Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-16
BEACH BRANDS
Demo CHARGES
ASFALSEA0ODS
Declares Claim That Repub'
liCans Hired German Speak
ers Untrue; Democrats
Guilty Of Similar Act/
From a Staff Correspondent.

FROM q stan correspondent.
Lincoln. Oct l5.-(Special-
Chairman E. D. Beach of the repub-
lican state committee pretty effect
iually put the quietus on the charge
made by democratic paper in Lin
coin that the republican committee
in the last campaign imported Ger
man speakers into the state to speak
for the committee by pronouncing
the charge as deliberately false by
the following statementr
The organ of the Hitchcock Null
len-Neville political machine in this
town seeks to cover up its own ques-
tionable acts. by charging that the
republican state committee two
years ago imported a German speak
err and naid his campaign expenses.
| denied the charge and they now
come back with what they term in
disputable proof from the statement
OF the republican treasurer Of the
committee" that we did do so and
that we patronized German newspa-
Z pers.
Statement Declared False.
II said in my former interview the
5tatement was false and | relterate
hat staement. The gentleman to
whom they refer was not import
I'd into the state, but was resi-
lent of Omaha. He applied to our
committee for work and we turned
him down. Later through other
influence the national committee
arranged with him to make some
speeches. He came to Lincoln, but
on his way here his pocket was
picked of what money he had and
On applying to the committee for
assistance so he could make his
lates the committee advanced him
the amount he needed, which the
national committee later made up.
II it was a crime for the republi-
can committee to hire German
speakers how about the work OF
he democratic committee along that
inc?
Democratic Record.
"The financial report Of A. v
Johnson, treasurer OF the demo-
), cratic state committee. fled in Lair
easter county. shows that august
Esser,~ a German speaker, who ap-
] pied to the republican conmitter
tor work and was refused. was paid
IN September 26, 1915. the sum OF
$40; on October 7 Mr.. Esser re-
ceied two checks. one for So and
The other for $l4; on. October a
he was again given S20'for speaking
and on October 26, $40 for more
speeches. November 10, after the
campa:g n closed the democratic
state committee was so tickled over
Esser's speeches that they gave him
$50, making total OF $40 paid tc
the eloquent German orator.
The treasurer's statement also
shows one Hans REG on October
so was paid $50 for making speeches
and on November 4 was giver
S4l.o0.
Demos in Same Boat.
'But in the eyes OF that demo.
cratic paper the republican state
committee committed an awful
thing in 1916, when they paid G. +
BerSchorner an advertising agent
$50 for advertising. The report o
its treasurer shows the democrati,
committee paid Mr.. Berschorner a
one time $9373, and later $l05.S(
for advertising. If it was a crime
for thS republican committee to pay
Mr.. Berschorner $SS was it not two
and one half times more OF crime
for the democratic state committed
to pay him Sl97.
"The paper again declares it ;
horrible thing that the republican
Committee advertised in the Lincoln
Echo, a German paper. published b.
Mr.. kuhl. The report of the treas
arer of the democratic committe,
shows that Mr.. kuhl received $90.5
for advertising for the democratic
committee.
For some time the democratic
sheet has been lambasting Val Pc
tiers, and his German Omaha Trib
une for disloyal conduct and othe
things and now in an effort to show
that the republican state committe,
was in cahoots with Peters. show
that the committee paid Mr.. Peter
a small amount for advertising. Th
report of the democraticNre
shows that the democratic Commit
tee paid the Tribune 4 much large
sum for advertising. first $500 ant
later on November 4, tine sum o
$50.
Big Papers Not Forgotten.
However, the big papers were no
wholly forgotten. SO anxious wa
he democratic state committee t.
circulate the German propaganda
among the people of Nebraska tina
hey paid the Omaha World Herald
owned by Senator Hitchcock, TIL
nan in Nebraska who at that tim
was doing more for the kaiser thai
any other single individual, the sun
IF $2,7S7.40 for 10000 subscription
to that paper during the campaign.
"Oh, yes, the republican state com
rittee may have done a very un
patriotic thing in giving a poo
speaker who had lost his poke
book enough money to get out o
own, or for advertising in German
papers in 1916, but in the face of tn
sworn statement of the treasurer o
the democratic state committee i
would seem that very little NOR
need be said"