Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-01
CAMPAIGN OPENS MONDAY
Both Parties Plan to Begin Active 0rganisa-
ton on that Date.
PoPULIsTs AGREE TO TURN LANGDoN DOWN
The Sharpened Axe Is Handed to the
County Committee with In
structiOns to Apply
1T at Once.
'oPULlsTs AGREE ToTURN LANeDoN DOWN

This week will see a boom in politics and
| the active work of organizing the voters for
enective work during the next thirty days
will be begun by both parties. While the
republican county headquarters has been
open for several days, Chairman Collins has
been waiting for the gaieties Of AkSar- Ben
week to subside before launching out into the
real work of the campaign. The democrats
are preparing their headquarters on the
fourth floor of the Paxton block and, be-
ginning Monday morning, Chairman /. J.
Dunn and Secretary Gunsalus Of their county
committee will start the machinery that they
expect will hoist John Power and Frank
Broadwell inside the breastworks at the
expense Of sundry other fusion candidates,
who may still imagine that they are run
ming
This task promises to tax the diplomacy
OF the democratic managers. The friends
of the non preferred candidates are already
beginning to become uneasy and their ankle
ties give birth to numerous emphatic sug-
gestions to the effect that, II the training
process is carried out as planned. the politi-
cal gravediggers will have tA work In day
and night shifts until all the corpses that
will remain after the score has been settled
have been decently inferred. The bulk Of
the democrats are contented to see the party
machinery mobilizsd behind the two leading
candidates, but their allies assert that their
candidates must have an equal opportunity
or the machine will be running on fiat
wheels before the campaign Is half over. Be-
tween Axing combinations for Power and
Broadwen and assuring the friends Of the
other candidates that they are looking after
their interests with equal energy the demo-
etc anrip ,t,t
The opening gun Of the republican cam
paign will be fired in the Eighth ward Tues
day night The members of the Eighth
Ward Republican club have applied for the
approval OF the executive committee In be-
half OF big ratification meeting ON that
date and the committee will schedule two or
three good speakers to assist them in giving
the campaign an auspicious beginning in
that ward. The meeting will be held at
Twenty-second and Cunning streets and the
Indications are that the hall will be filed.
Following this meetings will be scheduled
az frequent intervals In every ward and pre-
cinct In the county and the committee on
speakers is being crowded TO meet the de-
mands for campaign oratory that are rapidly
accommodating.
~ haS peeu lVrmdlly uecreeu Dy the pow
ers that assume to rule the populist party OF
Douglas county that Martin Langdon must
comply with the demand OF the democrats
and get OFF the fusion ticket with as much
grace as possible This was decided on by
the executive committee at a meeting held
at the Peter Cooper club Friday night. Lang
don was not present and SO far he has given
no intimation that he has changed his mind
to conform with the position taken by the
committee. 1t was suggested In this connec-
tion, that Langdon was likely to be a difficult
proposition and the committee finally voted
to turn the Job Of convincing him over TO
the entire county central committee, with
tacit instructions to get his resignation by
one way or another.
John c. Wharton has returned from q
trip to New York. PhiladeIphia and other
eastern points, during which he took oc-
oasion to acquire an unders landing OF the
political feeling In the east He says that
the eastern people are all interested in the
Nebraska campaign, and the general opinion
Is that the republicans should win. He was
repeatedly asked how Bryan could hope to
carry Nebraska for the fusion ticket in the
face OF the unmistakable prosperity that the
voters are enjoying, and the people seemed