Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-09-19
TROUBLE FOR TOM ALLEN
Populist Candidate for Attorney Gen.
eral May Not Get Out of Way.
PUZZLE IN SIXTH DISTRICT
POpuIist and Democratic Candidates
for Congress Write TO See How
One of Them Can Get on
the Ticket.
CFrom a Staff Correspondent)

LINCOLN Sept. 1S-(Spe cial. )-Tom Allen
may have trouble forcing populist nominees
to violate their oaths and lire up for the
democrats.
E. B, Quackenbush, populist nominee for
attorney general. may balk wheD he is
commanded to decline a nomination which
he swore to accept. The oath of acceptance
had to be taken in order to get his name
on the primary ballot, so in view OF the
treatment he has received at the hands of
democrats and the den Ccratic nominee Mr..
Quackenbush is liable to hesitate before
admitting that he got his name on the
populst primary ballot through msrepre-
sentation.
1t is a known fact that Harry Fleharty
himself more than any other man secured
the consent of Mr.. Quackenbush to make
the race for the nomination. Mr. Quacker-
bush had refused and repeatedly refused,
because he felt he could not afford 20 make
the fight for the nomination and election,
situated as he is.
Mr.. F1eharty, who had not yet announced
his own candidacy, called upon Mr. Quack-
enbush and insisted and pleaded with him
to make the race. He persuaded the Ne
maha county man against his own judg-
ment and he permitted the use of his name.
Within a few days after he mad an
nounced Mr.. Fleharty announced his own
I candidacy.
Who got Fleharty in the race after File
harty had persuaded Quackenbush TO run
is live question so far Mr.. Quacken-
bush is concerned, and may have a decided
effect on his final action in the matter.
There is no doubt someone was back of
the Fleharty candidacy. Friends of Mr.
! Quackenbush believe that.
! Mr.. Fleharty himself told people here in
Lincoln that he favored the candidacy of
A. c. Shallenberger for governor previous
| to the primary. 1t is a question now for
| The friends OF the populist nominee to dis
coveer whether 1t was Shalenberger who
made deal with FlehaCty and got him to
run and assist him in Douglas county. II
| circumstantial evidence is to be believed
| friends OF the populist nominee owe little
| to Mr.. Shalenberger. 1t is not by circum-
stantial evidence, however, that 1t Is known
that Fleharty induced QuackeNbush to en-
ter the race for attorney general and then
got into the fight on his own account.
Trouble in the Big sixth.
Out in the Sixth district w. II. WestoveI
and Walter Johnson. both fusion candidates
| or congress- are not sure just how one OF
! hem can violate his oath and get off OF the
.icket in the interest OF Mr.. Bryan. So
| Mr. Johnson. the populist nominee has ap-
| pealed to the secretary OF state. Some
| light on the Bryan fusion farce and de-
ception is shown in this letter. 1t is as fol
lows:
ORD, Neb., Sept 17.-secretary of State
4 Dear Sir: / notice by the reports that
I nave been nominated on the peoples inde
| pendent ticket and that w. II. WestoveI
| was nominated on the democratic ticket
| We want to arrange the matter so that on,
| Of us can get off of the ticket, and who
| ever is TO stay may have his name on boti
| tickets. ! guess there Is an impression
! that the primary law will not permit
| withdrawal in this way from the ticket
| that is the intention.
| Any person has the right TO resign ar
! office and the primary law probably does
| not place the candidate in a position tha
| he cannot do the same, II the proper effor
| is made TO fill the vacancy. The object o
| the law is not technical, but Il seekes Il
| make sure that a vacancy Is not TO occur
| What Is your opinion on the case? VII
! you kindly inform me by return mail? Tn,
| nomination relates to congressman from IN,
! Sixth Nebraska district. Yours truly,
| WALTER JOHNSON.
CJohnson spent $50 for his nomination.)
George w. Berge, defeated candidate fo
! the democratic nomination for governor an(
successful populist candidate for the sam,
office, spent t402.sO in his campaign. II,
spent 81 for ncidentals.
NettIetOn at Headauarters.
| Dan Nettleton. speaker OF the last hous,
OF representatives. was in Lincoln today
and called at the state house and at IN,
| republican Headquarters. Mr.. Nettletor
!