Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-26
ANTT.SETUUy LEAGUE SLATE
PrOhibitiOnists Take Dip Into Repub-
lican Politics in Lancaster.
HAVE no TICKET OF THEIR own
chr MaAsf ysIks Loudly Of Betting
ON. Bryan and d Quietly Called
by . Couple OF Travel
ing Men.
lrrom . $40 correspondent.l

LINCOLN, Aug. 3.-Cspecial) -The Anti
saloon lssges has picked It's slate in Lam
caster courty from among the republican
candidates for the legislature and viii make
a fight for the election Of it's favorites. The
slate is as follows:
senators-E. r. Brown, J. H. Mockett, jr.
RepresentativesDCyrus Black, f. w.
Brown, w. j. Blystone, l.. 5. Gilman, r. +.
Johnson.
At the meeting which ratified the slate
we're republicans, prohibitionists and free
ylances.
IL is understood some OF the other candl-
\ dates for legislative honors are also favor
Nable 10 county, optisp, but they were side
tracked because the committee believed
the slate selected to be composed OF the
strongest men. with the exception Of
Black, Mockett and Johnson all Of the men
on the slate were in the last session OF
the legislature, Mockett having been a
member OF the 1905 senate.
The Anti-saloon league has endorsed no
democratic slate. but intends to make its
fight solely in the ranks OF the republican
party. Should it be successful at the pri-
mary. then the leaders OF the league may
make overtures to the democratic candi-
dates. The action of the league in making
it's slate has mixed up affairs here and
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Whedon. who is a candidate, refused to
come out for county option and so was left
off Of the slate.
That the A~nti-Saloon league Is playing
politics pretty strong is evidenced by the
fact that the pfohibitionists have no ticket
IN the field in this county. j. l.. Claflin,
a prohibitionist. was secretary OF the meet
ing which endorsed the slate last night.
The prohibitionlsts, who have never been
on good terms with the county option
folks i'm $ county. are working in the
same harry IS. TIL prohibitlonists, how
J ever are not entitled to vote in the re-
publican primary.
S. W. Burnham. chairman of the ropub-
lican county committee. is a candidate for
senator. and he also is left off Of the
slate. He is strong. not only in the county,
bu. in the city, and the race for senator is
expected to be a hot one,
aher's Blum Called.
Colonel John M. Devine and Colonel John
G. Maher had a good size bluff called at
the Lindell last night. to the amusement
OF a good sized crowd. The two were en-
pertaining the audience with wild stories
about the big majority Bryan is to get
in Nebraska.
well. SIR chimed in King, an insur-
nnce man. who lives in Lexington and
travels over the state. 81 believe 1 can
name twenty democrats in Lexington who
are going to vote for Taft. I find Taft
sentiment strong in CcZad, IN Sidney and
in other towns out in the western part of
| the state"
win any Of those men bet on Taft?'
interrupted Colonel Maher. Give me their
names. I'll show you they are just bluff
fling"
"Slre they will bet answered King.
Maher grabbed a pencil, jeIked an en-.
: selope out Of his pocket and got ready
% write down the names.
His action didn't fesze King. He began
o give names, and in a short time MaheI
lad his envelope fun. Then another
travelling man jumped IN when KIM
stopped 10 get his breath.
- at Falls City has 1900 he wants
o place on TAT he said. Maher had tC
suit.
. Payer Comes out for Taft.
THE Curtis Enterprise, formerly numbereC
with the populist supporters of the Peer.
less Leader. has come out for Taft. In a
letter 10 Secretary OF State Junkin, received
this morning. b. X. Schaeffer. the editor
said from now on count the Enterprise in
the republican column.
Lid stays on In Lincoln.
Visitors to the state fair will have Il
Ticker up before Z o'clock I'm the even.
ings. The excise board refused to extend
\ the open hours and that settled 1t. Incl.
dentally the board put on four more plair
clothes men to help look out for the safety