The San Francisco call., 1897-05-10
PREPARED to RepulSe Any
Attack From His
Successor.
MooreS Is Equally Determined
to Be the Mayor of
Omaha.
Both Are Union Veterans, and the
Conflict Is Deplored by Their
Comrades.

OMAHA, NEBR, May 9.-Half score of
uniformed police are standing guard In
the office OF retiring Mayor Broach. while
several others patrol the corridors of the
City Hall tonight. In addition an un-
usual NUMBER of police are held at the
central police station to answer an emer
gency call. This is the only tangible evil
dence that at midnight this city will have
two Mayors, and to- morrow 1t will prob
ably have other duplicate officers in the
way of Police Commissioners, two police
forces, City Counc lis, etc.
Retiring Mayor Broaoh announces to-
night that he is prepared to hold the Office
by force until his successor, Colonel
Moores, qualities, which Broach declares
is impossible on account of the alleged
shortage in his county accounts.
Moores ridicules this, declaring that
after midnight he will be Mayor by virtue
of his recent election.
Chief of Police Read issued a gene raj
order to the entire force tonight in which
they are instructed to take orders from
Broach only until after the controversy is
settled in the courts.
The force on guard at the Mayors Office
is regularly relieved, so that fresh force
is always ready to resist any effort the new
Mayor may make to get into his quarters.
Just what the officers have bsen instructed
to do in the event that Moores attempts to
use force is unknown. but the friends of
Broach say they have been instructed to
use such force as may be necessary to pre-
vent Moores taking charge of the Mayors
Office.
Broach declares that he put the police
on guard because he had heard that
Moores would attempt TO take the office
by force at midnight. Moores denies that
he desires to do anything of the kind.
The probabilities are nothing will be
done to- night, but that tomorrow he will
mandamus Broach, thus settling the con-
troversy without violence; but there is
still an element of uncertainty in the fact
that in any event the case will be promptly
appealed to the Supreme Court and before
that body decides both Broach and
Moores will insist upon acting as Mayor.
The Union Veterans Republican Club
to-day passed this resolution:
ReSolped. That it is with profound regret we
learn of the efforts of Comrade Broach to pre-
vent the induction into Office OF Comrade
Moores, his lawful successor, and we hereby
tender Moores our support. AS veterans and
sons of veterans we deplore the sensational
efforts to array one class against another.
Additional factors in the fight to- NOR
row will be the two Councils and TWO
Boards of Police Commissioners. At the
last meeting the Moores element declared
the old Council adjourned permanently,
but the other faction main tains that the
charter was invalid and that all officers
pretending to hold office by virtue of the
recent election under that charter are not
legally elected to the Offices.
Compromise seems impossible. Should
Moores make any effort to meet Broach's
show of force with like methods the result
will be serious; but Moores, who is an old
soldier, ridicules the idea of bloodshed.
He laughingly says that he was elected
and therefore will be Mayor at midnight.
If ne cannot sit in the Mayors office he
will carry on business temporarily at
other quarters. If violence is resorted to,
Moores declares that it must come from