Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-09
EVIL FATE FOR DEMOCRATS
Every Well Laid Plan is Knocked by
: Mysterious Accident.
NORRIS BROWN COMES TO OMAHA
VIII Speak In Both cities
This MOnth-Jeneris ExpIOdes
Empty Claims of
Hitchcock.

What avenFing Nemesis is this pursuing
local democrats, what evil genius beset-
ting their fatef Every time the Unterri-
fled get a nicely-laid plan Of battle ready
to touch off some mysterious accident oc-
ours snd everything goes awry.
Wednesday night Washington hall con-
tanned zoe democrats, eagerly awaiting the
coming OF John Lind, former governor Of
Minnesota. Mr.. Lind came not. neither did
any word from him 70 explain his alb
sence. The gloom Of disappointment was
impenetrable. Thursday morning the
Faithful organized an automobile party to
so to Bennington and Waterloo. ostensibly
TO see the auto races, but really to recon-
hotter for votes. What happened? Not a
chauffeur to be had in Omaha and there
the huge machine stood on Fifteenth
street in front Of Dahlman headquarters,
putting and steaming. apparently as i'm
patient as the group OF angry patriots who
stood on the curb watching and waiting
for half a dozen chauffeurs.
whats the matter; can't any OF these
garages furnish us enough chauffeurs to
run these machines7' numbered Doc Tan
ner. who was occupying a front seat in the
lead machine.
FURNISH nothingi What I want to know
Is why didn't John Lind come down here
as we expected?, demanded Ed Howell.
And so 1t went. Between the failure OF
Lind to fill his date and the stringency
in the chauffeur market there was a hot
r time.
In the company OF candidates and near
candidates going on the auto trip were
= Jim English. Ed Howell. Doc Tanner,
Frank Ransom, John Reagan and a dozen
others. They were to reach the Dahlman
uNl4- NA,.r afI
Soon their automobiles arrived. Young
men brought them from the garages, but
the young men hurried back to fill other
orders. and there the autos and candidates
stood. until the noon hour approached.
They had their autos loaded with demo-
cratic literature, which 1t was their pur-
pose to scatter broadcast over Douglas
county, experimenting their vocal perfor-
mances.
The miscarriage in the Lind engagement
has caused a lot Of dissatisfaction in the
democratic camp. It has been learned
that the national committee billed Lind for
Omaha without letting the Minnesotan in
on the secret. So far as anyone In Omaha
knows. he was to get his cue by whatever
occult means he could and he seems not
to have been as good a magician as the
committee thought. Congressman Hitch
cock is a much disappointed man. He
had counted strong on Governor Lind's
speech In Omaha and on his speeches
over the Second district. Realizing his
need OF such favor as Lin would be in
clined TO curry, the editor-congressman
who is badly in the dumps these days, II
the most keenly disappointed Of all. l
IL feared Linz cannot be brought here a
any other time.
Senator Norris Brown Is to speak to th'
citizens OF Omaha the night Of October 2
and TO those Of South Omaha October %
The county committee has received wort
from the senator that he win be able t
fill these dates and is preparing for hi
coming.
A. w. Jefferis, the republican nomine
for congress, has met up with some pc
cuIiar claims made TO voters by MS oppo
nent, Congressman Hitchcock. One, 10
2 instance, Is that Mr.. Hitchcock was a
instrument In securing the advanced pa
for the postal employees, letter carriers an
others. OF course, It is not difficult I
meet this claim where It is known 1t ha
been made, nor Is 1t effectual when me
stop to think a moment, as these men a
do. They know whatever measure bene
flied them and their interests comm
from the last congress was a republica
measure and would have been enacte
whether Mr.. Hitchcock voted for G
4 against IL. In many quarters serious
minded voters have jumped on to thi
specious plea with a vigor not comfortin
TO Hitchcock's aspirations. They reser
The presumption upon their intelligence.
And 10. there is yet another storm brew
Ing In the democratic camp. AS usual,
is over a great and important issue. Oh
serving Jacksonians have awakened to II
fact while they have ''Jscksonian heaC
quarters at Seventeenth and Farnal
streets, the official campaign headqua
ters are at Fifteenth and Farnam, II
Jimsonian headquarters. A few ardei
Jacks may be caught around the Pate
son block rooms once in awhile, but
you have business to transact, feel II
need of any stimulating influence or an!
thing of that sort. why, OF course, Il
place to go is the Dahiman Democrat
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