Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26
GREAT NIGHT in BIG SIXTH
Solid Twenty-Six Rallies the Forces
to Hear Candidates and other
Speakers.

The meeting of the Solid Twenty-six club
last night at Idlewild hall brought out a
large number of Sixth ward rooters. Can
didates present requested to be called early
so they could attend the Washington hall
meeting.
Bryce Crawford. candidate for council
man from the Fifth ward, said the ques-
ton before the people today is how the new
council will treat the corporations. He
said he would treat all interests fairly,
giving no person or corporation any adj
vantage over any other person, insisting
that the franchised corporations should
have no more than that to which they are
entitled by law.
A. c. Wahlstrom, candidate for building
inspector. made a short talk, saying that
in his fifteen years as contractor he has
always employed union labor and never had
any trouble.
The Solid Twenty-six Glee club sang a
new song adapted to the present cam
pa:gn and followed 1t with another.
w. ]. Hunter, candidate for comptroller.
said that should he be elected the office
would not go into the business OF dealing
In city warrants. e. D. Evans, candidate
for council from the Sixth ward, appealed
for the election of the entire republican
ticket. Fred Hoye. candidate for council
from the Second ward, pledged himself to
continue his record Of the last three years
II reelected, standing for municipal own-
ership of waterworks and electric lighting
plant, and promising his best efforts in
the present fight for just taxation.
About the Boilers.
The principal speaker OF the evening was
John c. Wharton. He prefaced his remarks
by speaking in high terms of the candidateIs
on the republican ticket. Discussing 'municy-
ipal political conditions, he said:
When l am asked TO bolt a nomination.
! say to myself: Bolt? Bolt what? Bolt
the nominees OF the grandest party on
earth, the party which has achieved the
greatest victories OF both peace and war;
Having these convictions l cannot lay aside
my republicanism at the request OF a few
disgruntled people. II you are a republican
show your convictions and don't 90 skulkk
Ing around with a dark lantern. I rememl
Der when W. ]. Brostch was a candidate
the last time he was elected mayor. Z Ok
posed the nomination OF Mr.. Broatch. He
was nominated. 1t was a bitter pill, bur
] took my medicine and canvassed the CITY
for w. J. Broatch and voted for hin.
do my lighting at the primaries and when
that is done l am for the nominees. he
lieving that the judgment Of the party is
better than that OF any individual. II you
have any desire for the reelection of Presi-
dent Roosevelt next year be careful Of
your associates this spring.
MOOres and the People.
A things taken together, I believe
Frank e. Moores is the best man for the
once OF mayor. He is more fair and less
dominated by corporation influence. He has
been a representative of the people rather
than OF the corporations. We must concede
the power Of the electric light company.
II must be powerful because, when Mayor
Moores called a special meeting of the
council there were but two members pres
ent. The mayor called the meeting ana
this showed that he was not controlled by
the electric light company. He vetoed an
ordinance for gas lamps because the city
could not afford to pay for them. He
could have made himself solid with the
corporations and in a few outlying districts
OF the city by approving the ordinance.
but he vetoed II in the interest OF the tax
payers. He vetoed an ordinance for 100
electric arc lights although he alienated
corporation friendship. He has shown him
self a man who will stand by the people's
interests. II he was a bad man they would
not need dark-lantern methods TO defeat
him.
The electric light company wants the
mayor and city attorney both. The dart
lantern brigade said Frank Moores Is a
CRATER. That police board has been IN
power eight months or better. II you would
meet Westberg, or Broatch, OF Burbank
you would hear OF grafters. They raked
hell over with a fine toothed comb. but the
evidence Of grating is stlll lacking-tbe
best evidence Of the honesty and inteeritv
OF Frank z. Moores. They drew up a hin
extending the date Of the election in order
to md evidence against him. The city cen
trail committee was organized with none
but anti-Moores men upon Il. They bad
all OF the machinery OF the party. with
all OF this Frank e. Moores carried Ave
Of the eight contested wards. suppos.0
after MoOres had won under such odds -
would be conceded the nomination. ~
early In the morning that distinguished
citizen OF the Sixth ward, John n, West
berg. sent a carriage for Lindquest."
Mr.. Wharton then recited the incidents
leading up to the nomination OF mani "a