Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-07-15
LIVELY CONTEST IN SIGHT
Reese and Sedgwick Hooked Up for
Nomination.
ADVOCATES MAKE WARM FIGHT
Some Amusement IL Afforded by the
Spirit in which the Champions
of Each Approach the
Subject.
tFrom a star correspondentO

(FrOm a Stan Correspondent
LINCOLN Neb., July 14-(special)-It
may now be taken as fairly assured that a
good, lively contest will be waged in the
preliminary campaign for the republican
primary nomination for supreme Judge.
While Judge NJ. b. Reese has made no
formal announcement Of his candidacy 1t is
understood that the press bureau crowd
has gotten in sufficient action already to
convince the Judge that a widespread de-
mand exists for his candidacy, and that he
has allowed the propaganda to go so far
that he will have to go through with 1t to
the finish.
On the sedgwick side the original pro-
gram is being carried out, of petitions
signed up generally by republicans through
out the state, asking that his name be
placed on the official primary ballot. Re
ports from all directions are to the effect
that the petitions are being we'll received,
The publication Of the letter Of transmittal
shows that these petitions are to be re-
turned TO the sedgwick managers by July
20, and, allowing for delays, they viii prob
ably be filed with the secretary Of state
sometime next week.
Pot Calls Kettle Black.
One of the amusing features of the
IOuuhup 10 lOuhu III NllS SiiAiAlAoNAoAlS oiN
recriminations OF the political wIrepullers.
No attempt is made to disguise the fact
that the interstate OF Judge Sedgwick are
being supervised by Harry c. Lindsay and
Victor Seymour, in conjunction with T. E.
Sedgwick, the first two being the clerk and
deputy clerk Of the supreme court, respec-
lively, and the last brother of the Judge
Some of the press bureau critics are loud
! in denouncng this as a gross perversion Of
! official power. and are entering strenuous
! objections to the clerk of the court exert
( ing himself as political manager for one
| of the judges. On the other side, however,
only a thin disguise conceals the fact that
I the Reese boom was originated and is be-
/ ing engineered by Chairman Rose of the
/ republican state committee Secretary Clark
/ Perkins OF the same committee Frank
| Harrison and Ross Hammond. Rose is
deputy attorney general and Perkins Is
secretary of the State Railway commits
/ sion, both drawing public salaries. Frank
! Harrison is clerk of the United States
court at Lincoln, and Ross Hammond ex-
poets to be United States collector of in
ternal revenue, In addition to all of this.
Reese has been employed from time to
! time, and drawn fees out of the state treas
ury for assisting the attorney generals Of
: fce, or representing the railway commits
sion in court The friends of Sedgwick,
| therefore. are causing Rose and Perkins of
: misusing the machinery of the state COM
mittee, and especially the committees press
bureau, to promote the fortunes of a
favorite candidate to say nothing OF de-
voting their own time to politics while on
the public pay roll. To the observer on the
outside, these charges and counterC4 argos
sound very much like the pot calling the
kettle black
Candidates for Regents.
Outside of the supreme court Judgeship,
! the only developments have come in the
suggestion of several names for university
! regents. c. J. Ernst, whose term expires
| is said to be undecided whether to stand
/ for reelection, although his associates on
the board are urgent and insistent that his
: services can not be well dispensed with. He
was originally elected while residing in Lin
coin, and has since removed to Omaha
thus losing his geographical status. A
number of republicans hereabouts would
like to see Charles B. Anderson of Crete
who served once in the state senate, accept
the place on the ticket for university re-
| gent. Mr.. Anderson is at present visiting in
Michigan, and his wishes in the matter are
( not known. A candidate from up north has
already been projected in the person of
George Coupland OF Blgin, who is said to
be well fitted for the place and aprosperous
farmer and stock raiser 1t is probable
/ several other candidates will be in the field
before the doors close.
| Opposition for Clarke.
The announcement of Henry 7. Clarke,
| jr, that he would like to be reelected as
member OF the railway commission is evi-
IDENTIFY not insuring him against competition.
Repeated talk is heard that the farmers
and shippers ought to have representation
on the board, but most of this comes from
a quarter suspected of hostility to Omaha
and animated by a desire 10 shut Omaha
/ out. Out in Clay county the candidacy of
s, NJ. Wallace has been suggested by a
local paper, as a farmer recently retired
from thirty years railroad service, his last
position being that OF local agent at Clay
! Center. His champion says;
( After thirty years of active rafiroading ne
quit the business a few months ago and
now occupies the farm couple of miles
braska, had the good judgment to purchase
before the big advance In land. He has
been in charge Of the railroads business in
this city since II made its advent, has seen
and helped II to expand year by year until
the volume of business the last few years
because OF our manufacturing Industries has
. city. The incessant strain upon his nerv-
Gus system threatened serious difficulties,
and he resigned early last year. but was
not relieved for many months, and not until
he peremptorily set the day when he must
. be relieved.
! Around the statehouse this introduction
has not struck a very favorable chord. IF
It takes a man thirty years to become sta
tion agent at Clay Center" remarked a
statehouse employe, his railroad expert
ence couldn't be worth much to the people
Of Nebraska at this stage Of the game And
( II he had to retire from the onerous posi-
! tion at Clay Center because the incessant
strain on his nervous system threatened
serious nervous difficulties he would sure
have a quick relapse after he got located as
railway commissioner II there is a place
in the statehOuse where the nervous strain
Is likely TO be focused any harder during
the next few years than on the railway
commission It is not yet visible to the
naked eye"