Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-14
JUDGE KEYSOR ON HOWELL
Deals with Fusion Candidates Record on
Garbage Contract.
TOOK MORE THAN MONEY FROM PEOPLE
in Taking from the citizens
of Douglas County the Right to
Have Their Votes Counted
as Cast.

large number of Ninth warders met a
Twenty-ninth and Farnaln streets last even
ing to hear the municipal issues Of the cam
| paign discussed The building was wei
filled and the greatest enthusiasm was mani
tested for the republican ticket
John G. Wharton was the first speaker ant
he reviewed the action of the late Legislature
in foisting the present election upon tht
people, the ousting of the republican mem
bers of the delegation for no other reason
than that the populists wanted few more
votes in the legislature; and also paid hi.
compliments in no uncertain manner to the
iniquities of the recount
Colonel Moores entered the hall at thi.
time and the minute his portly form ap
peared the crowd set up a cheer. Mr.. Moorec
only spoke for a few minutes, saying that ii
elected Omaha would have a mayor about
whose republcanism there could be no ques,
tion and one who would give his best efforts
for the good of the city and to aid every
man, woman and child in it.
HOWELL'S RECORD IN THE COUNCIL
Judge Keysor made the principal address OF
the evening and in opening paid his com.
pliments to Howell's councilmanic record be
fore taking up his more recent achievements
He stated that in his position as district
that came before him was the enforcement
of the garbage monopoly, which deprived
men OF the opportunity to earn an honest
living, but which he had no choice about en-.
forcing, because the supreme court had held
the contract legal, and it's legality turned
on the ordinance passed by the city council
and for which Howell voted.
One of the things in addition to the charter
and an extra election for which the city
was largely indebted to Howell was the
municipal court law, which took the power
of selecting judicial officers from the people
and made them appointive, and superseded
the county court in all except probate mat
ters before the machinery of the new court
could possibly be- set in motion, in addition
to saddling the extra burden of expense upon
the taxpayers.
COUNTY DELAYED SETTLEMENT.
He then took up the charges made against
Colonel Moores and said that when the diff
ferences between Mr.. Moores and the county
arose Judge Duffie had been selected by Mr.
Moores and the speaker by the county to
arbitrate that difference, and they were
| ready from that time on to take up the mat
ter, and Mr.. Moores had declared he was not
only willing but anxious to settle it in that
way and had at first and at all times since
declared that he would abide by the deci-
sion of the arbitrators. The county never
got ready to present its case until Judge
Dufie went out of Office and Judge Fawcett
was selected in his stead, and still the
county was not ready. The charges were
based on figures presented by Ruane. who
had made a blunder every time he put a
pen to paper, and the county commissioners
had been compelled after a twenty-one days
hearing to acquit Mr.. Moores of the charges
made by Ruane
In the case against ex-Sheriff Coburn the
unreliability of this pretended experts fig
ures was again demonstrated and the case
| fell fiat
| Moores did not deny that he owed the
county, but asserted the county owed him q
| much larger sum, and like any prudent man
desired that the entire matter should be ad-
| justed. 1T will take something more than
| the charges Of a man whose unreliability
has been proven to convince me that a big.
hearted man like Frank Moores, who was
| ever ready to help his fellows, is a Grim
| inal."
DEFRAUDED THE PEOPLE.
ut is an old adage that the pot has nc
! right to call the kettle black and even if
these charges were true, which is not ad-
mitted Mr.. Howell has been not only a
party but leader in taking that which is
more than money-the right of having the
will OF the voter as registered at the ballot
| box respected. He had been a party to de-
| frauding the people out of the representa-
tives elected by them, for a partisan ad-
vantage to himself and his party"
In conclusion Judge Keysor said that
Nebraska and Omaha had suffered enough
from pOpuist rule without having 1t sc
, out to the world that the city of Omaha had
also been turned over to them.
Commissioner Kierstead was called for and
responded giving a statement Of the differ
ences between the county and Mr.. Moores.
Joseph Crow, who was elected to the
| late legislature and so incontinently fired
| out by a partisan majority was called for.
He stated that while in the legislature he
| had asked Mr.. Howell several times to see
a copy OF the new charter bill, but had been
informed he could not see it until it was
introduced and printed.