Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-20
ROSES PARTY IS NO PARTY
Alleged Free Silver" Republican Mass
Convention Not Entitled to Recognition.
ONLY ONE DEMOCRATIC PARTY KNOWN
sound Money wing Recognized ms the
sole Exponent of the Faith Ex-
listing I'm Nebraska
at Present..

LINCOLN Oct. Especial Secretary
OF State Piper today gave out his findings in
the various protest cases decided last Sat
urday evening. They recapituate the evil
donce as submitted at the hearing. going to
SHOW, In the Rose case, that the so-called
mass convention was strictly star chamber
aualr, held by persons not accredited thereto
oy any delegate convention, and assembled,
10 the number of forty or fifty. by stealth
IN fourth floor room OF the Lincoln hotel.
LOT the purpose OF mystitying and misleading
republicans entitled to admittancc under tho
Rose call The action Of excluded repub-
leans who were unable to locate the Rose
convention, In nominating the regular ticket
again, under the Rose call, is rehearsed the
secretary finding that no protest to that
ticket has ever been filed in his office. He
finds, in the sixth place. that according 20
the usages of the republican party no con
ventton could have been or can be regularly
called or held, except upon the call or procla-
nation of the chairman and secretary of the
republican state central committee and that
no such call had been made or authorized
Tor the holding OF convention on October
o, 1896. Further, the star chamber conven-
ton was not attended by per cent of the
entire vote polled in this state at the last
ERECTION AS conclusions of law, Secretary
ripper hnds that the so-caled Rose conyen-
ton was not such an assemblage OF voters.
convention or primary meeting as was per-
mitted by law to nominate candidates for
Office to be voted for at a general election To
De heid November 3, 1896. That the said
purported certificate of nominations is fraud
ulent and void, and that none of the names
appearing thereon ought to be printed on
the official ballots For the foregoing rea-
sons the written objections to this purported
certificate OF nominations are sustained and
the names on IL are ordered not to be printed
on official ballots.
AS to the protest OF James C. Dahlman
to the filing of the Ryan and Koehler sound
money democratic certificate of nominations
the secretary finds that the party to which
exception is taken by MIR. Dahlman was the
only recognized democratic party in the state
and that its convention was regularly called
and held under call of a state central COM
mittee, elected as such by convention held
in 1895, claiming to be the democratic state
convention of Nebraska, at which Hon T.
j. Mahoney was nominated as candidate
Tor the office Of Justice of the supreme court
ana Hon John II. Ames and w. s. Ashby
as candidates for university regents In con-
clusion the names on the sound money dem
ocratlc certificate are ordered placed upon
the official ballot.
Attorneys for the three losing cases were
closeted with the supreme court in chambers
this afternoon, comforting upon the method
ana time OF application for original hear
ing in court. II was the prevailing opinion
that nothing could be settled relative thereto
In chambers fer want of Jurisdiction and
regular application will be made in the three
cases above named as also in the Rose case
at a M In supreme court tomorrow.