Omaha daily bee., 1914-02-13
FINDING OUT WHO SHALL RUN
Bull Moose Bosses Picking Ticket
for Next Fall.
sACKETT ATTORNEY GENERAL
IntrOducer OF Law for OustiRG
Negligent Officials Likely TO
= Have Prominent Place on
the Ticket.
CFrom a staff correspondontJ

NfTOm n StaIA correspondent
LINCOLN. Feb. 12.-(special.)-As an
aftermath OF the progressive party con-
ference and banquet yesterday and the
passing OF resolutions that the new party
would go it alone, putting up complete
state, congressional county and precinct
tickets, rumors of candidates are afloat
in the air and IT is presumed that the
rank and file of the party will soon know
just who the leaders have selected.
OF course, the party candidate for gov
ernor will be Judge Arthur wray OF
York. The judge has already followed
the example OF his illustrious leader and
thrown his hat in the ring"
It is generally conceded that Anson II.
Bigelow OF Omaha will be the progressive
candidate for state superintendent of
public instruction. Mr. Bigelow was at
the conference yesterday and was one
of the strong supporters Of the go-it-
alone policy.
Another man who will be pressed into
service though the exact office for which
he will run is not known, is A. V. Pease
of Fairbury. Mr.. Pease has not yet been
consulted, but II is understood that he
will be given the choice OF treasurer.
secretary of state or auditor
Select Sackett.
Senator Sackett Of Fairbury is likely
to enter the race for attorney general.
He was very conspicuous at the confer
ence yesterday.
The other offices will be filled a little
later and might have been filled yes
terday had not the conference commit
tee on resolutions taken up so much
time in preparing the platform of the
party regarding non-amalgamation with
either of the old parties,
As far as the congressional ticket is
concerned, very little is known. Most of
of the districts held conferences yester-
day, but with the exception of the First
district no candidates have announced
themselves. In the First district V. G..
Lyford of Falls City has already filed
for the third party nomination and was
mixing with the conferees yesterday.
No conference was held by members of
the Second district, those in attendance
giving out that as the Second district
comprised Douglas county they could get
together any time and fix up things.
some Money Needed.
1t is said that about 1920 was sub
scribed last night Of the $4,000 needed to
run headquarters for the next ten
months This will to some extent al
leviate the drouth stricken condition of
the treasury since the last election and
will enable Chief Engineer Frank p Cor
rick to desert the bread line and loosen
up his belt, something he has been un-
able to do for some time IL he depended
upon bull moose finances to keep him GO
ing. 1t was announced last night that
but $500 had been paid Mr.. Corrick to
look after things since the campaign of
1912 closed.
Miss Harriet Vittum one of the speak
ers at the banquet, who is a candidate
for alderwoman in Chicago, spoke be-
fore the social service club at the Lin
dell hotel at luncheon today. w. e
Cadmus, national committeeman from
Illinois, another speaker. left today for
Alliance, where he will speak and from
which place he will go to Wyoming
Medill Mccormick went to Omaha from
here and after delivering an address
there for woman suffrage will go to his
home in Chicago Ex-senator Beveridge
went to Topeka this morning, where he
will deliver an address at a similar con.
ference.
Democrats Are Helping.
One noticeable thing at the banquet last
night was the large number of prominent
democrats who assisted in bringing the
number up to the 400 point 1t had been
rumored during the day thst the dem
ocrats were using eevry means to con-
vince the third party fellows that they
ought to go 1t alone and the large num-
ber of the faithful followers OF Jefferson
and jackson who were circulating among
the bull moose herd gave evidence that
they were very much interested in seeing
the fight this fall a three-cornered af-
fair
DIR. p. l.. Hall, national committeeman
of the democratic party; George w
Berge, candidate for the democratic nom.