Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-13
SIGNS OF POLITICAL LIFE
Executive COMMITTEES Called TO Form Late
Plans fer the Campaign.
DEMOCRATS AFTER COUNTY OFFICES
Present Indications Are that Certih-
cate 20 Transact Business WIN BE
Granted 60 Bankers Union
of the world.
CFrom a Stan Correspondent

Warner Of the republican state committee
is keeping several stenographers busy these
days sending out letters to precinct COM
mitteemen and urging them to be up and
doing. The state committee will lend its
aid to the county chairman to elect the
county ticket In his letters Mr. Warner
urges the chairmen of the various organ
izatlons to report in detail on conditions
in their several localities and to whoop
up things for the entire ticket from top to
bottom.
In the meantime the democrats have done
nothing far, and the stories that they
are doing a gumshoe act is without founda-
tion except in that there is not enough
enthusiasm among the few remaining ones
left to make a noise Apparently they
have given up all hope Of doing anything
with the state ticket. but they are at work
on the county tickets. This afternoon they
selected headquarters and will open up
at the Windsor hotel tomorrow.
The democrats will make a strong ef-
fort to land as many county officers as pos
sible and this will give them nucleus
for the campaign Of next year The head
quarters, II is understood, will be used
merely as a place from which to direct
the fight in the various counties where
there Is any chance to land a candidate
They do not intend to fight to elect full
county ticket, but merely to pick out the
strong man on the ticket and elect him II
possible.
It is because Of this attitude OF the dem
ocrats that the republicans will pay more
attention to county and precinct tickets
this year, and mighty effort will be made
| by the republicans to Gust the various
democratic county clerks and other demo-
cratic officers who hold once because OF
an oversight on the part Of the repuo-
| licans.
Chairman Warner has also notified the
county chairmen in counties where the
clerk OF the court is a democrat to be very
careful about their recommendations TOT
clerks and Judges of election and to report
to him any instances where the clerks
show undue prejudice in favor OF demo-
cratic election officials
Chairman Warner Of the republican state
committee has called a meeting Of the ex-
ecutive committee for wednesday night at
the committee headquarters. Plans OF the
campaign will be discussed.
bankers Union Gets License.
II is a safe prediction that the Bankers
Union of the World, Of which E. c. Spinney
\ Is president, will secure from Insurance
| Deputy Pierce a license to do business IN
Nebraska which has been refused him SO
long. Mr. Pierce received a letter from
DR.. Spinney this morning in which 1t was
said that the officers of the order were
willing to comply with the requirements OF
| the supreme court decision recently handed
down. While Mr.. Pierce would like to
refuse DR.. spinney this license. under the
supreme court decision he can hardly see
his way clear to do It. The decision In
nearly every instance was in favor of DR..
| Spinney, though the writ was denied him,
| the court apparently holding that the audi
| tor would issue the certificate without q
| writ Should Mr.. Pierce refuse tho license
| now II would mean another suit and Just
at this time the insurance department can
not put up a strong case for the reason
| that Horace Virgins. who worked up the
case against the Bankers Union as special
examiner for the department, is in New
York City examining a number of other
insurance companies and will be absent
from Lincoln probably sixty or ninety days.
| Consequently it looks like DR.. Spinney will
win out.
| More Testimony in Tax Case.
| Attorney General Norris Brown will go
! to Omaha next Thursday to resume the
taking of dispositions in the Burlington
railroad tax suit. Most of the testimony
| in this case has been taken and an early
decision in the matter is looked for. As
yet the railroads have given no intimation
as to whether they intend to enjon the
collection of 1905 taxes.
| school Fund All Invested.
Every cent Of the permanent school fund
! is invested. The first of the month this
fund contained S17S,0OO OF university money
and since that time Treasurer Mortensen
has bought $4,000 of Massachusetts state
| -
In state warrants. The permanent school
fund is the especial pet OF Treasurer Nor
Jensen and as a general proposition he
keeps every cent of 1t invested in interest
paying securities.
Governor Mickey has returned from a two
days trip to his home at Osceola. where he
took a look at his immense corn crop and
watched his industrious sons stack a fourth
| crop OF alfalfa. The governor reported
that his corn crop was OF better quality
than any he had ever raised or had ever
seen In Nebraska.
Governor Mickey has issued a requisition
for the return TO Gosper couny OF C. Ed
ward Bushel, wanted for wife desertion.
| Bushel is under arrest in Colorado.
No More Fever at Asylum.
No new cases of typhoid fever developed
at the Lincoln asylum today. though one OF
the inmates has developed symptoms OF
the disease. Today and tomorrow are the
crucial days, according to DR.. Greene, and
II no new cases develop before tomorrow
night DIR. Greene believes there will be nc
further trouble from the first infection.
Miss Shoemaker, who was so low yester.
day, is still critically Ill. though somewhat
improved Her condition is such that DR.
Greene still fears she may not recover.
DR.. Greene still believes the fever was
caused by flies and does not believe IL was
due to the water supply, He has all the
nurses necessary and feels much encour.
aged over the outlook this evening.
Praises Industrial school.
Secretary of State Galusha returned las
night from trip to the Industrial schoo
at Geneva and reports that institution II
splendid condition
ITO go into the school," said Mr. Ga
lusha, rs like entering one of the best war,
schools OF the state. Everything is as clear
as a new pin and all OF the inmates ar
taking especial interest in the institution
| Superintendent Mcmahon has different cos
; tunes to be given the girls according {,
the merits they receive and all Of them ar
} working hard to be proficient and to receiv
J credit marks. I was well pleased with tn
condition Of affairs and think Il is one o
the best managed OF all the state institu
tions."