Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-12
BOHEMIANS ARE DISGUSTED
All Nationalitics Have Representa-
ton on the Ticket While They
Are Holding the Sack.

While there has been a great deal of
elimination and recrimination among the
ward politicians as to who Is responsible
for the detection in the republican ranks
there is not a little heart burning and
pickering over in Bohemiantown, where the
political conflict was waged in the name of
an insuted nationality by Editor Rosicky,
who, as everybody knows, has been suffer-
ing from a long standing grievance in fail
ing Ito secure the position now held by
Cadet Taylor. When the political pot was
boiling the hottest Rosicky boldly pro-
claimed that he would turn 700 or 500 Bo-
hemian republicans over to the fusion side,
but the returns from the First and Second
wards in Omaha and from the Second ward
in South Omaha, where most of the Bo-
hemians reside do not show any perceptible
difference in the vote of this year from that
or u year ago. The returns show conclu-
sively that while considerable number OF
Bohemians were duped into supporting the
fusion ticket, the fusionists slaughtered
their two candidates ito degree that more
than Offset the vote given them and their
associates on the ticket by the Bohemians
In the wards where the Bohemans largely
reside the Bohemian candidates ran away
below Hocombs vote, showing that the
fusion voters of other nationalt'es scratched
the Bohemian candidates numerically.
This has raised a good deal Of Indignation
among the Bohemians, who cannot see what
they gained by Rosicky's appeal to avenge
a national insult. The fact is beginning to
dawn on these people that they were simply
used as cat's-paws to help pull the fusion
chestnuts out of the fire. One cf the prom
inent Bohemians Of the Second ward said
in substance:
'It has come out just as l expected. The
Germans have elected their man as county
treasurer; the Irish have elected their man
as sheriff, and the Swedes have elected their
man as coroner, and we are holding the
sack. On top of this comes our Editor
Rosicky with lot of abuse for everybody
who doesn't agree with him and with
charges that l know to be false and
ridiculous. For instance, he says that in
consideration of Mr.. Frank Shalda's sup
port his son, a young man who was a
signal officer with the First Nebraska in
the Philippines is ITO be appointed United
States consul to Prague as soon as the term
of the present consul expires. Such
thing was never even dreamed of, and could
not be. The young man has no such as
pirations He knows he could not fill that
position and nobody has ever suggested the
thing except Rosicky. 1t is pure inven-
tion. Rcsicky himself would like to go
there II he could, but his antics will pre-
vent his getting anything from anybody.
The democratic Bohemians laugh in their
sleeve over him and despise bin for the
treachery he has shown to his own party
under pretense thar he was fighting the
battle Of the Bohemians. His slurs and
ISLANDERS upon ether men are equally un-
called for. He does not know enough TO
bury the hatchet when he has already made
enemies enough to lose nearly all OF his
town subscribers. AS matter of fact,
good many Bohemians who would have
voted for fusion voted the republican ticket
because of the part taken by Rosicky. He
has done Mr.. Buresh great harm and has
not helped anybody"