Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-21
TROUBLES on EVERY HAND
Fusion County 0fioers.Elect Find Their
Bmbarra@ments Growing Daily.
PETER COOPER CLUB TIRED OF FUSION
Weary of Being Baited With Broken
Democratic Promises and Ready
to So Declare n They Are
Not Recognized.

Members of the Peter Cooper club me
Monday night to ventilate their disgust witt
what has been handed out to them as theii
reward for their zeal for the fusion cause
There were only about twenty members pres
ent, but before they got through they made
noiee enough for a whole political party ant
their noise did not partake by any means
Of the characteristics Of hilarity. AS soor
as the meeting was called to order join'
committee comprising II. Cohen, DR.. Pea
body and Michael Mcguire from the Petei
Cooper club, appointed week ago, and
John o. Yeiser Elmer Thomas, E. /. Morrow
and Rayworth OF South Omaha, appointed
by the populist county central committee tc
secure the appointment of the men selected
by the committee for appointment by the
newly elected fusion county officers, sub
mitted report that put the whole COM
pany in a very bad humor.
1t will be remembered that at the county
committee meeting Saturday evening August
Cline, Charles Pospisal, p. A. Barrett and
James Jones were selected for appointment
by Sheriff Power. but when the committee
got the ear of Mr. Power 1t found that he
was long on promises and short on offices
1t had figured that he would have twelve
places to give out and that, under the reso-
luton Of the joint fusion conventions, the
popuists were entitled to four. or the four
selected. however, the committee found that
Jones had already been assured the position
of jailer and Power intimated that he would
try to find place for one more populist
and one silver republican. 1t had been in
timated that Pospisal is the other populis:
upon whom Power has designs. This would
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BrondweIl Gives Cold Shoulder.
The committee had also been charged
with the duty of seeing e. F. Morearty and
John Emblem appointed to positions in the
office of the clerk of the district court but
when it laid its plans before Frank Broad
we'll he refused to consider the name OF
Morearty as a possibility and asked that
the populists select a number of representa-
tive men from whom he may take his pick
in making his two appointments.
The popuists had selected John w. Bar
nett and L. j. Quimby for appointment by
Treasurer elect Elsasser and when the COM
mittee reported that Elsasser had already
announced his list of appointees and that It
includes only Barnett, the wrath of the dis
appointed diffused itself in the form of a
series of resolutions introduced by Yeiser,
as the head of the committee, and written
by him, in which it was declared that un-
less the democrats shall live UP to their
promises in the matter Of appointments the
populsts of Douglas county shall hereafter
forever be opposed to fusion in city, county,
state or nation. Another resolution de-
nounced Elsasser and declared that the pop
ulists will never again support him for Of
flee.
Immediately e. F. Morearty opened the
sluiceway for his pent-up wrath and declared
that he was heartily tired of fusion and its
effects Several others spoke briefly to the
same effect, but motion for the passage OF
the resolution was headed off by DE- Pea
body, who favored laying the resolutions
over until full meeting of the committee
could be had and this was finally done.
The sheriff elect and the clerk elect of
the district court are finding their pathway
daily beset with greater embarrassments in
the selection and appointment OF their re-
spective forces of aids. Power and Broad
we'll appear to have started out to let
small coterie of democrats who have aspira-
tions OF their own dictate the appointment
litical interests OF the dictators. Resolutions
have been passed and appointments recon-
mended for them by the populsts, the Swed-
ish club, the Central Labor union and other
organizations that have disrupted plans
previously hatched by their advisers and
they are apparently about as far away from
a determination as they were the morning
q fter election