Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-17
BIG CITIES LOOKING FOR MEN
George D. Meiklejohn Advises Cit.
zens Of Omaha to Go to Polls.
ENOUGH OF DEMOCRATS ALREADY
Victor Rosevater Calls Attention "a
This Generally Expressed sentI-
ment of Their own Party
Organs.

AAaAA hiblN dAiu tOAlAAlt-nNE WIZ Nv
words Of the Central Republican club al
a rousins meeting held at the club rooms
Thursday night, when George d. Meikle-
john, former assistant secretary OF war.
and Victor Rosewater we're the principal
speakers. James Walsh. president OF the
club, was in the chair and most OF the
candidates on the republican ticket also
spoke.
Men is what all the larger cities are
now looking for I'm the administration Of
their public affairs said George D. Moi
klejohn. city after city has been rent
wide open by exposures OF graft because
the right men nav not been placed in
office. Did you ever notice that the man
who complains the loudest against his
taxes or because some man is nominated
to an office is the man who stays away
from the polls on the day q the primaries
and allows some one else to make his
choice for him? 1t Is given to every Ameri-
can cltlsen to protect his own interests
and the interests OF his nsighbors, and II
he does not do It Il Is his " fault. II
the affairs Of Omaha are not administered
for the benefit Of the people 1t is because
the people do not go to the polls 10 do
their duty. II you want the affairs of this
city to be in control OF the republican
party so TO the polls and vote the straight
republican ticket. II YOU fail to vote
straight the first thing you now q precinct
has slipped away from you, then a county
and soon tho state. The lower house Of
ongres will soon so and the party will
soon lose the administration of national
affairs.
Condition OF Perfect Harmony.
Tonight we find a condition where all
contention has been blotted out from the
republican ranks, q condition OF perfect
harmony and the party united. / predict
q larger vote for the republican party In
May than was ever cast In Omaha before.
Il have known John p. Breen, the head
Of your ticket, for the last twenty-five
years, and the republican party has named
a standard-bearer who is a man of the
greatest probity and who will be a credit
to the city of Omaha in any position in
which he is placed. He will make no dis
tinction between the man Of wealth and
the man who tolls.
you have nominated a man for city at
torney whom 1 nave known since the early
sos, and l want to say that Nelson Pratt
Is a man whose honor and integrity will
be the same in public office as It has been
in handling the affairs of his clients.
Go to the polls and vote for the men
named by the votes of a majority Of your
party and you will rave done your duty
to your party. There is no reason WHY
every republican should not love the prin-
ciples OF his party and stand with II
May L."
Republican, Turn to Win.
ut Is our turn to win this spring. said
XytoN1, n a "a 1rI- ~ unt
people OF Omaha seem to need an object
lesson every once in a while. and once in
about every fourteen years they elect a
democratic administration, and the people
of the state do the same thing about once
every ten years.
Although the governor has been in Of
flee and the democratic legislature in ses-
sion about three months. from what their
own democratic papers are saying I think
the people Of the state have had enough
OF them already.
Every man on the republican ticket is
head and shoulders above his adversary on
the democratic ticket, and that is putting
the comparison mildly.
THE democrats are going 10 conduct this
campaign along the same lines as before.
Tomorrow nisht they will go through the
form OF making a platform as long as
from here to Council Bluffs. and there will
be as many planks In the platform as there
are ties on the railroad between here and
Council Bluffs. and each plank will prom
Use something intended to gull a few voters.
THE thing for the republicans 10 do IL
simply to point to the two object lessons
OF democratic administration, city ana
state. They promised as much as thew
could and delivered as little as possible
Their own newspapers denounce their
broken pledges. and IL they went into Of.
flee under false pretenses the people ought
to be reminded not to be fooled again nv
the same fellows.
THE real question is to give the city a
government by men competent TO perform
the work and who will not promise 10 do
things they know they cannot do ana who
will uphold the reputation OF the CITY AZ
that when Omaha people travel away from,
home they wont have the disorsdItabIe n.r-
formances OF their official representative
thrown up to them"
Eleventh Ward Organization.
An organization among the republicans
OF the Eleventh ward, calculated To roll
up a snug republican majority in that wsr6
at the coming municipal election, WAS ef-
reeted Thursday evening at the Fontanelle
club rooms. 1903 Howard street. Howard
II. Baldr!ge was unanimously chosen pres,.
dent, F. C. Rogers was elected secretary
and August II. Schroeder treasurer.
The appointment OF an active and ener-
getie executive committee to act in con.
junction with the ward members OF the CEN
tral committee. was also provided for. and
the rest Of the meeting was given over
to addresses by the voters present.
"Parttsanship has been placed above pub-
lie policy by the present democratic admin
istration," declared President Baldrise Of
the club. '"The democrats in power have
used their position 20 strengthen democracy
in the city and state and the voters ana
taxpayers have suffered. They have there.
by failed to do their duty to the citizens
for Omaha has suffered while the demo-
Gratis have prospered.
what have they done 10 deserve re-
election7 Not one thing. They have shown
no wisdom in administering the affairs Of
the municipal government. have lacked ef-
ficieney and the employment OF economy
have not iessened taxes and have paaaed
no ordinances for the benefit of the nubIic
In fact, their whole regime has been q
negative one"
Attitude of Special Interests.