Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-21
OUTSIDERS RUN TIE CLUB
Boilers PACK 4 ssniOn of Young Mems
Mckinley Organization.
BEEN AND souCaER As YOUNGSTERS
Head on PIRn TO Hold Ratification
Meeting, but Pail TO secure En-
d~orsePent for Ernstus A..
Henson.

with Secretary sidney W. Smith, who is
secretary also Of the Benson central com
mlttee. missing and the membership roll
Of the club also missing. A. W. Jefferis, J.
J. Boucher, John p. Breen and other aged
dads we're enabledAto pack with outsiders
the meeting OF the "young mems" Nc
Kiniey club last night and prevent the
youngsters from proceeding with their for
mer declared Intention of endorsing the
nominations made by the party at its con-
vention April II.
Jefferis started In last night to operate
through a young man training under him
in his law ONCE and through the ~lstter's
brother employed on Judge V~insonhaler's
stan. but az these fell down in their first
effort, he took charge himself and pre-
scented for the rising generation the inter-
esting spectacle Of a would-be leader try
ing to stampede the newly-elected president
by raising all kinds OF points Of order and
when oyerruled, shouting: You ought to
herd with Cowelli You are no republican,
Little Contents Big Jen.
1t had been the Intention to stampede
the club into endorsing Benson but, failing
in this. the intruders contented themselves
with s%quelching the report Of those men,
bers OF the club campaign committee who
are not in somebody's, law once and in
sending the club home with no action taken
and with the young men who labored hard
est for It's. organization wondering why
they did It and what q republican club is
really for.
Six weeks ago q. s. Park, employed in R.
B. Howell's ONCE, moved the appointment
of a campaign committee ito work with
the city central committee" and President
Frank Crawford, a Broatch man, named
Park and others Of the proper stripe. AT
the clubs last meeting Park submitted the
committee's report, suggesting that the
cl1b have a public ratification OF the
party's nominees during the week after tho
convention and the club unanimously voted
this should be done. After the convention
went for Moores, Park, Sidney Smith, @. G.
Mcdonald and other ''anti' men on the
committee declared the matter must 60
back to the club, despite the protest of
Presient H. A. Foster and the unentangled
members Of the committee.
How the Trick Was Turned.
Last night Park, Smith, o. 8. Erwin and
Mcdonald presented a report asking 'fur-
Their instructions" and Dan J. Riley and
Charles q. Foster tried to submit a minor
ity report recommending that the club
proceed as previously planned. Jefferis, ].
p. Breen, w, A.. Scott, J.. S. Boucher and
outsiders run in for the occasion voted to
table both reports. A roll call was de-
manded and 1t was then discovered that
the membership roll was not there. MEM
bers in good standing were asked to step
rival and sign an emergency roll. Every
body in the house signed except one bell
boy and q Verdi Herald reporter. Jefferis
had come prepared and under these condi-
lions was able to squelch the minority re-
port, % to "a.
By the same means he killed @, q. Fos-
ter's resolution calling for an endorsement
of party candidates in abidance with the
preamble OF the club constitution, which
states that one of it's objects is ito labor
for the interests Of the republican party
and it's nominees" The only excuse ct
tempted for this blocking procedure was
found in a declaration that the clubs con-
stitution forbids participation in f~actional
fights, whereas the only reference made Il
the matter is that ''the club shall endorse
no candidate for nomination for any office.
Disguised over this diverting OF the hon.
est Intentions Of the club, and over the
manner in which the Jeferis- Boucher
Breen brigade had injected itself regardless
OF the interests Of the organization, the
young men voted with them to adjourn
leaving the club In the ridiculous position
of having backed down the first time 4
has an opportunity to really do something
for the party whose principles it espouseC
with such flourish Of trumpets and lonl
uvorda n little more than a year ago.