Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-12
NIXUP IN LANCASTER FIELD
Local Candidates in q Tsnsle with the
Senatorial and COngressional Fight
EFFORT OF BROWN TO DITCH lUDOEN
omcinls ana Others who Knew Him
Greatly Surprised at the HenninEs
Suicide and Unable TO Under
stand L..


From Stan Correspondent
LINCOLN. July u.-(SpeciaL chairman
Walter Roberts and Secretary Beman Fox
have issued the cali for the republican
Junty convention to be held In the Bijou,
ncater July Is at / o'clock in the afternoon.
he convention, besides nominating candi-
dates for the legislature. a police Judge
and county attorney, will name thirty
four delegates to the state convention and
hfty-six delegates to the congressional con-
vention.
A surprise TO good many people in Lin
coin is the fact the call contains the nom
ination OF police Judge. This is due to
the supreme court decision some months
ago in the Gordon case from Omaha. where
It was held the police Judge should be
elected ~ the fall election. Judge Cosgrave
was elected at the spring election and his
term is not out until next spring II IL
likely he will have no opposition except
what little tight the democrats may put up.
The fight preliminary to the convention
has already started and will be a warm
one before II is concluded. Attorney Gen
eral Norris Brown is working night and
day TO secure an endorsement for himself
for United States senator and to make his
position stronger he has allied himself
with DR.. winnett as a candidate for rail-
road commissioner Should this combina-
ton be successful, It would mean also a
majority Of the delegation for Sheldon for
governor. while Luther p. Ludden would be
refused an endorsement for lieutenant gov
ernor.
Judge Lincoln Frost of the district bench
is managing this combination and new
phase was put on the situation yesterday
by the report that Judge Frost was trying
to procure control of the county convention
also in order to name the delegation to the
congressional convention.
Judge Holmes, a colleague of Judge Frost
on the bench, is an avowed candidate for
congress and fully expects this delegation,
consequently this effort of Judge Frost
will naturally cause III feeling between
these two. In the meantime It is reported
Congressman Pollard intends to invade
Lancaster county and contest for a portion
OF the delegation.
Friends of Mr. Ludden are making a Wig
orous canvass for him and believe they
will control the convention. Should he Sc
cure the delegation II is unlikely that any
one else will be endorsed Should winnett
win II would probably mean endorsements
for Brown and Sheldon too.
1t was reported yesterday that Dr. Win
nett would shortly withdraw When asked
concerning the report DR.. winnett said:
That is the first 1 have heard that
am to withdraw and the first have heard
that 1 am to issue statement giving my
reasons for withdrawing. I will just say
10 you II 1 do withdraw from the race
! will announce It myself"
In the first round friends of Dr. Ludden
scored, first in the date of the convention,
which the Brown-Sheldon- winnett combi-
nation wanted fixed sometime in August:
second in the fact that the temporary
chairman VIII be selected by an executive
committee appointed by the chairman of
the county committee.
HenHfSEE' sufcfde q Shock.
The suicides OF A. II. Hennings, former
city treasurer Of Omaha, came as a dis
tinct shock 10 the people of the state
house and to those who knew and re-
spected him.
"He was one of the most optimistic men
] ever knew" said II. c. Lindsay, clerk OF
the supreme court land I never knew
him to be morose or to have the blues.
He was always cheerful. I can hardly be-
lieve tho report that he has taken his
own life"
Secretary Allen of the state COMMITTEES
was one Of the FIRST to receive the news
In Lincoln.
''Mr, Hennings was treasurer OF the
efficient officer He made friends when
ever he met people, and can see no rea-
son why a man of his disposition would
commit suicide. thought much OF Mr.
Hennings and deeply regret his rash act"
other state officers who knew Mr.. Hen.
nings were deeply affected by the news
Of his death, as were people in Lincoln
who knew him Z
Governor Talks 10 Veterans.
Governor Micke:' is out at Oakdale to-
cay telling the members of the Grand
Army of the Republic what it takes to
make a good governor,
Clancy Declared Sane.
M. j. Clancy OF Richardson county, who
for scne, time has been ar inmate of the
insane asylum. released today a
commission having determined the man
TO be sane. w B. Price. after talk with
Clancy in the hosoitaf>eoncluded he was
sane and had him examined Superin-
tendent Hay also said Clancy was not