Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-27
ALDRlCH TAlES /, OMAHo
Republican Candidate Makes Siren
uous Campaign in Metropolis.
DEFINES H1s STAND ON ISSUES
Talks for County Option and says He
VIII he n Governor of the People
and Not Of Any Special
Interest.

Chester II. Aldrich. republican candidate
for governor Of Nebraska, begun his sec
ond days campaign work in Omaha by
a MONDAY address to 500 business men
in the Commercial club rooms.
one Of the results Of the Commercial
club address was effective removal OF the
impression that Mr.. Aldrich is arrayed
against Omaha He showed where COM
mon bond links city and state and pointed
plainly that each needs the other His
evening round began at Magnolia hall,
Twenty fourth street and Ames avenue,
ten minutes after s o'clock, where he de-
llvered an address which brought tumult
of applause from a packed house. Then
Mr.. Aldrich was whisked away in an
automobile and at o'clock he was bring
ing cheers from another big audience in
McKenna's hall. Sixteenth and Locust
streets. Shortly before 10 o'clock he was
addressing a still larger crowd in Muel-
ier's hall. Seventeenth and Vinton streets.
Mr.. Aldrioh arrived in Omaha at 8
o'clock Monday morning Between that
time and midnight Tuesday, when he
tumbled into bed. he had delivered seven
teen speeches-speeches, not mere talks
interviewed hundreds of business men,
clambered through the intricate maze OF
South Omaha stock pens, climbed hun
bred or more OF stairways on side streets
where buildings as yet are innocent Of
/ elevator service, grasped the hand OF per
haps 5000 Douglas county voters, dictated
voluminous array Of correspondence, be-
sides dlspatching a budget Of miscellaneous
obligations such as spring up here and
there along the pathway Of the strenuous
candidate.
Il am feeling fine" said Mr.. Aldrich at
the close of his Vinton street speech, and
now that 1 am started, 1 wish 1 had half
| q dozen more speeches to make"
stand on County Option.
Judge Ben s. Baker, Fred d. Wead and
Byron Hastings accompanied Mr.. Aldra- II
from place to place last night. Soon after
his Introductory remarks in the Ames
avenue hall. Mr.. Aldrich delved into a dis
oussion OF the county option question. lie
explained that county option is Just what
its name indicates-a plan by which the
people Of any county may determine for
! themselves whether or not they want
liquor sold.
Men" he exclaimed, do we want to rule
the state of Nebraska ourselves-we, the
people--Or do we want to appoint the brew
cries OF the state our guardians. Last year
the city of Omaha sold t12.OOO,OOO worth OF
agricultural implements. Where did they
!
mainly. Other wholesale trade aggregated
approximately S1sO.OOO,OOO And the greater
part of that trade went out into the state
Of Nebraska. Thus we see that city and
state are interdependent-they are bound
by tie of common interest. AS Nebraska
pTospers, so does Omaha prosper. So you
see my friends, am not hostile to Omaha
as has been enormously reported in GER
tain peals Of campaign thunder.
But now to get back to the county op.
ton question again. l have given you
some figures concerning the volume of
OmRha's wholesale trade. L have told you
about the agricultural Implements and
other chat Omaha sells to the
state And now 4 am going to tell you
that the whole brewery product Of Omaha
measured in dollars and cents is but little
more than one and One-half per cent OF the
aggregate Of other wholesale lines AND