Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-17
NO REAL FIGHT IN THE FIRST
Judge Tucker Considers Republican Gam
paign Already Won.
VOTERS DESIGNATING DEMOCRATIC Deceit
well Known Jurist while on q visit
In Omaha Tells of an Incident
that Illustrates Feeling
of Electorate.

A little incident occurred in one Of the
big department stores Saturday morning
that attracted the attention Of many peo-
pie. A short thickset, genteel but force
full and determined looking man was pa
cling backward and forward along one Of the
aisles evidently waiting for some women
nearby making the customary examination
at the embroidery counter. For sometime
the pace was measured and his demeanor
that Of one lost in deep thought, but oc-
casionally he would pause and look in the
direction of the women in a kind OF an
amt you most through" sort Of a way
The intervals Of stopping and looking
around shortened and his manner grew
more restless as time passed. but the wo-
men needed him not. When these pauses
were getting painfully close together by
ISLANDERS were inquiring who is that gem
tleman7' They did not have to walt long,
however, for a tall. dignifed and business
like man came INTO the store and in an
Informal way grasped the hand of Judge
Tucker and shook It with all the cordiality
and warmth of school-boy days, and pro-
ceeded at once to inquire about his health,
about Arizona and his experience upon
the bench as associate supreme Justice,
territorial and United States Judge, and
county, his old home before going to
Arizona Finally the conversation drifted
into politics down in the First district,
where the republicans are electing a sue
cessor to Senator Burkett.
No Real Fight in First.
oh" said Judge Tucker, IT have only
made few speeches and each time I felt
that was doing myself and also my
hearers a wrong by taking up their time
and also using my own to no purpose.
There is no fight there. can best illus
trate the situation by stating a little in
cident that occurred at the place where
1 made my last speech. One of the travel
ing men for Brown-D oolittle-W indv-De.
mocracy & Co. was stopping at the same
hotel with myself. number of farmers
happened to be there and the converse
ton finally drifted to congressman. The
democrat was telling what a good fellow
TINS man Brown was, how able, and what
a creditable representative he would be in
washington; and about the rottenness OF
the republican party. One old farmer.
back IN the group, who had been conspic-
uous for his silence, stepped to the front
and said: Now, look here, young Teller
you need not think that you can stun anv
OF that air nonsense down us because
we are farmers. Douglas county tried that
on and sent a democrat to the national
congress and what did he do? 1t was the re-
publicans that elected him, but he was
the most deep-dyed old roorbach democrat
that ever went to congress Do! What
ala ne dor He drew for two years the
salary that ought to have been drawn by
republican; he sent out garden seed
raised by republicans and on a frank fur
before he went back to ask the republican,
to vote for him again, he Introduces ~.
postal savings bill, then. came home ana
used his frank to send out stuff to voters
to pay. '-0U
Heard "COnY Talk Before,
we've heard this democratic smooth
talk before. We heard 1t in 1892 and. the
fact is, that enough of us fool % ,-,,,:s.s
believed yHp TO fill congress with demo.
Gratis and elect democratic presida,t
and swan to gosh If prosperity didn't
strike us with sledge hammer bod
some money in the bank that was saving
10 make the last payment on the mort
gage on my farm. and was lingering on
Duyih another quarter. and before oouId
ura" mat money out of the bank. that
went democratic, too. It busted 'hI0ber
n Gilderoy's kite, and I've never seen a
cent OF It since; think that bank Is still
democratic. had to indefinitely pokt-
pone the buying business and sell wheat
at 20 cents bushel to live and try ana
pay on the rest OF that air morteaqe ana
1t was not paid out when Mckinley was
elected Gee, what four years 1 did mt
mi Regular good old democratic times
The very next year after Mckinley was
elected lifted the mortgage and have
since bought the quarter, but I had 10
pay iike smoke for III I'll tell ye, stranger,
have got the money ana want 10 b1v
land and are dead sure that the repub.
means are coming right in, but that Is
the only thing on earth that know that
1t is good for.
That says Judge Tucker, think fairly
Illustrates the condition in our congress
sional district" ~.