Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17
Nebraska
DEMOCRATS MAKING SLATE
Effort TO Nominate Candidate for
Senator without a Fight.
sCHEMERs SELECT THOMPSON
shalIenberEer 90 BE Renominated for
Governor NJ Price for Abandon
ina HIS Hopes for sena-
tor.aI TOEa.
CFrom a staff correspondent.l

VI lbNA ~ oNaAA
LINCOLN. May 1s-tspecial)-Lincoln
and Columbus are just now the hotbeds of
democratic scheming. with a prominent
democrat Of Grand Island to he one OF the
beneficiaries of the game. Neglecting the
fact that three supreme Judges are to be
elected this fall, democratic politicians are
busy getting in shape to nominate a United
States senator without a party fight two
years from now.
The combination which is being worked
On at this time "a W. II Thompson of
Grand Island for senator and Governor
Ashton c. -Shallenberger for reelection.
The governor would prefer to run for the
senate and have Thompson run for gov
ernor. but Thompson favors the other
combination. so there lis where the differ
ence comes in.
Edgar Howard has been selected as grand
adj, iser of the combination and without
mentioning Thompson for the senate he
has started out to renominated the gov
efnor. II he can ccLvince the governor
and Arthur Mullen there is little doubt
Shallenberger will pass up the senatorial
toEa to the Grand Island Thompson. This
is the way a well known democrat puts II;
Al a matter OF fact Thompson and
Shallenberger have little liking for ench
other in a political sense, but Edgar
Howard will no doubt be able to drive
them into a combination from which both
are to be beneficiaries. Shallenberger is
under some obligations to Thompson, be-
cause It was the Grand Island man who
threw the jagged barpeon into George W.
Berge in the interest Of Shallenberger two
years ago when Berge was defeated fot
the democratic nomination for governor
after he had won the honor. So Judge
Howard has some leverage on shallen-
berger to force him to do a good turn for
Thompson and keep out of the senatorial
race"
Some surprise is expressed that Judge
Howard would endorse shallenberger for
governor or Thompson for senator. The
Columbus man called the legislature by Its
right name and that he could now go back
on all the things he said and support
Shallenberger and Thompson is talked
about as a case of backsliding.
Thompson's friends claim he will not only
receive the support of the Bryan demo
Gratis. but of both the temperance element
of the. party and the liberal element. Wher
the s o'clock closing law was before the
governor and Arthur Mullen for action
Mr.. Thompson, though iinportuned to dc
so by liberal democrats, refused to ever
write a letter or send a telegram. Instead
he quietly went to the long distance tele-
phone and called the governor and asked
him to veto the bill. OF course there is NJ
written proof, but the governor lost M
time In giving the information to III,
Omaha democratic sheet, so that the tenn
perance element of the party would not b,
misled.
In the meantime Governor Shallenberge
has an eye on one Mayor Dahlman o
Omaha. For he believes Mayor Jim viii
be a candidate for the nomination for gov
ernor. O.
Alleged Lid Lifters Arrested.
The police made their first big raid las
night since the, twn went dry and as
result the police station Is filled with booz
and prisoners. Whites and negroes wer
included in the number arrested and thei
occupations ranged from a telephone CIR
to boarding house keepers and railroal
mon. The places raided were in the resi-
dence portions and in the most prominen
places in the business part OF the city.
One large rooming house on o street wa
raided on suspicion and while a lot of bee
and booze was discovered. the stuff di
not look IKE II was being offered for sale
but in searching the rooms two couple
were arrested and taken to jail becaus
the officers had an idea they were bein
disorderly.
TIL raid started when some one notife
the police that in a negro home there VS.
a lot Of booze and drinking going on. Ate
pulling this place the police put on the
raiding harness and pulled fifteen &
twenty persons and raided a half doze
or more places.
In one place a lot of beer was stored
a woodshed and the woman who runs III
rooming place said she had bought It fC
the use OF some railroad men who had the
rooms in her house. II was confiscated.
state BOARD of Assessment.
The State Board OF Assessment will III
ten to r.. u. Pollard, tax Commissioners
the Burlington. Monday. All Of the raj
roads are asking FIR "a decrease in the
assessment this year. tall of which MAKE
II very embarrassing for Governor Mullei
berger, who promised 10 decrease lar
values and increase railroad values.