Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-01
FOSTER WRITES SOME MORL
'Ioctor7 Harry Now Goes to Mat with
Des Moines Capital.
GOING TO GET BURKETT's GOAT
Capital R~epuBLishes Hts UItimatum
to senator Demanding a Job or
Threatening 90 Elect An
aIf. other Man.

u - P
ur. Harry A.. Foster. chronic office
seeker. inhurgent and dentist, has been
writing mere 1ettets. as witness the follow
ing taken from the Des Moines Capital,
which had previously alluded to him as one
OF the shining lights Of Nebraska insur-
gency;
January "a. isio-Des Molnes Capital:
Your article on a Typical Fighter for
Principle is good. I may be, as you say, a
disgrace to the insurgents and a bull thistle
in a bunch OF daisies. but Senator e. j.
Burkett is a bull conner in the u. S. s.,
and the Nebraska insurgents are sure a
bunch OF daisies and they are going to get
Mr.. Burkett's political goat without your
aid or assistance. l have been an active
republican for a long tame, was a member
of the legislature that elected Mr.. Burkett,
had tho honor to be one OF a committee
that gave a banquet to which your dis
tlnguished insurgent, Governor Cummins,
was the chief speaker. Senator Burkett
simply made a dupe OF me, as he has of
others in this state. I do not trace my vote
for this favor. 1 asked for the favor after
] had voted for him, giving him the best
OF Recommendations from such men as the
iato Edward Rosewater, Ex-Governor
Mickey, Congressman Kennedy and others.
senator Burkett Is known in Nebraska as
slippery Elmer That, I think, tells the
tale. The enclosed clipping will explain to
you the whole business.
"DR HARRY A. FOSTER,
Omaha, Neb.
"P, s.-Give us a square deal; that is all
we ask,
Demand, Not an Appeal.
The Capital also prints in full the ulti-
matum with which DR.. Foster gave Sena-
tor Burkett his last chance to square him
self. lrat u
Senator r. Il Burkett-Dear Sir: 1
write yoh at this time to ask you to,
name ME as collector of customs and Gus
todian Of the federal building to succeed
the present incumbent. In view Of the
fact that you agreed to help me get an
appointment In the consular service and
did not do 80, and also that you have
appointed two others from Nebraska, also
that you let the particular appointment
that 1 desired get away from Nebraska
altogether, consul general to San Salvador
to succeed John Jenkins although you
told Senator Willard you did not consider
yourself under obligations to me because
/ was only one of 100 who had voted for
you, I still think you are under obligations
to me, and want the appointment. and II
1 don't get 1t ] am going to oppose your
reelection with all the vim and vigor 1
possess. You may know or may not know
that 1 resisted the overtures of the B. &
M. fellows to beat you because 1 thought
you would treat me square. 1 will say
that / have had some preliminary corre-
spondence with your friend, C. o. Whedon,
and thatsI am in a position to be with you
or against you, according to the way you
answer this letter. You probably think /
am a dead one, politically. but 1 got the
nomination last fall for the legislature
against your friend, Victor Rosewater, and
/ can and viii do it next fall. Draw your
W conclusions and do as you please. 1t
Is all the same to me. This is a demand
not an appeal, and 1t is up to you. The
fellow who now holds the position has
never done a thing for the party. II it
were not for the fact that he is a brother
in-law Of Senator Willard he never would
have gotten the position at all. Yours
truly, DIR. HARRY A. FOSTER"