Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-22
DEMOS FIGHT TERMINAL TAX
Bryan and shallenberger on Side Of
Railroads in This.
ED HOWELL AND FRANK RANSOM
These Two Ardent Champions of Cor
poration Interests Head Legis-
IRtive Ticket in Doug
las County.
REPUBLICAN MEETINGS.

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Thursday Evsnins-
Twenty-second and Cunning Streets
Eighth and Ninth Ward Republican clubs
speakers, o L. Kennedy, H. n. Bad
rige and Nelson G. Pratt.
Fourteenth and Dodge streets-colored
voters Taft club.
Rex's Hall, South omaha-Polish meet
ing; speakers, A. H. vanDussn and John
4. Kennedy.
Ritchie's Hall, Twenty-fourth and N
streets, South omaha-Taft club of South
Omaha; speakers, Attorney General VIII
Liam H. Thompson, o. @. Peterson, NJ. Phi,
OF Chicago; Thomas W. Blackburn and
candidates.
Idlewilde Hall, Twenty-fourth and Grant
s~treets-Foraker (colored) club; speakers,
n. H. Baldrige and candidates.
Friday Evening
East omaha-Speakers, A. W. Jsfferts,
". G. Ure, Ed Leeder and T. A. Hollistsr.
Ritchie's Hall, Twenty-fourth and NJ
Streets, South omaha-south Omaha Col
orsd voters Taft club; speakers, W. +.
wappich and John l.. Kennedy.
Saturday Evening
Registration Day-No meetings.
Sunday, october as
Remington, a%rothusen Hal-SpsakerB,
A. ". Jefferis, T. A. Hollistsr, w. r.
wappich and others.
Sunday, November l.
National HaI, Thirteenth n william
s-treets-Italian meeting; speakers, Prof.
soturandi, Z. q. Maggi and others.
IF the democrats should win out In
Douglas county and Nebraska the voters
would have no kick coming, for the demo-
Gratis have served notice on everybody that
they are for the corporations as against
the people," remarked a member of the
republican county committee. Jim Dahl
man stands up and publicly proclaims that
the brewers are contributing to Mr.. BryRn's
election. Brother-in-law Tommy is milk
ing the railroads as usual. Ed Howell, the
railroad senator and Frank Ransom. the
stock yards attorney, are two of the candi-
dates for state senate"
Democrats are making a howl about
home rule in this campaign. 1t is a false
cry. They are opposed to home rule and
they know II, but are usirg this slogan be-
cause they know 1t will attract voters.
with their records against them, the demo-
Gratis can i'll afford to cry home rule"
This is the statement of a prominent
member of the Omaha Real Estate eX-
charge, who was active in the fight that
placed on the statute books of Nebraska
the law to tax railroad terminals.
Ed Howell, the man who introduced the
bill in the legislature in 1897 that enacted
the law preventing the taxation of railroad
terminals is running on the democratic
ticket for state senate.
That's part of the record.
Tommy Allen. Bryan's broth~er-in-law
uyhn ann,a1nI % 4hA ~.
braska in 1906 to cater to railroad support
by secretly fighting the republican terminal
tax plank, is still Mr.. Bryan's brother-in-
law.
That's part Of the record.
Shallenberger, in the interest of whose
candidacy for governor, Brother-in-Law
Tommy made this appeal two years ago. is
sim the democratic candidate for gov
ernor.
That's part of the record.
Neither Bryan nor Shallenberger has ever
uttered a word against Brother-in-Law
Tommy's action, or said he was in favor
of this law which enabled the cities and
towns Of Nebraska to tax their heaviest
property owners.
That's part of the record.
Ed Howell, the superintendent senator
of 1887, is this late day trying to explair
why he imposed that anti-terminal taxa.
tion law on the people. Evidently he thinks
an explanation is due. But his is a fllmsy
one. 1t is this: Il had to let that &c
through or l never could have got the
Omaha city charter bill passed"
In the classic vernacular of an Omaha
citizen who stands for the interests OF
Omaha and who has heard this excuse
from Howell, Rats"
Frank Ransom, the stock yards attorney
who is one of the democratic nominees foI
state senator, is another foe to termina.
tax. That and the fact that he is the stocl
yards attorney are said to be the yer,