Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1903-04-12

with the water works and electric :
! lighting plant.
3. We stand for equal and just !
I taxation of all classes of. property, ! |
! including corporate franchises and ! |
especially the local assessment OF
; railway terminals for city taxa
ton.
J 4. We pledge an economic and ! |
J businesslike administration of the
7 city's affairs.
: D. We promise government in the
! interest of the common people and 7
I resistance of every attempt of the !
! corporations to subvert our govern :
I ment by bribery and corruption. !
A...o~4sss-o-sSs-s
OF the entire number Of delegates in the
convention.
After the nomination Of mayor the con-
vention took a recess and on reconyening
business was more rapidly transacted The
walkout Of the antis left the convention
with seventy-three members present full
delegations from the First, Second, Third
and Fourth wards, all of the Eighth ward
delegates but one and one delegate from
the Ninth ward, who cast the full vote OF
the Ninth ward on those cffices on which he
knew what the sentiments of the other del
egates were. With view to harmoni2ing
the party the convention renominated City
Treasurer Hennings and City Clerk Ell
bourn, although he had lined up In the
primaries with the defeated faction. II
also gave them three places on the council
manic ticket, recognizing the vote Of pref
erence cast at the primary election, and
also gave them minority representation on
the city committee.
,,Ia Nua niuaotIslv adnDtad
It is brief and to the point. covering all
the vital issues confronting the taxpayers
OF the city.
Proceedings of the Convention.
With SO many spectators crowded about
the delegates enclosure that practically
every inch of space on the main floor, as
we'll as in the ample gallery. was occupied,
Chairman c. Z. Herring of the republican
city central committee called the repub
iican convention to order at 220 and stated
that on behalf Of the committee he took
the normal amount of pleasure in pre-
senting Ralph w. Breckenridge as tempo
rary chairman. Mr.. breckenridge, stepping
from the wings, started TO say he would
make no speech, when George Munro, dele
gate from the Eighth ward, declaring It
to be the province Il convention as
whole to select its chairman. moved the
election OF Robert Cowell Of the Fourth
ward. Thew were many secondg shouted
from various pHfts Of ibe room.
| A. H. Burnett, anti. moved the election
| OF Breckenridge. E. j. Cornish moved that
| the vote be by wards, With no proxies al
! lowed and those Of a delegation present
to cast the vote OF any ahsentees.
| Robert Smith moved amidst Kisses from
| the Moores faction, that only such dele
| cations as had no protest hled against
| them be allowed to vote. Cornish raised
| the point of order that those delegates
holding certificates from the primary elec-
! tIon boards had prima facie evidence of
being entitled to vote and must be ac-
cepted.
Appeals from herring Ruling.
The chair overruled the point Of order
and Cornish appealed. calling for vote
by wards. Herring responded that Cornish
| must wait until after viva voce vote, and
called for an aye and nay vote on sus-
| tanning the chair. The nay chorus and
| the aye chorus were SO nearly equal in
volume that distinction was impossible.
Roll call was again demanded and was
made after Secretary Nathan P. Dodge. jr.,
Of the city central committee had read the
list Of the delegates who had filed GER
| tincateS from the Doafd.
It was on thfs first roll call that the
strength OF the factions was tested and
the treachery OF Moores delegate dis
closed. The First wards ten votes. the
Second wards fourteen, the Third ward 6
twelve and the Fourth wards twenty went
against the chair. The Fifth wards thir-
teen, the Sixth wards twenty-six anc the
Seventh wards fifteen went to sustain him
Poll OF the Eighth began and proceeded
as against the chair until II reached the
name OF ]. G. e. Lindquest, tailor at
I5O2h Webster street, rocming at 7ls
North Seventeenth street. Lindquest voted
"aye'-and the storm broke!
Crowd Jeers the DeSerter.
''Traitor!" was called from a dozen diff
ferent parts Of the house. and as the con-
vention came to realize that the man had
deserted the interests he had been elected
TO support the anger became general and
! the contempt not TO be suppressed
} ''Boodler," Bought" "How much dit
you get?" These and other sneers were
interspersed with the constant cries o
"Traltori" that were yelled at him from
delegates and from spectators alike.
Lindquest, young Swede, hat
. been sitting not with his own delegation
but with the anti -Moores delegation iron
the Sixth and directly in front OF John n
Westberg. When the ieers and sneers be
: came so furious as 10 amount to a wih
roar Lindquest covered and shrank dow
, between the shoulders Of two stalwart pro
tectors OF the Sixth ward purity faction
He looked neither TO right nor left, bu
! stared vaeantly at the wall N front o
: him and had not voice TO respond even Z
the encouragements whispered in his ca
D by Westberg.
. Herring Knew Him.
= Finally, 70 divert attention. Burbank 0
I the anti faction called upon the chair 4
have all except delegates put outside tn
ropes But the crowd continued 70 or
''Traitor!" and to demand that he be mad
e TO stand up that an might see hin
, Finally Munro. leader OF the Eighth war
delegation, shouted above the roar; wv
q object 10 that man voting as a member O
d cur delegation. We haven't seen his fac
d and don't know who he Is.
o Well we know and that is suficieni,
g rejoined the naiyely frank chairman, VIII
= had in his opening remarks avowed a hol
: purpose 70 be, as e had been since
r little child. wholly fair"
u This trazen confession OF purpose, adda
q TO the excitement created by the discover
n OF treachery. so incensed the conventio
d