Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-16
HOWELL AND HIS CHARTER
Deception as to Its Merits His Chief
Claim for Election.
INVOLVES ADDED EXPENSES AND ABUSES
These Features All shown Up at n
Meeting for COMMUNICATIONS
in the Eighth ward
Lnst Night.

The republican rally In the Eighth ward
last night was especially in the interests
OF the German-American citizens of the
ward, and that nationality was largely rep
resented in the audience. j. r.. Daley was
elected chairman of the meeting and he in
troduced p. w. Birkhauser as the first
speaker.
MIR. Birkhauser spoke for over an hour
and delivered a plain, practical talk to his
countrymen in regard to their duty at the
coming election. He tock the ground that
this was not a question of party, but of prin-
ciple. The fusionists had headed their ticket
with a man whose record was grossly bad
and whom no honest man could consistently
support. The republican ticket was by far
the best and deserved the support of men of
all parties who wanted good government.
Tho speaker went into Howell's record at
length, both in the city council and in the
legislature. He showed that in spite OF his
pretensions of opposition to corporations he
had assisted to fasten the garbage contract
on the people of Omaha and had never lost
an opportunity to stand for the interests Of
the corporate monopolists as against those
of the taxpayers.
The deception that Howell was trying to
pass off on the voters in regard to the new
Glld L was SuuNh NY III utIdll. All. III N
hauser showed that instead of being an econ
omy it involved added expenses and abuses
and he declared that the main object in
forcing the election at this time was to pre-
vent the pcople from having time to find out
what this charter really was before they
were called on to cast their ballots.
MOoRES' NAME CHEERED.
Judge Fawcett spoke briefly on the other
phase of the question. He said that since
MI. Birkhauser had shown up the candidate
OF the fusionists he wanted to say a few
words about the republican candidate. He
then aroused great enthusiasm by his high
tribute to Frank e. Moores, whom he urged
tho voters to support as a man who would
DO an honor to the position which he as
pired to fill. .r
a.. c. TrOup made a vigorous speech, In
which he arraigned Howell for his selfish
course in the senate. He said that last fall
the exposition was an issue in the campaign.
Tho men who were sent to Lincoln were
expected to use every possible effort to adj
vance the interests of that enterprise on
which the people of Omaha depended to re-
lievo them from the depression OF the past
few years. But Howell had no sooner taken
his seat than he tied up with the elements
that were most opposed to Omaha. He threw
j. II. Evans. who would have worked heartily
for the exposition, out OF the seat to which
no had been rightfully elected, and put in
Jeffcoat because he could use JeffcOat to
further his own ambition to be mayor. He
had allowed the exposition bill to sleep while
he devoted his entire efforts toward the pas
sage of a charter that no one had asked for.
Mr.. Troup said that Howell was primarily
to blame for the unsatisfactory action of the
legislature in regard to the exposition and
for the consequent failure of the other states
to make adequate appropriations.