Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-04
LOCAL CAMPAIGN CHATTER.

called republican party candidates for tn
council have nothing to commend them. bu
have very much to explain and are soliciting
support solely on the ground OF their connec
tion with the highbinders who are running
the machine at present.
OF the nine eouncilmanc candidates on tht
! citizens ticket eight are men in business II
Omaha who have business signs over theii
doors, who have made successes Of their owr
affairs and are competent to take care of tht
eity's affairs. The ninth man on the ticket
James Wolshensky, is representative labor.
ingmRn who has lived in Omaha for twenty
years and is thoroughly qualified for the po-
Mtion. w. c. Bulard is lumber dealer
! Frank J. Burkley is president Of the Burk-
ley Printing company, one of the largest
printing houses in the city. Albert Calm
is dealer in mems furnishings. A. II
| Comstock is the president Of the Omaha
Printing company and an officer and heavy
! stockholder in the Omaha Directory com
pany NJ f. Funkhouser is in the Insurance.
! business with his brother and has made a
success of his business. l.. A. Harmon is
| the senior member of the coal firm of Har-
mon & Weeth. John Lemly has been in the
mercantile business for a number Of years
and has store on South Sixteenth street.
Allen T. Rector is treasurer and manager
of the business of the Rector & Wilhelmy COM
pany, Wholesale hardware, and is president Of
the Omaha Fire Insurance company That
is the kind of men the Citizens league and
the democratic party selected for councilmen,
and four Of them were also endorsed by the
pOpulists.
Opposed to them are a set of candidates
whose names are seen more frequently in
reports of political Summing than elsewhere,
Unless it is in the proceedings of the dervish
councils. The list is headed by Jim Allan
street car spotter and chronic office seeker
He used to BE- sidewalk inspector and has
lived by reason of his political pull ever
since he has been in Omaha. Lew Bur
mester is a saloon keeper and the keeper OF
very chsap place al that. Sam Dubois is an
ex-policsman who was discharged for sloveny
appearance. laziness and bad habits. Bob
Duncan has been a chronic seeker for Office
He Is at present plumbing inspector at $50
a month. Lee Yates used to be foreman
for some paving contractor, but is now in
politics, pure and simple. Carr AFFORD is
prominent member of the dervish contingent
and so are Allan, Duncan and Dubois Their
names ars on the original rolls of the order
now in our possession. Bingham, Benawa
and Christie are believed to be later recruits
in the ranks of the order
Albyn Frank, in his personal letter to the
voters Of the county, says: II have been
resident of this state for twenty-five years
and have never held public Office" What
does Albyn call the job he has had for
fifteen years in the office of the clerk of the
federal court' He has been drawing his
2,1OO year all that time from the money
contributed by the taxpayers. Does he want
to live off the public all the rest of his life?
Judge Scott probably had the present cam
paign in mind when he refused to fine Wool
ridge. west Dodge street saloon keeper,
last spring because the brewer who sold him
the beer would not pay his fine. Woodbridge
was arrested through the detective work of
Hahnemann Pyburn, one Of Scott's puggers,
and was convicted for selling liquor without
license. Then Scott took the case in his
own hands, as he frequently does. set the
law aside, and made speech. He managed
TO connect South Omaha brewer in the case
some way and refused to fine Woodbridge un-
less the brewer would pay the fine OF
course that suited the saloon keeper first rate
but was little tough on the brewer Then
Scott talked at a great length on the cussed-
ness of the liquor business and wanted all
PLACES of the kind closed up once and forever
Woodbridge did net care a cent as to what
Scott said so long as he did not have to nav
the fine, so he went home and opened I'm the
saloon again. 1t is running today. and is the
headquarters for Scott and his gang in their
campaign work in the western part of the
city.
There is one thing Albyn Frank has not
yet denied, and that is his relationship to
Dog Butcher Frank.
Tuesday the voters will saw 70 Rroatcb.
GO then to Thy spokes and whfietrees and
content thyself with barter and trade" II
is hoped the lesson will not be lost upon him
The Council Bluffs caudal appendage to
the Omaha dervsh organ does not agree
with the hyphenated head on this side Of the
river. The Council Bluffs faklrs say that
the Coliseum meeting was fzzle and was
attended by only 1,5O0 people. The Omaha
fabricators say 5000 people were there. As a
matter of fact over 5000 people were at the
Coliseum. But such trifing divergences cut
no ice with professional liars.
Broatch, the father, Martin, the landlord.
and Scott, the protector, constitute the
trinity that the deniZens of the burnt dis
trct recognize with their devotions and
tributes.
c. Ranter Scott lived in Anamosa for
dozen years. and knew everybody in the
town and county. Wonder why he don't
go back and visit his friends during some
of his vacations?
one or the dervish organs Is patiently wait
ing fer c. Ranter Scott to make good his
claim that he never refuses to pay an honest
debt. donation Of 800 for support, prom
ised some months ago, and a bill for $40 for
printing one Of Scott's obscene speeches in
full, are still unsettled, and the employees of
the concern are going hungry while waiting
for the ranter to keep his promise to pay
The citizens candidates for members of the
Beard of Education are pledged against poll
tics. favoritism and sectaranism in the |
public schools. The dervish candidates are |
pledged to give Sam Macleod a Job and to |
keep political janitors the pay roll and !
keep competent teachers out of the schools |
On account Of their religion.
The Hitchfake prints the campaign por-
trait of Charles r. Dickinson candidate for