Omaha daily bee., 1880-05-07
WAS douglass COUNTY FOR
BLAINE?

The anti-Grant victory at Omaha
was, apparently, an overwhelming one.
But it was nothing to brag over, if the
viii of the people, and not the schemes
of the polsticisns, are to be regarded
Grant carried the populsr vote Of the
city by a-considerable majority, His
majority in two wards is from 80 to
las, respectively. In the other wards
he ran behind just a few votes in
each. "A dozen votes transferred
from bis majority in the two
wards would have secured the
city and county. Ash it was, there was
a very strong desire among the
genuine Blaine men in the city to
make q fair division Of the delegates,
because IL ey saw that the future
harmony of the stalwsrt straight re-
publicans would be better promoted
thereby, as the majority Of them were
evidently for Grant. But the straight
Blaine men, like Mr.. Kimball, 10.
Millsrd, Senator Coutsnt, Gen.
GOWN, and the element they repres.
ented, had been overreached by the
Rosewater bummers.
In making up the primary Blaine
tickets, the genuine Blaine men con-
suited with Rosewater, and allowed
him q part of the candidates for the
county convention. In every case
they were swindled by that able little
ward hummer. He took the tickets
to print, and substituted for the names
put on by the simon pure Blaine men
those of his own creatures. This
chasaeteristic trick was not discovered
till the polls opened, and it was coo
late to get out new tickets, and even
if it were not, the treachery of the
Ro,ewater outfit would have defeated
them at the polls. So they very
weakly, as The Journal thinks, sub
mitted to the swindls and worked for
the fraudulent tickets in each ward
for the good Of the u
This explains the apparent singularity
of convention, two to one for Blaine
o,tensibiy, taking seven hours to elect
a ticket. ]Lincoln Journal.
The obvious object of the Lincoln
Journal in giving publicity to this
tissue of falsehoods is to mislead re-
publicans in Lancaster and other
counties Of the southwest into support
ing the Grant boomers at the impend-
ing primaries. As usual, when he
writes on Douglas county politics,
the editor Of the Journal
draws upon his fertile imagination.
Hestarts out by asserting that Grant
carried the popular vote of Douglas
county. Now it Is an indisputable fact
that there wasn't a ticket headed by
Grant in any ward or precinct during
the late primaries. Paul Van
dervoort, head capper for the
Grant boom, vas running on q
ticket in the Fret ward that was rep
resented a. being for Washburne. In
the Third, the only ward where Grant
had any strength, the Grant ticket
was merely headed Republican
Ticket" In the Fourth ward the
Grant men we're running what they
called an unpledged ticket, and in the
Fifth both contrasting factions claimed
to b for Blaine.
In every ward in Omaha the tickets
that carried the day we're either
for Blaine or "against the
third term" The statement that the
.imon pure Biaine men were first sold
put BY Rosewater and then bulldozed
INTO supporting his ticket is alie.
The { semon pure Blaine
men, the Journal refers to, were
or the most part the getters Up of a
.oeus Blaine ticket, made up of twelve
lrant and fys Blaine men. On that
were such simon-pure Blaine
len q Vandervoort and Thurston,
ad the defeat Of this combination, as
was called, gave Blaine a solid dele
stion to Columbus.
The proof Of the pudding is the