Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-02

no disposition to sulk consented. He
asked me particularly to go down to the
breweries and l introduced him TO the
brewers and helped him collect $3.50. Yet
at that very time the sham purifiers
tried to make political capital by de-
nouncing the Moores machine for subsist-
ing on contributions from the brewers and
liquor dealers. In that very campaign, as
] am informed, the anti machine committee
with the knowledge and consent Of It's pious
chairman solicited a campaign contribu-
tion from Tom Dennison. the policy king.
as l am informed. although he was being
dubbed night and day by the parties for
whom that committee stood as purifiers
and machine crushers. Dennlson honored
the draft and gave them 800 Of gamblers
money and they took 1t. l presume that
II Dennison or any other mar OF the SPORT
Ing fraternity should drop a hundred-dol-
lar bill into the slot machine Of the
Gophers they would use It without any
qualms of conscience. (Applsuse.) They
would not hesitate to accept such stained
money. Not at all. At the same time
they would thank the Lord that he has not
made them as all these others are.
Alleged ROsewnter Machine.
Now as TO the R~osewater machine.
When the county committee and city COM
mittee was by decisive majority made up
Of my political friends there was always
some representation in the committee for
the minority. The committee was or
ganized for the republican party and not
merely for one faction. The Rosewater
machine recognized the right OF the mi
nority to participate with the majority.
When q ward or precinct was carried by
the opposing faction the anti-machine del
egates were always allowed to name the
members OF the committee for that ward
or precinct. They we're always given their
due proportion Of campaign ammunitlons
whether in the shape Of carriages or
workers, and we're permitted to share the
fortunes Of the party and march hand in
hand with the majority. At no time in the
history Of Omaha and the county, at least
for the last twenty-five years, has any
precinct or ward presented the names OF
committeeman selected by the delegates
present without having them duly rec
ognized and enrolled in the central COM
mittee.
Methods of the RefOrmers.
Mark the contrast between the old and
the new machine. When the county con-
vention last fall was captured by imported
repeaters from Iowa and hundreds Of af1-
davi. men who had no right to vote and
by corporation Doodle, the anti-machine
faction set UP the most arbitrary and
tyrannical machine that we have ever seen
in the city OF in this state. When South
Omaha came up witt a delegation opposed
to the majority OF the convention they
were chastised and denied any representa-
ton on the legislative ticket. Not only
that, when the delegation from South
Omaha, in accordance with old-time usage,
named the six committeemen to which
that city surely was entitled under the call,
those committeeman were insultingly re-
jected and six men who had been over
whelmingly defeated at the South Omaha
primary we're put upon the committee. Is
It any wonder that the ticket met with
disaster in that town by reason of the
resentment of the republicans Of South
Omaha at such treatment? The same
treatment was meted out to the Second
and Third wards In Omaha and precincts
in the county that had elected anti Mercer
delegates. Thus the county committee was
made not a representative of the whole
party, but simply a club representing one
faction OF the party, and what believe to
be a minority Of the party and not q ma
jority. (Applause,)
THE same tactics, only more so, were
PURSUED in the city convention last fall.
There was really no great struggle. There
were no candidates for city ofices and
only one-third Of the school board, but
In their anxiety to crush and destroy all
opposition by main force the convention
dominated by the sham purifiers deliberately
went to work and named a city commit
tee, regardless of the wishes OF the mi
nority delegates. The committeeman were
all selected in advance, their names read
of from a paper and put through under
whip and spur. Not a single member was
of the minority faction. The republican
city committee no longer represents the
party. 1t simply voices the Will OF a
faction. II this policy is to be pursued In
the future any rational mar who Is TAMIL
lar with human nature can see nothing but
disaster In the city campaign and In all
succeeding campaigns so long as such a
policy is pursued. No political party can
hone to succeed unless 1t can broadly
recognize the rights of every faction and
every element OF the party and give 1t
fair representation not only upon the
ticket, but upon the managing committee,
Platform of The Bee.
"Manifestly the cutlery against the Rose
water part OF the machine is senseless and
misleading. The only thing that may re-
main, and does remain. is TIT Omaha Bee,
and that stands purely upon the broad
platform OF popular confidence. Nobody is
obliged to take the paper II 1t does not
suit him. Nobody is Obliged to support its
policies unless he agrees with the senti-
ments expressed, and its influence depends
upon the good will Of the public. II 1t
exerts any political influence 1t is because
It champions principles and policies that
are popular. (Applause.) If 1t is a power
in politics II is because It has always stood
for Omaha and Nebraska and has always
advocated what It believes to be for the
welfare OF the masses.
Tom DennisOn's Machine.
"Now we come to the last part OF the ma
chine, and that is perhaps the most odious
part, and l am going to speak without re-
serve. There is no doubt that Tom DEN
nison, Just the same as dozens of other