Omaha daily bee., 1884-03-17
lhE STATE GAPI Al.
{ The Local Political Pot Beginning to
Boil in Earnest.
The Prohibitionists to Take a
Hand DRAINS VS., Drugs.
The Saloons Living Strictly Up
to the Slocumb Law.
A Horrible Story--The Crime Of
a Father and Son.
Their Conspiracy to Have the
Sons Wife Raped by a Negro.
The Damnable Outrage CONSUME
~mnted-The Williams Oh Trial.
The Damnable Outrage Consum.
m~ated-The Williams on Trial.
LEAFLETS.
POLITICAL.

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POLITICAL.
Special Correspondence of THE BEE.
LINCOLN, March 16, 18S4.-The poll
teal pot is boiling in the l~iveliest posi-.
BILE manner in the state capital to-day,
and the fact that the prohibitionists are
going to take q prominent part in the
spring municipal election makes matters
still more interesting. The principal
officials to be chosen this year are a police
fudge and members of the city council.
The republicans have already entered the
present incumbents, Ben Cobb and d.
G. Courtney, not the oarsman Of Union
Springs, but the ''roarsman" of the ring
in the sacred precincts of Salt creek.
Courtney is now chairman of the county
committee, and has to be rewarded for
his services in securing the nomination
of Ed Sizer clerk of the court and the
termination of the Barr family's career
as officials in Lancaster. He is as indus.
trious in political work as a bee on a
blossom, and if he goes into the cam
paign for himself with half the spirit he
does for others, he will come out ahead
sure.
The Red Ribbon club, the Light
Brigade of prohibition in Nebraska, in
tends to run Henry Hoagland for police
judge. His campaign is in the hands Of
''Bishop" Simmer, the reformed livery
stable keeper of Lincoln, and William
O'Shea the "Boston book binder"
William is a s'red hot" Irish nationalist,
4. Having taken active part in the Fenian
uprising i'll 1866 and 1867 by being
actually on the ground, not fighting the
fnemy with paper pellets of the BRAN,
,E.ike so many Omaha Brian Brohns at a
p four thousand mile range. O'ohea
swears he will pull 'Oagland through,
but l think when the sun goes down on
election day, O'Shea's lament will be
emery, Emery veres yer 'ands1"
, Who the Democrats will put up it is hard
ito say, but probably Doc Childs the well
known pharmacist, at one time
: of Omaha, but now the Bar
tholdi statue of the Lancaster democracy.
He is the dernier resort of the "Bour-
. bons" in more ways than one. They are
always willing to put him up for any
thing and everything.
Talking of Childs reminds me that
there is going to be a regular Knockout.
in-the-frst-round contest here in the near
future between the saloon keepers and the
pharmacists. 1t will be
DRUGS Va. DRAINS,
and the contest will be as bitter as the
liquids dispensed to a foolish patronage
by both parties. You see there are
eleven saloon keepers in Lincoln, and
they are kept by the temperately inclined
officials of this goodly city up to the strict
letter of the Slocumb law. They have to
plank down their 5 1000 at once in order
to get . license, must give the very best
So, 900 bonds, must close at 10 o'clock
precisely every night, dare not open on
Sundays, must keep their window cur
tains raised and use no screens or other
distractions, 80 that a person from the
outside can see clear through their e.
.tablishment as easily as n can look
through a candidates casual call on the
eve of an election, and, in fact, as the
temperance folk have 'lookers-on
in Vienna. all the tine, the
saloon mans lot is not a
happy one by any means. Hence it is
no wonder that he objects TO a person
opening a drug store right next to him
and under the pharmaceutical exception
to the general provisions of the law sell
ling villainous whisky at all hours and to
whom he pleases. just think of Tom
Kennard, the greatest secretary of state
since the days of Seward, running a
pharmacy! Those deft and nimble fingers
that have handled SO many important
public papers, and that Bismarck brain
that has decided on so many questions
of moment are now fooling around the
mortar and pistil and engrossed with the
manipulation of pills and patrons. The
aaloon keepers and their friends will
make it hot for the druggists here one of
these days, every n of whom with..very
few exceptions are violating the Slocumb
law every day and a hundred times on
Sunday. There is no reason whatever
why they should escape unpublished.
Here's where SINNERS Red Ribbon men
should direct their guns and give the ga
loon men o rest for q while.
CAUSE oELERRE.
"A case has been on trial in the district
Jurt house here for the last few days
which shows that there are very few
mean things in the DEVILS catalogue that
le man is not capable of using to his tempo.
rary advantage. An old fellow named
Abbott figures as the principal
character in the following case
iof unparalleled criminality. This
apology for a man came here
rom Iowa some time ago with considera-
lie money and purchased the mill bust,
lss of a man named Mccall and at the
. ne tIme he invested in some valuable
b estate. Abbott had a son whom he
ne lares was inclined to to be buoyant in
san tits, so he sent him to a commercial
rel ege at Burlington to be kept under
dec troll. At Burlington he met a comely
spl Ing German girl lately from the old
4 country, whom abundance of evidence
u showed was a Writ lous. induatrious and