Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-09-02
ALL OVER BUT THE WAITING
Primary Election Campaign in State is
Practically Closed.
REESE PAPERS SHOW THEIR HAND
One Advises POpulists TO Butt in on
Republican Primaries and Another
Threatens the Supreme
Court.
tFrom a stan correspondentJ

| LINCOLN, Sept. 1.-(Special $50 far
I as the campaign for nominations on the
state ticket is concerned. 1t is all over
/ but the voting and the waiting and the
waiting for the returns promises to be
the mosttedious part of IT, As might
naturally have been expected. reports
come from all over Nebraska to the ef-
feet that there is much confusion and
Misunderstanding as to the various
features Of the new direct primary Law,
and this, its first trial in practical opera
tion. Is sure to disclose it's defects. The
attorney general has been busy all week
answering letters asking advice as to the
meaning of different sections, and in spite
OF all this the chances are good that
the plain intent of the law will not be
carried out in all the counties. There
is a suspicion that those interested in
different candidates. are advising the
voters contrary to the accepted practice
In primary elections and stretching points
in order to open the door to the count
ing of questionable votes. The paper
edited by F. II. Abbott at Aurora, and
which has been the chief mouthpiece of
the Rees boomers, openly faunts this
appeal in its editorial columns:
"If you are a populist who intends to
support a majority OF the republican
candidates, you should call for a repub-
lican ballot at the voting place"
Danger in the Course.
This instruction out of the Rees head
quarters has called for a severe rebulSe.
One of the Sedgwick folks declares
that 1t simply shows tina Rees is
working to get the populists to give him
a republican nomination, and that his
friends are wilfully defying the pur-
pose Of the direct primary law. II
man is a populist, he should call for
populist ballot and use his vote to help
name the populist candidates. Any known
populist or democrat trying to break into
the republican primaries should be
promptly challenged. The primary law
sets out In detail the questions to be
propounded to him when challenged, and
truthful answers to them will bar any
one from casting a republican ballot un-
less he wants to be known as an avowed
republican"
Threat from Perkins Paper.
The tailend of the press bureau cam
paign has resolved itself into mere rep
etition of appeals for support of the op-
posing candidates, respectively, and the
reasons for and against them. already
thoroughly rehashed. The only new thing
worth mention is notice given through
the st. Paul Republican, which is the
personal property of Clark Perkins, sec
retary OF the state committee, now snugly
berthed as secretary of the railway COM
mission, that the fight on Judge Sedg-
wick in the name of reform is only the
first step in a movement to disiodge the
whole membership of the supreme court.
Perkins paper, among other things, says:
Another reason for not supporting
Judge Sedgwick is that large percent
age of the republican voters have de-
cided that the supreme judges must go
fast as they can legally be disposed
of. Supreme efforts have been made Of
late to fumigate and ventilate the state
house, and so far as the legislative and
executive departments extend have been
quite effective. While satisfactory re-
suits have been secured so far, the people
are unsatisfed. They demand an entire
change in the highest tribunal of the
state. Several unfortunate decisions have
been handed down (whether technical or
not) with which many of the rank and
file are displeased. They insist upon
new deal"
Fusion Doesn't Fuse.
On the democratic and populist sides no
excitement is visible. The populists are
muttering under their brath at the work
of the democrats, trying to stampede
the supreme judgship nomination to
Judge Loomis, after promising it to Judge
Alberts, the populist. The friends of