Omaha daily bee., 1898-08-21
NEW DEAL FOR DEMOCRATS
County Committee Decides Not to Name the
Congressional Delegates.
CALLS FOR A COUNTY CONVENTION
Does Away with the Necessity Of Any
Primaries, However, by Choosing
the Delegates to Represent
the Several Wards.

The democratic county committee met at
the Jacksonan club rooms yesterday after
noon and in the course of its deliberations
produced what is considered by many dem
ocrats to be a new precedent In the man
agement of conventions. The congressional
convention for the Second district has been
called to meet next Saturday and II was
the duty OF the committee to provide some
manner for selecting delegates to that con-
ventiOn.
Previous to the state convention the COM
mittee met and selected the state delegation
without giving the rank and fle an oppor-
tunity to have word to say in the prem
ises. This action caused great deal of
displeasure at the time and the criticisms
of the committees action were SO severe
that it hesitated to repeat the transaction
in reference to the coming congressional
convention. although some members OF the
committee thought that would be the easiest
way out OF the matter. The majority, 1t
seems, Is not entirely barren Of ideas and
a new suggestion is made. This is that
county convention be called for next Thurs
day evening and that the committee select
the delegates for each Of the wards and pre-
cincts and for South Omaha.
When the proposition was first made it
was received with pleasant raiery by the
committee, as the members generally took
1t as a sort Of burlesque on the committees
usurpation of power in the past. But the
idea was not introduced as a joke and one
by one the leaders OF the machine arose
and endorsed the scheme and strange as
it may seem to some the proposition was
adopted by practically a unanimous vote
several members refraning from expressing
their position when the question was put.
A recess was taken while the list Of dele
gates was being prepared and the names
| reported for the Omaha wards were as fol-
| lows:
First Ward-Emmet Inman, John Fixa, Ed
Dee, Allie Mccain, Charles King, Fred AL
brecht, John Drexel, Haus Neble, Walter
Brandes, Owen Slaven, Louis Frick.
Second Ward-Adam Shoup. Michael Nit
tier, Thomas j. Flynn Peter Elsasser, Philip
Beal, w. H. Herdman, e. F. Augustat, Fritz
Bloemer, Frank Fixa, James Kelley, Ted
Wirth.
Third ward-Ed Rothery W. H. Gunsolus,
Gus Carey, Henry osthoff. John Shannon.
Pat Ford, James Shea, George Dwyer. Ed
Miller, Frank Stacy, w. r. OShaughnessy.
Fourth Ward-P. c. Heafey, w. s. Shoe
maker John H. Grossmann, p. II. Carey,
George Hoffman, l.. A. Anderson. Harry
Miller, Jerry Mulvihill. Truman Buck, Louis
Reed, p H. Tobin.
Fifth ward-willam McKenna, Pat Ho-
gan, Fred Jansen, John Fox, c. H. Hawks
worth, Walter Moies, Port DALEY, l. J.
Dunn, James Ledry, Henry Haubens, w. A.
Anderson.
sixth Ward-Joseph Sherry, w. 1. John
son, l.. R. Cottrell, Ernest Wigs. Harry
Laurie, Ed Buggy. George Tierney. Cyrus
d. Bell, Charles Storz, M. I. Murphy, James
McCabe.
Seventh ward-E. E. Howell, Charles f.
Tanning, Alma jackson, James Schneider
wind. Alb Waggoner, John T. Evans. Lew
Nav Dan Cameron. JOhn j, OCOQnOr,
George Trumbull.
Eighth Ward-John McGarry, James Fitz-
patrick, Henry Schroeder. John White, F.
Rasmussen. T. F. O'Brien, H. Peterson. j.
A. Connor Henry Tanner, w. F. Wappich,
]. P. Connolly.
Ninth Ward-J. B. Kitchen, William Null
cahy, w. c. Billiard, ]. F. Hopper. John j.
Riley, F. Ketchum, I. J. Rockwell, Alex
Altschuler, Fred Legson, John F. Coad,
Churchill Parker.
No members Of the committee were pres
ent from the country, and only one from
South Omaha, SO the selection Of delegates
from those localities was passed over for
the time, and they will probably be an
nounced today.
The committee then turned its attention
to the calling Of convention which is to
nominate a county ticket, including mem
bers OF the legislature. The advocates Of
a straight democratic legislative ticket
favored an early convention, while the other
faction, representing the gang leaders,
wanted the date fixed late in September.
There was a prolonged discussion of the
date without the motive behind the move
ments being directly referred to. but when
the vote was finally taken the straight
ticket crowd won out Handsomely, and the
convention will be called for September 3,
at p. NJ. which will be one week from
next Saturday. The primaries will be held
on the Tuesday preceding, or August 30.
The apportionment agreed upon gives eleven
delegates in each ward in Omaha, four for
each ward in South Omaha and five from
each country precinct.