Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-31
TRICK TO BLOCK POPULISTS
Watson Men Are Told Electors Must
Pay twenty-five Dollars.
LAW LETS THEM FILE FREE
scheme IL TO scare Out the Peoples
Party Brethren and Thus Give
Democrats the whole
Thing.


The latest reported trick Of the sstute dem
ocrats who are running things IN Nebraska
Dis campaign is to deceive popullsts into
y Believing that the filing fee for electors
Is Us 20 as to prevent the pops from filing
tor Tom Watson electors. The law Inn
posses no filing fee on electors.
A. w. Potts Of Stockham has filed as
!. elector for the Tom watson ticket. He Is
4 the first person to do such a thing, and
4 evidently therefore the first who refuses
: To he scared out by this piece Of chicanery.
He sent to the secretary OF state his APP
p~lcstion for a place on the ticket and a
rostoffice money order Of SIS, saying In
his letter that he had been given to under
stand that the filing Zee was SIS. Mr..
Junkin filed his application and returned
his money.
While Mr.. Potts did not state in his let
ter who gave him ito understand that the
filing fee was Sz5 there is a '.-defined
rumor around the state house in other
corners OF Lincoln as to the identity Of the
person. Furthermore, there Is a very pro-
nounced conviction here that Mr.. Potts
wal moi given this understanding by any
one who thought he was telling the truth,
and still further 1t is believed that this
simply reveals a systematic plot by the
de nocrat.c leaders to deceive pops all over
the state In this way in the belief that II
they have to pay sos they won't file and
Mr.. Watson won't get any men on his
= ticket.
Additional Primary Filings.
Senator Sibley came TO town today with
MS receipt showing he had paid the filing
fee in Lincoln county to go on the repub-
lican primary ballot as a candidate for
congress. All the blanks in the office of
ithe secretary of state have been exhausted
and Mr.. Sibley promised to rustic a blank
end get his filing complied in time.
c. l.. Hedlund Of Holdrege and Myron
d. Carr Of Columbus filed as republican
candidates for railway Commissioners. H.. G..
Etewart filed an a populist candidate for
the Sixth congressional nomination. w b.
Jones OF Polk and w. F. Cranim Of Fauby
fled as fusion candidates for congress
from the Fourth district.
The following are new filings for state
senator:
Paul, Seventeenth district; John G. Gin
nil, republican of StoCkville, Twenty-ninth
ss],s sntSn. F EisSentS h AdiP sPE4iaf. rTsR n. Wsilae oi
L1limer, democrat of Utica, Nineteenth
district j. A. Oils, jr, democrat of Ord
Following are the new filings for state
representatives:
Henry 4. Reader, republican of Ayr,
Forty-sixth district; A. /. Mathews, re-
y f. Springer, republican of Mitchell
Fitty-fourth district W +. Warren, demo.
IG dis.rrs snd R RopqHlI II. % Sf Ai a Tepa Fbfity,SiHt q
e Alnswcfth, Fifty-first district; Buel s. Har.
IRIS n, democrat Of Ainsworth. Fifty-first
'%district; John A. Weems, democrat of Full.
%lerton, Twenty-fifth district; D. c. Heffer-
nan, democrat of Hubbard, Sixteenth dis.
ttict. Charles a. Robbins of Lincoln filed
as a republican
Missouri Pacific Answer,
The Missouri Pacific railroad has filed
ar answer with the State Railroad com
pEny IN opposition to The proposed increase
in rates by the Stockyards company al
South Omaha. This company says tbs
charges at the stockysrds are frequently
paid by the railroad; that It has been or
dered to decrease its live stock rates
Should il be compelled to reduce rates anC
Z the s~tockyards allowed TO increase rates
y it wou!G lose money hauling live stock. Be
Sides the answer says the rates have beer
in effect for II years and are therefor,
suffici emily high.
DOuEIa Hospital COmpIimented.
Joel Piper. chief clerk Of the Board o
Charities and Correction has come back t.
Lincoln from Omaha after an investiga
ton OF the county farm and he is full o
enthusiasm over the new tuberculosis hos
N"' 'NANS NANNANh AA'it' ~ NAllS NllAi
, 5 me OF the inmates Of the poor farm ar
NI sleeping N the basement, which is no plac
f'r them, but with the completion of tn
new hospital, Douglas county will be wei
On the map. He complimented SupeTinten
dent Farar for the way he is looking ate
the institution
Resolution on Fair ate.
Secretary w. r. Mellor today receive,
from the chairman of the transportatio,
committee of the American Association o
State Fairs and Expositions the followin.
copy OF the resolution which was adopteI
by the members Of the Western Passenge
association at the meeting July %:
Recommended. that a rate of one an
one-half fare for the round trip be mad
Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska an
Kansas for the season 1905. with such min.
mum as lines In interest may desire to es
tRblish for each occasion, dates Of sal
and other details TO be arranged later.
y This will be the first reduction granite
the farmers since the two-cent fare too
effect. Politicians, Shriners and tourist
have been favored. and now the farme
will be able TO attend his annual outin
- the state fair, August 81 to septembC
4, on reduced railroad rates.
Lineman sewers Toes.
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