Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-01

where We shsr stand a six.month Of a year
hence
Mr.. Hoover speaks by the card. for he is
considered a able accountant and Is on the
program for a discourse on city accounting.
Under the hospitsble conduct Of Couu-
Gilman Zimmsn a party OF fifteen delegates
was entertained at a prominent Omaha
cafe Monday night.
The waiter allotted TO the party proved
TO be about the brassiest thing who ever
extended an itching palm for a tip. Two
members Of the party ordered sardins
sandwiches. "Oh yes said the waiter,
Every one takes ssrdine sandwiches
You take the orders said the host.
Next the waiter took the pleasure OF the
company as regarded the liquid refresh
ments. Mayor Mshool Of Baltimore elected
to imbibe a glass Of ginger ale. That's
all right said the u~nctious garcon, II
am on the wagon myself"
Finally the waiter achieved another piece
OF impudence and brought forth the state
ment from the host OF the parry:
What We want is less talk and more
service This had the desired effect.
Mayor Silas Cook OF East st. Louis lie
vice-president Of the League and II would
not be extraordinary II he stepped up a
notch. Mayor Cook occupies the famous
position OF Barkis. He admitted that II the
league wanted him to take the place-"weli.
he would" The mayor takes a keen in
terest in city administration but his heart
is really in the Taft-Bryan tight at present.
He Is a democrat of the dyed-in-the-wool
type and he can see Bryan carrying almost
any state that can be named.
'I have been thirty-siX years in the
| city government Of Baltimore said City
Registrar j. Sewell Thomas, land | think
that is pretty near the record. When the
republicans gained control OF the city for
a couple Of terms a few years ago I was
appointed first deputy in the registrars
office and when we came again into our
own the council honored me with an unsn-
imous election as registrar. The nine re-
publican alderman Joined with the demo-
Gratis and this moved me a good deal"
Mr.. Thomas discussed the political sit
uation in Maryland:
ut is hard to say whether Bryan or
Taft will get the state. The organization
democrats are supporting Bryan, but the
latter's warmest friends think the organ
ization me are not pulling hard enough.
The fact is, only the ardent Bryanites
think the Nebraska man has a show to
win ana, while our support of Bryan is
not hypocrltical, it is hard to make much
OF a fight for a man whom you think is
doomed to defeat"
Mr.. Thomas admitted that the detection
from Bryan of the Baltimore Sun would
aid Taft greatly.
Stand in the lobby of the Rome, and the
casual listener will hear snatches of con-
versation like this:
I'VE have the cheapest electric service of
any town in America
How do you provide for your sinking
fund.-
mo, we tried that and it is not worth a
whack for paving"
"Wel in our town, we do 1t this way
Public service commissions may be all
right but"
The interest which delegates take in
problems of municipal government cannot
fail to impress anyone who talks to them a
few minutes. Fore many 1t is life study
others would like to make it such IL only
an intelligent populace would ~re-elect them
the necessary number of times.
Nearly all the delegates ask IL Nebraska
will not cast its electoral votes for Taft
and national politics provokes many dis
c~ussions in the Hobbies Of the hotels, al
though before long the talk veers around
| to some technical municipal question.