Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-09
Large Field Of Entries in Four Of the
Six Congressional Districts.
NO APPARENT LEADER EXCEPT IN SIXTH
Fourth Apparently the Most Complicated
of Any of These Contests.
STUEFER HAS A CLOSE SHAVE At HOME
Secures nm Endorsement by n Narrow
Margin After Some Careful
Manipulation of an Ad-
verse Convention.
CFrom a stan correspondentN

From a stan Correspondent
| LINCOLN, June 7.-(Special. )-Most OF
the county conventions to select delegates
! to the republican state and congressional
| conventions have now been held and the
few remaining counties will select their
| delegates the coming week. Despite all
this, however. the situation with respect to
the contested Offices is but little clearer
! than it has been for some weeks.
As preliminary skirmlshes to the state
convention the republican nominees for
congress will be chosen within the next
eight days. Congressman Burkett has al
ready been renominated in the First dis
trtct without fight, while in the Second
| district the call has not even yet been is
! sued. awaiting the pleasure of Congress-
man Mercer, who owns the chairman and
committee. Nominations will be made
Tuesday for the Third and Fifth districts
at Fremont and Hastings. respectively; for
the Sixth district on Thursday at Craw-
ford, and for the Fourth district next week
| Monday at Breatice.
In the Third District
AT the Fremont convention tho
leaders will doubtless be ]. j. Nc
Carthy of Dixon, who has served con-
spicuously twice a member of the leels-
| lature; w. w. Young OF Stanton, a promi-
men figure in the last state senate, and
| DR.. Hanson Of Platte Each Of these can
didates has the solid backing Of his own
county and some in addition. Besides
these candidates there are H. G. Vail, a
young lawyer of Boone; George Brooks OF
Knox, or rather Bazle Mills; julie Jenal
for years county clerk Of Cedar: William
P. Warner OF Dakota and possibly one or
| two others. The question marks in the
convention are to be found in the delega.
uons for several counties that have can
| didates for state offices in whose interesta
they are expected to trade. The Dodge
county delegation therefore will be planted
! where it can bring strength to w. D. Hol-
brook for lieutenant governor, Madison and
Burt counties will try to make capital for
Robertson and Sears, respectively, for gov
ernor, and Cunning county will try to keep
an eye open for the benefit of Treasurer
| Stuefer.
| Firth Congressional District,
For the Hastings convention the leaders
seem to be Captain Clare Adams Of
| Nuckolls, who made a courageous race IN
| represent the Fifth district four wears
ago. and Judge G. w. Morse of Furnas
county whose popularity has kept him on
the district bench several terms. Neither
OF them have a walkaway. however as they
VIII nave to divide the field also with Ell
| Hot Lowe of Harland, who proved a uaef,I
| member Of the last legislature: w. p
McCreary Of Adams. who has been county
clerk for his county, and last. but not least.
W. A. Prince, the brilliant lawyer of Hall.
| whose legislative record was made In tho
| session OF 1899. The best Informed oh.
servers insist that 1t is still anybody's
| race.
| htnkaid Leads fha Stx,h
The Sixth district convention at, craw-
1ord ought to have more simpIifisd choice
Judge M. p Kinkaid OF Holt county is nm
questionably the strong man. with the
| advantage OF having twice canyassed tba
| district as congressional nominee. He has
| 10 contest the nomination with .Tud9a
urlrnes or Lincoln county, A. e. Cady Of
Howard George Beeman of Buffalo. Georga
b. Darr Of Dawson county and F. NJ. Currie
OF Custer county, all Of whom have been
before the people in various public ca
| pacities
Fourth District Complicated.
The problem presented by the Fourth
| district, which is to be solved at Beatrice.
| Is the most complicated OF ALL The race
| mas most OF entries, with apparently equal
| running abilities and remarkably cIoseIv
! punched at the post. Here is the lIst.
| Charles Sloan of Fillmore county. fresh
from a decisive victory In his home con-
Vention and with a legislative experience
TO attest his qualifications; E. H. Hinshaw
OF JeHerson county, the unsuccessful nom
| inee OF 1898; John d. Pope of Saline countv
who carried the party banner In the dis.
trict last time and would like a renomina-
tion; e. J. Hainer OF Hamilton. who rem.
resented the district twice before n turnad
to fusion tavorites; NJ. E. Schultze Of Gage.
VINO claims the backing of several fra
ternal organizations; George w. Post of
York, banker and politician. When the
convention was located at Beatrice IL WAS
understood that Gage county would have
no candidate, but the understanding was
| apparently misunderstood. The projection
! OF Post has come about only during the
last few days with the evident design to
take the county away from Sloan of FIJI
more with which It is hooked up in the
senatorial district.
state Campaign Slow.
In the state campaign interest continues
to center about the governorship Nearly
all the gubernatorial candidates have been
chasing from one end Of the state to the
other and in and out Of Lincoln In tho
hope Of catching an elusive delegate. Each
has his own county and. as already stated
some have been presented with the con-
gressional delegations from their counties
to trade on. II may be interesting TO give
for what II is worth some information
volunteered by John N. Baldwin Of Iowa,
who was here this week trying to nx up
the railroad tax case for the Union Pacific,
in whose law department he Is retained.
In a loquacious mood. Judge Baldwin de.
clsred
I'VE are not bothering about the gov
ernorship any more. That's all been set.
tied. We had a conference day or two
ago and We all agreed on Mickey as our
man"
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