Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-02
WHIRLWIND
W|NDUP TO
CAMP AICN ON
Democrats Make Desperate
EIeventh-Hour Attempt to
Offset Gains by the
Republicans.

With but a few days left for a
whirlwind finish, the candidates are
bending every effort to make the
most of their eleventh-hour oppor-
tunity.
Albert w. Jefferis, republican con-
gressional candidate for the Second
district; Samuel r. McKelvie, re-
publican gubernstorial candidate, and
other speakers will hold series of
outdoor meetings tonight from
.Twenty-fourth street and Ames av-
enue, to Twenty-fourth and NJ
streets; also at Fifteenth and Far
nam streets.
A responsible young business man,
whose name is withheld for bust
mes reasons, comes forward with a
statement which offers concrete in
stances of the desperate attempts
of the democrats to gain their ends
II have friend who is employed
in the government quartermas-
ter's department at Twenty-sec-
ond ard Hickory streets" he
said. Il met him yesterday
morning when he asked me
how | was going to vote, whereupon
| just smiled. He then suggested
that | should vote the straight DEM
cratic ticket; that he intended to do
so and that the other fellows at the
corral would do likewise because Or
ders had been sent out to the men to
vote the straight democratic ticket"
u am slow to denounce a man
as incompetent for any particular
political job, unless I know what |
am talking about" remarked c. H.
Clancy, l21s Woodmen of the
World building.
"On June q of this year I went
into the office of Treasurer M. L.
Endres and handed blank check,
signed by myself, with a request
that he should fill in the amount
OF all taxes against me at that time.
had been in the habit of doing
it that way when w. G. IRE was
treasurer. The check went through
the bank in the sum of $105.O1 and
dismissed the matter with the
thought that my taxes had all been
paid. | happened to scan the re-
cent tax list as advertised and not
ed that $1,000 was against two of
my lots which were advertised for
sale.
He does not know how to run
the office and the proof is right be-
fore me in this second receipt for
$29.06."
R. A. Allen, clerk of the district
court of York county, came here to
take an examination for the quar-
termaster's corps. He is a member
of the home guards of his county,
served his country in the Philippines,
and now is endeavoring to get into
the service, although he has two
years to go in his present Office,
and wife and three children.
I'VE have 800 home guards in our
county and I can assure you that
there is a strong resentment against
the circular letters which Governor
Neville sent to the guards in behalf
Of his candidacy. This feeling has
grown so pronounced that | learned
this morning before | left York that
some of the democratic leaders out
there wired Neville to make an eff
fort to get into York county before
election day, to counterfeit the feel
ing which has been engendered
against him. York county will go
strong for McKelvie and nobody
knows that better than Neville"
Samuel R. McKelvie, republican
candidate for governor, emphatical-
ly denies that he had anything to
do with circular quoting the acts
of the council of defense with refer
ence to German Lutherans of this
state, and a resolution that was
submitted to congress regarding
this subject by the Nebraska dele
CATION in congress.
II can not find words that will
adequately express my surprise at
having been associated with this
matter. Early in the campaign I
endeavored to answer some of the
charges of the Hitchcock Mullen
machine, but was repeatedly mis-
quoted by the publications of that
machine and became at once con-
WINGED that it was utterly impossi-
Bile for me to obtain any measure of
Justice at their hands. | have,
therefore, ignored their charges,
feeling that / could safely trust the
public to place the right construc-
ton upon their methods"
Mr.. McKelvie adds that the cir
cular in question has never received
his approval or Endorsement.
Republican legislative candidates
of this county were entertained by