Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-12
BIG CROWD HEARS SHELDON
Newman Grove Turns Out L argeyt At
tendsnc, Of Any Day Meeting,
CANDID MANNER MAKES A GREAT hit
senator Burkeu Concludes the Al
dress with speech Dealirg
Almost Entirely with Ma
tionaI Issues.

NEWMAN GROVE. Neb., Oct. l1.--(Spe-
Cial Telegram. 1.-THE best crowd we have
had In the afternoon yet" is the way
Senator Sheldon put Il as he faced an
audience which filled the opera house here
this afternoon and overlooked hto the
vestibule. an audience mostly Of voters,
too, although the women were well rep
resented and the high school was dis
missed long enough 20 attend Senator
Burkett and the future governor arrived
in the morning and were escorted up town
by the local band. Judge Boyd. the can
didate for congress from the Third dis
trict, had arrived the night before. Dur
ing the afternoon the visitors made the
acquaintance of the business men Of the
town. little before noon Senator Bur-
kett and Mr.. Sheldon made visit to the
school and gave an address TO all grades
over the sixth T.
Precinct Committeeman Henderson called
the audience together at 2:sO and intro.
duced Mr.. c. A. Randall. candidate tor
state senator, who made u brief address,
pledging himself to aid Governor sheldon
i'm the reforms that he proposed to intro
duce.
sheldon n Surprise.
As soon as Mr. Sheldon commenced to
speak the people realized that they were
listening to something new in campaign
oratory. He takes the audience into his
confidence and tells how things are and
what he proposes to do to remedy them.
The pointing with pride business is all
left out. He explained to the farmers
that the rate on wheat from Newman
Grove to Omaha, 125 miles, IA cents
while for the same distance in Iowa it
was less than cents, and the rate on the
9% cents. 1t was figured out that the
excess of the Nebraska rate over the Iowa
rate cost the farmer six acres out of every
100. He quoted a large number OF other
rates to show excessive charges. including
fruit and coal. While coal was cheaper
in Iowa, grades were lower in Nebraska,
and business was good enough to make
the annual profits on the main line of the
Union Pacific $4,000 a mile, but left ii
too poor to pay its taxes.
1t was shown that the democratic plan
of lowering freight rates, If they had
any. was very indefinite and that a law
| requiring 2-cent passenger fare oil all
| roads would be contested in the courts.
| The republican plan of dealing with the
question through railway commission
would give the quickest relief
Tells of Pass Incident.
| Mr.. Sheldon said that his attention had
| been called during the day to a cartoon
| i'm the World-Herald picturing him with
| Burlington pass No 6154 sticking out of
| his pocket. He had explained the matter
| before, but would GO through it again.
| He has always admitted that he rode on
a pass during his first term in the senate.
| When he arrived at Lincoln for the second
term Mr.. Ager, of the Burlington, mailed
him a pass with his compliments which
was thrown in his drawer and remained
| unused until 1t was handed back to Mr..
Ager Mr. Sheldon solemnly asserts that
any one saying that he has used a pass
since the beginning of his second term
| in the senate says that which is not true.
| The speaker held the CLOSE attention of
his audience throughout
Senator Burkett caught the fancy of
the crowd with a witty, forceful old
fashioned republican speech and sent
| everybody home in good humor. "Spend
less than you make and sell more than
YOU buy was his theme, which, he says.
| the nation was doing through the tariff
and the consular service established by
the republican party. From here the
party went to Humphrey for an evening
| meeting.
| SCHUYLER, Neb., Oct. 11.-(Special
| Telegram. UNITED States Senator T. ].
Burkett and J. F. Boyd, republican candi-
date for congress from the Third district
will speak in the Schuyler opera house
Friday evening. October H.. This will
open the campaign for Schuyler and a
| large crowd is expected out.