Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-08-02
ALLEN TRIES 70 DEFEND SELF
Great Array of Legal Talent at Hear
ing of Rosewater Protest.
TECHNICAL QUESTIONS URGED
Protestant shows DemO-POps Are
Trying 10 Prevent POpulists
from Voting the Way
They Desire.

LINCOLN, Aug. 1.-(special Telegram)-
Though he had two lawyers and Tom It'd
bles 10 help him in his efforts to get n
decision from the secretary Of state favor-
able 70 his scheme to prevent populsts
from voting for their own candidate Tor
president Tom Allen, at the conclusion OF
the hearing on the protests OF Victor Rose
water, today began at once TO hustle for
new candidates for electors.
He began before Mr.. Junkln said his de-
cision may be reserved until Monday.
This being the last day for filing, Mr..
Allen was informed he could file eight
populist candidates and then withdraw
them or substitute others according to the
decision of the secretary.
Victor Rosewater filed protests against
the democrats using the peoples independ-
ent party label for other democrats to go on
the electoral ticket pledged to vote for Mr..
Bryan. and the protests were heard before
Secretary of State Junkin this afternoon
Tom Allen, chairman OF the democratic
pomittee, and father Of the scheme, was
represented by Attorneys Arthur Mullen of
| O'Nenl A. s. Tibbits OF Lincoln and
Thomas Tibbles OF Omaha, vice presiden-
tial candidate with Watson four years ago
at which time he roundly abused Bryan
for supporting Parker. Mr.. Rosewater
Hooked after his own case.
Purpose to Deceive PopuIists.
| In his protests, Mr.. Rosewater charged
the filing of the democratic electors as
| populists, was for the purpose OF deceivng
the populist voters of and defrauding them
lout OF their opportunity to vote for their
national candidate; the object being to Sc
bcure votes for the electors pledged to the
| democratic candidates He said also the
Nebraska populists' delegation to the ma
tional populist convention after partlci-
pating for two days In that convention
had withdrawn from It and the conven-
tion had nominated a ticket. The national
convention, he said. is entitled to use the
! name, peoples independent party.
| Much of the proceeding was over tech
nical questions, the array Of legal talent
imported by Tom Allen to help him out
losing no opportunity to bubble over
law They filed affidayits from their
I witnesses. f. b Manuel and E A Wal
rath, chairman and secretary Of the pop
ulist committee, respectively, that the
populist convention had endorsed the
names Of the electors filed by Allen and
though the witnesses were present OBJ
jected and refused to permit them 70 &c
on the stand and tell the inside workings
Of that convention. Secretary OF State
, Junkln accepted the affidaVits because
he said. he wanted to be liberal in the
matter OF evidence though he thought
the witnesses should be cross-examined
Another point upon which the array OF
legal talent attempted to bolster up Il,
cause was an affidavit that there Is n,
national peoples independent party, tn,
peoples Independent party" the affida
Wit said is confined strictly to Nebraska
AmdRvit Merely bubble.
The national party is the people,
party. This affidavit was singned b,
Manuel Walrath and John NJ Devine.
This was referred TO by Mr.. Rosewate
as merely a "quibble," and he insisted o
the signers OF the affdavits being called [
the stand. This being objected TO by tn
array Of legal talent, he himself Gale
Tibbles and then the legal talent objecte
q 70 him being cross examined. Tibbles tes
3 titled that the national pOpulist conventio
was not regularly called and was not l.
{ gal, but rather the gathering Of a motle
5 crew. He admitted, though. he spent tw