Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-30
TO HANDLE THE PAP
Board Of Control Passes on Pie
Handed to 0mahans.
SIX JMs AND FOUR JACKS
balance Of Power, However, Rests
with the Latter, Despite the Fact
that the Are Slightly
Outnumbered.

Outnumbere
Six Jlms and four Jacks control the APP
pointment Of Omaha men to state positions.
This has JUS been discovered. but 1t has
been ascertained from prominent men in
the two clubs that the discovery Is abso-
luteiy correct, and further, that II a candi-
Gate has not the signatures Of either the
SIX Jims or the four Jacks his candidacy
will not be considered by Governor-Elec
Shallenberger.
And while the Jims have two more men
en- the board OF control than have the
Jacks, and also while the Jims number
their membership by hundreds as against
a numbering by units In the Jack club,
the Jacks are more powerful with the new
governor and can secure moro favors than
the Jims.
This is because Mr.. S~hallenbergeT is a
Jack, because he was a former vice presi-
dent Of that corporate body. and because
he has no love for Mayor Dahlman, the
idol of the Jims. For It must be remem-
bered that the mayor seriously objected to
the gubernatioral nomination being given
to Mr.. Shalienberger and to keep him from
securing It he denounced the new governor
as a tool, trimmer, four-flusher and sew
eral other things.
Naturally, Mr.. ShaIlenberger does not
entertain exceedingly warm friendship
for Mr.. Dahlman, and, naturally, Mr..
Shallenberger does not jump to appoint
men whom Mr.. Dahlman recommends.
However, Mr.. Dahlman is e member OF
the designating committee, the other mem
bers OF which are Thomas ]. Flynn, street
commissioner and county chairman; Lee
Bridges, councilman and treasurer of the
county committee, and the three local
members OF the state committee, Colonel
Charles L. Tanning, George Rogers and
George Parks. the latter of South Omaha
How the Board Lines UD.
The Jacks who are vested with\ this
power are Ed p. Smith, Lee Herdman, T..
Peter Bergman and Ed e. Howell.
So far the only local appointment of
any consequence announced is that of
Dave Rowden as commandant of the
Soldiers home at Milford. Dave, while
holding a position now by grace of the
Jims, is a Jack, went to the Denver con-
v~ention on the Jack train and spends his
noon hours in the Jack club rooms. A.
d. F~etterman. who was appointed a colo
mel. shines around both the Jack and
Jim clubs. Charles E. Tanning, Jim, was
also appointed a colonel, but this was not
DeCduEe III Is n Jllt DuI IOT the SlIIplt
reason of thwarting his ambition to sit
on the excise board. Being breveted a
colonel he can not now ask for appoint
ment on the Board of Fire and Police
Commissioner as well.
For some reason the Jims set their
minds on pulling down the oil inspector
plum and the chances are they will never
get 1t.
rive days after the new governor was
elected, two members of their committee,
Tanning and Rogers, went to Lincoln
and, 1t is asserted, induced the governor
to agree to appoint no Jim unless he had
the endorsement of each of the six mem
bers of the controlling committee. Fur
Their. they impressed upon the mind of
the incoming chief executive that no
present o~fficehelder should be- APP
pointed.
Boom Tom O'COnnor.
They then returned home and started
Tom O'Connor In the race for the APP
pointment Of assistant oil inspector for
the Second district. flaming, Rogers,
Parks and Mayor Jim signed their en-
dorsement for him. Flynn baked for the
reason that o'Connor's appointment to
the second position would Jeopardize Joe
Buffers chances for the chief position.
n duIlU& tdnu LNO6Ci5 oCSAdANo NhoN 0NN
Ter should never have the plum, for he is
now holding office, Bridges stood with
Butler. but had previously given his en-
dorsement to another man who was ex-
pected to retire, however. In this event
Bridges will sign for Butler, making two
for Butler as against four for O'Connor.
In the meantime Arthur Mullen Of
O'Neill announces that the governor has
persistently urged him to accept the APP
pointment. This puts a new aspect on
the situation and Butler acknowledge
that he has known all along that Mullen
could have the position IL he wanted 1t.
The local candidate will not lay down,
though, even should Mullen decide to
take the chief position, for If he does
then Butler will demand that he be APP
pointed assistant for the district, not
O'Connor.
Butler is exceedingly wroth at Tanning
and Rogers for going back on him and
says he made these two men politically.
He denounced them at the Jimocrat goat
banquet and continues to denounce them
now, but processes to know nothing or
the committee of six which controls the
appointment of local Jlms to state posi-
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