Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-11-01
COUNTY IS FOR E. 0. P.
Country Precincts Show Bright Pros.
poets for Republican Ticket.
WORKERS MAKE STATEMENTS
Central Committee Holds Meeting and
Lines Un for Tuesday.
READY FOR VERDICT OF PEOPLE
Notes Of Confidence Come from ALI
Parts of Douglas
TRAVELLING MEN WITH TAFT
of This Fraternity
Say They Consider Bryan Oniy
Joke and win Vote
Republican.
Central Committee Holds Meeting and
Lines U? for Tuesday.
READY FOR VERDICT OF PEOPLE
Notes Of Confidence Come from All
Parts Of Douglas.
TRAVELLING MEN WITH TAFT



SUNDAY, NOVEMBER l.
National hall, Thirteenth ana william
streets, italian meeting; speakOru, Prof.
Luigi A. Stendardi, Z. q. nEaggi ana
others.
Remington, town halls Speakers, A.
W. Jofferis, a. n. Harvey, W. +. Wappioh,
p. Q. Best and others.
Turner hall, South Thirteenth utxset,
bohemian meetings Speakers, Joseph
Jurka OF Chicago, J. ]. hanger OF wilbur,
Neb.; Louis 7erka, v. BureEh, Joseph
Koutsky, o. Charvat and candidates.
National hall, rwenty-first and q
streets, South Omaha, bohemian meeting,
Speakers, Joseph Jurka OF Chicago, 3. J.
Langer of Wilbur, Neb.; v. Buresh, o.
charvat, Jossph Koutsky, Louis asrka
and candidates.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER o.
washington hall, last meeting OF the
campaigni Short addresses by n. J.
Cornish, H. A. Bronze, ]. L. Web
ster, Former Congressman David Mercer,
ana congressional county, Board OF
Education ana water board candidates,
General o. r. Manderson viii preside.
Veterans drum corps.
Benson, Eagle auditorium, closing rally
OF the campaign; Speakers, Judge BRx-
ter, A. w. Jefferis, r. A. Brogan, David
H. Mercer ana others.
Dundee, town hall; Speakers, H. II.
Baldrige ana J. L. Kennedy.
South Omaha, Ritchie's hall, Twenty
fourth and N streets. Speakers, A. 8.
Ritohie, H. Q. Bronze and n. o. Murphy.
Reports from eight Of the thirteen coun-
try precincts received Saturday afternoon
at the meeting of the county committee
at headquarters, show that the repub-
ncans need have no fear of losing tho
county and that the claims of the demo-
Gratis that they will elect the legislative
and portions of the rest OF the ticket are
groundless. Millard. Waterloo. Chicago.
Dundee and Clontarf precincts failed 10
report Saturday, but the other precincts
ALI reported republican gains.
Out of 2lO votes in Union precinct. Will
liam stoltenberg. the precinct chairman.
reports $50 sure for Taft. with 1SO prob
ably for the democratic ticket and in the
neighborhood of ten votes for the socialists
In Benson precinct A. c. Thomas fore
casts gain for the democrats of about
fifty votes but still leaving the repub-
licans $50 votes to 80 for the democrats,
there being 600 altogether in this precinct.
There are no socialists i'm Benson
The democrats may carry Elkhorn by ten
votes, Is the opinion OF ]. w. Shumaksr,
Four democrats in Elkhorn have am
nounced their determination to vote for
Taft. but close canvass has failed to
find a single republican who will vote
for Bryan. Elkhorn will cast about 200
votes this year.
big Slice In Florence.
The republicans will get 425 OF the 600
votes in Florence. says f. L. Platz. The
democrats will get 175 There are about
fifty socialists in Florence. but most OF
them have announced their intention of
voting the republican ticket, believing that
by 80 doing their millennium" viii be de-
layed and more converts will be made
to socialism.
The republicans will more than hold their
own in the democratic precinct of Douglas,
believes E. C. Hensman. Douglas will
cast about 2SO votes, with over 100 for the
G. o. p.
The usual two-thirds majority for the re-
publcans will be the verdict I'm Valley is
the opinion of A. p. Akerlund. even though
the democrats have been making great
claims of having won over some of the
300 votes there.
Jefferson Precinct Safe.
f. C. Gottsch believes that the ratio in
JtAltISon pINNlhcA VIII NC aDOhA iEpup-
licans to 100 democrats. jefferson has al
ways cast from one to three socialist votes,
but no one has been able to discover who
are the socialists.
In McArdle precinct II has generally
been nip and tuck" between the two lead
ing parties. but this year william Eiche
believes the republicans viii have a ma
jority of more than % votes out OF total
poll of practically 200.
Ten days ago August Miller, one OF the
precinct committeeman in South Omaha,
said he gave the Magic City to the demo-
Gratis by 800. a few days later he cut this
down to SOO but now he Is betting money
that Taft will carry It.
Organism in Philippines.
f. w. Crook, member OF Company l.
First Nebraska Volunteer infantry, who
was in the Philippines prior to and after
the nomination of Mr. Bryan in 1900 says Il
was open boast among the Fiipinos
that IL the democratic ticket was elected
they would gain their independence ana
that the nomination OF Mr.. Bryan and his
declaration that he would withdraw our
armies from the archipelago caused the
lnsurrection TO break out afresh. after ii
had practically been quelled.
When the Americans first went TO the
Philippines. ffty-seven languages were
spoken among the natives, the tribes being
unable to communicate with one another
and having no alphabet OF written Ian
guage. When Judge Taft visited the
archipelago he saw al once that the first
thing to do was to educate the natives and
the last time he was there he was met
at the wharf by 5000 native school children
singing America.
"a, fgla Il -.
was met by no ono ahd his presence was
known to only a few.
On account OF Bryan's advocacy OF
Withdrawing from the Philippines and the
resultant killing Of many more American
soldiers. the spanish-American war yeter-
ans will vote the democratic ticket almost
10 a man" says Mr.. Crook.
! Joseph Morrow who has just returned
from a trip through WAYNE and Dl~~a