Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-26
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what Oman. Need. Most.


Editor of The Bee As an assiduous reader
OF your valuable paper l have in the past
week read matter therein that the natural
query suggests itself: "will wonders ever
cease?" particularly in Omaha. Last week
you had a sensation that stirred the coun-
try. Ministers touched upon II from their
pulpits, editorials commenting upon the
dsgTaceful action of the jury and at a
time when Omaha was being advertised
as the Gate City and a commercial CEN
ter. But this week comes the greater
blow when your honorable mayor comes
out and asks his friends to support Mr..
Broatch, his former mortal enemy OF years
standing for the Office of mayor instead
of Mr.. Hennings, or even his opponent OF
three years ago, Mr.. Benson.
Now. the question is, why is this thusly?
Has Mr.. Moores the welfare of the city.
whose executive he has been for nigh nine
years or is It to avehse what to him
seemed an insult three years ago at the
convention when at the recess after re-
ceiving the five ward delegates to Ben
sons four and those delegates withdraw
ing when the treasurer and city clerkships
named Hennings and Elbourn. respectively,
were preached, he stamped his foot and
positively refused to listen to it? 1t took
Mr. Cornish and others to convince him
that his own Office was in jeopardy that
he reluctantly acquiesced to placing these
two efficient and well-eSrned re-nomina-
lions, and to their credit be it said they
were tower of strength to the head of
the ticket. You, Mr.. Editor, have the FIG
ures. II memory serves me right, MI
Hennings carried every ward.
The history of the two men is well
known 1t is true that It is laudable for
man to aspire to an Office, but he that
does must be of such character that none
can assail. You have some off1cials-and
note they have filed for denomination
that have been and are unrit, but of those
you will hear from me later At present
1t seems that Moores. Dennison a. Co.
are forming. organizing and directing their
forces against that one little man Hem
nings who has been honest, upright, fear
less and strictly conscientious in all his
dealings He never swerved from duty;
never was he known to nave pets or IA
vorites l hope to read of his primary
nomnstion--not by a scratch, but IL TO l. l
concede the Third ward to his opponent
To get back to the fact that such politi-
cal strife, chickering's, etc, does the town
no good 1t retards investments of capt.
tai and the influx OF immigration. despite
your Jubilee number and continual praise
of Omaha. f. A BIRNBAUM,
10 Ninth Street, South.
Local Estimate of Rev. MIR. Ware.
OMAHA, Feb. 25.-To the Editor of The
Bee: The following clipping from the
Record and Herald, published in Mullen,
Neb., where Rev. Mr.. Ware has been en-
gagged in business will serve to throw
light on the estimation in which he is held
by those who know him:
or ali the sad events that have befallen
this community is the fact that Rev.
George G. Ware has been made a sacrifice
by the guilty parties to save their own
heads and pay the debt OF. those. who were
fraud our government out of its public
domain, while Mr.. Ware in all the years
he has done business In Hooker county county,
lands, but he has. through his trust and
nobility of mind, been made the victim OF
an interruptions villains lies, backed by
one or two who have only made enemies
for themselves by sustaining this self-con-
fessed criminal in his plans 70 defame TINS
he was helped and trusted by man SO
! noble that 1t was deflement for him to
even talk to- much less TO haH be h resut Of
this rascality will be manifest as the IN
dieting of other names follow, and the
/ undOinR by the government OF NIdl tucSS
Woodworking people were doing for their
country. For the guilty someone must
suffer, but, eventually murder VIII out.
Our hearts go out in unbounded SYM
pathy for both Mr.. Ware and his noble
| little wife in this, the awful experience OF
their lives,
ST. Paul was imprisoned maybe Mr..
Ware will be also. He was none the worse
| for IT, neither will our friend and oene-
factor be. for we reverence him all the
more as we see how brave and strong
he is through this awful tribulation.
| But what we shall deplore is that the
| world should be deprived OF his innuence.
| We have never met any one with so greal
a capacity for good-there rs nothlng OF
| the hypocrite in his character. He is a
man who commands the respect or all nom
| est men. He Is truthful and fearless, as
| he proved even to his enemies during the
! recent trial. As a friend wrote of him a
| few days ago, HE always brings to mind
! the words of Antony used in describing
Brutus, The elements were 50 mixed IN
| him that nature might stand and say TO
all the world: There Is a man! And
yet this is the man sacrificed TO apoease
community that he had little more hope
| OF Justice under existing circumstances,
| than had Christ before PLATE.
! The writer, who Is "A resident or Mullen
| and has personal interest whatever IN
| the T. b. l. company. feels that the wrongs
witnessed here in the last four months
would not be tolerated at this time In Rus
| sia, though they might be in Omaha-foI
was not the press so censored that only
one side OF the trial appeared In print
| Tense was carefully stricken out, and every
| influence brought to bear against an limo
| cent man, and these papers were put into
the hands of the jurors each day-so
have been informed.
ftas.