Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-26
LEADERS OUT FOR BENSON
Republican Strength Of Omaha Back Of the
Candidate for Mayor
RALLY LAST NIGHT PROVES AN OVATION
BaldriEe, COweIl, Cornish, webster
and WattIes All UrRe the support
OF the Ticket Named at
Primaries,

enthusiastic republican meeting of the cam
paign was that held last night at Creighton
hall, when h A. Benson and other leaders
of the party held the attention Of the audi
ence for two hours. The hall did not CON
tain large enough number Of chairs TO
seat the multitude that came. and between
100 and 200 persons had to stand up. AS
has been the case several times before. the
women OF the city showed their interest in
the candidacy of Mr.. Benson by coming
to hear him, and all through the front OF
the room there was liberal sprinkling Of
the feminine contingent Music was fur
nished by an orchestra while the audience
was gathering.
Howard Baldrge was chairman of the
evening. Before introducing the speakers
/ he said
Coming down the street this morning l
"a" sa" ihe sign, Help build up Omana. Vote
lot LOT lin Jlin Dahlman' l wonder what Jim
! mas been here few yoars-a practical
newcomer lie does business, not in Omaha,
! but in South Omaha lie is not connected
! win any great interest OF this city. He
| mas been and is an unknown quantity. on
the other hand, can tell you OF a man
| VINO has helped build up Omaha, and l say
! that under that sign Help build up
Omaha, might rightly be written Vote
Tor Erastus A. Benson"
! Ihe reason the opposition has attacked
| Mr. Benson so herCely is because he Is
independent He is man on whom they
| can pull no strings II E A Henson IL
mayor and he will stand for the people.
o. know OF no republican who will vote
| Tor MIR. Dahlman, but / do know of many
democrats who will vote for Mr. Benson.
COwelI Argues for benson.
Robert Cowell came to the platform
In the midst Of a storm of applause. He
said:
| This large audience and warm reception
| is magnificent tribute to the party and
| 70 its standard bearer Mr.. Benson.
L VIII make no charges against Mr.. Dahl
man as an individual, nor would 1 even
name him If he were only a private citizen.
| Inc only quality which is mentioned by
his supporters as belonging to him and
| which entities him To the mayors office,
| ~ packDone and his claims to this rest on
the tact that he was once sheriff Of a
western county and was mayor of Chadron.
We present Erastus a. Benson, who has
public enterprise has ever been undertaken
In Omaha but has had his help. Benson
laid out street car tracKs largely at his
own expense, and made a town. He has
been a builder OF homes So when the cry
comes from democracy to help build up
will vote for e. A. Benson.
As regards the candidates for council,
never has so good ticket been nominated.
Never has It embraced so many business
men. never so many men OF honesty and
integrity.
Demonstration Greets Candidate.
When e. A. Benson was called to the
speakers platform by Chairman Baldrige,
he could not speak for several minutes, SO
great was the demonstration. Men and
4 women rose to, their feet and gave a sue.
cession OF che6fs, wiri1e hats aud lfnndKer.
chiefs went flying into the air,
Those cheers were not for me. they
were for the principles Of the party said
} Mr.. Benson. II know you have thus
I greeted me because you have selected me
} to stand between you and certain specla
r interests which are trying to own YOU
) government" He continued:
The people of the other side have beer
saying that | am weak, that | fear the
stand l took when the platform was
enunciated will lose me votes and am now
! trying to make some Of the voters believe
S sa 70 S99 see, sS tnnisg oiberenty tbet want S e
! firmly rooted on every plank OF that plat
I form as when l first announced It at tn,
, If it loses votes, lose them then. l dom
have TO be mayor, but | do have to keel
: vote of any man II he thinks / am goini
to trim, as the democrats call II.
2 Thou shalt not lie is not issue; (
, is a commandment Yet the men who ar
I working with Mr.. Dahlman seem to thinl
. that commandment has been repealed
| names of 100 business men who said the,
} would support Dahlman, Gentlemen, 25 pc
cent of these men at the very least hav
a
Used to support him and will not. GeorR
A. Hoagland, whose name was used, askeu
: me as a special favor to dcnounce the i'm
II position
Il Thugs, grafters. saloon keepers and div
= keepers are against me- because there
i an atmosphere In which their business can
not thrive. The francnised corporation
are against lTA because there Is an al
J. mosphere in which graft cannot live. Tn
brewCries are against me because the
want certain privileges which the law doe
not allow. They are making an issue an
| am ready to meet IL. As between tn
home and the saloon, / am for the HON
every time.
Cornish Makes Hit.
e. j.. Cornish made a hit with the aud
ence. At times the seeming audaclty of hi
e statements caused his hearers TO stiffen an
s place themselves I'm an attitude Of defens,
n but the next moment a sentence of e,
j. planation caused them 20 break into smile
az their fears This was noticeable whe
he referred to the direct primary as
= dangerous institution. and again when !
- said he did not believe in putting the que,
y tion Of prohibition before the people. tn
direct primary, he concluded. was II
source of untold good. as long as the II
= huential men of the party made it poir
! to see that the rank and file forgot II
passions and prejudices engendered by Il
Il primary were willing 10 abide by it's r
suits. He said:
1t is strange how the world moves q
and how one loses track Of things VVh
in the last year. one short year, though
have been In the city three days evei
D month, and though / thought that in m
he years Of residence here / got TO kno
,y most Of the prominent people, the dem
Gratis have nominated a man for may,
whom 4 never met
n; i have heard IL said there are some wi
a. were supporters Of Moores in the la
n. campaign who think they ought to anita
IL onize Mr.. Benson now. Frank T. Moor
b. never took such a course IN his life n
a; fifteen years I've stood in political NEE
n; ings and said
Dn Don't destroy the ship in which y,
c. hoped 10 sail; don't sharpen a knife viii,
y; may be turned against you" And / 81
~ to every politician, 10 every influenti
r man in the party, see to IL that every ma
n in the party shall abide by the Tesul
NJ Of the primary"
rk They say Dahlmau promises an op-
Is town. II II goes out over the state that
te man can be elected mayor OF Omaha
promising he will not enforce the law
" will stir up fight in this state such
= 4 has never been seen, for the people W
VI not be governed by persons whom tn
-te appointed Fire and Police Board to
of strain.
nc Webster and WRttlea speak.
John L. Webster. referring to the bann
across the street bearing the words "Vc
for Jim Dahlman," regretted that Oma
ms had not got beyond the Jim" age. T
only thing he had heard against Mr.. BE