Omaha daily bee., 1893-09-08

cause generally masked. and IL was not until
tho hidden warfare had been going on for n
month that the friends OF Maxwell knew
what they would have to expect. The Max
well men have done all their work within
the past eight days, while the opposition
has been at work for six weeks, and had all
their pins set up hen the snap convention
was called two weeks ago.
VIII I've lively Times Today.
The convention will meet at $3.50 O'Clock
tomorrow afternoon, aud II is quite probable
that IL will be a lively affair. Tho friends of
the chief jus tice in ali parties denounce the
unfair conduct of the opposition and promise
that they will yet be heard from. even II
temporarily throttled by the concerted hocus
pocus of the combined corporate OF powers.
Prick carried the First, Third and Fourth.
wards while Maxwell carried the
precinct of Platte. There were
10 open demonstrations, but the pres
ence of the railroad men, closely watched by
lynx-eyed bosses, was plainly apparent even
before any of the meetings were called TO
order.
Fried Favored Frick.
The only approach to an outbreak was in
the Second, where Mayor Fried became very
much excited and was about TO strike ex-
CONGRESSMAN Dorsey with n cane. The
trouble grew out of a move to adopt compro-
mise resolutions to govern the conduct of the
~ IN ' itSsb IN hkItti uliDn Nv REPRESENTATIVES,
OF the opposing factions earlier in the
day. The resolutions were adopted in the
other wards without much discussion. but
the mayor seemed to think that they
ought to be worded as to give Candidate
Flick u little more advantage than was ac-
corded him by the original phraseology.
Dorsey stood for the resolutions, hence the
excitemeuto of tho mayor.
Frick gets the seventeen delegates from
the First by n vote of So to So the nine from
thu thlrI1 ms A. 70 I1 n,l H. tNn f.A., tho
Fourth by 33 to %. Maxwell captured the
eleven from the Second by TS to Al; the six
from the Platte rre met by 30 to &c, and the
eight from North Bend by 23 to lG.
Standard Cattle Compnny's Tactics.
There was n merry fight in Platte precinct.
as the Standard Cattle company sent in
thirty men in wagons to endeavor to defeat
Judge Maxwell, as anticipated several days
ago IN these dispatches. AS will be noticed,
this opposition was nearly all that devel-
oped in that precinct. One of the Standard
Cattle company men who came in to FIRE.
ment after the primary stated TO The BEE
reporter that he was a Maxwell man, and
would certainly vote for him on election day,
regardless of who else was in the field.
He said that he voted for Prick at the pri-
mary to please his employers, as he did not
want to lose his job Mt a time when work
was not plentiful. His companion vouch-
safed the information that the Standard
company could have sent in a dozen more
men just rs well as not if it had supposed
that 1T would be ne ressary to skin Maxwell,
and he presumed that the boss would kick
like hi when he heard that E'rick had
failed to carry the precinct.
How the Railroads Worked.
Brooks, the Elkhorn road master and
councilman from the Fourth, welded the
corporation goad at the primary in his ward
and saw to it personally that his men
religiously obeyed the orders from railroad
headquarters.
Division Superintendent Mahanna of the
Elkhorn represented his company in the
Second ward and was manifestly uneasy
after the vote was announced to find that he
had failed to perform the work entrusted to
him.
That the railroads have done a vast deal
of whip cracking and hard work Is conclu-
sively shown by the numbers of their men
present in the various wards and precincts,
as they turned out from thirty-five to ninety
men in each and the Prick vote represents
nothing but the corporation contingent.
E.. G. HUNT.