Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-05
MAY GET FEW OTHERS ALsC
JIM ELECTION OFFICERS DUTIrUL
They serve Their Master Well, hut
Not So Well the PeOpIc--SherifT
Has to show One Set
of Them.
Forty out of fifty-four precincts
Dahlman (dem.), 7,492.
Breen (rep.), 4,6A5.

Breen (repO, 4,e4o.
Omaha's city election has resulted in a
victory for Mayor Dahlman by majority
considerably larger than he had when first
elected three years ago.
The size of his majority over his repuh-
lican opponent, which is sure to be more
than 1900. is beyond even the expectations
of the mayor and his political hackers.
At the hour of going to press forty out
of ffty-four precincts have reported the
vote on mayor, giving Dahlman 7.4S2. as
| against 4,645 for Breen, and making Dahl
mans lead 2s37 The fourteen precincts
yet to hear from will bring this up several
hundred in favor OF Mayor Jim
At no time since the first returns began
! to como in was there any question about
the result so far mayor was concerned.
The restoration of the paper ballot and
displacement OF the voting machines which
had been used in Omaha in recent cleo
tions makes the count comparatively slow
and has held back all definite figures on
other parts OF the ticket
| The indications are fro mthe few pre-
| cncts heard from that the republican fire
and police board will have a plarnlity and
| that possibly some other candidates on the
republican ticket may be safe. On some
| Of the offices the outcome will not be
known until the full vote is tabulated and
if close, may require an official canvass
The election day weather could not have
/ been better with clear and moderately
warm. The vote In the upper wards was
apparently heavier than in the lower
wards and the peculiar situation is dis.
| closed, that as compared with three years
ago Dahlman has run stronger In the up
| per districts than in the downtown dis
tricts. The best estimates OF the total
vote being in excess Of 1900.
Jim's Servants Serve weu.
The election was a peaceable affair as a
whole, but be II said, Jim certainly did get
returns from those election Officers OF his
They delivered the goods" as nearly as
possible and were not always scrupulous
in doing So
Out I'm the First precinct Of the Sixth
ward the election officers got strong and
closed up shop, not allowing anyone to get
in. Whereupon a determined elector. grip.
ping tightly his eufranchised citizenship ir
his teeth, called up the sheriff and told
him what had happened
Now Sheriff Bradley stands sonethinp
short or seven feet and weighs less than
800 pounds 1t may have been that when
these same strong election officers saw A
big, Drawn man humping on the door and
asking admittance they did not recognize
the sheriff of Douglas county. However
that may he the door flashed open as II II
were trap door workin on a spring
Lets have none OF this fooIishness -
said ED Bradley in that quiet, soft tone Of
his.
All off.
These Jim election officers sure pulled
for Jim. At one Third ward precinct they
closed up shop at o'clock and quietly
strolled off to dinner somewhere within a
radius Of ten miles as leisurely as II they
had been invited 10 go to a picnic next
week.
Here's Brave Man.
And in the Fourth Of the Fifth one brave
man, an election officer, summoned his
courage forth and struck In the face the
messenger boy who went TO the voting
place to get the returns for Tho Bee II
was brave and daring decd. Ty0 boy was
fully as big as a minute, while his assallant
was man I'm stature.
In the Fifth precinct of the Ninth ward
Robert Duncan, judge, and in the Third
precinct of the Eleventh ward John TuIley,
) Judge were fired off the board by orders -
The deposed judges are republicans and
'l'y say no explanation was given Tor their
discharge, the only possible excuse which
; arises In their minds being the fact that
: they belong 20 the party opposed to the
powers that be at present The democratic
judges who told these two republican
judges to "clear out" said they had re-
! ceived orders to do so. The republican
judges were regularly appointed and had
with them their certificates OF appointment
; Judges i'm the First and Second precinct.
OF the Sixth ward notified challengers OF
the parties Interested I'm the election that
they or no others will be allowed In the
polling places after the polls close at
o'clock and the votes are counted. These
. judges said they would count the votes
alone and needed no one 10 look over thei,
shulders and watch that the count is cor.
rect.
An insignificant wrangle between tw,
drunken men at the voting precinct at ls0
, Cunning street, the Second Of the Eight
ward, was the only trouble reported 10 th,
police on election day from the ballotins
booths.
Z Special officer Binlsh arrested John Dur
and II. r. Martens. both OF FIftsenth ant