Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-20
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Ringers Claims as Republican.
Omaha, June Ito the Editor
of The Bee: l notice by your edi-
| fact that City Commissioner Ringer
had called you down" for criticizing
| his administration on the ground
| that he Is republican.
That might be all right II Mr..
Ringer had always "totedA fair in
politics himself.
l strongly supported Mr.. Ringer
for city commissioner even in face
of the fact that he used the So
called "open primary" to break my
back in the race for police judge of
South Omaha number of years ago.
Mr.. Ringer brought out democrat
as a stool pigeon candidate for the
nomination and he got just enough
votes to beat me for the nomination.
for a change Of about 20 votes would
have nominated me. l did not con-
slider that I was under any earthly
obligations to support Mr. Ringer
for city commissioner, but did so in
the hope that he might make sue
cess Of the office that he so strongly
asked for. l am not now criticizing
his administration, nor am l up
holding it, I am simply on the
fence awaiting the final outcome.
| did not consider it fair to the
republicans of South Omaha that
Mr. Ringer brought out a democrat
for police judge and by that means
forced the nomination of a man who
was doomed to defeat from the day
he was nominated for police Judge
on the republican ticket
Ringer secured about 100 votes
for his democratic candidate from
republicans, of whom more than
tWo-thirds would have voted for me.
/ am not such a hide bound partisan
that / do not at times vote for candi-
dates on the democratic ticket for
office, but | do think that no demo-
crat has any business running on the
republican ticket, nor has a repub-
lican any business running on a
democratic ticket. For that heason
l oppose any open primary. There
is one thing l do object to besides
! do not think it is right or just to
the people of Omaha to import men
to hold down city jobs from other
cities. There are plenty Of capable
men in our own city to hold the Of
fees, and they are the ones who
should be considered.
1t would not be right for us to i'm
port a president from Paris, for we
have one there now: nor Is it right
to import men for city jobs for a
city of 100000 inhabitants. from
Chicago or any other city of the
country
Mr.. Ringer ought show a little
political consistency before making
criticism of others in that line.
FRANK A. AGNEW.
Single Track Minds.
Potter, Neb., June Ito the
Editor of The Bee: One of the
most silly attacks on our president |
in connection with his noble task
of having a league Of nations es-
tablished was made in The Bees |
Letter Box by one George Henry
Caigue. In the first paragraph this
worthy critic accuses the president |
of using arguments" which are
"chara cteristic" in defending his
theories" but is not able to give |
something better. His smallness is
shown by the fact that he would |
have the president use arguments
to defeat the very purpose for which
he is laboring in France.
Then our worthy critic has some
where read the phrase, single track
of mind" applied to the president,
but does not show in what manner
the words of the president which he
quotes indicate single track mind.
But, in the view of the writer, it
would have been better for G. H. c. |
to have had "a single track of mind
and the absurdity into which he
plunges himself would not have oc-
Cured. For look at what he says:
"Posterity" says our presidential
protagonist, (kindly tell me what
that means), will acclaim my sem
timents as the absolutely right ones"
statement that MIR. Wilson has no
more right to make than any Of
the other 100,0O0,000 of the citi-
zens of this country" Granted! But
has he not just as much right to
make such a statement and has he
denied this right to anyone? But
that is not the only absurdity. for
l6dIly Ill lllc SuflfC VI cdll llO DpCahS
the same manner of thought in these
words: "The present generations that
will have to fight the wars in which
the league will embroil us Is
our worthy critic of our president |
not here dealing with things of the
future, things of which no one can
know anything about? OF course
the president, who can Judge to a
certain extent the future by the
past, must not speak Of what may
happen in the future; no, not while
such minds which have no single
track" or, better, no track" to go
on, are around, but arrogate unto
themselves the privilege to deprecate
this in others. Oh, if our critic only
had "a track" for his mind he would
not founder around so much. Grant
ed that our president has only a
single smind track" or, in other
words: that he has only this one
object in view, namely, to bring
peace, lasting peace. to the
world, that is infinitely better than
to listen to such critics as our es-
teemed friend, G. H. c., who has
nothing to offer in this, his article,
but a little mud.
In the next paragraph this worthy
citizen reverses himself, takes it all
back and accuses the president of
having a feminine mind" (thus we
already have woman suffrsse not
only established, but representa-
tive in the White House, but this
aside), thus implying that the
feminine specie does not possess "a
single track mind" but many