Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-17
FIGHTING OVER The SPOILS
Fusion Managers Have Difficulty in Salts
flying All the Clans,
DEMOCRATS MUST GIVE WAY TO CONVERTS
Apportionmcnt of Appointiyc omccs
Between Pnrtics and within
the Ranks Excites Turmoil
and Contention.

The partial victory won by the fusion
lists in Douglas county has eliminated in a
mad scramble for the loaves and fishes, and
promises made before election have fallen
! to a low discount. Since the returns proved
| tho success OF the fusion candidates for
clerk of the court. sheriff and treasurer the
| leaders have been putting their heads to-
| gether and resolved arbitrarily to deter
mine who shall and who shall not connect
with the salary roll The disposition OF the
populsts to divorce themselves from the
triumvirate as manifested in the last cam
| paign has forced the democratic managers
| to repress their ravenous appetites and con-
| cede to the populists a share of the spoils.
Democratic committeeman have been busy
| for several days deciding upon the appor
| tionment OF the offices with the end in view
| of placating the hostility existing among
/ factions in their own ranks, even when to
| do this prominent democratic workers who
have been hewing the party wood and carry
| ing the party water for years have to be
turned down.
Pat Ford is Cut Out.
| For example. Pat Ford, the democratic
wheelhorse of the Third ward, was assured
| of the position of county jailer and on the
strength of the assurance worked night and
| day for Power. but Fords laurels are to be
snatched from him and given to populist
James b. Jones. president of the Peter
Cooper club. Jones, although not endorsed
by the populist committee nor by the club
has the favor Of the piecutters, with the re-
| suit that the sheriff elect has accepted the
edict to make Jones jailer.
Another deal said to have been closed
| is the appointment Of Charles Pospissel. an
! other populist, who has the support of the
| machine as one of the sheriffs deputies
| The populists have also secured the ap
| pontment of John w. Barnett as one of
the clerks under County Treasurer-elect Ell
sasser. Secretary Morearty of the popu-
| list county committee has been grooming
himself for a place in the district court
clerks Office and counts on the solid backing
| of the machine manipulators.
So far as the populist part Of the situation
is concerned, things seem therefore to be
in pacific condition. But among the dem
ocrats the wool is flying like prize sheep
shearing contest. All sorts of threats are
being made against the machine. Demo-
Gratis protest that the populists are hogging
1t and that the tail is wagging the dog.
Contest between Nationnlities.
Still another source of contention is aris-
different nationalities. The leaders have
undertaken to say that each of the sue
cessful candidates shall appoint such and
| such Bohemians, such and such Germans,
such and such Swedes, ETC., and naturally
the ordinary everyday political worker,
who has not the advantage of foreign birth,
| wants to know where he comes in.
| The Bohemians, in particular, are being
eyed with jealous gances, because, accord
ing to the slate, they are to be given balm
for failing to elect any of the Bohemian
nominees on the ticket.
II is understood that Editor Rosicky, who
played a star role in the Bohemian defec-
tion, is down for a place on the revised
police commission should the Herdmanites
get their board restored.
Vac Buresh, whose grievance was held
up for avengement because he slipped In
his aspiration for a republican nomination
expects to be kept in his present position
as deputy in the treasurer's office, while
Vodicka, another Bohemian, who served or
the election board as a republican, is to bt
rewarded with place in Broadwell's office
in recognition OF his signature to the cir.
cular appealing to the Bohemians to vote
the straight fusion ticket.
More Bohemian Discomfort.
| In the sherlns S once the ngnt is Oh De
tween Priborsky, republican bolter, fo
deputy and Havelka, democrat, now work
ing in the capacity OF bartender at th'
! Creighton theater bar. Bohemian demo
Gratis who have been voting the ticket righ
along are asking themselves what they arr
to expect If the republicans who turned
tail on the eve OF election are to have al
the lucrative jobs
Similar sources of dissatisfaction are dis
PLAYING themselves in other nauonalitie
and. while the victors have the spoils,
is a question whether they are to be
| burden or a benefit.