Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-23
HOW ST. PAUL REPAID OMAHA
Foulsd Gate City at Seattle After TAX.
ing It's Help for shriners.
PEDDLED FALSE REPORTS TO WIN
Omaha Eagles Got E~ights-FiVe Per
Cent Of votes ne seattle without
the Minnesota Towns
Ballots.

The unfair and false reports circulated
BY St. Paul Eagles at Seattle In their
vain effort to debase and defeat Omaha
IN its contest for the national acrie for
1909. have been the source OF aulazement
and resentment In this city; amazement
because Omaha stood so strongly by st.
Paul in It's campaign to land the Shrlners
and resentment because the Minnesota
town sought to befoul Omaha with false
and malicious reports, rather than make
a clean, honest fight at Seattle.
II have 1t from the assistant to the
president Of the Eagles that Omaha re-
ceIved IS per cent Of the votes cast said
Commissioner J. NJ. Guild OF the CONNER
cial club. II do not know what 81. Paul
hopes 10 gain by such work as try
ing to show Omaha to be composed OF a
iawless element"
Some of the members Of Tangler Temple,
MOBILES Of the Mystic Shrine, are disguested
that st. Paul should return such under
handed work for the boosting which
Omaha shriners did at several Imperial
councils to secure a national meeting Of
the Shriners at st. Paul.
II will never forget the way the Omahans
worked for st. Paul at Niagara Falls in
1866" said a Shriner. "st. Paul was a
GdlAiuhAb ~ Alt Hetllub dlu OHldId AhS
chief supporter. St. Paul lost the meeting
because Minneapolis Shriners voted against
the sister city, and st. PAU lost by just
the number OF votes which Minneapolis
was entitled to in the imperial council.
I am told that Omahans helped st. Paul
get the meeting at Los Angeles, or. at least,
Omahans did not oppose the meeting going
there this year. Then they turned in to
assist In giving st. Paul Shriners a good
crowd. They took a special train to go to
the meeting and their patrol arranged to
do everything possible in the way Of fur
nishing drills and making the parades a
success.
omaha Gets Raw Deal.
But when It came to st. Paul doing
things, the Omaha patrol has never been
treated as stability at a national meeting
as in st.. Paul. The doors we're closed
against the patrol until the meeting rooms
were filled and then Omaha was gracIously
allowed to put it's patrol I'm the third gal
lery, where 1t was boiling hot. We got
shabby treatment in st. Paul when we
went there, the worst l ever saw. 1t was
due to the fact that the st. PAU people
don't know how to handle a big convention.
The Shrine meeting was largely a failure.
because It went to st. Paul-but we did
not like to kick"
Four Eagles were in Omaha from Michi-
gan SATURDAY. They were returning from
Seattle. Their joint card said, -Four
Michigan Beauties and gave the names
as George II. Mckinley, Flint: ]. A. Nor
wood, Mount Clemens; John Cross, Jack
son. and Edward b. Gibbons, Detroit. They
were entertained by John II. Tuthill while
In the city. They were among those who
assisted in bringing the convention to
Omaha. Mr.. Gibbons said:
I'VE were glad to see you get the con-
v~ention, as were almost all the grand Of.
ficers. We have seventy-five aeries IL
Michigan and half of them will send march
Ing clubs to Omaha. That is the way WI
feel abopt Omaha. and we can see no rea
son for st. Paul making the campaign
which was made at Seattle against thit
city,