The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-09-27
Must Break
Rail Trust,
Says Howell
C.. .. p. Senate Nominee
Emphasizes Stand on Freight
Raies-Other Candi.
dates Speak.
Rally Held


indianola, Neb,. Sept, s6.-tspecial
Telegram 10. S. spillman, candidate
for attorney general. and Congress.
man w. 4. Andrews met r. y. Howell.
candidate for United States senator.
today at big Red Willow republican
rally held under che auspices OF John
r. Kelly. McCook county chairman.
Many women were present. Music
was furnished by the McCook jazz
band.
Mr.. SpIlman and Mr. Howell were
loud In their praises Of the republi'
can ticket. Congressman Andrews
devoted his time to recountlng re.
construction WORK done by the Ilar-
ding administration. dwelling partieu-
larly on the success OF the limitation
OF armament conference, which he de.
clared would save billions.
II can assure you II Mr.. Howell
goes To the senate that when matters
vital to the middle west come up
there will be real howl heard from
NfDIdShd, MI ppliilllhH rolhs
Successful in Business.
Both spoke OF the successful bust.
ness career OF Charles II. Randall,
candidate for governor. and his ex.
perience with the problems of the
farmer by reason Of many years spent
on the farm.
"Mr. Randall will handle the states
busisess Just like he has his own. He
will cut out the bad and leave the
good" Mr.. Howell said.
on his trip today Mr.. Howell dis
covered that certain persons believed
opposition TO the .Cummins law
voiced by him was thunder taken from
the democrats.
1T is thunder from progressives IN
10th parties" Mr.. Howell said. Fur
ther. It was shown that reactionary
democrats had voted for the passage
Of the noncompetitve freight rate bill
and among them was Senator Hitch
cock OF Nebraska.
MY cure for monopoly such as the
I ailroads have succeeded In getting
the government to sanction, through
HE Esch.Cummins bill, Is competition
through public ownership" Mr..
declared
"All cures have failed. Laws to
send men guilty OF monopoly to the
are failures; the Sher-
man antitrust law has stood on our
statutes for years and there are more
now than there were
wnen the bill was passed. Only one
man has gone TO jail. He received
4 90-day sentence, spent three weeks
in jail, got sick and was released.
Competition Cure Works.
THE competition cure has worked.
1t worked in Omaha when a pub |
Iicly-owned ice plant was erected and |
he price of ice fell from 72 to 80
cents. and 40 cents delivered.
Sometimes even the threat has |
cured the Ill. When / first agitated |
I competitive light plant IN Omaha,
he price of electricity was Il cents
Der kilowat; 1t began falling then,
md every new threat has brought
, reduction until now, in Omaha, light
0sts only cents per kilowatt."
From Indianola Mr.. Howell, Mr..
,pillman and Congressman Andrews
we're to be taken to Cambridge for
hight meeting. G.. f. Simon, chairman
II the F'urnas county central COM
nittee, was to preside. w. II. Cox,
,ditor Of the Arapahoe Mirror, apol-
,gized to Mr.. Howell that the ex-
,ellent band In that town could not
LAY because it had been called to
haywood for a district fair. An ex-
large early morning crowd
listened to Mr.. Howell for more than
III hour.
Voices q. o. p. Difficulties.
Al Holbrook MIR. Howell was intro
lueed by A. II. Phillipson, precinct
Committeeman. and ]. Fl. Scott. can
Iidate for treasurer Of Furnas coun-
V. There, too, a large crowd was on
iand to listen TO him.
MIR. Howell stated repeatedly In the
slious towns that running the
rnlted States vas the biggest bust
less enterprise IN the world.
Think OK any new SET OF man
gers reorsanizing such a gigantic
uslness completely In the short
race of II months, especially after
urh a debauch Of expenditures as the
.ast administration saddltd upon
heu." he said. vet look Al The bll
ions cut from our appropriations IN
- short space ~ tiIns