Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-27
THAT DORSEY MARES NEST.

the weekly BEE, contained on address {
the voters Of Nebraska urging them {
exercise their soverign independence q
voters in the selection Of candidates o.
the state and congressional tickets. TIL
following extract fromthe address speak
for itself:
"The time is near at hand for you {
express your sovereign will through tn
ballot box. BY this time you are no doub
familiar with the Issues, and have ha'
ample chance TO learn the claims ant
merits of rival parties and candidates
AS honorable men and good citizens, /
should be your desire to give Nebraska
honest home government and representa-
ton in congress that will labor for you.
personal welfare rather than greedy mo
nopolists and selfish political rings. Nov
in order that you may vote intelligentll
you should MAKE up your ticket at hoHl,
where political strikers and bulldozeru
cannot swing tho lash wei your head;
and sneaks cannot look over you
shoulder while you arc scratching
some unworthy or incompetent candidate
To enable you TO do this we herewith
print several tickets on this supplemental
sheet. Select your ticket ana cut it out
fill up tho blanks for your district attor
ney, clerk of the court and members Of
the legislature. 4 n n You will OBJ.
serve that we print the straight anti-mo.
nopoly ticket, with Butler and West fu.
sion electors, and a~nti.monopoly state
and congregational candidates. We print
a ticket headed Blaine and Logan and
the republican electors and the straight
state ~anti-monopoly and congressional
candidates. This ticket is designed to
meet the demands of anti.monopoly
republicans who want to vote for Blaine
and Logan but do not want to endorse the
railroad republican candidates on the
state straight republican ticket. For that
class of our subscribers who want to vote
for a majority of republican candidates.
we print a straight republican ticket:
Don't fail to make up your ticket at home
put it in your vest pocket on election
day and vote 1t. The ticket headed by
Blaine and Logan with the anti-monop-
oily state candidates is legal and cannot
be thrown out under any pretext. The
new law regulating ticket printing only
prohibits the printing of bogus tickets.
These tickets can deceive nobody. They
show on their heading just what they are
or pretend to be. We have consulted the
best legal authorities and we have the as.
surance that no election board has q right
to object to them under any pretext."
No fairminded man will regard our eff
fort to supply the patrons of the BEE,
who are scattered on farms all over this
state, with blank tickets, which they can
fill out at leisure at home. But the
Omaha Republican is terribly shocked
over what it calls a great fraud,
and warns republicans to look
out for these spurious tickets.
1t raises q great hue and cry about the
Third district ticket, upon which the
name of the republican candidate ia
printed, "George w. L. Dorsey, of Ad.
m county," instead of Dodge county.
Now, it so happens that this sup
PIGMENT of the BEE was set up and
printed in the job office of Samuel Rees.
The copy furnished to Mr.. Rees for the
three district tickets was correct, but in
changing the forms from the Second
district to the Third, the name of Dorsey
was substituted for that of James Laird,
of Adams county. The printer forgot to
change the county to Dodge, and his
omission was not noticed until after at
tention was called to the error by MI. J..
W. Love, chairman of the Third district
committee, who discovered it after the
papers reached Fremont. Mr.. Love was
promptly informed by the editor of THE
BEE, by telephone, that the error was
accidental, and could in no way
affect the election of Mr.. Dorsey.
In the frat place it is not essential to
have the name of the county follow the
name OF the candidate for congress on
the ticket. In the next place no person
by the name Of Dorsey, residing in
Adams county, could be credited for
votes cast in the Third district Cor George
W.. E. Dorsey. 1t has been de.
cided time and again by our courts
that in every instance the intention of
the voter is to be carried out in cases
where there Is any difference in tho spell.
ing of the name. Suppose that votes
were polled for George Dorsey, G. Dor
sey'..G. w. Dorsey, f. G. w. Dorsey,
w. Il. G. Dorsey. or plain Dorsey, for
congressman in the Third district, does
any well informed person contend that
these votes would not be counted for
George W. E. Dorsey of Dodge county
Every judge of election in the Third dis
trict will credit Mr.. Dorsey with
whatever votes are cast for him, and if
they do not the state board of Canvass.
ers, who are all republicans, will do 30.
But the Republican charges the BEE
with printing spurious tickets, and then
turns round and denounces this paper
for printing the name of William Neville
on the anti-monopoly ticket. Now, will
the Republican tell us what right we
would have to print Mr.. Dorsey's name
on the ~anti-monopoly ticket, or
MR.. & yNeville's name on the
the republican ticket Mr.. Neville is
the ~snti-monopoly candidate In the Third
district, and every straight anti-monopo-