Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-10-26

! This table OF figures shows the regis
| tration of voters In Omaha for the three
days Of this year, minus the last days
returns In only three precincts-the Sec
| ond OF the First ward, Second OF the Third
and Third of the Sixth.
| The showing is decidedly encouraging 10
the republicans. While the apparent re-
! publican gain over last year is 2,7S1 and the
democratic 3.s97. the difference between the
gains is not favorable to the democrats,
as 1t would appear on the face of the fig
ures The figures are Elusive. The fact
is that the republicans have made a large
gain even over a strong registration of
| 1907, while the democrats have only come
up to nearly normal registration this
year as compared to about half their nor
NAL registration of last year. The result
shows nothing on which the democrats
may base claim of actual additional
strength.
| The difference between the republican to-
| tai and democratic total this year is al
ready 4,1I2, with the likelihood of even
greater disparagement TO the democrats
when the other three precincts come in.
| There is certainly nothing encouraging to
| the democrats in those figures. The fact
! is, republican leaders and voters are In
tensely pleased and have every reason for
being over the result of the registration.
| The question was asked yesterday in a
group OF politicians. What extraneous
condition is there to warrant the assump.
| tion by the democrats that they have the
remotest hope of success in Omaha with
over 1900 votes against them? What
string can they count on pulling that will
throw these 1900 votes from the republican
column into the democratic?"
And Here IL the Answer.
And the answer comes about like this;
| Take the head of the two tickets, the state
| and local conditions and the sum total is
! strongly in favor of the republicans Taft
| represents the administration of reform and
| progress by which the business interests
home interests and wage earner's interests
right here in Omaha have been so vastly
benefited. Sheldon is at the head of state
administration of whose legislative delibera-
| tions the Omaha World Herald owned and
| edited by Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock, congress-
man and candidate for reelection on the
democratic tcket-this paper which Is the
original Bryan organ and the mouth
! piece of the democrats of city and state
| said:
"The NsbraSka legislature has ad-
! tourned with no apologies to offer ana NO
difficult explanations to make.
mo legislature in years has accom-
plishsd so much Of vital importance ia
the state.
Even the most optimistic could not
at the outset have believed that this leg
islature could live up to every pledge II
made TO the people, ana yet 1t has done
that"
These were tie words of the World.
Heralds staff correspondent who hat
covered the session of 1907 and writer
his final report for his paper at the con.
clusion of that session. The World Herald
gave an entire page to the splendid tribute
to this republican legislature.
And locally the democrats are ever
worse off. The predcament they are in a,
| a result of an administration of ludicroui
incompetency is even to them, hopeless
| The head of the local administration hai
made himself the laughing stock Of Tho
United States and the city council has sub
jected the municipality TO public sympathy
In the face of all these facts and records
the republicans of Omaha are elated ovel
the prospects of November g.