Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-21

n he lie so jealous in finding S15oOo in |
fund that he knew nothing about. what as |
surance have We that he might not at some |
time find an overdraft Of $4,000. This is |
the basis Of his system OF being the watch I.
dog OF the treasury. I will assue you that |
If I am elected there will be no accidental
finding Of funds or overdrefts. for that is
not the way keep books"
Mayor Harry Zimman candidate for
council from the Third ward, after thank
ing the club and ward for its cordial en-
dorsement OF him in the primaries, said;
II am making this campaign on my record
as a councilman Of the past six years ser
vice. man serving the people in an
official capacity is the servant Of the peo-
pie and not OF any corporate interest, fran
chse interest or contractor, and subject
to corporate dictaton. which does not hest
tate to tell a councilman how to vote
mayor how and what to approve. In elect
ing a comptroller OF this city elect man
who has the ability and nerve to go TO
the gas or electric light company and de
mand to see their books and compel them
to pay the city the royalty they owe the
city. The Omaha Gas company pretends
TO have its books of sales of gas I'm Omaha
in Philadelphia, and keeps but the mere
memoranda here. Elect Ernest Johnson
comptroller and he will so to Philadel-
pha to see those books If we had had a
competent comptroller hitherto we would
not have had this constant wrangle re-
! gardless Of whether $1,000 had been found
| in the firemen's fund or not. Yet after
! all. II is former City Attorney Wright,
Assistant Attorney Herdman and the pres
| ent City Attorney Breen that are en-
titled to the credit of finding this $4,000
! fund and not Mr.. Lobeck.
! "The new city council will never vote
for the $2S gas lamp contract, but will get
the gas company to come down to $40 per
lamp. II the gas company will not do
this we can get another gas company in
here that will do it. l am in favor of own
ing our electric lighting plant after we have
acquired the waterworks. I believe in the
reduction of street car fares to six tickets
for a quarter, twenty-five for a dollar and
thirty school tickets for a dollar Elect a
council that is not afraid to do right The
corporations say to the council, give us a
fair deal. l am opposed to giving them a
fair deal until they give the city fair
deal Let us compel the corporations to
comply with our conditions. I am also
opposed to the present garbage contract
and shall fight its renewal. II the garbage
contractor does not want to come to our
terms let us run our own garbage business
as we do our asphalt repair plant. be-
lieve also in a % per cent reduction in tele-
phone rates in the business sections, as
they have alread become in the residence
districts. and l believe it will come this
year. If the Nebraska Telephone COM
pany refuses TO give us this reduction we
can get an independent company in here
that will do it."
In response to an inquiry to the status
Of the ballot box fraud Mayor Zimmar
said: 1--WE have discovered gross fraud,
! and today have filed our report, which W,
will give to the public 1t is the rottenes
! piece of work ever undertaken in this OIL
any other city. The scheme was to taxi
100 votes from Greenleaf and give them L
Elbourn. The case with our evidence will
L be submitted to the grand jury and hop,
the guilty parties will be found out anC
sent to the penitertiary."
The other speakers were Sam X. Green
leaf, candidate for city clerk, Leroy Lucas
George Hurst, Charles L. Hayward, d. A
N. Chase, John d. Scott Frank Crawfort
|, | and George Colt candidates for the cit!
council. and John II. Butler, candidate
. for building inspector.