Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-14
JUEKTN OVERRULES PROTEST
Allows Feble to Go on Ticket as Can
didate Of the Peoples Party.
FIGURES OUT TWO PER CENT
senator La Toilette Denies Being a
Democrat In an Address at Lin
coin, Though lie Person-
ally Admires Bryan


tFrom n blaII correspondent
LINCOLN. Neb.. Aug. ~13.-CSpecial Tele-
Ersm.)-Seoretary Of State Junkin has DE-
cided hat sophus Neble. democrat. Of
Omaha is entitled 20 have his name appear
on the peoples independent party ballot
a. q candidate for eiector. He overruled
the protest filed by Victor Rosewater. who
protested against Neble going on the ballot
because the populist party did not cast l
per cent OF the vote IN the Second dis
trct. The points raised by Mr.. Rosewater
were upheld by the attorney general. to
whom Mr.. Junkin referred the case, but
was overruled by the secretary. BY several
different ways of figuring Mr.. Junkin ar
rived At the conclusion that the party
polled more than / per cent Of the vote in
the Second district.
After Disgusting the vote cast at the
last election Mr.. Junkin said in his de-
cision;
II we subtract The rumble Of votes cast
for r. J. Willard, democrat only. from those
cast for George L. Loomis, FUSION candi-
date for Judge we have S2 votes as repre-
Should We use as our basis the vote cast
for r. J. Willard and ]. l.. Sunbeam. the
lis votes. II we take the former as our
basis we find that the peoples Independent
party cast a little in excess of 2 per cent
Should we take the difference between
Sunbeam and Willard we find they cast
about one-half of 1 per cent. II We add
the difference between the vote for Sun
dean and Willard and Loomis and Willard
and divide n by two, which we consider
would be fair, 1t still leaves US 292 Of a
Feeling IL our privilege to make every
effort possible to find out what the peoples
flrd that in the poll books Of the repub-
lican party, which were made last year
that n sarpy and washington counties
the peoples independent party. We are
unable 60 secure the poll of the peoples
allowing Douglas county the same ratio
as the poll In Sarpy and Washington
counties. It would give us something over
taking the returns as made at the primary
election in 1901. I find there was polled
only sixteen peoples Independent votes.
latter as very strong evidence.
After considering the above facts
the last election returns that two out Of
the three methods adopted, as above
stated, that the peoples independent party
223 votes in the district; again taking
into confederation the returns on the poll
books we also have an excess of the re-
quired 1 per cent of votes cast.
DeD1Ies Being n Democrat
Before an audience OF 5000 at the
Epworth assembly last night Senator
Robert NJ La Toilette expressed great
admiration and friendship for William
J.. Bryan, but insited that he him
self was a republican. The fight
against the railroads TO secure lower rates
and no determinations, he said. had been
started back in the '7Os by Wisconsin, I'LL
nois. Iowa and Minnesota. These policies
were not the product of the minds Of either
Bryan or Roosevelt. he said. A man in the
audience accused la Toilette Of being a
democrat. but he denied it. He spoke for
some time about the Aldrich-Vreeland bill.
which he denounced as vicious. After he
had read the roll call on this measure,
showing that Senator Burkett voted for it
and Senator Brown against IL, someone in
the audience asked. What was the matter
with Burkett?"
You will have to decide that for your
self. my friend" was the reply. Il simply
give you the facts. You will have TO draw
your own conclusions