Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-20
LEARNED STILL CHAIRMAN
He and other 0fioers to Be Reelected
by Republican Committee.
wATTLEs TO GO TO CONVENTION
Recommended by the County Conn
mittee TO Represent DOuGlns at
the Lincoln Meeting on
Tuesday.

Republican candidates for county office
Yesterday afternoon recommended the re-
election Of the present officers Of the
county committee and called a meeting
OF the county committed for ? o'cloCa
Monday afternoon at the court house.
The committee will organize at that time
and elect a delegate to the state conven-
tion to be held Tuesday at Lincoln. The
candidates recommended Gurdon w. Wat
ties for delegate.
The old Officers whose reelection was
favored by the committee are: Myron l..
Learned, chairman; c. II. r. Riepen, sec
Rotary, and william f. Rhoades, treasurer.
Both Mr.. Learned and Mr.. Riepen have
stated they did not care to serve again
on account Of the amount of work re-
quired by their positions, but the candi-
dates will try to prevail on them to &C
Cept, provided the committee acts favor
ably on their recommendations.
4 new county committee was named. at
a meeting OF republican candidates at the
court house Saturday morning, to act dur
ing the coming campaign. The selection
Of the committeeman was by unanimous
vote after several conferences in arrang-
ing the list
observation-disclosures.
The candidates made a new departure
this year by electinR. besides the precinct
committeeman, a committeeman-at-large
In each ward In Omaha and South Omaha.
The others are for respective districts in
order named. The new commltteemen are
as follows:
First Ward-At large, Peter Back; T.. w.
Crook, Clyde c. Sundblad, Frank T. Ma
honey, Joseph Lobeck.
Second Ward-At large, Fred Hoye; An
ton linda, Val. I. Karbowski, Fred A.
Klenka, Dave Shanahan, Vac. Buresh.
Third Ward-At large, Harry Zimman;
o. p. Sullivan, Morris Milder, Lou Bur
meister, Charles H.. kubat, John Mcbride.
Fourth Ward-At large, Joseph McCaf-
frey; Louis Phillipson, Tom Lamb, Sam w.
Scott, Harry DeBolt, w. A. Foster.
Fifth Wsrd-At large, William l. Kier-
sted; a. l. Mead, l.. =. Guye, W, r. Chris
tie. Charles Sanders, Joseph Mclaughlin.
Sixth Ward-At large. c. II, Lewis; e. G.
Humphrey, Stephen Hansen, Henry d.. Os-
from, James Talbot.
Seventh Ward-At large. B. f. Thomas;
Fred Shamel, John @. Kuhn, Frank Shot
well, John Norberg.
Eighth Ward-At large. IL. II. CLAIBORNE
b. +. Stewart. G. J. Westerdahl, Joe Hum
nell, c. w. Britt.
Ninth ward-At large. C j. Pedcrsen
James Hammond, Harry Fischer, Louis
Raser Harry s. Byrne, John Helgren.
Tenth Ward-At large, Sam Pollock; Fred
stubendorf, ST.; Charles e. Foster, Peter
Procopio, Edward Gardipee, John Benin.
Eleventh ward-At large, Fred w; Weadi
Edgar BalfO, CnaTleb u. MCDOudlui LSS-
ter Hutchinson, Frank Crawford.
Twelfth Ward-At large, Nv. Plummer'
w, j. Hislop, Albert j. Beall, b. s. An
derson, +. +. Osborne.
south Omaha.
First Ward-At large, L. K. Leigh; Lov
Etter, John +. Schultz.
Second Ward-At large, inflow F.. Fittle
Frank Radil, Otto .Leptln.
Third Wsrd-At large, William Coulter
=. @. Rice, George johnson.
Fourth Ward-At large, John Mcintyre
Peter Thompson, August Miller.
Fifth Ward-At large, j. Strsloski; Johr
Larson. Charles Cummings.
Sixth Ward-At large, George Houseman
A. c., Pancoast; John Rieha.
COUNTRY Precincts.
Benson-A. c. Thomas.
Dundee-E, Westerfield.
Clontarf-Gus -Hedgren.
Douglas-Hensman.
East OmahA-E. j. Davis.
Florence-E. l.. Platz.
Elkhorn-J. w. Shumakcr.
Jeffersoh-Fred Goetch.
Chicago-John Seefus.
Waterioo-R. F.. Neitzel,
Valley-Louis Larson,
Union-William M. S~toltenbers,
McArdle-William Eickie.
Millard-wiliiam Won Dohren.