Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-27
1925 South Ninth Street
Registration Was "With Reasonable
DiSDatch"

Omaha, Neb., Oct. 26--To the Edi-
tor of The Bee: On October 23 you
published picture taken outside of
my Office in the court house, purport-
ing to show crowd of unregistered
voters unable to get into the office
on account of a large crowd.
This statement and this picture are
absolutely untrue so far as they give
the impression that there was crowd
waiting to register sufficient to cause
any congestion. This picture was a
frame-up. engineered by opponents Of
the election commission law. who
have never had any love for this office
or my administration Of the same.
There was no crowd inside the office,
and those presenting themselves to be
registered were being taken care Of
with reasonable dispatch Outside
of the door the group of men shown in
the picture were not waiting to regis
ter but were marshalled according to
a set plan and posed for this picture
Some of the leaders are standing in
the foreground of the picture Mr. L.
d. Kavanaugh of my office, happened
to pass out of the room at the time
this picture was taken and saw the
prearranged plan. This picture was
taken at $3.50 p. m. and from that time
until o'clock, when the office closed,
voters did not have to wait but very
few minutes to get their turn at the
registration desk
The reason for the picture Is un-
doubtedly contained in your newspap-
per statement that, congestion Is
caused by the fact that registration is
held at the central office alone and not
In the various voting precincts, as was
the case before the new law was
passed There Is no doubt but that
the individuals responsible for this
picture would much prefer to have
registration in the precincts under the
OLD system. especially In the Third
ward. HARLEY G. MOORHEAD.
Election Commissioner.
Yet He Didn't Move Back to Kansas.
Loomis, Neb., Oct. 25.-To the Editor
Of The Bee: Having received Prosper
ity league matter telling of the sad
effects Of prohibition in Kansas beg
to say that a twenty-years' residence
In that state with my wife and grow
ing family thoroughly convinces me
OF its good results financially and
morally. Also, If it isn't good thing,
why don't Kansas jump back into the
wet column? She's been trying 1t out
long enough. J. A. MCGUIRE.
Wilson and the Progressives Again.
Omaha, Oct. 26.-To the Editor Of !
The Bee: One Of the Metcalfe boys
met me on the elevator this morning |
and expressed considerable surprise |
that had not, as / informed him,
Joined the Wilson Progressive league.
He didn't seem to think my reason,
Because I am a progressive" was a
good one. hadn't heard of the
league before and went and looked 1t
up l find that Omaha is represented
among the vice presidents by such /
sterling progressives as L. ]. Quinby
and T. Fl. Tibbles OF course, neither
Quinby or Tibbles were party to- such
rank deception; neither of them, ever
registered as progressive. attended
any progressive meetings or con-
tributed a penny or minutes time
to the movement. Both are Bryan
have been for years and
both before that were populists, and
neither of them is ashamed of II.
Quinby went to the state senate as a
democrat and Tibbles Is an editorial
writer on the World-Herald. II the
balance of the very slim list, Brother
Wray Of York. twho is natural
Bryan democrat, with socialistic ten
iencies, succeeded in getting together,