Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-10
WHAT POLITICIANS ARE DOING
Burbank Reluctant to Call Republican County
Committee Together,
IGNORES REQUEST OF THE Committeeman
Populists File Lists of Delegates Free
1iminary to Their Primaries Thurs
day NiRht-Contests in the
Fourth and sixth Wards.

Although the campaign is yet in its in
cipiency there is not a little activity ap-
parent on the part OF local politicians, and
the preliminaries are rapidly taking shape
for what Is expected to be a red-hot county
fight. The comparative strength OF candi-
dates is becoming evident and most OF those
who are actively interested are ready to
consider the question OF calling the county
convention and getting In line for the final
contest.
Last Monday a petition, signed by thirty
nine members OF the county central COM
mittee, being two-thirds OF the body, was
presented to Chairman Burbank requesting
him to issue a call for a meeting of the
committee. The failure Of the chairman to
comply with this request was followed by
another request, signed by a majority OF the
committee, directed to the secretary. Mr..
Tucker, to issue a cal. :Jr the committee
to meet in Washington hall on next satur-
day at 2 o'clock, for the purpose OF fixing
a date for holding the convention TO nom
mate a county ticket. This convention will
also choose delegates to the state convention
to be held in Omaha, September Fl. The call
was issued last evening and copies were
mailed to all the members of the commit
tee.
One OF the paradoxes that are created by
the painful effort of some a~nti-republican
politicians to continue their calamity howl
in the face Of the present prosperous condi-
tions cropped out in a humorous light In q
downtown resort, where a we'll known First
ward politician who Is a member Of the
democratic county central committee was
discoursing on the evils of a republican gov
eminent in particular and on the short
pnpoinoc ~ tha MpEiplay adp oiniatratin in
particular. In the course of his animad-
versions he declared that the workingmen
will never be prosperous as long as the re-
publicans are in power. Look at this
country today he vociferated. "See how
the masses are ground down by the trusts
and how the poor man is getting poorer
every day" He proceeded to declare that
another four years OF Mckinley will make
every workingman a pauper and no man
who is without capital will be able to make
a living for his family.
Then the conversation switched and turned
to the prospective primaries, and the anti
administration man voiced another griev-
ance. II never had such a time in my
life he walled. Here l have been plugging
over the ward for four days and l can't And
a man who is willing to act as judge or
clerk. Everybody is working, and when l
try to get them to take a day off they
insist that their employers have SO much
business on their hands that 1t Is useless
to ask for a layoff. l have lived In the
First ward for twelve years and this Is
the first time ! ever knew when every man
in the ward was working every day in the
week."
The kicker was entirely unconscious OF
the fact that his two grievances did not
harmonic worth a cent, but the joke
l.-,-A1 -. tLo raat - 49, a-1-l .-d a.
they had given him a bad fifteen minutes he
escaped from his diniculty by declaring:
''well, 1t is all wrong when a man has to
work all the time to get a living, anyhow"
PopuIist Primaries Today.
The populist primaries to select delegates
to the county convention, which will be held
at the populist headquarters on Howard
street Saturday afternoon, will occur be-
tween z and 8 o'clock Thursday evening.
There are no contests in six Of the Omaha
wards, nor in South Omaha, but in the
Fourth and Sixth wards of Omaha the ad-
ministration crowd has thrown down the
gauntlet for a straight issue with their OPP
ponents. Each has put up a delegation and
there will be a red hot fight before the
question Of supremacy is settled. There is
also a contest in the Eighth ward, but this
is purely a question OF individuals, as the
tickets are the same, except that w. ].
Welshans and A. w. Tidd go on one ticket
to oppose l.. F. McGinu and George B.
Cornwirth.
OF the delegations that are uncontested
the Second ward Is conceded to the admins
tration. The ants claim the First, Third,
Fifth, Seventh, and a part OF the Ninth.
while the ofice-holding element alleges that
fully half the men on these delegations are
with thnf1 Hnra tG tho nnpnnIata a.. -
the delegates in Omaha and South Omaha:
First Ward-M. j. O'connell, ]. w. Bar
nett, otto Wendt, Dave Rowden, C. Young, ].
Boyles, J. H. Crow, C.. H. Cowley, A. ].
Anderson.
Second Ward-Ted Morrow, P. L. Qulnlan,
Thomas Bennett, NJ. Quinlan, T. C. Kelsey,
John B. Conte, G. F. Rezner, James Ryan,
j. b. Jones.
Third Ward-L. v. Guye, j. E. Ryan. M.
Mcclure, C. Vincent, F. s. Horton, ]. Blake,
N. H. Church, j. Kenney, ]. Mcbride.
Fourth NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.: Frank
Cochran, f.. ID. Miller, Joseph McCarty,
Henry Miller, ]. c. Tierney, NJ. Hannigan,
John Mock, Joseph Kelly, C. G. Sorenson.
Fourth Observation-Disclosures: C. w.
Ruthman, l.. b. Johnson, G. Eubanks, ].
II. Peabody. J. G. Tierney, G. H.. Wagner,
e. D.. Miller, p. p. Burke, A. C. Martin.
Fifth Ward-Joseph Redman, Peter Kie-
witz. Richard Cody, John c. Emblem, p. j.
Meehan, Frank McGucken, James w. Nc
Carthy. Patrick Hynes, Brice Niles.
Sixth INSTRUMENTATION: T. G. KEEL
logg, H. j. Hockett, C. w. Henning, ]. C..
Smith, F. w. Marsh, v. C. Wilson, G. w.
Woody, N. Stevens.
Sixth NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.: r. r.
Rutherford. A.. G. Gale, Silas Robbins, ]. M.
Robinson, c. Johnson. N. e. Adams, ]. G..
Smith, Alfred Fawkner, John Barrett.
Seventh Ward-J. j. E~yeringham, E. r..
Morearity, Joseph Powers, Hamlin Barnes,
]. c. Whipple, Martin Langdon. II. r. New
comb. John o'Neal, Nels C, Peterson.
Eighth Ward-C. F. Erickson. L. F. Nc
CHM, John ~Jefcoat, d. Glenn Beaver.
George A. Magney. e. D.. Lilley, A. v. spald-
ing, George B.. Cornwirth, Jeppe Rasmussen,
w. ]. Welshans, A. W. Tidd.
Ninth Ward-John O. Yeiser, August
Cline, Herman Cohn. f.. Rawcliff, James
McCloud, c. l., Sanders, Hugh Mcintosh,
p. Condid, e, e. Thomas
south Omaha.
First Wsrd-James Graham. T. G.. Smith.
l. F. Abbott, o. Y. Witzell, Charles c..
Curtis.
Second Ward-Louis Sorenson, Sam Morri-
son, "A. ]. Coins, r. A. Barrett, w. A.
RApkett