Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-26
Jacksouians Vote oensure on -Four Men Who
Bolted Loechner.
UPHtAVAl OF WRATH AND tPITHETS
IA smith f. Champion of school of
Correction and Nolan and Park
hurst Fight Back with
Shoulder strokes.

larts ID &. parkhurst and John Mcmillan
of South Omaha for opposing the candidacy
of John Henry Loechner for mayor in their
Hast municipal election.
-Four stormy hours we're consumed In
the process and during that time the turb-
lulence alternated from gushes OF sentiment
Ito spasms Of bitter animus. Every mar
who spoke, and there were many. was
screaming at the top of his voice before
he had proceeded far, carried away by the
Intensity Of his feeling.
The four wrong-doers had more noise
behind them, but the other people had the
Votes. While the defiant utterances OF the
Uuartet which was on trial were applauded
Ito the echo by a majority Of the assem-
IblaRe. II developed that most OF the ones
who cheered the loudest had no votes on
1.-THE question, so when the matter finally
came down to brass tacks there were
twenty-seven ballots from the more silent
norton of the crowd for censure and nine
against 1t.
Nolan Resigns at once.
Mr.. Nolan at once presented his resig-
nation TO the club. Captain Parkhurst
shook his umbrella dehantly in the faces
of the twenty-seven and requested them
in shrill tones to fire me and be d"
George Parks Of South Omaha was equally
bitter. He is not a member Of the Jack
,sonian club, but had accompanied his party
idols to the scene of their trouble. Said
he.
you'll need South Omaha again some
time. You'll be coming down there and
asking us to help you out. But you'll find
800 democrats who will tell you to go to
h. Don't get swelled up about your
selves. There's just as good democrats in
South Omaha as in your club. Censure
our men, will you? You've bitten of more
than you can chew tonight"
Intense excitement was stirred up by the
fierce oratory OF the evening and, depressed
so long, It broke In a storm when the re-
suit Of the vote was announced. The
Injecting at once, without any formalities,
dissolved into a general debating melee
and It proceeded without a chairman from
that time on, the member adJourning down
the stairway In groups as soon as they had
said enough upstairs. There was no reg
iular adjournment and the confusion was
carried out into the street. Feeling was
very strong and one Of the leading mem
hers Of the club. representing its more con-
Servative element, sai3.
IT'LL tonight the Jacksonian club has al
ways stood for decency. This action can
t1oNSI Do 81 luteIpIcLcus nu Is Olulbu Olu
US that a failure to censure those men
would be the death knell of the organiza-
ton. The opposite is true. This unwar-
'ranted, Ill advised action means this clubs
finish. When Jacksonians get to the point
where they censure men for being conscien-
ftious and upright and honest in the highest
sense OF the word the period OF usefulness
of their organization Is passed"
Beautiful were the expressions OF broth
erIy love which flowed from the mouths Of
the men who strenuously advocated the
correction Of tho South Omaha four. Ed p.
Smith, w. o. Gilbert, A. Hugh Hipple-all
who took the floor in favor OF adopting the
'caustic report of the special committee APP
pointed to review actions Of this quartet,
were profuse in the expression Of great love
and admiration and respect for the four as
men, but they proceeded and urged with a
peculiar tenacity and al oratory that was
more than inspired, the chiding of these
same loved ones, who. rs Ed Smith put It.
Event in the night time with daggers up
their sleeves and slaughtered the demo-
cratic party in South Omaha" And this
expression brought Captain Parkhurst to
his feet with a bound, declaring:
Parkhurst fs Furious.
Il never went in the night. 1 never done
nothing in the dark. ! did it all open.
Throw me over your old transom II you
want TO and be id to you"
As a preliminary to the discussion of the
report urging censure by the president OF
the club the following resolution was
adopted by acclamation and with cheers:
For the purpose OF putting at rest any
doubts which may exist with respect tc
the. attitude Of this club toward the Kansas
City platform, It is the sense OF this, the
Jacksonian club. that the Kansas City plat
form be Endorsed at the next democratic
state convention"
Ed p. Smith was the chief actor in tn,
attack last night and he both opened anC
closed the discussion with pronounced voca
fireworks, in which bitter personalities
played a prominent part. He said that tn,
constitution OF the club provided for tn,
support Of candidates by Its members, ex
Dulsion being the alternative. The action
Of these men was particularly reprehensi
BILE because of what they owed the party
All four had held ONCE save Nolan, VIII,
was fiat and sleek with forty month
money which his partner, e. e. Thomas
had drawn as deputy county attorney b.
grace OF the democratic party"
II spOuts Back.
MT Iotau INSpouuou III u IOubluB speech
saying that he had no apology to make
either as a Jacksonian or as a democrat
for what he had done. He insisted, how
sver, on a strict Interpretation OF the club
rule. II provided plainly for expulsion, an
that rave 40 right to censure-only TO ex
pei. Nolan demanded that there be no cen
sure, but expulsion II the club SO wiled
md he would take II as a compliment to b
expelled on such grounds after he had ex
planned his position. He then went afte
Loeehner hammer and tongs, and said ths
Shile he himself was stamping over thirty
Ave counties OF the state two years ag
LOechner was peddling Mckinley buttons l
South Omaha. Mr.. Smith also came in fC
y little share OF Nolan's wrath.
l. II. Herdman has his own troubles
'Why have we such an overflow OF ed
torials in our democratic paper on tn
matter nowi" said he. Where was tn
organ at the time the Loechner matter wa
in immediate issue? Had one-half the eC
itOrials that have been written since tn
censure matter has come up been devote
20 the same attacks on him before the ele'
hon. he never would have dared appear 6
candidate"
smyth for the -Four.
G. J. smyth said he aid not intend I