Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-22
LEADERS FOR THE TICKET
Omaha Republican Wheelhorses Are All
Boosting for Benson.
DECLARATIONS OF INTENTIONS MADE
Fawcett, COwelI and Others Wake
Clear Their Intention 90 vote
the Ticket straight Mt
Coming Election.

What proved to be one Of the best meet
ings OF the city campaign was held at re-
| publican headquarters on Harvey street
Saturday night. at which half a dozen lead
| ing republicans discussed the issues Of the
campaign. Judge Fawcett the first speaker
said: THE republican party has always
been the leader in all advancement of this
nation and has not waited for others to
take the lead, will It now. We have
declared ourselves in this campaign and the
republican party must stick together and
not be led astray by the cry that national
politics has no bearing I'm local campaigns.
A senator is to be elected next fall and we
must preserve our organization The dem
ocrats are only hoping for enough sore
spots to take away enough votes to win
for them. The primary was fair and Breen
beat me fairly and am for him. Benson
won fairly and all republicans should be
| for him."
CoweII for Straight Ticket.
Robert Cowell said TT is an anomaly
Of politics to pick up a comparative stranger
| to be the standard-bearer Of the party. Why
did they not choose some well known dem
ocrat Of Omaha? They say they wanted
man to represent them who had plenty of
backbone Why did they not select e. P.
Smith? He has plenty of backbone, but
too much OF the kind they wanted in this
campaign. Why not Euclid Martin OF ]. A
c. Kennedy? They preferred to present a
man not known. will vote the straight
republican ticket-one turn of the lever
will do for me-"
Jacob L. Haley said: "The democratic
party has tried to set aside all other issues
in this campaign and make the fight on
Sunday opening. This is not a political
question. it is a law"
Hayward on the Issues.
! c. S. Hayward, republican candidate for
councilman from the Seventh ward. said
the citizens of Omaha have not been doing
their duty. Good government, OF rather
better government, for our city is what
we want" said Mr. Hayward. During
the last week / have spent some time
looking up the record Of the head of the
democratic ticket. The files of the World
Herald in the public library will reveal a
condition quite startling. Look at the files
for January 10 to %, 1900, and you can easily
see Dahlman is a marked corporation man.
The World-Herald then pointed out the
matter very plainly. The telephone ques-
ton is one which should be considered. Des
Mones, st. Joseph and other neighboring
towns are getting the benefits to be derived
from an immense number of Independent
telephones, and why not Omaha? Within
a radius Of 200 miles of Omaha are 100 600
telephones with which the merchants of
Omaha should be connected"
Lakes Are for Benson.
DR.. Frederick Lake, son of Judge Lake,
said: Il have always been a democrat
and always expect to be. but If it comes
to question of not being democrat or
not voting for Betson 1 will have to vote
for Benson and good government. My
father is od-time democrat and he has
told men he was going to vote for Benson,
and l am sure many of the better element
In the democratic party are going to do
the same. Dahlman talk is very loud, but
, many of the democrats have already con-
ceeded the election of Benson"
! Benson I'm Tenth Ward.
L. A. Benson addressed a good-sized
meeting of voters of the Tenth ward last
night in the hail at Thirteenth and Will
lam streets. He promised his hearers
sane and economical administration of the
affairs Of the city and his address was
literally punctuated with applause
Most of the people here tonight" he
said, ARE home owners, small property
owners. Your first interest is in your
taxes. You want to know whether they
are too high and whether after you have
paid them the money Is being economically
spent. It seems to me taxes have been
5 increasing out of all proportion to the
growth of the city and that the service We
Il have been receiving is not good we
ought TO have had for the money. If
= elected my object would be to that no
more money is collected in taxes than
u is absolutely necessary for the running
expenses of the city.
Lower Water Rents.
water rents are next in Importance.
believe the administration should do all
: in his power to assist the water board in
= acquiring the waterworks and then the
rentals should be only high enough to
: pay the actual running expenses. the wear
and tear on the plant and a fair income
: on the money invested. am in favor of
, 81 gas.
1T also believe that in all parts Of the
city there should be Fairgrounds for the
children. I am irrevocably opposed to max
ing this an easy city for criminals and no
: boes. No man has a right to live here
: who does not earn an honest dollar.
IL saw over picture of Mr.. Dahlman
. near his headquarters the motto, Help
: to Build Up Omaha L think that is a
: good suggestion, II II is meant for Mr..
q Dahlman. It could not have been meant
: for me, for have been helping to build up
Omaha for twenty years. I have been
building average Of ten houses a year in
:, Omaha and that Is helping to build up the
!, city. I have no other object on earth than
!, to do something, II elected. for the city
Of my adoption and the city love"
A. w. Jefferis, John Butler Mayor Zim-