Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-30
CONVENTION AND rANprpArEs.

The Lord always fights with the
batialions. This fact has once more
been given forcible illustration. As the
elimination of one OF the most shame
less and disgraccful scrambles for office
that has ever taken place in this state,
the county convention, denominated re-
publican, but in fact manipulated and
controlled by the star-chnmber order,
has brought forth n ticket as 'v~ariegated
rs was Joseph's s%criptured garment Of
many colors.
The So, 000-a-ycar clerkship of the
district court was naturally the great
bone of contention. In the disgusting
and d~emoralizing s. $. s. contest be-
tween Frank Moores, the present in
cumbent, and Albyn Frank, backed by
the dervish contingent, fabricated with
Doodle from the water works reservoir,
victory pcrched on Albyn Frank and the
biggest barrel. While Moores would
have been handicapped by popular pref
udice against third terms. Frank will
popular fear of the extension of the
power of the federal court ring. TIL
means by which Frank carried the con-
vention over his opponent and the
agencies employed to compass the result
are not likely TO arouse enthusiasm
among republicans who do not train
with the doodle crowd.
The candidate for sheriff has elements
of both strength and weakness. John
Mcdonald has always had Il large fol-
lowing among a certain class of work
ingmen who ~congregate in saloons and
resorts of similar character. He has
been n saloon keeper himself and is one
of the boys. In politics Mcdonald has
always been m associate of ward heelers
and men who make a living by selling
their own and other peoples votes in
c~aucuses and conventions. He is recOg-
niZed as the disciple and right bower of
William j. Broatch and distinguished
himself as one of the Twenty-Eighters
who sold out and knitted George w. Lin
niger when he was the republican candi-
date for mayor and elected the demo-
cratic candidate, II. G.. Gushing. With
such Il record and his more recent prom
inence among the dervish brigade
Mcdonald is a fair representative of the
convention which nominated him.
George Heimrod, nominee for county
treasurer, should have been in better
company. His selection was a conces-
sion to the more respectable element of
the party and a bid for the German
vote.
The nomination of Melville Redfeld
to the Sackett succession as county clerk
was ordered by Council 125 months ago.
Redtield has earned his spurs as Il howl
ing dervish by his unremitting labors for
the cause and the creation of ~sinecures
and raising of salaries for the faithful
in all departments of local government.
His never-closing eyes have kept watch
over u public schools and never left
out of sight the police force, department
of public works, street cleaning force,
park system and the citadel Of justice
itself.
Judge Baxter managed to squeeze into
a denomination and the confidence of
the friends by r%ecanting all he had
ever said concerning them and promis-
ing to do penance for defeating Eller
two years ago.
The forced retirement or Commits
sioner Livesey by the nomination of
Halfdan Jacobsen was an exhibition of
ingratitude not expected even of the
dervishes. Mr.. Livesey is an honest
man and a man with a clean record. eX-
cepting in the matter of rank appoint
ments to satisfy the cravings of the hun
CRY horde. Jacobsen, on the other hand,
will have a good deal to explain that
cannot be explained away. AS one of
the council combine that has shielded
public plunderers and imbecile officials
and promoted jobs and grabs he has
long since destroyed whatever conf
dence reputable people once had in him.
The nomination of James Walsh as sec
ond commissioner is n sop to the Irish
which self-respecting Irishmen are not
likely to accept as an olive branch. Mr..
Walsh has been altogether too thick
with the white-caps to reinstate himself
in their confidence.
or the nominees for minor posi-
tons Mr.. Bodwell has made the strong
bid for support by declining the pop
ulist nomination for county superintend-
ent, because he would accept no favors
from any but an A. p. A. republican
convention.
Considering all things and the ele-
ments of its makeup, the convention is
to be congratulated for doing no worse.
TERMS TO PAIN.
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