Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-25
FIFTH WARD OUT IN FORCE
IP5n W. Cooper Plays the Lash Or the
Boilers and Delegate FiIsrL
LEAF FROM RECORD OF CARL c, WRIGHT
Mayor MoOres Receives q Gensrous
Welcome and Tells voters what
He Proposed Z DO for
A the City.

AZ a meeting Of voters Of the Fifth ward
at Sixteenth and Locust streets last night.
John w. Cooper rehearsed the story Of how
Frank e. Moores won fairly at the pri-
maries, entered the convention with a ma
jority Of delegates and the attempt made
by his opponents to thwart the will Of the
people by corruption and fraud. The hall
contained as many people as IT would hold.
Mayor Moores and the other candidates on
the republican ticket we're literally APP
plauded, the enthusiasm for the mayor be-
ing exceptionally pronounced. Besides
Mayor Moores and Mr.. Cooper the follow
ing talked: W. J. Hunter, candidate for
comptroller; G. w. DeLamatre, for A.. H.
Hennings. candidate for city treasurer, who
was absent; Fred Bruning. candidate for
tax commissioner; A.. @. Wahlstrom. can
didate for building inspector and Council
manic Candidates 2. NJ. Back, Fred Hoye,
Harry b. zimman, George T.. Nicholson,
Bryce Crawford. z. d. Evans, p. G. schroe-
der and @. s.. Huntington.
THE name of b. O. Burbank should be
a stencil in the nostrils OF every patriotic,
home-lovlng citizen" asserted Mr.. Cooper.
"He is going about the city claiming to
have an afhdsvit from J. @. e. Lindquest,
the Eighth ward delegate. who betrayed
his trust, alleging that Lindquest was not
bought. l would ask why Mr.. Burbank does
not produce Mr.. Lindquest before these
meetings and have him explain in person
why he did not vote in the convention the
way the people Instructed him when they
voted for him.
when the boilers left the convention In
Washington hall the act should brand them
as traitors in the republican party from
this time on. The men VIII led them were
Benson, q candidate before that convention
q few minutes before: A. w. Jeffsris. whom
tkpey call len, the big Gopher but whom
Z call JEFF, the big traitor and Charles A.
Goss, the John Y. Kane Of Omaha politics.
Jefferis was still sore because he was not
elected county attorney last fall. You re-
member who John Y. Kane of New York
was. Goss reminds me Of him. Goss goes
TO church with the pious one day Of the
week, but during the other six he asso-
ciates with bribe takers, boodlers and cor
ruptionists. For such q man / have the
lmost supreme contempt"
Something of wright.
Concerning Carl C.. Wright. the democ-
racy's candidate for city attorney, Mr..
Cooper said that ten years ago he had Sc
cured a Judgment at Lincoln against the
Farmers Canal company for $500; that Mr..
Wright was the secretary and manager OF
the concern, but that the judgment still
remains unpaid, though Cooper has been
looking for a chance to satisfy 1t during
the long interim.
Mayor Moorea' speech was devoted
largely to municipal ownership, which he
discussed at length, promising to do all
he could to further the public ownership OF
public utilities in Omaha, and to use his
best endeavors to put the municipal cleo
trio light plant proposition before the peo-
pie at the fall election. He promised to
Keep after the tax Sinking railroads
through the courts until a decision was
reached compelling the lines to pay their
fair share Of taxes in Omaha.
second Ward Democrats.
A dozen democrats spoke in epigrams tc
n smattering OF the voters Of the secont
ward last evening, including the council
manic candidates. and the candidates fol
mayor and tax commissioner, as we'll Al
Ed P. Smith Ernest STUNT spoke at grea
length and labored with his hearers to tel
hem Row he had risen alone and planned
10 beat the water works by furnishing HIM
self with his own water plant.
Ed p. Smith said he deemed 1t a part o
the plan to have him there that the demo
Gratis might not believe him sore He woul,
$ and be the party. II do not believe Fl
the infallibility of the convention he said
hut do IN It's hnality.'
candidate Howell arrived at the momen
M. Smith closed his speech. He was hoars
aNd spoke but briefly. taking credit upo
himself for the present city charter In II
entirety. including the tax exemptic
clause for The benefit Of the railroads.
The meeting closed with a short talk b
Tax Commissioner Fleming on what he h.
done Tor the citizens of Omaha in tax equal
ization.
Howell waits for Crowd.
~ was nearly 9 o'clock last night befor
Al sufficient number Of democrats got Il
gefher at Gruenlg's hall at Twenty-fourl
street and Ames avenue to hear Edward
Howell. William Fleming. C. o. Lobeck an
the democratic councilmanic candidate
again pledge themselves to municipal r.
forms II elected. Twenty-Five voters a.
tended the meeting. Edward e. Howell va
the FIRST speaker and he frequently referrC
TO the present city administration as q