Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-13
ANTS HAVE BUSY SUNDAY
Solicit Men to Head "Rump" Ticket, but
Fail to Find One.
SWEDEs INDIGNANT OVER uNDoUEsT
Farnam street Tailor Wants IL I'm
derstOod that He is Not Related
10 the Renegade Eighth
Ward Man.


their Easter clothes. From morning until
night they we're hurrylng and scurrying
from one rendezvous to another, holding
conferences, trying to figure out where they
ARE at" and devising plans for the ad-
journed meeting they are to hold at the
Millard hotel tonight. Those most rabid
against Mayor Moores are still for going
ahead and nominating a straight anti ticket
under the delusion that It could gather
enough strength to win out against both
Moores and Howell.
A self-appointed committee waited on
Thomas A. Fry in the morning to hnd out
IL he would take a nomination for mayor,
but he answered with an emphatic mo"
1t is understood that a similar response
was had from w. w. Bingham and e. A.
Benson, the two candidates whom the antis
had supported in the convention, and as a
last resort the proposition was put up to
Dave Mercer, as holding out the only
chance for him to redeem his promise to
''get even" Mercer agreed to think the
matter over and his decision will probably
be announced at the coming gathering Of
the anti clans
The sorry spectacle made by the antis
with the stragglers who followed them
down to the Millard hotel has made their
leaders apprehensive as to the showing
they may expect when they reconvene. The
invitation has therefore been issued to the
members of the anti delegations who were
beaten out at the primaries in the wards
carried by Moores to come In and fill up
the gaps Many Of the recipients Of these
invitations. however, indicate an indisposi-
tion to respond, declaring they could not
see how they had any right to pretend to
represent the republicans of their wards
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that showed plainly that they did not rep
resent a majority following. Some Of those,
too, who followed the leaders Saturday had
put on their thinking caps over night and
| come to the conclusion that majority rule
was the only safeguard for their guidance.
| The Swedes Of decency and respectable
| ity are up in arms at the disgraceful con-
| duet of Lindquest, the Eighth ward dele
! gate who. after being elected to support
| Moores, sold out and voted against him.
| They charge his treachery, in large part,
to John N. westberg, and there is talk Of
meeting shortly to denounce the perpe-
traitors OF the outrage and repudiate them
as Swedes. Said a prominent Swedish"
American yesterday:
fThe action Of Lindquest must not be al
! low0d to refiect upon the Swedes Of Omaha
| Ren0Tally. we certainty I6Ol Dduly OhOhBh
| about It, To think that after trying to buy
| every Moores delegate they thought could
be tempted, the only sell-out they could
find should be a man who had been put, on
the delegation to represent the Swedes. I
am sure he did not realize what he was
| about Those who are responsible for his
| fall are the real ones to blame. They ought
| TO be prosecuted under the law, and l know
! every self-respecting Swede in Omaha
would welcome such prosecution as vim
dication of our nationality"
To show how the traitors conduct is
regarded The Bee is asked to print the
following letter from G. A. Lindquest, the
we'll known and eminently respected mer-
chant tailor, who does not want the public
to mistake him for the renegade Lindquest
or to imagine that he has any connection
or relationship with him:
OMAHA April 12.-To the Editor of The
Bee: The manner In which the newspapers
have mentioned ]. G. E: Lindquest, the
delegate causing such furore In the re-
P&DSSe bdSSest ' the taiioT may lead some per-
rons unacquainted with me to confuse my
name with his. I was not delegate to
| this convention, nor am i in any way
| either by relationship or business, con-
nected with this party. ,,,
1i10 Farnam Street.
One of the most prominent and remark
able features of the convention was the
indomitable and courageous fight made BY
E. ]. Cornish against the arbitrary and un-
precedented rulings OF Chairman Herring
of the city committee, who started in al
the very first to steal the whole list oi
nominations Cornish fought the high
handedness of Herring and his clique with
the tenacity of true warrior and that ht
was victorious the splendid results show
Not even the constant pounding of Herr
ing's club on the table could suppress the
leader of the First ward delegation.
And Chairman Cowell Of the permanent
organization proved another nut that wal
I hard to crack His gentlemanly but reso
Lutte uItimatum hurled at the defiant anC
desperate antis in their vain attempt a
: storming the convention, Gentlemen, yo'
= can't stampede the chairman. and you ma!
: as well understand that first as last" wa
| the death knell of the hope to captur
the nominations by overriding the chair
man. The storm was bowling bitterly
| the convention became one wild, demonia
= mob. that surged and swayed like a turbu
lent sea. Goss, Herring, Burbank an
Breckenridge ran up in front Of the stag
and shook their clenched fists at Mr.
Cowell. who stood there amidst the din an
r uproar as cool as a man on the seashore
S They yelled out in threatening, dehan
: tones: ''Mr. Chairman, don't you announc
e the vote you don't dare announce tn
: vote: announce 1t and you break up thi
o convention" But he did dare and did II
/, The vote was announced, Frank E. Moore
d was nominated for mayor and the antis
n true TO their purpose, walked out Of tn
IS hall. But they didn't stampede the chair
i man.
= The antis in denouncng Chairman Cowel
for gh-handed" and unprecedented
parliamentary outlawry forgot that the
we're bowling over a decision the preceden
for which had been set by Herring at tn
y very outset of the convention. II Her
rings ruling in refusing poll OF the FIT
ward on demand OF Mount of the light
was fair, then why was not Cowells rulin
in refusing a poll OF the Second ward fc
8 a Ninth ward kicker? The circumstance
ID we're precisely the same.
r. City Comptroller Westberg was goin
es down the street primary night when h
passed three acQuaintances on a high
lonesome. Westberg didn't know" hen
| but thew were not TO be thrown down IN