Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-09-17
ny the Lincoln Journals special
political war correspondent, ma
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rooned 81 Teoumseh,
Mud and a sea OF mud! Mud in eyes
and ears, on clothes. and IN hair Mud
90 deep that fiatboats were needed by
the republican candidates for state office.
They had only automobiles. These proved
poor substitute. Hence It happened
that when r. b. Howell and r. a. Harri-
son reached this oity-by way OF the
Burlington--fve other hopeless candidates
were strung out all the way to Lincoln.
1T was not an suspicious beginning Of
the hig team work campaign which IL 60
cover nearly every town In the state be-
fore Il ends on November l. The weather
man. who relentlessly knocked the profit
from the state fair. Is not a respeoter OF
persons. He has no smiles for republican
candidates as yet
THE result Of the first days trip into
southeast Nebraska is disjointed meet
ings az Sterling and Adams and Tecum-
seh. with plans TO get together at Paw
nee City. W. l.. Minor candidate for
auditor, and c. w. Sears, candidate for
attorney general, spoke at Adams; Fred
Beokmann land commissioner, and A. o.
| Thomas. candidate for superintendent,
tarried at Sterling while Mr.. Howell and
Frank Harrison came on to Tecumseh.
Tom Han, candidate for railway commits
sloner, started out half an hour behind
the others intending 20 overtake them.
He is lost in the mud somewhere. No
body has seen him to date.
Il weather Was Threatening.
The start from Lincoln was made half
an hour later in the face OF lowering
clouds and through forbidding mud. The
schedule called for Roca in thirty min
utes The first OF these cars arrived two
hours late Thirty-five voters had waited
10 make them welcome
AT Hickman a crowd estimated at
sixty greeted the Undiscovered cavalcade.
The mud was getting worse instead OF
better. Not daunted, the two cars-Tom
Hall mlssing-pulled out for Firth.
Walter Minors little car halked at the
top OF hill a mile and a half from Firth.
It refused TO bulge. Mr. Sears. chauf-
feur, pronounced II a desperate case. He
diagnosed It as loose piston. Mr. Minor
{, went TO a farm house 10 secure first aid
to the injured. Mr.. Harrison, not dis
mayed by his aYordupois. waded to town.
The relief car, containing Mr.. Howell, ar
rived simultaneously. The farmer pulled
Minor and Sears ingloriously into the VII
lage. A dinner Of fried chicken and the
perspiring candidates ran for the train
a column in skirmish line. half block
long. laden with wraps and literature.
more or less plastered with mud.
Two piyisiong we're Formed.
I'm order to hold meetings at the larger
towns on the days schedule. the group
was split into divisions OF two They
dropped Off at the proper places, arrang-
ing to meet at Table Rock and drive to
Pawnee City for the night meetings.
Howell spoke for the better part Of an
hour at Tecumceh from an automobile on
the street Half hundred voters blocked
the sidewalk and listened attentiveIy to
his discussion OF conservation Of national
resources, public ownership of utilities,
regulation Of the South Omaha stock
yards. and the history of the fight for
peoples control in Omaha
Arrangements were made by telephone
from Tecumseh with Charles schap-
pell to meet the candidates at Table Rock
at $50 o'clock with teams or automobiles
and transport the once-more united can
didates to Pawnee City for the night
meeting Mr. Howell was unable To take
his automobile from Omaha to Lincoln
so one car was hired for two days. Mrs.
Howell and son are scheduled, II It rains
no more, to meet the party tomorrow I'm
Richardson county. 1t is expected that
Mr. Howell will also catch UP by that
time.
at Table Rock a meeting Will be held
tomorrow morning. II the roads are dry
enough the auto trip will be resumed in
hired cars II need be.
Last nights rain was especially severe
in the southwest. Tecumseh's streets
are deep in mud. In Ine country they are
not so bad. Showers fell all morning to-
day. This makes the selection of the
southeast as a starting point especially
unfortunate.
THE candidates are not cast down