Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-18
ODD ENDS OF The ELECTION
Quaint Features cb'srved as the Smoke Of
Battle LiftL
NEW THINGS TRIED IN POLITICS
Conspicuous Men in Eclipse, Obscure
Men I'm the LimeIight-MotOr Cars
Essential 60 the Modern
CampniEner.

The November battle Of the ballots pro-
duced changes I'm the aspect Of candidates
as swift as the shifting scenes Of a klneto-
scope. The lights and shadows of the
morning after fell on good and bad alike,
revealing scenes alike instructive and
amusing.
Tom johnson inaugurated the automo-
| bile as a political vehicle when campaign
| ing Ohio few years ago, but It was left
| for the rival candidates for governor of
New York to lift the chugwagon from a
luxury to an essential in whirlwind cam
paigning. II a number of speeches had
to be made in one night at different meet
ings far apart the candidate found an au-
tomobile very convenient in travelling from
one meeting to the other. As soon as he
finished with his speech he hurried out
Of the hall and jumped into an auto
mobile which was waiting at the door. The
chauffeur had his orders and knew Just
where the candidate was going, and in a
brief time the automobile pulled up before
the door Of the second meeting place
This saved the candidate a great deal OF
trouble and time.
Simplified spelling had its innings in one
! OF the assembly districts of Brooklyn The
rivals were Thomas J. Surpless, republi-
can, and william f. Coon, democrat. Mr..
Coon Chat is the way he spells It him
SELF went to Louis Sulzman, a printer. to
have his campaign literature printed. sulz-
man is a Jewish follower Of Brander Mat
thews, and believes in simplihed spelling
Coons campaign literature soon made its
appearance.
There are about 900 Jews in the Sixth
| assembly district, so two sets of campaign
literature were printed, one in English
| and the other in Yiddlsh. There is no c
in Yiddish and sulzman spelled Coon
| K-o-h-n in the Hebrew literature and
Coon in the English set, and that is
what caused the defeat of Coon and gave
the republican a surplus.
! Maurice Kahn, leader of the republican
party Of the district, saw good campaign
material In Sulzman's literary efforts, and
the republicans pointed out to the Jewish
voters that Coon was ashamed of Kohn
when he wanted the Gentle votes and
posed as Coon to them and as Kohn only
to the Jews. Coon denied there was any
ruse intended, but Surpless was elected
by plurality OF 800.
UpIift of Pie Baker.
During the sessions of the New York
democratic convention at Buffalo little or
no attention paid to the selection Of
/ the nominee except the head of the ticket
and his running mate, Lewis Stuyvesant
Chandler. The latter was selected by
unanimous consent by the Murphy Hearst
conferees having been nominated by the
| Independent league for lieutenant governor
| But to the selection Of the other candI-
dates no attention was paid until the last
minute
! Get me a Dutchman for state treasurer"
said Murphy to ex-senator Bailey of Suf-
Fn1l
for the place, because the other side has
put one up"
So Senator Bailey went out and got him
a Dutchman in the person of Julius Hau-
| ser, a peaceful baker at Sayville, L. l.,
who never dreamed that he would be a
candidate for high political honors until
| he received telegram announcing his
| nomination as state treasurer And now
the returns show that Mr.. Hauser is elected
and that he will have to quit baking
bread and pies for Sayvine for the next
two years.
Moran of Massachusetts.
Another much advertised candidate who
went down to defeat was John Brown
Moran, who ran for governor Of Massachu-
sets on the democratic ticket. He is
radical Of radicals and for some time after
he was nominated there were chickering's
in Boston as to whether he was the Will
liam R Hearst of Massachusetts, or
whether Mr. Hearst was the John B.
Moran OF New York.
They were much alike as far as parties
and platforms went. the chief difference
in this respect being that Moran had one
nomination more than Hearst the Nassa-
chusetts foe Of the trusts being Endorsed
by the prohibitlonlsts
A radical difference was that Hearst
had lots Of money and Moran none His
only asset was HMoran, but he considered
that asset ample after he had been elected
governor this year, and next year he would
not be either for Bryan or Hearst for
president in 1905. but would favor a Massa-
chusetts man. His shrinking modesty for
babe his getting closer than that to the
identity Of the candidate.
Moran has been but short time a factor
in The democratic politics Of Massachu-
sets. He elected himself district attorney
Of Suffolk year ago, when everybody
stood around and jeered and wondered
how badly he would be beaten It seemed
so easy for his opponent, who had been
nominated by both OF the great parties
that nobody bothered much about Morana
who hurled himself through Boston night
after night and told the people what he
would do II elected.
He made the grand jury an instrument
OF torture for the people of Boston. He
had many well known citizens indicted
and he hailed everybody he could think Of
and more that were thought OF for him,
before that body. -
II any man made a charge involving a
violation OF the law Moran had everybody
concerned in the charge before the grand
jury He had the legislature there and
the board OF aldermen ana senator Lodge
and dozens OF others
He smote right and left and then an
nounced that he would be a candidate for
governor. The conservatives had picked
out Henry NJ. Whitney for the democratic
candidate. but he was beaten by Moran
in the convention.
, Temperance in Kentucky
, Still another queer freak Of politics was
, the virtual election 10 the senate OF the
United States OF ]. c. W. Beckham Of Ken
lucky. who is only 49, Although Kentucky
, is famous for its whisky It was the tenn
, perance vote which pulled Mr. Beckham