Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 30, 1890, Page 5

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1800.-TWENTY PAGES THE POWERSBOYD CONTEST, A Prohibition Plan of Retalliation Agitation, and THE INDEPENDENTS PLAYING CATSPAW. An Eye-Opener for the Dupes Who are Importuned for Contribu- tions to Pay Hungry Prohib. Lawyers. Although the prohibition amendment re- ceived only 82,000 of the more than 216,000 votes cast at the late state election, and therefore fell over 49,000 b elow the vote nee- ossary to make the amendment valid, the professionals who make a living out ot agita.. tion of rompulsory temperance ire still keep- ing up their end of the war, Tho contest over the governorship and other state offices, in which testimony will begin to be taken at Lincoln next Thursday is nothing more nor less than an attempt of the prohibitionists to retaliato upon Omaha for the heavy vote glven iu this city against prohibition, From its inception to the present day the Powers-Boyd contest has not only been in- spired by prohibition agitators and hungry prohibition liwyers who scent a fat fooin the muddle which they are trying to bring about, but it becomes more apparent every day that the independent leaders are simply Deing used as catspaws to pull out cliestnuts for the prohibition monkey, The campalgn plan of the prohibitionists was an open secret, They expected to carry the state outside of Douglas county by from 6,000 t0 10,000 majoraty, and they plotted and schemed * night and day’ to create un intense prejudice against Omaha and get upsucha contest as would enable them by & concentrated howl all along the line to throw out the entire vote of Douglas county, count the amendment in and have it declared carried by 4 legisiature which they expected would be decidedly prolibition. = The key note of this plan of campaign was to ring the changes on the wickedness of Omaha at. every school house meeting, from every pul- pit and from every stage from which any prohibitionist, man” or woman, was allowed to talk, This' was doubtless the object of the Gougar woman when she brazenly repre- sented Omaba as the wickedest city in America, with a brothel and assignation house attached to every saloon. And this sort of malignant libel and slander has been dealt out everywhero for more than six months. The next step was to create the impression that a great conspiracy had been set on foot to pud out the eensus of Omaha with a view to gigantio election frauds, To this end the Lincoln bureau sent out bogas reports to several hundred county weeklies and the mercenaties ran- sacked Omaha for evidence of census aud registration frauds. A forger by the name of Johnson, with sev- eral aliases was sent to this “city for this ne- farious work. Column after column of his allegzed investigation was seut broadeast to the pronibition organs in New York, Chicago and Lincoln, and telegraphed him to the St. Paul and Kansas City papers, which he knew were only too_anxious to receive them. The damage thus done tothe city of Omaba can never be repaired. Meanwhilo tho leading prohibitionists of Omahba and Lincoln were flooding the census - office in Washington with anonymous charges of wholesalo consus padding, Promises were made to the Washington office that formal charges would be preferrod when the parties well knew that thero was absolutely no grounds for such charges, and, of course, one were made in duo forim at' the census office. Following this tho charge was made that there was to be an organized raid on the bal- lot boxes in Omaha on November 4 and that wage-workers and ~ prohibitionists - would be intimidated at the polls. On election day hundreds of telograms were sent out of this city by the prohibitionists to the effect that 8 reim of terror prevailed; that the town bad been given over to mob rule and that Chief of Polico Seavey had declared himself absolutely helpless toquell the bloody elec- tion riots. The following is & sample of some of theso telograms: O, Neb., Nov. 4.—W. M. Moore, David City: For God sake strike Omaha saloons a doath blow. Omaha is trading off Richards, Powers, overything for Boyd and whisky votes. Amendment workers are stoned and ezged from polls, Infamous outrages provail- ing. Sant D, Cox. Wolfenbarger, the Lincoln prohibition leadur, perpetrated the following in the Now York Voice: *“T'ho whole city Is given entirely over to the whisky mob.” There is riot and blood- shed in nearly overy ward. Men, ladies of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, are being insulted, mobbed and driven from the polls by the drunken rabble. Ministors of tho gospel aro slugged, beaten and dragged from the polls aud compelled to fleo for their ves." ““Tu Omaba the prostitutes turned out in the tough wards and sssisted the republicans aud democrats in ‘rescuing Nebraska from the blight of prohibition.” There has un- questionably been fraud in tho count as wetl as treachery and deceit in the pro-election panipulations. 1t is positively known that wo different methods of count, one clearly llegal, were employed by election boards in different precincts of the same ward. There should a recount of the vote, and a legislature that has any touch of fairness wili throw out Douglas county er tire. The legislature has power to do this, d the crimes that haye been committed sgainst the election law will clearly justify such action, Tho legislature elect” will be controlled by men inclined to teach Omaha a lesson in e1vil government." Another prohibitionist of Lincoln delivers himsolf of the following, which he imposed upon the Chicago Lever, a rabid butimpotent prohid sheet: ““The vote of Omaha, the Sodom of the northiest, may be thrown out by the legisla- ture. The workers aro all up in arms de- manding o recount of the votes, This will have to be done by tho legislature, which is composed of the sterling men who for the sake of their dear ones and their fricnds ""‘—aut. loose from all party ties and stood by the farmers’ alliance ‘movement. bo remembered that a precedent established regarding ‘the recount of the ballots oast for and against the logis- lative amendment,” voted upon November 2, 1886. This affords relief from fraudulent counting. No good man can_refuse to vote fuvorably upon such a bill, It will settle the question n & way to satisfy all. The taking of evidence of intimidation, false counting gad general ballot box ('(u-ruvflun, such as ex- §sted in Nebraska during the election, has begun und will continued, ana mble preparations wado for crowding to the finish and overthrowing the dastardly plot of thwarting the will of the people. There is excitement in the movement. Good workers and good men of all parties stand ready to give assistance. 1tis believed that fully lwt‘n!f' thousand ple who favored the present liceuse law mv changed since the election to pronibi- tionists. The Omaha riot and iutimidation, and the recklessuess of election boards in other parts of the state opened the eyes of many as never before to the power of the sa- Joon in politics.” The damage done by these false reports is fncalculable, ‘There are thousands of people o the cast today who believe the statements made in the New York Voice and other pro- hibition papers, and enquiries are being re- ecelved up to this time from people in the east who want to know the true stateof facts, Tue Berrecently printed statements made by the police commissioners of Omaha,who made it their business on election day to go to the polling places to see for themselves whether there was any unusual demonstrations, and to satisfy themselves that no interference with voters was being tolerated. Kach one of them emphatically denounced the reports ‘which had been cireulated by the prohibition- $sts and assertedthat uo quieter election was ever held iu the history of thas city. Chief of Police Seavey in his’ oficlal report to the police commission verifies this fact. He had rnvloully detailed policemen for each poll- I;f place in the ecity, and the records of his ofice will bear out his report. Cousidering the universal interest taken It wilt was USE FURNISHING DEPT. In the Dbasement is rapidly winning its way, housekeepers can : buy anything here they want for their dining room or kitchen. China At Morses. After - Dinner Coftee} Bread Oups and Saucers, |Bakers, owls, Brush Vases, Butte Palls, Butter Dishes, Bird Baths, Bon-Bon T Celery T ‘hocolate S v i Croton Sots, Aportiors a Diat Coffee Pots, Dessert Buskots, Dinner Soryices, Ewers and Basius, rult Buskets, Frult Trays, Flower Pots. | Dessert Trays, Fruit Services, or Game Service, Hot Water J {Hanging Sonp Dishes. Ice Crean Services, | lce Cream Dishe Ind'ual Butter Disnes. | Individval Sugars. ndividnal Egg Cups, [Jellly Moulds. dinferes. Jugs. | Mouth Ewors, Mustard Pots. 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Towel Rollers: Towel Racks. wol Arms. Wash Beneh & Wring- by the citizons of Omaha in tho Issucs at stake November 4, the election here was a remarkably quiet one. Every saloon was closod and the saloonkeepers without excep- tion cheerfully co-operated with the general sentiment that drunkenness und disturbances must not be permitted during election day. Not a siogle instance of riotus disturbance was recorded, nor do the prohibitionists assert, that any voters were interfered with in cast- ing their ballots. In three or four wards there was trouble with someof the prohibi- bitionists who were peddling tickets. Some of these workers had tickets which were ille- gal, or mixed; others persisted in election- eering voters in line, When the officers and special policemen insisted that these workers o out into the crowd some very loud talk ‘was usually the result. In some of the wards non-residents who were peddling prohibition tickets, were trying to challenge legal voters, and this created more or less loud talk and quarreling, Troubles of no more scrious nature than these furnished all the foundation there was for the blood and thunder talegrams sent out of the city by the prohibitionists. The tele- grams were sent out to the committee men ot the prohibition party in_every county in the state, the object of which, of course, was to rouss country people who believed the re- ports of mob violence and bloodshed tovote for prohibition. Stricklor of Omaha and Coxof Lincoln con- ducted the special telegraphic bureau in Omaha; whilo Wolfenbarger, Robbins and Wilson of Lincoln, took up the refrain from the Lincoln end. Their highly colored fabri- cations _ form the groundwork upon which Burrows, Dech and pendent leaders have It is other inde- elect. time comes for taking the testimony in these fair to presume that when the oases these leaders will realize that they have been used as cat’s paws by the defeated pro- hibitionists, who are willing to go toany length to smirch and slander Omaha, It will be borne in mind, however, that the rohibitionists, instead of protecting the bal- ot box by showing fraudulent registration when the boards were in session, or protest- ing against the registration of any man known or suspected not a legal elector, were scheming and conspiving to make the whole election fraudulent, so that the entire vote of Douglas county might bo thrown out if possible, They never protested before the registration boards against the registration of foreigners who had their first papers, and yet they bave represeited 1o tho independents that thousands of foreiguers were illegally voted in Omaha, and led the alliance leaders to believe that this alleged fraud will enable them to throw outthe entire vote of this county. Under the preteuse of contesting the election in Omanha of the candidates for state ofticers, the prohibitionists have succeeded in inducing the independents to employ pro- hibition lawyers and will bring on all the prohibition witnesses, who expected to be trained and drilled into testifying that they were trying to peddle Powers tickets, and that they were obstructed in voting and working for the independent ticket. Behind all this there is also a scheme to bleed Omaha and blackmall her citizens, as has been the case before at every session of the legislature, when prohibition bills were introduced. But the conduct of & contest such as the one about to be made involves the expendi- ture of alargeamount of money, and the funds have not been coming in as rapidly as desired. Something had to be done. So the robibition lawyecs in Lincoln and Omah E-ve succeeded in getting up a few soul- stirring aflidavits from men in Omaha, These amdavits will be printed in tho prohibition papers, and through sympathetic appeals they expect to secure more money from the credulous. These afidavits are worded ina vel sensa- tional and colored to as high a pitch as the men who are expected to sign them will stand; especially in view of the fact that there is no penalty attached to fictitious amidavit making. Itis also expected that the 1 1 \ l } prejudice members-elect of the legislature by whom the contest is to be decided. Their publication is to be followed by & rand conference of ailiance men at incoln about the middle of Decem- ber, when Burrows expects to dictate tho'policy of the alliance in the legislature through the close corporation circle, of which heis the head. Every member is then aud there to be instructed and pledged to vote for @ man whom the conference may select as speaker. Au executive commitiee isto be formed whose orders every alliance member is expected to ube{ whatever his private judgment may be. The exccutive committee will, to all intents and purposes, bo the legis- lature, with the members 8s MEre puppets to ratify its orders, Amoug the affidavits which the prohibition lawyers have gotten up in Omaha, will be that of "Walter D. Prugh, who affirms thav on election day he went to the First dstrict of the Second ward, and was there ussaulted by the mob; that he was stoned and bruised'in the back of the head seriously; that he went to the chief of police personally and made complaint: that the chief of p| ice detailed three policemen and o sergeant, scene of tMe alleged disturbance in the Sec- ond ward, and that when they reached there the mob continued to make such adisturbance that the afflant was in terror of Lis life; thav while the police saw this state of affairs they absolutely refused to protect him. Afiant further says that the police ostensivly gave orders for his protection and that the mob paid no atiention to these orders. Afant claims that he was peddling tickets for Powers, He does not affirm, however, that he was a prohibitionist and was chlluux tickets of all parties with the amendment clause attached, J, Phipps Roe has also made an afidayit, Roe is a bucket shop speculator who has made himself very prominent and promis. cuous in the late campaign. He affirms that Henry Voss, an architect, assaulted him in the Itirst district of the Kirst ward on election day; thatbe was surrounded bya mob that tossed him about; that his life was threatened, and that he was finally driven away from the polls. L. L. Abbott, who boards at 212 North Seventeenth strect, a professional témperance lecturer, makes another afidavit. He afiirms that in the First precinct of the Fourth ward he was assaulted and pushed and jostled about by the mob; that he appealed to the police for protection ; that his appeals were in vi He doos not afivm that bodily injury was done him, but simply contents himself " with the stalement that he was pushed avout in the crowd. Attorney Strikler, who prepared these afi- davits, is said by our Lincoln correspondent to have sent them to Lincola parties with a request that their best judgment be used with reference to their publication in the al- liance und prohibition organs of that city. He suggested, however, that they would make excellent capital for the contest cases if sent broadcast over the state, A reporter was detailed to get the facts in rogard to these complaints, The records of the gulloa department were consulted and Chief Seavey was interviewed upon the charges made. That official states that Progh made his complamt regarding the Second instead of the First district of the Seo- ona ward, and that Sergeant Ormsby com- manded the detail sent to protect him. Sergeant Ormsby states that ho took three special policemen and, with Prugh, hurried in the patrol wagon to the volling’ place at Fifteenth and Williams streets, {n the Second district of the Second ward. Prugh could not point out any one who had interfered with him, and Ormsby scattered his men through the crowd. Prugh re- mained by is side and suddenly called to” hilm that some ono had taken his tickets from him again, Pru gh could not indicate the guilty party and no arrest could be made. There was no dem- | publication ‘of these afiaavits will help to who went back with Prugh to the | laiestidrbai St SRSttt Sl S SN oustration and the officers withdrew, leaving two speeials man_ on duty there. About an hour afterwards a telephone call conveyed the information to thro station that prohibitionists were being rotten-egged in that precinct, The patrol wagon was again sent ont, but when it ar- rived overything was quiet, ana the regular policeman on duty there said that Prugh _be- came frightened and asked him to escort him away. He did so, taking Peugh as far ‘as Thirteenth street. Farties in the crowd said that 8 woman who was going home from a grocery store with a_basket of provisions took two eggs from her basket and threw in_the direction of the retreating Prugh. One of them struck an officer. No other oggs were thrown. Chief Seavey stated that although Prugh claimed to have been rotten-egged he showed no signs of it, and the chief was satisfied that the policeman suffered more than Prugh. Regarding the statements of L. L. Abbott, who claims that he was jostled and pushes about at tho First district of the Fourth ward polling place, and appealed in Vain to the police protection, Oficer Dooley, who was on duty there, offers the following: Abbott was around the poliing place, and engaged in arguments with everyone who would talk with nim. He talked very lona and attracted much attention. Whenever he was arguing with anyone a crowd naturally gathered around to hear what was said. In the swaying and jamming of the crowd sev- eral parties were pushed off the curbstone. Abbott might have been one of these, but he was not selected by the crowd as a taraet for malicious pushing and jostling. Whatever crowding he experienced was due to his loud voiee attracting people, Ab- bott did not appeal to the police for' protec- tion. Of the three officers on duty there, Dooley, O’Gorman and Poole, he only spoke to O’Gorman, and merely stated to him that he did not think it was right for the crowd to use him so unfairly. The officer told him that he should have all the protection that he required, and asked him to point out anyone who interfered with him. Abbott did not know who pushed him over the curbstone, and as the officers did not see it no one was arvested, Abbott was net pushed more than nd in that respect fared much better dozens of others. Regaraing his -alleged assault _upon hipps Roe in the Firstaward, Mr. Voss sal Vhen I went to the ward I found Roe there, He was peddling what 1 considered an illegal ticket such as the man Clark ped- dled in the Kifth, 'l"uui' had a democratic head and a prohibition tall. Itold him the ticket ought not to be petdied and he wanted to kuow why I troubled .myself about it. I I told him that I did not want people to be deceived by such a trick, but I could not con- vince him. There was mo assault, you may believe that, . et M Close the Saloons, ‘To the Chief of Police; Liquor Dealers and Others: Next Tuesday;december 2, is elec- tion day. The laws of the state and ordi- nances of the eity make itunlawful for any- one to “'sell or giveaway any malt, spirituous and vinous liauors on the day of any general orspecial election,” and the law provides that the mayor “shall be active and vigilant in c;flol"flm‘ all laws and ordinances of the city." Now, therefore, in the spirit and in pursu- ance of the law, I, R. Cushing, mayor, hereby notify and order all saloonkeepers and others engaged in the liquor traffic to close eir res| uuve-rlncu of business and cease id trafiic on sald day from 8 o'clock a. m. until 6 o’clock p. m., and the chief of policeis instructed to see that the law and this order are complied with and to report any viola- tions thereof to me. R. C Cusnixa, Mayor, —_— -— Falled forNew York, Loxnox, Nov, 20.--[Special Cablegram to Tne Bee.]—The steamer La Gascogue sailed from Havre for New York today. Boys' and Girls Books. 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Wednesday Thursday Friday.. Saturdiy Total. ceneenens $4243,00.47 An Increase of 7.6 per cent over the corre- sponding week of last year. Another Bridge Project. There is hardly anything in the public im- provement line that the East Omaha land company would not dare attempt, with its financial backing and with its magniticent property all ready for development. The latest project of the company is a mammoth one and,if carried out, would prove of immenso benefit to the company and to the citics of Omaha and Council Bluffs, The project contemplates the expenditure of more than a million dollars in the construc- tion of a bridge between the company’s land and Council Bluffs, and the material improve- mentof the thoroughfares connecting Kast Omaha with this city. The East Omaha land company has ample financial resources to successfully carry out the plans in prospect and it is understood that the enterprise will not be allowed to fall through. The company has already ex- {)cndcd many thousands of dotlars fix the mprovement of its pmpert{, and proposes to make still greater outlays in the near future Plans for the proprosed ~ bridge have already been drawn and accepted and the comppny will now make au effort, to secure a charter. The plans that have been accepted call for a combination railway and wagon bridge of sufficient capacity to accommodate all of the railroad, motor railway and wagon traffic be- tween the two cities. “The bridge will cost at least $1,200,000. It is proposed to begin Work as soon s a charter can be secured, an or- dinance has already been introduced into the Council Bluffs council granting the company terminal facilities on the Iowa side of the river, President Cushing of the land company states that the bridgo will be a mammoth af- fair, constructed of steel and heavy masonry, 1t will have two decks, The lower deck will be double tracked for railroad purposes and the upper will have double tracks for motor cars, u roadway for teams and a pathway for foot passengers, The bridge will be a low one, with o draw to enable steamers to get through, provided the riveris ever made navi- gable, In conjunction with the bridge will be built an electric motor railroad, extending from the center of Council Bluffs'to the cen- ter of Omaha. Railroad yards will also be built on each end of the bridge, making it a very desirable means for crossing the river, ond for handling trains and cars with dis atch, L4 It is generally believed that the Winona & Southwestern ralway company is interested in the improvement. ~This company is build- ing towards Omaha vapidly, and has been figuring for some time to ‘secure entrance into this city without belng compelled to patronize thé Union Pacific bridge, which, when the union depot shall have boen com’ pleted, will be taxed to its capacity to accom- modate the other roads that have agreed to reach Owaha by that route. The Twin City Rallway Company, The Omaha capitalists who have beon planning the building of another motor line in Council Bluffs, haye not been able to come to any reasonable terms with the Council Bluffs city council in regard to the charter. The cofupany asked for & right-of-wiy along y every street in the Bluffs city, and the council granted the request, counling with it the requirement that the company would give @ bond to have a line in operation on every street named within five vears, This was of an impossible vequirement, the charter was returned John W. Paul, the secretary of the Ghildren's Delight --For 1891.— 200 Dier TN IDRENS @ 2’ B SUNDAY - CHAT —For 1891.-- Chit Chat for Boys and Girls, 250 T1d Bits for our Little Ones, Little Folks' Pleture Alph: Laughing Eyes and Merry Hearts JOYFUL - DAYS 25¢c Fully tllustrated, quarto lithographie covers. My Picture Book, 25¢. Young People Abrond, %o. Little People in the Nursery, %o, Pictures and Storles for the Play Room, Play Time, We will Send for our 128-page catalogue. cheerfully mail it free of charge. Morse Dry Goods Co. corporation says that his company could not afford to invest the amount of money which the enterprise would require under the con- ditions prescribed by the Council Bluffs suthoritics. He thinks that much of tho opposition to his project comes from the pres- ent Council Bluffs and Omaha bridge com- pany that has a monopoly of the transporta- tion facilities between the two citias. Anothow effort will be made to get a reasonable churter from the Bluffs council. In the eventof getting this, the company will begiwits pro- posed improvements at once. Improv nt Notes. § Mark Upton says the Omaha Stove manu- facturing compuny will bo put in operation yet this year, A six-story fire proof warchouse and cold storage building, to be located at Twelfth and Nicholus streets, is to be put up in the sprin;f'. ‘The warehouse will be built of stone, iron, brick and terra cotta, and will be six stories high with basement. The trackago wiil be excelleut, the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley and Missouri Pacific tracks unflsiug the site. The estimated cost of this uilding 15 placed at $140,000. Ernest Stuht is buildinga three-story hotol at the coraer of Eleventh and Mason streets. A hotel at the corner of Tenth and Harnoy streets is talked of. Mr, W. I, Sweesey has decided to build a nine-story stone and brick block on his prop- erty on the south side of Farnam stroet just cast of Seventeenth, It was Mr. Sweesey's wtention to wait and build his structure to correspond with any improvement that might be placed on the corner of Seventeenth aud Farnam. He hus finally decided to go aliead with his improvement. The building will be 60x123 feet and eight stories high with a basoment floor. The building will be of steel construction, abso- lutely fire proof, Brown stone, carved and worked into fantastio designs, will composo the front wall and pressed brick will bo used in the rear. 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