Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-10
Attempted Hold-Up.

Attempted Hold-Up.
The true inwardness OF the sell-out by the
holdup gang, which may as well be known
now as later, is that these pretended repub-
licans wen. over to the fusionists because
they could not hold up the republican COM
mlttee, and on the other hand secured prom
ises OF patronage and support from the fusion
managers. Mr. Barrett himself represent
ing Kelly and the South Omaha gang, called
on the republican county committee and the
editor OF The Bee with a demand for 1900,
which hs said would be necessary to keep
South Omaha republicans in line. Twelve
hundred dollara of this sum, accord
inE to his statement, was to go TO the
Sun, ostensiby to pay the grafters' sheet
fo; supporting the republican ticket. al
though 1t was posing as a republican paper
The demand was Of course turned down
promptly, and tho readerless paper, which
has always been the mouthpiece of Web
ster, Kelly Cadet Taylor, etc. Immediately
began harpoonins tha ticket. 1t succeeded
in touching the judiciary committee for
sum OF money and hoisted the republican
judicia! ticket, but refused to put I'D the
county ticket until the cash was forthcom-
ms, and for that reason never put 1t I'D.
Deal of the unpatriotic Lenguers.
The deal on the other end of the un-
Patriotic league is said to be a direct prom
lse on the part of the fusionists for the ap-
polntment OF an officer Of the league as
member OF the new police commission
which the Herdman gang proposes to put in
the field as soon as 1t gets control of the su-
preme court and the undivided influence of
the police board and the Herdmanites on
behalf OF John L. Webster's aspirations It
is significant that on the day before election
Silas A. Holcomb himself in person called
on the president Of the league, Hugh A.
Myers, in his office in the New York Lite
building, which is really the back door 20
John l.. Websters studio The Webster
plan figures that for his purposes the sup
port of the Herdmanites Is more valuable
even at the cost of all the places in the
court house than would be the upbuilding
OF the republican party through the election
OF republican candidates
Information Wanted.
Naturally the feeling wrought up by this
and shameful treachery is
intense. The following letter from q repub-
lican, who was formerly a Jealous Webster
ite, but who now sees the destruction to
which the Webster policy leads, is inter-
esting:
Omaha, Nov IL, 1S99.-Edtor Omaha
Dte' VIII you pledse Te-puDllSn names OF
the executive ward committees Of the Pa
triotic Webster league, same being response
BILE for the defeat OF part OF the republican
ticket. The republican voters should know
the people who wear yellow ribbons, register
as republicans and vote in tho interest of
Organism A. H. HENNINGS,
Republican Voter OF the Ninth Ward"
The president of the league is II. A. Myers
and the secretary X. s. Fisher. Among the
members Of its executive committee known
to have antagonized the ticket are Henry
Knodell John G. Kuhn, w. f. Gurley, w. !
A. Saunders ID. H. Christie, George II. Hess,
Byron G. Burbank, G. s. Amber, C. ]. An
dersen, Cadet Taylor, r. II. olmsted, p. ].
Barrett and A. r. Kelly.
New Ballot Works Both Ways.
The talk about the form of the ballot be-
ing responsible for the defeat of the fusion
candidates for the judiciary is simply silly
speculation. One OF the judges OF election in
a lower ward which gave good majority to
the fusion candidates speaking OF the condi-
ton of the ballots says
mo question but what the new ballot
msled a great many voters and neutralized
q great many votes, but 1t operated Just as
badly against the republicans as it did
against the fusionlsts. In the precinct where
| was counting twenty ballots were thrown
out on supreme judge alone because the
voter did not understand how TO mark them,
These ballots on other Offices were as many
republican as they were fusion. Voters would
come in and pick up the ballot and begin
marking in the center and forget to go back
to the top. Others would put cross opposite
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