Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1903-04-12
High-Handed Methods of Chairman
Herring Rebuked by Majority and
Business Done In Legal
Way Thereafter.
Republican city Thcket.

Ninth ward.........C. S. HUNTINGTON
The republicans of Omaha decreed the
Of Frank E. Moores for mayor
at their primaries Friday, and the city con-
vention registered that decree yesterday.
Along with the denomination of Mayor
Moores the convention named the candi-
dates as here given for the other city on
ces to be filled at the coming election.
The convention was one OF the most eX-
citing known in republican annals, and the
margin between the two contending factions
so close that fierce fight was kept up un-
til the nomination of Moores was accom-
plished whereupon the antis, with the ex-
ception of one lone delegate from the Ninth
ward took their departure from the con-
vention hall. and refused to participate
further In the proceedings
= Notwithstanding the clear majority OF
Moores delegates. elected at the primaries
against every possible opposition. notwith-
standing that the nntis had lost out under
a eerrymandered apportionment by which
they thought they had made themselves In
xincible; notwithstanding the fact that the
entire machinery OF the primary election
,&aa IN she hands Of rlhe an SIS, and aotwith-
standing the further fact that all the cor.
porate Doodle had been distributed for theii
benefit. the anti -Moores men pretended
that they had not been fairly beaten, and
lesorted to every known device to snatch
victory out of defeat
Bought One MOOres Man.
The entire morning had beer
spent by the anti-1eaders trying
TO capture delegates elected fol
Moores by holding out to them tempting
bribes OF money and promises of positions
They succeeded in finding only one sell
out, an Eighth ward delegate named Lind
quest, whose treachery created the sensa
tion Of the convention. Lindquest wal
doped with liquor and abducted so as t
prevent him from being brought to hi
senses by his friends in the convention
hall They kept him in the middle Of tn
Sixth ward delegation, instead Of allowing
him to sit with his fellow delegates from
the Eighth ward, for fear they might no
be able to force him to deliver the goods
and when the walkout came, headed b
Burbank Goss and westberg. they carrie
poor Lindquest with them. II was not tn
fault of the anti-purifers that they wer
not able to buy more of the Moores men
The corruption operations were conducte
from room $50 OF the Millard hotel, 4
which Police Commissioner Broatch an
the notorious Walter Noise were the prom
| inent figures. Ex-Police onieer Sam Nor
ris, on the Second ward delegation, wa
/ offered reinstatement on the police fore
| IL he would turn traitor, and a simila
offer was made to ex-Sergeant Shoup o
the Third ward delegation. A cash propo
sition was made up In four figures b
Vic Walker. as agent for the vote-pur
chasing syndicate. for three of the colOre
men on the Third ward delegation, and III
bid was run as high as $500 for poo
! Jew on the Eighth ward delegation.
none Of these cases. however. except ths
OF Lihdquest. was the corporation boodl
able to score.
HerrfnEs HiEh-HaBded work.
The feature Of the convention. aside froi
the Doodle operations Of the antis. wa
the hiRh-handed and coarse work Of Chair
man Herring OF the city committee, VIII
had taken the contract to steal the orgaT
ization away from the majority and pI
Ralph Breckenridge in as chairman with
out regard II the wishes OF the delegate
Herring tried to make a ruling that woul
exclude from participation In the temp'
rary organization the delegations from Il
Third and Eighth wards. who had VI
questioned credentials, on the plea thI
objections had been entered against ther
although Il was shown that such a rulir
was absolutely unprecedented and wou
logically destroy the convention. Eve
one OF the antis, on appeal from the dec
sion, voted TO sustain the chair, who y
was overruled by the test vote of 72
II. This test vote put Robert Cowell, Il
candidate Of the Moores men, into Il
chair. and he staid there through the col
vention, ruling with eoolness and emine
fairness.
seized slender Pretext.
Finding themselves ia the minority, h
antis looked for an excuse for walkou
which had been prearranged. They pr
tended to find IL in the action Of Chair mi
Cowell refusing 70 poll the Second wa
in the middle OF a roll call on the demal
OF Ninth ward delegates, who declined
vote until their demand was granted. II
antis forgot that only a few moments b
fore Chairman Herring had refused a d
mAnd for a poll Of the Fifth ward und
similar circumstances, holding that a p'
was admissible only when demanded b.
delegate who claimed his vote had be
wrongfully recorded. No member Of {
Second ward delegation asked for a p'
at any time. and the vote on mayor W
announced without tAe Ninth ward }
| sixin~ Frank n Mooraa a clear maiorl