Omaha daily bee., 1898-08-18
CAMPAIGN IN The FIRST
Political Managers Lining Up Their Forces
Preparatory to Engagement.
PoPoCRATs SHORT ON AMMUNITION
Find Their Last Years Cartridges
Filled with BurnIess Powder and
No Hope OF Obtaining
Fresh supply soon.

nations Of both parties have been made IN
the First district and the campaign is open
ing up. The nominees are both young men,
and their plans are alike in that they viii
make a careful personal canvass OF the dis
trict. The popocrats at the state house are
trying to figure out on paper a victory for
Manahan, but many difficulties are met with,
even in this simple way Of winning an
election The statisticians have figured
that last year the vote for supreme Judge
was as follows: Post, l5. 3Os; sullivan, To-
52l Strong (prohib), 4Oi Switzler (dem.),
"a: scattering 40. This they find 10 look
promising, as it gives sullivan a plurality
of 2l3 in the district. But the chances for
popocratc success grow less when the vote
on regents is taken into consideration.
Haley received the most votes on the re-
publican ticket-lj 4O5. This was Just sos
more than Won Forrell received and still
larger majority over Remover. II is con-
ceded on all sides that Sullivan ran ahead
of his ticket all over the district. month
ago the Edmsten state committee figured
out that the natural republican majority in
the district would be 700. The republicans
however. do not place the figures so low
and claim that there will be a great change
from the vote Of last year.
Campaign Cries that Failed.
All through the First district last year
the BARLEY embezzlement cry was worked
for all ii was worth and the voters were
assured by the popocratic orators that II the
republicans were successful the defaulting
treasurer would be turned loose. This had
some effect on the vote. Another means OF
gaining votes resorted 10 by the popocrats
in the district to declare to the peo-
pie that the prosperity would not last
AS it turns out, every proposition advanced
by the fusionsts has been wrong and there
is a great change Of sentiment in the dis
trict This is especially true among the
foreign voters. They cannot be fooled
again on the money question ID they know
prosperity when they see it. Then there
is much talk among the Germans and Bo-
hemians about the prohibition proclivities
of Poynter and State Superintendent Jack
son. which is not lessened by the eXplana-
tions offered by the fusionists. They have
heard Of Poynters record and they have
learned that Jackson was a third party pro-
hibitonist previous to the time when the
fusion party discovered him and they are
not slow in seeing through the lame ex-
cuses now being made.
One instance of the change in the for
egn vote comes from Otoe county Down
near Syracuse there is a precinct where
two years ago seventy German voters
avowed themselves in favor of the fusion
party. This fall there are just seventeen
fusionists among the Germans Of that pre-
cnct. the others having ranged themselves
in the ranks Of the republican party.
state House Briefs.
A party of eight Dane farmers from YER
million county. Illinois, visited the state
house today. They are all well fixed in their
lllinOig homes but ha va led hot tbara
is room for more rapid advancement in Ne
braska, and are here on a prospecting trip.
They go from here to Hamilton county, and
will visit other parts of the state before re-
turning home. The spokesman Of the party
said that crops in Nebraska look much bet
ter than Illinois. and that the country here
is away ahead of their expectations.
Captain ]. D. Gage made trip to Furnas
county this week. establishing new Grand
Army OF the Republic posts at Edison and
at Holbrook. At the former place he was
assisted by Captain ]. M. Lee OF Oxford, and
the new post was started out with twelve
charter members. AT Holbrook there were
sixteen charter members, and at both places
the women organized and sent for charters
in the Womens Relief corps. Captain Gage,
in speaking OF his trip today, says that the
crops in the western part Of the state. and
especially west of Clay county look much
better than they do in the eastern portion
and that in the north part Of Furnas there
are fields OF corn that will go high as
seventy bushels per acre, the average all
over that county being high.
County Superintendent E. NJ. Hussong OF
Franklin county was a visitor at the state
house today, and had much to say about
the interest in education and the good crops
along the Republican valley
fled articles OF Incorporation today with a
capital stock OF $4,000. The operators are
F. R, Kingsley, George p. Kingsley and A
D. Wright.
Moore's Investment agency of Broken Bow
is another Incorporation. the nature OF
the business being a general real estate and
brokerage business. The capital stock is
100000. and the incorporators are A. Moore
and N. r. Gadd.
Governor Holcomb and General Barry, who
are now visiting the Third regiment al
Jacksonville. are expected home Saturday.
Theodore Mahn, bookkeeper for the secre.
tary of state has OF late been suffering from
asthma, and is now seeking relief in the high
altitude of Colorado.
Lincoln Local Notes.
The funeral services were held this after
noon over the remains of W. A. Smith, who
was pS lightning monday night.
Judge ]. c. Broadly OF Quincy, H.. is here
visiting his brother, J. II. Broadly.
s. W. Whillock, one OF the old settlers
OF Lancaster county, died at his home near
Malcolm yesterday afternoon. Mr. Whillock
was a native OF England and served ten
years in the British army before coming to
America He was 4 graduate of Oxford.
Last evening the little daughter OF L. o
Jones playing in the street in front OF
the family residence when she took hold OF
an electric light wire that had just broken
loose from the poles and fallen TO the
ground. The little girl rendered uncon
scious. and was still holding TO the wire
when found. Medical aid summoned al
once. and 1t is believed that the child /;
now out OF danger.
James Jackman the express messenger
who accidentally shot himself last Monday
down near Inland, has been brought 10 thi:
city and placed in the of the B. & NJ
physician. The pistol ball entered Jack
mans shoulder Just above the main artery
To the heart, and no attempt has yet been
made to extract IL.
The date of the state reunion is set fol-
September l. TO II, inclusive, and the on