904. He went to the forefront combat the l6 to
free silver faacy in the campaign of 1896, publicly
debating the subject with Coin" Harvey and with
William ]. Bryan.
OniciaI and Other Honors.
Edward Rosewater was a member Of the United
States Mint commission by appointment of President
Cleveland in 1896, and in 1897 named delegate
for the United States and vice president of the
Worlds Postal congress that met at Washington He
was the original promoter and one of the Board Of
Managers of the TransMississpp exposition, held IN
Omaha in 1898 He participated in the two national
conferences trusts, in the reciprocity conventoni
in the National Sound Money League in the Interna4
tona Arbitration congress- in the Lake Mohonk cons
ference In National Civic federation meetings and In
many other similar progressive gatherings In none
of them did he occupy q back seat One of his most
strenuous undertakings that, which he persons
ally instituted and prosecuted, with all his vigor to
force a equitable assessment of railroad prop
erty in Nebraska taxation, which, while only par
TALLY successful at first found its capstone in this
law designed to bring railway taxes to the
same basis taxes other property.
Mr.. Rosewater a candidate for United States
senator before the legislature Of 1901 leading on
many ballots but withdrawing at the close in order
to break the protracted deadlock and Nebraska
from being left unrepresented in the senate. Even
in this campaign although 1t not required of
him. he insisted submitting his name to prefer
entail of the people at the election pursuant to his
long advocacy the election of United States
tors by direct popular vote.
Life Closes With Sudden Call. ~
In 1906 he again appointed to represent the
United States its delegate to the Worlds Postal
congress meeting, this time at Rome, and while
absent abroad was projected as candidate for the
nomination for United States senator the republi-
ticket. Returning this country, he again ap-
peaed to the popular VOTE demanding that all dees
gates to the convention be put under Instructions By
the rank and file of the party and had these nsrc
ton been carried out he would have been nominated
Although defeated by reachery he accepted the
ton philosophically, promptly pledgng support 10
his successful competitor in speech before the cons
vention admonishing his hearers to complete the
bat with If intap itv uyho
would be needed
1t turned out, however, that he had but a short
time more to live. On Augusct 80, 1906, Edward
Rosewater delivered address to an Old Soldiers
reunion at Waterloo returning home in the early
Ming and having died suddenly Of heart failure tbs
night, found the next morning, sitting on
bench in a court room in The Bee building where
he had evidently stopped to rest. Mr.. Rosewatel
had been married in 1854 to Miss Leah Coleman o.
Cleveland, Ohio. and had five children, Of whom al
survive excepting one daughter.