Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-10

the game O, j. j. Brown. lLauehterl Now
then 1 would like to know wh1, particular
grievance The street ear conductors or mott Pc
mon have agaEs. Mayor M0os.s or against
myself. What has Mayor Moores ever done
to ujure the street ear employees never
heard o. any complaint as to the treatment
of these men by the mayor and / am not
aware that they have Individually. or as a
body, received uuk!nd treatment at my
hands. As the originator of the Trans
mississippi Exposition. they and the COM
pany that employs them were under many
obligations TO me. NOT only did l champion
and promote this great enterprise but
headed the stock subscription list With
So 600 when ] was borrowing and paving in
tcrest on the money | don't remember what
Mr. Brown subscribed but know that the
street railroad company paid for it's new
equipment and divided over S2o0. COO among
It's stockholders as result of my brain work
aud hard labor. For nearly two years and
a half / devoted from ten to sixteen hours
a day to make the exposition a monumental
success. ] never worked as hard in my life
The day before the exposition opened fell
in my tracks from nervous exhaustion and
was not able to take part in the opening
exercises.
street Hallway Activity.
am informed that 125 additional motor
men and conductors were employed by the
company during the exposition season, and
surely they cannot have a grievance for the
labor that / had contributed. contributed
my time and my money without charge or
hope of reward and l did not even use
street car pass given me as one of the eX>
position managers and paid my fare every
b I tn, -,
the whole season. So. then, l do not see
why the men that are employed by the street
car company should have grievance against
me, l know that Mir. Brown has but DO
not understand why they should make his
grievance theirs. do not think it is theirs
If they pay taxes in Omaha. MIR. Brown has
an Outstanding grievance and that is this:
Years ago l repeatedly called attention to
the fact that he tried to evade the payment
of taxes on the forty-acre tract which has
been used as a fair ground. AS a matter Cf
fact Mr. Brown did not pay dollar of taXeS
on that property in 1889, in 1890, in 1891,
in 1892, in 1898 in 1894, in 1895, in 1896, ana
only in 1897 did they begin to tax him and
he soon thereafter turned ii over to the
exposition association. They assessed that
property at just $4,000 when it is worth
fully $7j,O 600. Al that | ever did was to
call attention to the fact that running a
cabbage, pumpkin and chicken show on
that tract for one week in year should MT
exempt that ground from taxation. You
might as well say The Bee building is a
church because several church meetings are
held there every week and exempt it from
taxation as to exempt that ground from
taxation. ! have paid into the city treasury
over $4,000 in taxes since l have lived here
We are paying on The Bee building alone
more taxes than the gas company pays in
the city Of Omaha; we are paying on that
building today over $1,000 taxes per annum,
or within $4,000 of what the street railway
company pays. and I think it is a small
piece of business for Mir. Brown to 90
around poisoning the minds Of the employees
of the street car company against me in
dividualiy when l have put so many thou
sands Cf dollars into the pockets cf his
company by my labor, which they did not
even thank me for.
Now let us begin with that one propo-
siticn. 1t has been said by the dissatisfied
that the whole trouble is as between the
people, the good republicans on the one
side and the Rosewater- -Moores machine on
the other That was great bugbear raised
here during the campaign by the opposition
There was 10 Rosewater Moores machine in
operation in this campaign. There were
probably quite Il number of city employees
actively engaged on one side, but there we're
other city employees and officials, including
Boiler Inspector Unit and Building Inspector
Butler, on the other side. These
of you who opposed w. A. Saun-
ders and those who opposed George
Hess are surely not all tools of any political
machine. And l want to say right here that
there never was a slate agreed upon be- !
tween myself and Mayor Moores, and no /
slate was voted in that convention l met
the mayor the night before the convention, !
when the returns had been brought in, and .
we talked it over, but came to no agree
ment. l, myself, advocated the nomination /
Of Mr.. Haverly for clerk of the district court /
and the nomination of a Bohemian by the .
name of Buresh for treasurer. And this |
brings up the question why the Patriotic .
League cutthroats knitted Mr. Bryant, the .
candidate for treasurer. Bryant is a man
Of spOtiess integrity, and a man eminently
qualified for the position. He is a union
army veteran and a staunch republican. He I
was never identified with Mayor Moores and
had never trained with my political friends.
Why did these dastardly patriots assassinate
Bryant? Let them answer if they can.
siat. story Punctured.
AS regards Mr. Baright 1 thought he
should be satisfied with the county clerk
ihip in place Of Hayerly and work his way
Up, AS to other candidates, the mayor and
myself did not concur and | never saw him
rom that night on until after the conven-
ion had done its work. There was no slate
lor agreement. The convention made its
own selections. And everybody realizes and
,nOws that l took no personal advantage of
my candidate and did not attempt to dictate
single candidate. That story is untrue,
,ut it has afforded an excuse for the work
# assassination by the renegades calling
themselves patriots, and these patriots have
nly done what their leaders have taught
hem to do heretofore.
Who are their chosen leaders? Who are
he men that should be held responsible for
his execrable work? Most of them are well
nown On the executive committee we
nd Cadet Taylor, w A. Saunders, George
less and several more CT the same brand.
everal OF tho most unscrupulous bush
hackers arc operating from behind the
creen-most notable among theee is w. J. .
'roatch
William j. Broatch was made mayor OF
DmahG somewhere in tho SOS. He had my
arnesG and active support, both in the
omination and election John l.. Webster
,as made his city attorney. But as his city
ttorney he was bad adviser. do moi know