Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-22
GOSSIP OF The POLITICIANS
Chance Eov to Get Intelligent View Of
Opposing Sides
DEMOCRATS FIGHT Will Be on SHERIFF
Nsw ward end Precinct Map shows
Several Statesmen Taken out of
Bearings, Though stiI1 Live
in same Houses.

The expiration Of the time for filing
applications with the county clerk to go on
the official primary ballot now enables
the politicians to give fair idea of what
the lineup is TO be- with the democratic
side there is really only one fight and that
centering about the nomination for sheriff.
The chief stock in trade of Tom Flynn is
that his opponent Is asking for a fourth
term and that he ought to know When he
has had enough while John Power is out
20 defend his title as a vote getter, point
ing to the fact that he has been elected
three times in succession and that knowing
what good thing he has had he does not
want to let go Of II. For the other places
on the democratic ticket It has been mostly
a case of grating a candidate the
score of party loyalty just that the
republicans will not have an .unopposed
walkawaY.
On the republican side the factional
fight will be renewed although with modi-
fed lines. The Fontanelle club has
endorsed a complete ticket and it will
remain for the other candidates to adjust
themselves bv mutual combination so as
20 put forth their hghting strength. The
biggest field Of entries is recorded for the
position Of county Judge, where there are
AbuE thNlHtNltOEh .buN HNNe expectation II
that the race will sift down to two leaders.
The sntls surprised themselves In falling
down 80 lamentably in their filings for COM
mittee places. one OF the hig antis, who
is on the inside. declares, however, that
they have a trick still to play.
Did you notice." said he, that the new
primary law provides for a new distrlhu-
tion Of the votes in the committee? The
other fellows may have a big majority
of the committeeman and still fail to con-
troll When the new committee organizes
each member will have one vote for every
fifty votes cast in his district for the head
Of his party ticket You can see what
that will do to South Omaha and the
country. l guess we did not have our man
Dodge framing up this law for nothing"
The new ward and precinct map, ad-
vance copies of which reached the city hall
from the printers, affords interesting study
The redistricting has taken a lot of states
men out of their bearings and transplanted
them into new wards. although they still
live in the same house John L. Webster
for example, who used to be one Of the big
four Of the old Fourth, is now in part
OF the Eleventh ward IN which also lies
what is known as the silk Stocking" dis
trict carrying with It Lieutenant Gov
ernor McGilton, Senator Manderson and
other political notables The new Twelfth
ward also covers big area with most
OF the Kountze place patriots, while the
Tenth ward takes in what is known as
bohemian town. and Shelley town has
been transferred from the Seventh ward
TO the Second. The only wards they have
not picked up and set down in another mart
OF the map are the Third and Fifth wards
which are practically unchanged.
IL mas not been advertised but Il is new
ertheless known that an agreement was
reached by which no protests are to he
made on technical grounds against the fill
ing certificates for republican committee-
men The primary law apparently is con-
hicting on this subject, in one place stating
that the committeeman shall be chosen The
same as the nominees for office and in
another place that the certificates shall
not only be endorsed by the names of fen
petitioners. but also sworn to- 1t could be
read that the swearing could be done either
by the petitioners or by the candidate. or
by both, while County Clerk DrexeI ruled
that an oath by the candidate for commit
teemah would be enough, but T. w Black
burn and Victor Rosewater got together aa
representatives OF the opposing sides ana
made stipulation before Mr. DrexeI that
no committeeman's petition filed In Rood
faith should he nrotaatad