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lature assembled the day designated and organized.
The legality of the meeting being questioned it
submitted to the supreme court decision declaring
the call illegal handed down by two of the three
judges. and James left to complete his term
disturbed.
Kourt House Khan.
The Douglas county campaign of 1873 was short,
sharp decisive and of the hottest local battles
fought in this vicinity The democrats had control of
all county Offices and naturally schemed to continue
in power. The Bee attacked what was dubbed the
"Kourt House Klan." and made the campaign
lively and interesting before the conventions were
held that democrats resorted the subterfuge
"a peoples convention" The campaign turned mainly
on Grebe. who seeking third term. His repub-
lican opponent Alfred Burnley The opposition to
third term was not in itself sufficient to defeat
Grebe, strong and popular man, but numerous side
issues were sprung which created discords in the
of the kan His election and that of the entire
ticket seemed assured, when on the of the cleo
ton, the following sensational dispatch made pub
lie through The Bee
OMAHA, Oct. 13.-S. H. H. Clark T. L. Kim
ball. Denver The vote of the shops will probably de-
eide the election and it is said it will go solid against
Grebe for sheriff. He has served the road better
than sheriff we have ever had. Can't you give
this vote? / think you should if possible. If you
agree instruct proper parties to give him the vote and
send copy of your telegram.
j. A. PoPPLEToN
The publication of this dispatch exploded like a
bombshell in the camp of the khan The attempt to
herd the railroad employees and vote them like so
many cattle was vigorously resented polls and
Grebe down in defeat with the of the bogus
peoples ticket" 1t great victory for The Bee
and crushing defeat for the Kourt House Khan.
Anti-Hitchcock Campaign.
The election of Phineas w. Hitchcock to the United
States senate in 1871 the beginning of reign
of office-brokerage equaed before since in
Nebraska. of political dead-beats, notorious
ward workers and bulldozers foisted upon the
people with the object dominating poll
tics. The federal brigade became obnoxious to the
people that years before Hitchcock's term expired
there strong current opposition his reelec-
ton. The campaign of 1878 was therefore fought
strictly the lines of Hitchcock and anti-Htchcock.
Conventions manipulated by federal officeholders
banded together with the strikers of Jay Gould
throughout the state, and they inconsiderabe
number. In fact Gould made personal pilgrimage
to the state in September to aid and encourage the
Hitchcock forces by supplying the sinews of He
openly boosted that Hitchcock friend of the
road, and that he should be reelected.
In Douglas county there two republican legis-
ative tickets in the field the anHitchcock supported
by The Bee and the Hitchcock forces championed by
the Republican. The election wakaway for the
democrats, who were, however, pledged by the con-
vention not to vote for Hitchcock
1t was soon demonstrated that Hitchcock could not
be reelected by any combination within his own
party He lacked the necessary number of votes and
cast about among the the democrats for supporters
The friendly praise showered upon him from time
time by the Herald created suspicion that there
deep design beneath the laudatory editorials While
the country and racked by the doubtful issue of the
national election the rumor spread that the demo
Gratis were on still hunt for electoral vote The
Bee voiced the general belief that bargain had been
entered into by which Hitchcock to receive suf
ficient democratic elect, and In return ne
would transfer electoral vote from the republican
TO the democratic column. That such conspiracy
contemplated given the color of truthfulnes'
eby the Heralds frequent assertion that II Tlden
counted out in the southern states zone honest re-
publican would be found in e north to rebuke the
infamy OF his party" by vo, for Tilden and Hen
bricks. This scheme nipped In the bud by Gov
ernor CARRIER The legislature convened in ex
traordnary December g. the vote of the state
canvassed and declared,
Election of Saunders.
The senatorial contest OF 1917 was an unusually