Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02
ISSUES IN CITY CAMPAIGN
sfome Rule and Equal Taxation the Points
' Under Consideration.
PEOPLE AGAINST the CORPORATIONS
Republican Speakers Make CIeaE tbs
Issues and are Cheered by Hun
dreds at Meeting Held
\ Last Night.

No meeting Of the present campaign has
witnessed the wild scenes OF enthusiasm
that marked the Joint gathering Of First
and Second warders in National hall at
Thirteenth and william streets last night.
when Mayor Moores, accompanied by City
Clerk Elbourn, entered the hall from a
Seventh ward meeting II was past 10
o'clock and the 900 workingmen, after their
days labor and two hours Of speechmaklng
were very tired. A short time before they
had risen to a pitch of great enthusiasm
when f. ]. Cornish came into the hall, and
Mr.. Cornish was speaking when the mayor
arrived.
As the grand old man Of Omaha poll
tics" as the First and Second ward voters
call him, walked towards the stage pande-
mon1um reigned in the hall and voices,
feet and hands Joined in the matchmaking.
Tn speaker stopped short in the course Of
his Interrupted remarks and turning to
Mayor Moores said: I'VE are for him be-
cause we love him; because we honor and
respect him and because in this campaign
he is standing on the highest and most
moral grounds that have ever been fought
for In a municipal campaign in Omaha
the cause Of the people, equal taxation and
the same consideration for a poor man as
a rich man.
At this there was another period OF deaf
ening applause and the interest and en-
thusiasm Of the audience never waned
through an extended account by the mayor
OF the persecution and abuse to which he
has been subject.
New High-Water Mark.
Even for the demonstrative First and
second wards the meeting was a record
breaker. The announcement that Edward
Fosewater and E. J. Cornish were to speak
Dew an audience that filled the large hall.
ASIDE from these takers, Candidates Fred
Bruning, w. H. Elbourn, Harry B. Zimman.
George T. Nicholson, Peter NJ. Back, Fred
Hoye, Q. s. Huntington and Mike Lee and
Chairman Cowell OF the city central COM
mittee were called upon and made short
remarks. Tho session did not end until IL
o'clock.
Mr.. Rosewater was given an ovation AS
ne stepped forward. He said that IL il to
lbe that a city cannot grow
without furnishing employment to the work.
Ilngmen who are the bone and sinew of the
city, and that II is the 49, 900 workingmen
OF Omaha who make the city grow and
prosper. The battle Tuesday at the polIs
is to be between these wage earners and
the so-called gilt-proof aristocracy-the
class that Is 30 very particular about its
company In the daytime. These same peo-
pie AFFECT to be afraid to associate with
Frank Il. Moores for fear of Contamination
Fountain at Railroad H~eaduuarter.
Going to the basis of the entire se,o-.
10 poison the public mind against Moores
the source can be traced to railway head
quarters. according to Mr.. Rosewater. The
taisehoods and ISLANDERS concerning the
mayor mad originated there, and also the
scheme that projected Benson forward as
the boom candidate for mayor. !.
II was the B. & M, general solicitor.
said Mr.. Rosewater. who, when the BUR-
lington desired to block the northwestern
proposed switching track into the iobbina
district, had sent a lawyer In his office 10
Mayor Moores with the proposition that
II he would favor the Burlington in the
night, that road would send him to con-
gress to replace Dave Mercer. The mayor
could not be bought. even by the offer OF
such honors, and he remained true to the
people and to omaha's interest and favored
the track that broke the Burlington's mo.
nopoly on access to a large portion OF ths
wholesale district.
Mr.. Rosewater then dwelt on issues
showing that the present struggle I.
squarely between the corporations and thu
people. No charge OF dishonesty or ex.
travagance that had been proven has beer
brought against the present administra
tipn, and the old charges that Moores hnC
hen money that was not his while clerl
on the district court have been thorough,
disproved and the county found to be owinl
Moores money. instead OF the reverse. TIL
antagonlsm OF many of the large whole
sale houses against both Moores and w. j
Hunter, candidate for comptroller, is be
cause the last Board OF Review assesse,
the stocks OF these houses at somethin.
like the true figure and not at a small
proportion of their true value, as in year
Thst.
Howell and Coal Trust.
Mr.. Rosewater recalled the fact that e
Howell, the democratic nominee for mayor
was a member Of the coal trust that ex
acted tribute over and above what fue
was worth In Omaha last winter. He ha
reaped the benefits from the great mas
OF the poorer people, who could i'll AFFORD I
stand 1t.
s'You should hght for your rights. n