Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-16
DIARY OF A LEAGUE PATRIOT
Inside Tips on the Origin of the Cut
Throat Organization.
PoPoCRATIc ADJUNCT FROM VERY START
Pipe Line Kept I'm Constant Running
order with the Fusion Cam
didntcs and the Fusion
Newspaper Organ.

! though the name OF the owner is not us
| closed, a few extracts from 1t, carefully
selected, afford interesting reading matter;
/ Tuesday, October Slave a new scheme
on which will knock the bottom out OF the
Moores machine and get even with the
people who knocked us out at the primaries
Have been talking to Cap. Palmer about II
who Is chairman of the state executive COM
mittee and think we have won him over
Webster says 1t is just the thing. We are
going to call our fellows together and start
the ball rolling
Thursday, October 5--Had a good meet
ing tonight at the Millard. Palmer insisted
on having lis call organization the Patriotic
league. Would have preferred to have hon.
ored Web by calling it after him, but he
said he already had one club named after
him and 1t would not do for him to show
his hand so boldly. We must have selected
the right persons to whom we sent the in
vitations, because nearly eighty came out
and most of these are with us to beat the
county ticket straight through. Think that
before the work is finished we will get them
to vote straight fusion ticket from Holcomb
down and show that, no matter how good a
man Reese Is, he cannot be elected by the
people in whose charge he has placed his
| campaign"
worId-HeraId Gives Snap Away.
Friday, October 6-The World Herald is
playing the devil. Thought they understood
about this thing and were willing to keep 1t
quiet so long as they were assured we were
going to work for the fusion ticket. But
here they come out this morning and say
that too much Rosewater is causing the
leading republicans to rebel against the
situation and to organize patriotic league
to conduct the LEGAL campaign entirely in
dependent OF Rosewater domination 1t looks
we'll to see our names printed in list Of
officers but am afraid we will have trouble
II people believe we want to take the charge
of the local campaign away from regular
committee. Web is tickled to death. His
talk last night touched nothing but i'm
perialsm and he says he is going to talk
nothing else wherever he goes, as that Is
surest way to drive the foreign-born voters
over to the fusionists. He has arrangement
with World Herald to have all his speeches
printed in full and they are going to use
his Imperialism talk as campaign material
for their ticket"
Saturday, October knew that World
Herald would cause trouble. Saw Palmer to-
day. He said he was up to The Bee and was
called down hard for lending his name and
position as member of state committee to
organize a lot of boilers. Asked him how
he got out of it and he told me what he
said Says he: I insisted the league was
organized solely to help state ticket The
reason why the invitations were sent out, or
most of them, entirely to Webster's friends,
was that they were the soreheads who had
to be gotten into line. | told them there
was no necessity of placating people already
working for the ticket, but that we wanted
to interest the fellows disposed to take the
other end. / thought that everything was
all right, because The Bee had said one OF
the invitations had been sent to its office,
but discovered that it had been sent there
by some one else, and that the list was made
up as originally intended without Including
any Of Rosewater's friends except these we
had to have. Explained that we had only
sent out ten invitations in each ward and
that they had been sent to people who would
fight the ticket If we did not do something
for them Palmer is working this thing
all right. Have got to keep him with us,
but we have also got to have somebody to nix
the World Herald. Will see Web and have
him send Gurey down and straighten things
cut"
Must Send for GurIey.
Friday October 13-Had our second meet
ing last night; pretty good attendance, too.
and perfected organization and named eX-
ecutive committee. That executive commit
tee list is a sumner. II that does not make
Rosewater sore would like to know what
will We have got enough men on it to run
the thing and they will do it right even II
they have TO come out openly for Holcomb
and all the fusion candidates. But that
World Herald will have to be fixed again.
Gurley lives down there most OF the time
and is right next to Metcalfe, but / don't
believe he has squared 1t yet Fisher works
for VIII. now. Will have to get him TO
do it. as he Is en- inside. Here is what
World-Herald sa, S this morning: The meet
ing furnished abundant evidence 20 the
anxious nominees on the republican county
ticket that they were left in the lurch and
that the state committee in its efforts to
carry Douglas county for the state ticket had
abandoned the local ticket to its fate. And
then it goes on after telling about us turn
ing down the resolution providing for active
support of the county ticket. as follows:
The way the committee disposed Of that
resolution was a crusher. 1t was not even
put From that moment all doubt as to the
intention OF the league vanished and no one
pretended to deny that many OF it's men,
bers were numbered with the ugly rebels
who are throwing the harpoon into the
county ticket with vindictive energy. That
almost gives whole thing away, but we are
getting organized and We expect to have
some money soon. AS an organizer Broatch
is a crackerjack and he is doing his level
best"
Friday, October Colleague meeting last
nigh: not as good as before. Attendance
not so strong, but that makes no difference.
We have the crowd organized and they
know what they are to do. Are trying to
organize in each ward, but making most
headway in the Fifth, Sixth and Eighth.
Saunders and Hess and their friends will
take care OF the Fifth; Cadet Taylors crowd
is going to take care of the Eighth, while
Winspear and Burbank will attend to the
Sixth for Web. Watch these wards cleo
tiou day and see what we do to them. They
are republican strongholds, but we will turn
them over and make them democratic"
Patriots Rejoice Over Results.
"wednesday, November Selection yester-
day. Returns o. X. So happy don't know
what to de- Met Web and Gurley and later
John L. Kennedy and Cadet Taylor and
Benedict and Saunders, and every one OF