The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-10-26

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Howell Platform Approved
but lie l. Questioned on
DoubIe.Cross Given
by Opponent
25-Year Record Quoted
By y. 4. POWELL
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By T.. 4. POWELL
staff tpr,esp ,nd.bt The Omaha Bee.
crete, Neb., Oct. 2J.-,speclnl Tele.
gram Nebraska farmers are skepll.
cal of their public officials That much
las been learned after seven weeks
spent with ynrlous candidates seeking
office.
In town after town farmers have
shaken hands with X. ~ Howell can
Idldnte for United States senator. and
said Howell you've got the right
idea the farm bloc and the public
ownership of one Of the great trans.
continental HINES 10 break up the mon.
Gpoly Of railroad rates, unless II IL
broken without putting this plan in.
\ 10 effect.
but, how are We 10 know that you
won't weaken after you get 10 Wash
iingtOn as 80 many others have done?
Your opponent, who IL Nebraska's
only millionaire candid1te, has come
10 ~ with honeyed words before every
election and promised 10 fight for our
interests and always. when his vote
counted. he has given us the double.
cross.
Changes After Election.
Right before election IL is for NJ,
and when his party is IN the minority,
he votes our way. but, when his
party was in the majority and his vote
and Influence counted, he has been
against us
How can we know you won't do
the same thiug2'
The most recent quostioniDg ~ this
description war Ut Dcshler. Howell
answered them there az he has nj
every town.
Il know just how you fee" he
said "and realize you cant depend
solely on my word.
'If You were going 10 hire man,
and he promised 10 do things for you,
what would you do?
You would look at his record and
ascertain of he had acted as he talked
and as he promised.
THE only thing | can do is to point
10 my 25.year record in Omaha and
ask you II you have ever seen me
gwerve IN my fights to break mon
0poly and high prices Of monopoly.
Il believe that even IL men promise
to do things against monopoly and
their hearts aren't against II, sooner
or late they will turn back 10 the
byways and companions of their fav.
orite lines Of thought.
Stands on Record.
Il believe my record shows how !
feel. And man at my age in life
doesn't often change his convictions"
Another fact seeming to impress
people Is that the campaign has trans
formed itself into a series Of affirma.
tive statements on public issues by X.
B. Howell without swerving an inch
from stands taken in the primaries
and a series Of explanatory statements
by his opponent Of admitted mistakes
made by him.
First, the people heard him say he
had been wrong on the prohibition
question and heard him pledge himself
TO doubecross his wet friends after he
was assured prohibition was popular.
Second. they heard him praise the
women and their suffrege which he
fought and admit he was wrong on
that issue after he became assured
il was popular.
Third. 10 days before election, he
has admitted he did wrong in voting
for the Cummins bill after he
learned II was unpopular.
Last, il he has time, they believe
he will admit he did wrong by miss
ing 152 ioll calls on tariff articles
and by his failure to fight the tariff
in Washington. where fight count.
ed. rathe' than in Nebraska where
everyone knows he is howling about
it because he hoped TO make votes
by IT,
Today was succession of previous
days Of cordial receptions and good
crowds greeting Mr. Howell At West
ern, the town opera house was filled
when he arrived at 10 In the morning
lie was introduced by George +. Saw
YER pioneer citizen The meeting was
In charge of A Thornberg local chair
man
Al Dewitt, Congressman NJ O, Me
laughiin met the party and accom-
panied II TO crete. With the congress
man was Hugh Boyle of Norfolk, who
starts speaking trip next week for
the entire republican ticket from "
n Howell and Charles " Randall
down. Mayor Edgar Rossiter intro
dueei the speakers al Dewitt
Al Wllhcr they were introduced hy
!. II. Wilde Representative ! Allen
Mutphey met them There
Explains Railroad Act
'srhe Esh .cunmlns law was signed
rs pfss,d,ni Villain in February
1881. ard the railroads were returned
Ia ihelr owners bY The government
Jha first az The following March Mr
lloaen said
shortly thereafter railroad raiev
wsrn raised 80 ths hishesi p0lnt iu
Their history. thus Increasing tfans'
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