Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-28
FAILURE OF TIE DEMOCRATS
What Has Not Been Accomplished
Under Their Rule.
RECORD OF jim ADMINISTRATION
Pledges Made by the Party Three
Years AGO Contrasted with Its
Performances while In
Power.
RepnbIican MeetIrE..

Republican Meetings.
Wednesday
dette streets. sixth Ward Republican club.
Good speaking and music by Breen Booster
quartet.
Thursday
Fontenelle club rooms. 1910 Howard street,
Swedish Republican league. Speakers
A. w. Jefferis. S. A. Searle and John p.
Breen. Tit Breen Boosters quartet VIII
sing.
McKenna's hall. Sixteenth and Locust
streets, Fifth Ward Republican. club.
! Speakers: S. A. searle and c. e Herring.
wolff's hall. T-wenty-second and Cunning
streets. Eighth Ward Republican club.
Speakers: Harry b. zimmsn John p
Breen, Judge Benjamin S. Baker Carr H.
Herring and VI. J. Pinkett.
Metz hall, Thirteenth and William streets,
Tenth Ward Republican club: Sneakers
| Judge Louis Berka, Harry B. Zimman and
John P. Breen. The Breen Boosters quar-
Republican headquarters. Patterson block,
Seventeenth and Farnam streets. open
meeting of the Central Republican club.
Friday
Creighton hall, Fifteenth and Harvey
streets, monster mass meeting. Speakers:
John L. Webster, e. j. Cornish, captain
H.. e Palmer, John l. Kennedy, a, W.
gefferis and John +. Breen. Inc Sreeh
Boosters quarter Will sing.
Saturday
Lincoln hall, sixth and Pierce streets,
First Ward Republican club. Speakers;
Harry b. Zimman and Judge Louis Berka.
Magnolia hall, Twenty-fourth street and
Ames avenue, Twelfth Ward Republican
club.
john P. Breen, republican candidate for
mayor, Fl. II. Baldrige and numerous can
didates addressed a large gathering OF col
ored voters, members of the Foraker club,
at Osthoff's hall. 513 North Sixteenth
street. Monday night. The speech OF the
candidate for mayor especially created the
greatest enthusiasm among the colored
voters, and at his Introduction he was
greeted by tumultuous applause, many
standing and waving their hats and hand
kerchiefs, while the Omaha Military band
added music to the demonstration.
Mr.. Breen called attention to the demo-
cratic promises of three years ago and their
failure to make good on a single one of
them. He recalled to the voters the fact
that the democrats had promised dollar
gas. which had failed to materialize. He
called attention to the promise OF the pres
e~rvation OF the personal liberties OF the
people made by the democrats. and found
the answer in the enactment of the s
o'clock closing law.
Democrat and Prohibition.
Mr.. Breen read the interview given out
by Richard l.. Metcalfe, in which hr. Met
calfe said the democratic party must stand
for county option in the campaign of two
I years nenCe, ana the pTOpnety OF MelCdlle
that the democratic party, nationally,
would be the party of the temperance ad-
~vocates. He also read from the Metcalfe
interview the statement that the signing
Of the daylight saloon bill would not sat
isfy the advocates OF temperance. so, there
fore, the democratic party must advocate
county option, and he predicted, said Mr..
Breen, that the liquor question would be
the issue in the coming fight over state
offices.
Mr.. Breen assured the members of the
club that the liberties of the people would
be conserved by the republican party. The
democratic party, he said. had proven Itself
absolutely unequal to the task. 1t was
the republican party which enacted the
Slocumb law, back in 1882, and kept It
intact without important amendment until
the late democratic aggregation
in Lincoln and changed 1t while promising
to do Just the opposite.
Howard II. Baldrige gave the voters a
t word OF encouragement by telling them
the republicans had gone into the campaign
united and harmonious, while the demo-
Gratis were badly divided and were fighting
among themselves. He called attention to
the broken pledges Of the present city ad.
ministration, and ~ the adminlstratio
were continued. history would repeat It.
|. self and the record of the next three years
would be q story Of more broken promises
8 Though Mayor Dahlman, he said, MAY
have been a good cowboy and had done
, his work faithfully on the range. this wa.
. no indication that he had the ability to
> make Omaha a good mayor. The colored
voters OF the city should stand by the
republican party's candidates. he said, be
cause It had been the republican party
which had stood by the colored man. and
y a republican president who had torn the
shsckles from them.
Interest of the COIOred Man.
H. ]. Pinkett, colored. talked at length
. on the duty OF the colored people OF
Omaha to assist in the work of making
the government as near as possible ideal
: and he predicted a great majority Of the
y colored people would vote the republican
ticket, Notwithstanding the claims Of the
, democrats.
| Ali of the candidates for other offices
L were at the meeting and delivered shor'
talks. George w. Hibler presided at tn,
meeting and made a short speech, telinl
e the members of the club that II was thef
e duty to stand Loyalty by the republican
G candidates in the interest of a bette,
s Omaha. The Breen Boosters quartet sans
l several songs.