Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-05
CORPORATIONS PLAN TO STEAL ELECTION
Run In Railroad Laborers by Scores
60 Be Voted, ~ POssIbIe-DOc Lang
don's work f. Done
Openly.
THIRD WARD, SECOND DISTRICT.

Eleven names, all on the registry list Of
one precinct OF the Third ward, and none Of
them known to the Oldest residents OF the
ward, and none OF them to be found at the
addresses from which they are registered.
These same eleven names are also on
warrants charging their owners with illegal
registration, and as soon as they can BE-
found the men will be benin the bars.
Many othor illegal registrations have
been made and most of the men have been
spotted, so that warrants will be issued for
them and their arrests made as fast as
possible.
On Saturday the same old desperate tao.
tics Of the corporations we're pursued and
hundreds OF names were added to the reg
istry lists, men being taken in squads from
one point to another 10 be registered fol-
the purpose Of voting at the election to-
day.
Most Of this work was done under the al
rection Of one Doc" Langdon, a labor en-
ployment agent. Langdon will also be ar
rested for his part in the affair.
LanEdOn Not New in Business.
"Doc" Langdon has been manager Of an
employment bureau east Of the corner Of
Eleventh and Farnam streets, and handles
many men for railroads and sends them
to be employed by railroads in different
parts Of the west and the country. At the
last fall primaries he had large bundles
Of corporation money to carry the primaries
for the corporations candidate, Dave Mer-
Ger, for congress. He said he had thou
sands OF dollars to bet that no matter how
many Omaha citizens would support the
anti-Mercer delegation that he had men
enough registered to vote at the repub-
| lican Drimariaa that would carry the pffy
overwhelmingly for Dave Mercer.
The sam DOC" Langdon has been ac-
lively engaged for the last week in get
ting nonresident voters in line for the ccr-
poratlons, using corporation Doodle and
working tooth and toenail and spending
money lavishly on these nonresident men
TO carry the city at the polls for Ed
Howell. Langdon has informed his friencs
that the railroads had furnished him
money enough to get enough nonresident
unemployed men who we're seeking employ
ment through his employment bureau to
register on the last day Of registration,
Saturday, in the lower wards Of the city,
the First, Second and Third wards, and in
some other wards, to carry the city for Ed
Howell on Tuesday.
works the Game Boldly.
As a man who is acquainted with Lang
don was passing Weckbach's saloon on
South Thirteenth street between Harvey
and Howard, across the alley from the ST.
James hotel he saw Langdon had a bunch
Of from twenty-five to thirty illegal voters
and repeaters whom he had been treating,
and then distributed drink money to them.
An hour afterward-this was on the day OF
registration, Saturday-when the repub-
licans had gone to the metropolitan hotel
TO register, Doc Langdon had a bunch Of
six or eight of these nonresident repeaters
that he had in front Of the saloon at the
registration place, obtaining and getting
them registered. He seems to be the stool
pigeon and distributor Of the corporation
Doodle in obtaining Illegal registration and
illegal votes for Howell and against the re-
election Of Mayor Moores.
Several of the men when spoken to by
different citizens admitted that they had
lust arrived from the east-some even
that day, but they had been
informed by Doc Langdon what
statements to make under oath regarding
being residents of the state six months,
forty days Of the county and ten days OF
the precinct. and as to their place OF resi-
dence in said precinct, to entitle them to
registration. They further informed the
citizens that all their expenses, board.
rooms and all the liquor tney could drink
had been furnished them by said Langdon
and II Ed Howell was elected that he would
put them on the city pay roll as laboring
men. Not any Of the citizens knew them.
Has Plenty of Cash.
There can be no question but what this
agent Of the railroad and the municipal
corporations, Doc Langdon, has registered
hundreds Of nonresident, illegal voters
IN the interests Of Ed Howell and the dem
ocratic ticket. For the last week Langdon
-. ,kouyp 10 HE couaiptanrae any mn.