Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-25
EYES FOCUSED ON HAMPTON
Politicians from Other Districts Attend the
Congressional Convention.
SWEET APPEARS TO Be THE FAyORITE
Nominees of All Parties Slow in Filing
nomination Papers and Time
is Now Almost Ex-
pired.
Trom a star Correspondent.l

From a STAFF Correspondent
DES MONIES, Sept. 24.-CSpecial)-A
number of republicans have gone from this
part Of the state to Hampton to attend the
convention Of the republicans Of the Third
district. Tit convention meets tomorrow
morning. Latest word from there is to the
effect that all the delegates are on hand,
or nearly all of them. and that where there
are absentees their proxies have all been
placed. The demand for proxies in the con-
%vention has been great. There are several
candidates who are in dead earnest. and
their friends will leave nothing undone to
land the nomination for them. The most
active Of the candidates are Representative
Burton e. Sweet Of Bremen, Charles E. AL
brook of Hardin and c. E. Ransier OF Blu
chanan. Tonight the indications are that
Sweet will be very strong in the race, and
1t will be between him and Ransier. The
candidacy of Albrook has been materially
injured by bringing up accusations against
him in connection with tax ferret troubles
in Hardin county. His firm of attorneys
had entered into a contract for a fee for
collecting taxes after the tax ferrets had
made the assessments, and there was such
a scandal following that several county off,
Gals were driven from public life, several
indictments we're returned and a heavy
judgment given for return of money to the
county. This is regarded as making 1t i'm
possible for Albrook to be the nominee.
The claim is being strongly made now
that Sweet will have the support OF the
Dubuque delegation, and If this is true he
is most likely to land the prize. Several
others who are still being considered are
Senator Hartman and Judge Evans of
Franklin county, Judge E. p. Seeds of Della
ware county, Judge Birdsall OF Wright
county and Senator COPYRIGHT OF Black
hawk county. There are ia delegates to
the convention. There is not now any talk
of denomination Of Speaker Henderson, but
the convention will pass resolutions highly
eulogistic of the speaker and expressing re-
greet that he should have declined the nomi-
nation. The convention is wholly in the
hands of Henderson's friends and what is
done will be with the approval of bis best
friends.
1t was announced tonight that Senator
w. B. Hartman Of Hampton is definitely
in the race for the nomination for con-
gress in the Third district, and his name
will be presented in the convention tomor-
row at Hampton. Representative M. f.
Edwards of Butler county ie also definitely
announced as a candidate.
Payne to Speak in Iowa.
Announcement is made that Hon. Serene
E. Payne of New York will deliver speeches
in Iowa October q. rs and 29, places not
yet named. One. will be In the Third dis
trict by an agreement entered into with
Speaker Henderson before the %latter's with
drawal. Hon. George L. Dobson, who is to
give some time to the campaign in Me-
braska, is to open at Mitchellville October
4. Major Lacey opens at Red Oak October
4 4ho arsk Me- y,aatfp1 in tho Ninth dia-
trict. Lieutenant Governor John Herriott
Of Stuart will campaign in eastern Iowa.
Regrets from the President.
General regret was expressed today over
the change in the program with regard to
the visit Of the. president and the hope ex-
pressed that as soon as the president Is
able to travel he will make new dates for
his journey into the western states. Gov
ernor Cummins received the following tele-
gram from Secretary Cortelyou, dated at
Bradford Junction, o.:
Please see bulletins regarding the presi-
dent issued today to the press. The Presi-
dent regrets exceedingly that he will be
unable to carry out his intentions TO visit
ciative Of the interest shown in the plans
made for his reception and desires that
you communicate the purpose or this as
patch to your associates or the committee
and all others who should be advised. He
| Will CeTlhlilly Try W bldht NV AoA a. ScAAS
future time.
There is a belief that the president will
only delay his visit a short time. All
preparations had been made for his re-
ception in Des Moines and elsewhere In
Iowa. Governor Cummins had planned to
accompany the president all through Iowa
on his trip across the state in a special
car.
Examining Assessment
George Pottle OF Lewiston, Me-, a mem
Der of the state board OF assessors OF
Maine, is engaged in making a brief in
vestigation of the assessment and taxing
system OF Iowa. He is working under a
special act of the Maine Legislature passed
last winter, directing the board of asses
sors to make biennlally an investigation Of
the taxing systems in other states and TO
make recommendations for the improve
ment of the system in Maine. Mr.. Pottle
has visited Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois
and some other states, and the results Of
his observations will be published as a
part Of the report made by the board Of as
SCISSORS to the Maine legislature. The plan
is to continue this investigation from year
to year and thus secure a great improve
ment OF the assessment system Of the state.
Several important changes have been made
in recent years in the taxing methods in
Maine, and the corporation and franchise
taxes have teen greatly increased.
Slow with inatiO
Nomination papers have been filed with
the secretary OF state for state and dis
trict Offices as yet in a very imperfect way.
The republican state ticket is filed properly,
but no other state ticket. The republican
nominees for judges in the First, Seventh.
Eighth, Nineteenth and Twentieth districts
have not been filed, and only a few OF the
democratic nominations for Judges. The
republican congressional nominations In the
First and Tenth districts have not been
filed. The democrats have filed from the
first six districts only. The prohibition
lists have filed papers for only one con-
gresham. and there is one independent
nomination. The time for filing ends in
about ten days.
BOnRParte Dam Case.
The attorney general plans to
action very soon in the legal proceedings
to establish the right OF the state Of Iowa
to build a hshway over the dam in the Des