Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-27
Vlewsund Reviews
Hon. q ShreWd Democratic
Trick Failed to Work
ON A. E. Cody

try weekly published by him at St Paul, Neb
and his banking and mercantile interests wer
later outlets for his energy and enterprise. MI
Cady was an enthusiastic and ardent republican
not hlde-bound to partsanship but broad
minded and liberal, but none the less firm be
lever in republican principles and policies. H
had the executive ability, the pose of mind am
the unsuitable determination to handle the jo
of governor. and he would undoubtedly hav
been governor when he consented to the urging
OF friends to run in 1910 had he only started
little sooner.
The test Of Mr.. Cady's political sagacit,
was made back in 1892, when, as republican
state chairman, in cooperation with my father
then member of the republican national com
mittee for Nebraska kept Nebraska in the re
put over" Lorenzo Crounse for governor in TIL
face of complete overturning of the country
have some of the correspondence that passet
in connection with that hard-fought contest in
dicatlng the resourcefuness and persistence will
which the campaign was carried on. AS sam
pie of Mr.. Cady's forcefuness here is a copy O
the letter containing his final appeal to thu
voters:
Lincoln, Neb, Nov 1, 1S92-My Dear Sir:
In seven days more the most memorable and
important campaign waged in the history of
our republic will draw to close The repub-
llcan party has held the vantage ground of
an administration that is conceded to have
been dignihed, honest and successful. The
results have been apparent in the renewed
confidence. the business activity and the
splendid prosperity of our people. Never has
there been time when the farmer of the west
could look to the future with greater hope
and expectation, his debts decreased, his land
increasing in valuation and under the repub-
IlCan nOIcV q home rnarlet for hic produrte
that in the near future insures him exemption
from foreign competition. The question to be
decided next Tuesday is, shall these conditions
be preserved or will we exchange a certainty
for doubt? Knowing of your interest in
good government and the welfare of Off state,
| ask you to
STAND UP FOR NEBRASKA,
and during the remaining days of the CAM
pagn do what lies in your power for the sue
cess of the republican ticket There is con-
certed effort to elect a democratic United
States senator from this state, and in view of
this fact l earnestly request that you exert
yourself in behalf of the republican legisa-
tive ticket in your district. Our opponents
have abandoned their campaign of education
and inaugurated a campaign of SANDER Moth
ing could be more commendable of republican
control in Nebraska than that after twenty
five years of continuous administration
al viz 1idSHSt lLNCollSdliOHS Vi DlllST pOllll-
cal partlsans have succeeded in finding but
one dishonest official, he an unimportant sub
ordinate, a democrat, and now a fugitive
from justice. Remember, too my friend, that
not only do we stand up for Nebraska" but
we stand up for the republican ticket We do
no trading, no bartering-there is no fusion,
no conspiraces. We have nominated reputa-
Bile candidates. they stand for good govern
ment, and we have no doubt of the result
Get the a1act,o, J,,
braska will give splendid republican victory
Yours truly, A. E. CADY.
Chairman Republican State Central Com.
1t was in this campaign that the scheme of
the democrats to throw Nebraska to the popu-
lists was frustrated. | have an original copy of
the secret message sent out to democratic work
ers disclosing the plan with instructions for its
execution, which reads as follows:
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. a, 1892-Dear Sir: It
affords me pleasure to inform you that have
been personally authorized by the national
committee of the democratic party to urge
the democrats of Nebraska to support the
electors nominated by the independent party
in this state-the object being to so increase
the vote for the Weaver electors that those
nominated in behalf of Harrison shall be de-
feated, and this state taken out of its accus-
toned place in the republican column.
10 do this is 10 sacrifice of democratic
principles. inasmuch as the object is the tri-
umph Of democracy and the downfall of re-
publcanism, and the vicious policies which it
advocates.
In Nebraska vote for Weaver and Field
is more than half vote for Cleveland and
Stevenson.
Hoping for your cooperation I remain
yours in the good cause. J. f. BOYD.
Remembering that the attached signature of
J.. E: Boyd carried with it not only the authority
Of the democratic national committee, but also
the power and prestige of the governor of the
state, its insidious character will be better ap-
preclated Remembering, too that in the last
preceding state election the democrats, repub-
evenly three ways the confidence of the demo-
Gratis that it would work out and by sidetrack-
ing them to Weaver, deprive Harrison of needed
electoral votes they could not hope to gain for
Cleveland although Cleveland was elected. the
shrewd play of the democrats in Nebraska mis-
carried. Undoubtedly, however, it paved the
way for the subsequent demo-pop fusion that
kept the democrats of this state submerged in
populism for more than decade.
How Omaha has improved" exclaimed
Robert c. Howe the other day. ~ first came
here some twenty years ago with the elder
Armour to look at the plant here. Coming up
Farnam street, | remember distinctly seeing the
grass growing between the paving stones and
the forlorn appearance of the town. Yet Mr.
Armour said to me:
If | were young man just starting out,
here is where l would locate He knew the
exceptional advantages of this point as market
and distributing center and he could look ahead
farther than any man l ever knew"