Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-05
HESS WISELY PULLS OUT
Does Not Have to Go to the Primaries TO
Find He ia Beaten.
CONTEST IN SECOND ALSO FIzzLts OUT
Important Changes In the Race for
the school Board-Contesting Half
Delegation Fails to Make
It's Petition Good.

Its Petition GOOD.
Some noteworthy changes have taken |
place in the contest for nominations for the |
school board, the most important of which |
is the withdrawal OF Hess and his delegation |
in the Sixth, leaving that ward free
to throw all its support TO Robert
Smith. Until yesterday it was gen
orally supposed that nothing but
an actual falldown at the primaries
would reveal to Hess misguided fancy how
little chance he stood with the voters, but |
the rapldity with which the odds began pill |
ing up against him finally became apparent
even to him and he chose the wiser course. !
He says now he is out Of politics, which is
accepted on all sides as remarkably accu-
rate description OF what happened to him.
In the Second ward the attempted flank
movement of the so called Bruning faction
| seems to have failed When the executive
committee of the central committee passed
on protests the Bruning men were given un-
| til 10 a. m. yesterday to mend the de-
ficiencies in their petition, but they failed
| to do So According to the resolution
adopted by the committee the night before
| there was nothing to do bait declare the
| petition irregular and throw 1t out. The
committee had agreed to allow the name Of
| ID. w. Gilbert to stand and unless he filed
a written withdrawal today his name will
go on the ballot, making eleven candidates
for delegate. 1t is reported, however, that
| he will withdraw.
| The short and stormy career of the
Owens delegation from the Eighth ward
came to an end Wednesday evening when
the entire petition withdrawn. This
is the delegation from which four of the
original members withdrew, claiming that
the use of their names had been unauthor-
! lied or that they were no longer willing
! to serve Then several others became un
| easy and finally the whole delegation asked
to be excused, which request was granted
This leaves u. G. Holder the only
avowed candidate for the school board in
that ward
In the Third and Fourth wards the dele
cations are unpledged though that Of the
former is said to be favorable to Owens and
it Is possible that school board candidate
may be sprung in the latter.
| In the wards in which there are contests
the vote of the women will cut considerable
| figure, as they are taking no little interest
| in the personnel OF the school board, although
| their activity will not be as great as 1t would
| have been had not certain members of the
board given up their ambitions to succeed
themselves. The women will nevertheless
| have it in their power to make some candi-
dates and unmake others.
! In the Ninth all is serene with N. NJ. How
ard as the preferred candidate for the board.
Van Glider does not seem to have had any
/ particular desire to return to his old seat,
to Judge from the fact that he has made no
| effort to come into the convention with a
delegation of his own. In the Sixth Frank
Sears and w. f. Johnson are awakening only
a languld interest for the reason that the
advantage is clearly with the latter
The populist county central committee is
| looking for a razor-edged broad-ax since
the one formerly used was utterly ruined
on the unyielding neck OF Judge Langdon.
The committee has passed the necessary res
| olution and yet the judge Is on the ticket
| Moreover, he promises to stay. The task
of relieving a ticket of an incubus Is gen.
orally considered very delicate one, and
only the most skillful political surgeons are
entrusted with it. They are sent out to hno
the candidate. remark upon the fine weather,
assure him of the esteem In which they
hold him and then, when they have drifted
around to politics, to point to the example
of some fine old Roman who sacrificed him
|
is supposed to open the way to the real
matter in hand and as a usual thing the
nrocess is we'll understood by fusionists
But in Langdon's case there has been no
such sympathetic proceeding, for the reason
that there was no opportunity for 1t. Lang
don was present at the meeting and saw the
whole plot in all its hdeousness laid bare
He played an important part in the meeting
called to kill and bury him; in fact, 1t Is
said that he was the chief orator Of the oc-
casion He demanded roll call, that he
might know who was against him and who
was for him. And he got 1t. The roll call
was a revelation to him, but nevertheless 1t
did not touch his faith in himself, in his
right to be on the ticket and his strength
as a candidate before the people. He let
his opponents know in no uncertain lam
guage that he would not comply with the
request of the resolution and that his resig-
nation was a long way off.
Several days have passed and the situa-
ton is not improved AS Langdon no longer
has the official Endorsement the true be-
9 levers are beginning to ask who Burnam,
. the other fusion man for county judge, is,
and what he can do Between them, the
, populist and silver republican conventions
, left as candidates man whom nobody
r wanted and whom nobody knew.
There will be meetings this evening
!. in the Seventh and Ninth wards. The Ninth
! ward meeting will be held at Twenty ninth
y and Farnam streets, and the principal speak
;. ers will be Judge Estele and Judge Sla-
$ baugh. The Seventh ward meeting will be
. held at 1912 South Twenty-uinth avenue.
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