Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-07-22
OMAHA MONDAY MORNING,
SEEK TO COVER PRIMARIES
7. R. Men in Lancaster Engineer
Secret Meetings.
PAUL CLARK AT THE THROTTLE
Progressive Candidate for Congress
In First District Had Plan to
Hold Sessions without Civ.
ing Previous Notice.
(From a Staff correspopdent !

(From a Staff Correspondent
LINCOLN. Neb., July 2l.-(Special.)-
That the honesty and fairness Of the
Teddyites is unquestioned when 1t comes
to the political game is evidenced by the
action Of the Lancaster bull moosers In
trying to keep the public from knowing
when and where the primaries for this
county are to be held. The county or
ganization is strongly progressive" that
Is, the official part Of 1t, and 1t is said
that scheme which emanated in the
brain Of Paul Clark was to keep quSt
as to the place of the, primaries SO that
the public would not know anything about
1t and then tip off the faithful and thus
win enough bull moose delegates to con-
troll the county convention.
Unfortunately for the scheme, "Bill''
Clark, former well-known Burlington
political steerer, tipped off a Taft man,
supposing him to be bull mooser, and
the game leaked out. Fortunately for the
republicans Of the county, the call was
finally published this morning, one day
only before the primary for the conven-
ton, giving the time and place for hold
ing the primaries and there Is some pub
ncity given to the call. which may result
in knocking out the scheme of the 7. R.
men.
Paul Clark recognizes the fact that II
the Lancaster county republican conven-
ton should send a regular republican del
egation to the state convention that it
will hurt his chances for being elected
to congress from this district; therefore,
1t was necessary to pull off some kind
of deal which would disfranchise the
regular republicans and give the Clark
fellows chance to pack the primaries.
Whether this can be harmonized with the
bull moose war cry, '.Thou shalt not
steal" is a question yet to be settled.
In any event, Monday will be busy
day in Lancaster county politics, and,
while the "progressives" may win on ac-
count Of the non-publicity given the
primaries until the day before the time
for holding them. yet the fact that the
opposition to President Taft has found 1t
necessary to resort to secrecy in the call
Of the primary is evidence thatthey have
little confidence that they could win in
an open and above board primary.
Omaha Road Pays.
The Minneapolis & Omaha railroad paid
its occupation tax of $500 into the office
of the secretary of state Saturday and
the Milwaukee & st. Paul followed suit
with like amount.
The democrats of Lancaster county are
bringing q great deal of pressure to bear
upon ex-Chancellor Andrews Of the state
university to induce him to become q
candidate for the legislature. They seem
TO think that II they can induce Prof
Andrews to make the race and stump the
county that IL will help not only the
county, but the state and national ticket.
Seymour Sends Out word.
Secretary Seymour Of the, state board Of
equalization is anxiously waiting the re-
suit of the n1essagessent out last Thurs
day to the county assessors who have
not yet sent in the assessment reports.
Eighty-four counties have reported so far,
leaving eight which have not reported,
though the time was up July 10. These
counties are Box Butte, Custer. Dawson,
Dodge, Lancaster SCOTS Bluff, Stanton
and Thomas.
The assessors valuation differ consider
ably from those fixed by the United
States census of 1910. BY that authority
Douglas county has the most valuable
land In the state, being $131.99 per acre.
The lowest price land Is shown to be
Hooker county, according to the census,
which puts it at s5.73 per acre while the
assessor lists 1t at $2.S4.
The counties which showed the highest
values are: Burt, $92.64; Clay, 1854; Col
fax, $7761; Cunning, sT.So: Douglas, $s03
Hamilton, S5.12; Nemaha, $S0.0s; Otoe,
s7s.S6; Polk, $7s.64; sarpy, 1927; Seward.
1855; Washington, s9303, and York, sS5.N.
The counties showing the least valua-
ton are: Banner, $4.S2; Blaine, $.97;
Cherry, $3.79; Dawes, $4.s5; Dundy, s465;
Grant, $3.S1; Hooker. s2.&; Logan, san;
Mcpherson, $406, and Sioux, 1891.
For city and town lots Douglass stands
the highest with $1,794.43, with Lancaster
second and Polk third.
AS an indication that live stock is not
the same kind all over the state or
that the assessors look at them from
a different angle, horses are valued at
$10206 in Gage county, while Hooker only
returns them at s35.15. Mules in Nemaha
county are worth s119.15, but Hooker
holds them only at $3L75.
Cattle are valued in Douglas county at
$685. per head. but out in Perkins county
they are placed at an even SIS.
Cass county like her hogs so we'll that
she holds them at an average of only
$50 per head. while up in Banner county
hogs are valued at $305.