Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-02

confidence. For all / know, he may have
an interest in gambling houses or in policy
shops IN Cincinnati, Denver, San Francisco
or South Omaha. am not his keeper and
he 10 not mine. / have candidly given you
an outline Of the situation OF the so-called
ores-Rosewater-Denn mi machine that
has given way to the new machine en-
gineered by the Gopher Khan.
why It's Campaign Failed.
The new machine is the most despotlc
machine that anybody has ever seen in this
or any other state in the union. Never has
anybody seen such high handed and stupid
machining. The disaster that overlook the
new machine last fall was due almost alto
gether to its unrepublican policy. They
did not want to fraternize with anybody
that did not belong to their faction. Mer-
Ger himself repealed the profered assist
ance of Senator Willard. When he was
asked by Senator Willard whether HI could
do anything for him, he said, No, I am as
good as elected now, l do not need your
help The impending city campaign is not
national. 1t does not involve great state
issues, but II may bear on the future Of the
party, and on the future of the state. The
paramount issue In this campaign is
Omaha. and the republicans OF Omaha must
stand by Omaha, against corporate tax
shirkers and corporate misrule, and against
the election Of anybody that stands with
those people. Applause).
stand of the Corporations.
There is no doubt that the parties that
have been operating at Lincoln this winter
will now enter into this campaign and at
tempt to give us the kind OF representation
in the city hall for the next three years
that they have given us in the legislature
for the last three months. 1t remains for
every republican to decide for himself
whether he can afford to be represented in
the city government by anybody who is
chained to the corporations. We want to
give the corporations fair and equitable
treatment and IL they are satisfied with
fair treatment they should stop tampering
with our city council and city officers. II
they want to rule this city with an iron
hand, IL they want to own our public serv-
ants, our councllmen, mayor, treasurer,
clerk and comptroller, then, for one. 1 am
willing to go anywhere to break that power
down. (Applause.) And l will say that no
party ties are strong enough to chain me
down to that class OF candidates. 1 realize
that we have a great future before us. I
believe that IL Omaha would make a con-
certed effort to develop the resources at its
command the oldest man in this room may
see a city here of 200. 900 population. but IL
we continue simply as the hewers of wood
and carriers of water for these corpora
tions and allow them to control our public
men, we cannot hope for progress. The
people of Omaha in the earliest days stood
up for Omaha and fought It's battles and
they ought to fight them again, and what I
want to see is the republicans OF Omaha
take up the banner and carry 1t to victory
at the coming election. (Applause.)
As to Frank e. MOOres.
81 am not committed to Frank E. Moores
for mayor of Omaha. 1 do not believe that
any man is absolutely essential to the
growth and prosperity Of Omaha. 1 do not
think that any single man must occupy any
ONCE in order that the city should prosper.
(Applause.) When they present to us a re-
publican candidate who has greater ele-
ments OF strength than Frank z. Moores,
when they present q mar who has a better
chance of winning In the coming battle, and
who will have the courage to stand up for
Omaha against corporate greed, 1 am will
ing to support him. 1t don't matter what
his name may be, but no candidate who is
not in touch with the working men can hope
to be elected. While these people are
bowling machine nddtalking about purify
ing our politics, and trying to make the
people believe the town Is swarming with
thieves and thugs, they are preparing a
raid upon the city hall. 49,"
Look at Their Records,
When we come to elect our city officers
the whole question will be, Have they been
tried and found wanting? Those who have
been tried and proved true or fairly repre-
sentative of the city of Omaha should be
endorsed. (Applause.) We cannot expect
angels anywhere. We must expect men to
make mistakes. All men have some faults,
but when a man does the best he can do,
when he .exerts all the powers Of his mind
and uses all Of the power vested in him to
carry out, as far as he knows to protect the
interests of the city, he is entitled to your
confidence and support. II he fails so to
do, he should be retired. That is the rea-
son we have men in office for fixed terms.
and when they present themselves for re-
election, II their conduct has not been such
as meets the popular approval they are re-
tired, but l do not approve Of the vindictive,
mean, contemplate warfare that has been
waged for years against one particular man.
(Applause.) l do not care who the man is.
every rational, law-abiding citizen will
agree to this principle-that when a man
| has been elected to office by a majority of
wv cANAo u NHN nc 0AOhAu De
allowed to serve his term and should be
given an opportunity to carry out the wishes
OF the people who elected him, and 1t is
simply reprehensible and despicable for any
man who has not been voted for to try to
rob the people of their choice under any
p%retext. (Applause.)
Boyd Incident an Illustration.
Years ago, in the year 1890, the people OF
Nebraska elected James e. BOYD governor,
and the man that occupied the seat, GEN
eral Thayer, was my best friend. He called
on me and told me that he had been ad-
vised by lawyers that James Z. Boyd was
not eligible to the once. He said he was
an alien and had not taken out his natu-
ralization papers. His father had not taken
them out. / said: Governor. II you were
walking down the street and saw a man
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