The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-10-20

INC "oTlu'f1eTaIu ZONES IN Tor por~
ton Of censure-Mr. English Told
to Enforce the Law or Take the
Consequences.
Omaha, Oct 19.-ln an open letter,
given out last evening mt Lincoln.
GOV. Aldrich writes to James u. Eng.
fish, county attorney of Douglas coun.
ty that he had better get busy as a
police officer and perform his duties
or suffer at the executive hands un-
der the provisions of the Sackett
law.
In his communication Gov. Aldrch
says
Hon. James =. English, county at.
torney in and for Douglas county,
Omaha, Neb:
81 note in the morning World-Her-
old of Oct. IA that your office has in
its possession indisputahlc evidence
of violations of the election laws of
Nebraska, | note that one of your
prosecutors, Mr.. Platte, says:
My opinion that fraud exists Is
not confined to rumors or charges,
but is back by evidence of the most
convincing character. The evidence
| in my possession is such that it could
| not fail to satisfy any committee of
reputable citizens that conspiracy
exists to prevent a fair and honest
election on Nov. :, and that large
| number of illegal voters have already
i,t, e.,
| carrying out the plans of the con
spirators.
Il also note that you take the ties.
| timony of one c. A. Dubor The con-
| tents of the affidavit to which you
take the Acknowledgement of Mr. Du-
| Dor contains some very damaging
matter. 1t appears absolutely GER
tain that as county attorney you have
in your possession evidence that not
only warrants the commencement of
criminal progress but it is strong
enough to convict. Such being true,
as governor of Nebraska, | demand
that you at once commence to enforce
the state law, of whose open and
notorious violations you have the
proof.
'If you will take the time 10 do
your duty as county attorney and
active office, Omaha will have a vast
ly better government than she is en-
! jOying at the present time. The facts
in this matter indisputably show that
you are playing politics at the eX-
pense of doing your duty as an Off
cial. 1t has been known for a long
time that this fraud and corruption in
the Third ward, which your office has
officially known of and has undisput-
able evidence Of has been going on
and yet you have made no effort Of
ficially, to do your duty in this mat
ter; but at this time when your gang
seems not to be recipient of this fraud
and debauchery, you become particu-
larly soicitous for good government
If your interest in good government
and good society was equal to your
anxiety for the welfare of few demo
cratic politicians, you would come
more nearly being an official than
you are.
THE same crimes and debauchery
and fraudulent voting and registering
that you say now exists in the Third
ward were perpetrated in this and
other wards in Omaha last fall and
when, as governor of this state, l
called upon the legislature in spe-
cial message to afford some relief in
the way of election laws or new legis-
lation, it was met at the threshold of
my endeavor, but by the calumny and
SANDER of the very same gang that
it is now holding up its hands in holy
horror as If this was the first time
that the situation was known.
"The manner and method in which
you and your cohorts are going about
this matter are the well known tao
tics of canting hypocrites who set up
howl not because things are as they
are, but because they are not on the
inside.
AN honest enforcement of the stat
utes of this state by means of the evil
dence which you admit you have in
your office will effectually break up
the nefarious gang that has for years
been a stencil in the nostrils of de-
cency.
Nov, sir, you have placed yourself
| q
make you commence criminal proceed
ings against these parties whom you
: say you have the evidence on. l COM
mand you to present these matters to
grand jury or take such other legal
steps as are necessary and legal and
proper to have the registration and
election laws of this state enforced.
81 am glad to know that will have
the assistance Of the World-Herald in
b this criminal prosecution, for EDITORIAL
ly it has already called the attention
e OF the public, and hence Of yourself, to
l. these glazing frauds and crimes. The
d editorial department OF the World
g Herald may have been going TO church
t and inhaling little decent atmosphere
t to the extent OF having now and then
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