Show V MONEY HONEY AND POLITICS V The The O Omaha B Bee e noting noting that Governor Colquitt V V submits a V st statement t hi m nt lh that t it lt cost him hin 11 t to obtain Uain the thc nomination for governor of Texas that as the term is for only two years and the salary i is it but p per r annum annum which will leave a deficit of it cannot understand why a man should engage J in that Jt kind o of business ex except ept that the thc colonel expects to remain in politics long enough t to ft reap returns OH 01 the salary and ana use the governorShip governorship governorship governor governor- ship as 88 a stepping stone The Bee Dee is very likely mistaken We Ve h have ve seen a cold hard man of the world spend more than ten tim tines times s the amount that Governor Colquitt itt did for art ani office when personally person person- ally he did not care a straw for it But he lie said to toV V a a friend c If If I obtain that office and aud do not make i an out and Gut cut fool of myself when in office it will sill willbe be- be bea a letter of recommendation for my children all their lives T The one e o e soft spot in his cold heart was was touched and after that money moncy did id not count with ith him Marcus 1 Daly put up more than twenty times the 1778 that Colquitt spent just to defeat f for r an office a man whom he did not like We Ve I Nevada ten suspect that Senator Jones of spent times the in his first campaign for the thc senate when it was a plain pain case that it was not nota necessary to a cent a-cent as he ho ha had l a clear walkover walk walk- o over or r and that during all the years Jears he was in the thes s senate his l legitimate expenses were quite five fi times the a amount no tUt of the sa salary ary he lie received He Ho liked the c excitement of the place he lie liked to me measure sure himself himself him him- self elf with the great and called so-called great men around aroundhim aroundhim aroundhim him liked t to put U up his last cent if necessary p on ona a 11 stock deal but had a hundred investigations been sprung to see if if there were not men who had used their office to lino line their pockets at their country's ih they lucy y would have found the soul of J. J P. P V J Jones as impervious u to lo attack as a u sailed assailed by shotguns s. s V One man an gives half a million for a yacht just t c the name hame of f owning a finer yacht than another an an- other man wh lives around the corner pays two prices for a house just be- be that particular r 1 house luse and its surroundings El c him t tA V A Ap pretty et y little actress ss in Virginia City came came on V th hJ t c e one one t evening ening wearing the thc insignia of engine en en- No 2 2 and the of that gine company boys comp com com- p b n. n to throw half dollars and 5 and 20 20 pi ori th the stage and she picked up 1100 The next night ight in iii tn V the other theatre a pretty actress came capic o out t with the colors of No 3 engine company and the boys s of No To 3 threw a gold and silv silver r b brick brich iek stamped 2207 on the stage for her hel V Frank Frake was a poor miner in Nevada He fund found the Eberhart mine in iu White Pine and cleaned up UJ in six months he Ke was sued for posse possession of of the mine mineo The case cage w was sas s tried an and he lie won Coming down from the courtroom courtroom court court- room to the street he found a great crowd waiting to hear bear ear the decision Then he lie went down into his pocket drew his hand out with iu just t as many twenty twenty twenty ty dollar pieces as Jas he lie could hold in his hand ah and alid crying out ont I 1 have bave downed the he t-i t every one of them boys take a drink I tossed the twenties into the tho crowd When some men want something they er want it bad bad sometimes for themselves them them- seh selves K sometimes to beat a rival sometimes for the I Itie tie of their families sometimes just for for the excitement cx ex ci of the gamble The Bee says SR'S that Se Senator ator i Culberson spent only 27 to obtain his liou in Texas We Ve all know that Senator Culber- Culber II sou is iS an ho honest est man but just fro from l the showing we suspect a person would fare just as badly were hi- hi hito to tT try to corrupt Governor Colquitt as he heI would were he be to tl try the same aine thing on Senator I Culberson |