Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 3, 1909, Page 8

hy They Should Carr THE BEE: OMAH. MONDAY. MAY 3 WATER BONDS TO THE PEOPLE OF OMAHA: Many questions are being asked in regard to the prop- osition to vote $6,500,000 of water bonds of the city. We deem it proper that the public should know the rea- sons why we urge the people of Omaha to vote for the water bonds. NUMBER 1— NUMBER 6— We do not intend to, nor will we pay the amount of the award [$6,263,000], unless compelled to do so by the decree of the supreme court, where the matter is now pending. NUMBER 7— We will not compromise unless upon a substantial re- city cannot avoid the payment of such judgment by refus- ing to vote bonds, The judgment would be enforced by a levy of taxes on the property of the citizens, If the bonds are voted the judgment can be paid by the proceeds of the bonds, and the interest and expense of running the water works will be paid out of the revenues derived from the sale of water, without additional taxes on the property of duction of the amount as found by the award. We will try to compromise the matter immediately if the bonds are voted. We believe municipal ownership to be the best solution of the situation; that it will result in better water service, more prompt extension of water mains, and in reduction of water rates without increasing taxes. There can be no muni- cipal ownership NUMBER 2— without voting bonds, NUMBER 8— ple. We are not in position to make any compromise until the issue of bonds shall be authorized by vote of the peo- In previous attempts to compromise, we have been met with the statement that we were in no shape to carry out our proposition until bonds were voted. We believe the plant will sustain itself—paying in- terest on bonds, cost of operation, and create a sinking fund to pay off the words, we believe we will be buying a revenue producing property which NUMBER 3— We cannot and will not use the $3,000,000 of bonds bonds, without additional taxes. will carry itself. heretofore voted. NUMBER 4— It is important that the bonds be voted now that the water board may be in position to make immediate com- promise of the litigation, if this is possible. NUMBER 5— If immediate compromise cannot be made, it is equally important that the bonds be voted, that the water board be in position to pay the amount found due by the United States supreme court. NUMBER 9— In other . We do not believe in granting a franchise to the water company, nor to any Omaha syndicate. If it is a good pro- position for a syndicate to take hold of, it is a better thing for the city to handle for its own people. NUMBER 10— If the bonds are voted, they will not be issued, nor will they bear interest, until the water works are acquired by the city. NUMBER 11— the city. \ NUMBER 13— It must be remembered that the valuation, $6,263,000, includes the whole plant of the water company in the city of Omaha, South Omaha, Florence and Dundee, and not merely the portion pertaining to the city of Omaha. bonds for $3,000,000 heretofore voted concerned alone the portion of the plant in the city of Omaha and the pumping station at Florence. The NUMBER 14— The voting of these bonds will defeat the effort of the Omaha Water Company and the Omaha syndicate to se- cure a franchise, and will secure municipal ownership for the people at the earliest date possible. These are a few of the reasons why we unanimously urge the voting of these bonds. We have given the matter our best consideration, and believe good business judgment dictates the approval of the bonds. No more of said bonds will in any case be issued than are actually necessary for the acquisition of the plant. NUMBER 12— Should the decision of the wr:+eme court be against the city, a decree will be entered wirich must be paid. The DEMOCRATS LUSING HOPE Court Decision Destroys Their Chanees of Winning Tuesday. FROTH OF ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE Charges of Irregularity in Nomina- tions and Attack on Courts by the Leagoers Analyzed by an Attorney. A noticeable demoralization of th cratic forces has resuited from the decision of Judge Troup whereby regular ballots must be used in the ety election to be held Tuesday The democrats had thought through their committee (o steal a march by nominating candidates for the police commission and tor clty engineer and figuring that the republicans would not, thus leaving the democrats without competition on the ballot. The republicans met the democratic FREE EX For a Few Days demo- | | proposition with their committee filling the vacancles on the ticket All party nominees Joined in securing the mandemus compelling recognition of regularity of the tickets nominated and then the democrats stepped out and wanted | to stop, while the republicans inststed on getting the full advantage of the nomina- | tlon by the privilege to vote the straight ticket. Here they found that the demo- crats had joined with the anti-saloonists to keop the tickets scparate and therefore | more susceptivle of trades. | In their present dilemma the democrats | are passing the word along the line to stop | at nothing to save Dahlman. The first at- tempt was to pull off enough petition candi- | dates so there would be enough room on the machines for the nominees, but they were unable to get enough to withdraw. | Anti-Saloon League Attack. | Commenting on the outbreak of the Anti- | Baloon league, one of the republican com- mitteemen who is in a position to know the facts, characterizes it as “a tissue of falsehoods.” “The trouble Is that the antl-saloonists expected to turn u trick of thelr own by | puttirig up a slate ticket against a big tield | in which & scattered vote would give them HIBITION of the Celebrated SEVEN SUTHERLAND SISTERS SEVEN SISTERS WITH THE LONOEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL HAIR IN THZ WORLD=ROQFS OF ITS MERTS HAIR GROWER AN O SCALP CLEANER Everybody invited to call and see the magnificent growth of hair of the ladies in attendance and at to how to treat the hair and scalp On sale and display at our 1 the same time secure free advice as to obtain best results 5th and Douglas street store all this week, also on sale at our 16th and Chicago street store and at Nort! and Southwest Corners 24th and N street, South Omaha Special Price—30c¢ bottl les, 43¢; $1.00 bottles, 8¢, Schaffer's Cut Prics Drug Stores the | the advantage,” he sald. ““Though two o their candidates are lawyers and the chict engineer of the Icague claims to be a law- yer, they entirely disregarded the Tequire- ments of the election law. They could have held a convention and put up a ticket |as a party entitled to a straight vote by | one mark on the ballot, but they neglected |t do so ana then wanted to deprive the regular party nominees of the benefit of | the party nominations. | “The pretext that the republican city | committee which filled the vacancies on the ticket ts not a legally constituted body | has no foundation in fact or in law. The members of the committes were slected at the primary three years ago, and while the law providing for the election of their successors was repealed, it expressly con- tinues all existing committees in power. | The committee has continued uninterrupt- edly and no other committee has ever as- | sumed to exercise the duties, though Board of Education ur Water board officers have been elected every year. The democratic olty committee s constituted precisely the same way. Nominations Legally Made, “The meetings st which the vacancles on the republican ticket were filled was regularly calied on written notice, signed by the chairman and secretary. Thirty- one members of the committes were pres- ent when the action was taken, and six different canidates were voted on for the four places to be filled. The committee filled the vacancies without duress or inter- | ference from tha outstde, and the certifi- cates of nomination were filed with the city | clerk before whom ne protest whatever | was entered ‘It is surely accidental that such a mul- | tiplicity of patition candidates filed for the {fire and police board as to overtax the {capacity of the voting machines. There |might have been a dosen petition filings | for mayor in that event the same incapac- {1ty of the machine would result, but mani- testly that would not deprive the regular nominee of each party.from receiving the benefit of straight party votes sally conceded that police commissioners were to be elected in a go-as-you-please race by -petition On the contrary, the ‘Irx‘llulun« dellberately removed the non- partisan limitations previously existing are made the officers strictly partisan Ithe board will be party nominees chosen |at the primary with other candidates, and petition candidates will be in the same position as mow. unless the anti-saloonists learn by present experlence to hold a con- vention to nominate a ticket of their own.” Hope of the Democrats. The democratic council candidates are still | counting the interests carrying them through as per agreement. The council i ha etracked the occupation tsx ordin- {ances in spite of the plank in their plat- form piedging them to it and thus kept so {tar its part of the contract. - The public corporations are fo reciprocate favors subject to the penalty of having “hen- ordinances hung over their heads and | possibly passed If the democratic council {ticket falls to land | — | Rev. 1. W. Willlamson's Letter, Rev. I. W. Williamson, Huntington, Vi, writes Foley's Kidney Remedy for nervous ex haustion and kidney troubie and am fre 0 say that it will do all thet you claim [ for it." Foley's Kidney Remedy has re- | stored health and strength to thousands |of weak, run down peaple. Contains no | harmful drugs and is pleasant to take. | For sale by all druggists. on | service w l Bee Want Ads Are Business Bousters. It is not true that it was even univer- | |Three vears trom now ail candidates for | Burlington Puts in Merit System for All Employes Violating Rules, but Keep Record of Offenses. The Burlington railroad has adopted the merit system for ®s cmployes and abolished the practice of suspension as a corrective measure. The new order bacame effective Saturday under an order issued by Second Vice President Willard. A record will be kept of each man and it an employe loses his place it will be be- cause of a bad record. An employe guflty of disloyalty, drunkenness or insubordina- tion will be dismissed from service and wili rot be re-employed, and one whose service record Indicates that he is an un- safe or unfit man will be dismissed. Pro- motions will be made as in the past. An empioye, upon a request in writing, will be given at any time a copy of his service record Officers directly affected by this order are requested to re port for entry all commendable actions on the part of such employes, as well as those actions which justify criticism or repri mand No entry will Le made a part of the | recora of any man uudl the case has be fully investigated and employe af- fected will, if desired, be given a personal hearing in that connection. Every man will be given in writing an exaet copy of such entry The purpose of this order is to furnish constant and permanent work to all whose service records show their fitness for posi- tions held or for inoreased responsibilities. LIBERAL GIFT TO EAGLES rant Man Donates Dollars for the Big Convention. in charge of employes Here's a men shows the spirit,” said @ member of the | mittee that is handilng the {funds for the coming Eagles { The man alluded to is L. W. R. Beaty, who { runs a small lunch room opposite the post {office and another oile at“307 North Six enth street I serve no dish that costs over | said Mr. Beaty, “but T know that if Omaha is to secure the holding of the big conven- |tions we must get the habit of contri- | buting as liberally as we can when can- vassing committees around. My | business 1s small, compared to most men who Oma gathering of convention come {in my Mne, but here's §i00 that I can spare | { for such a fund as you are trying to rase’ | Word has come from St. Joseph, Mo Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Des Moines of the formation of Omaha clubs, which | accounts for about twenty such clubs to date, scattered all over the country. Many of 1 will come on special trains, like This {# to certify that I used | Cincinnati’ and New Orleans. which have | planned a swing around several railroads | as an advertising and pleasure trip. Kansas City is issulng almost as many eirculars to its members as is the Omaha commit tee, the big aerle on the Kaw being de- terminad 10 have 1,000 men in its Omaha | elub. | AL ils meeting next Fridey the local | commitiee expects to have matters shaped jup #o that it can begin furnishing Omabe Will Not Suspend Men Hereafter for | One | | right | com business houses with advertising matter and the fraternal papers with cuts that they are asking for of the Auditorium, the hotels, and the local officers and commit- tens A meeting of the grand officers will be held in Omaha ®ome time in May to select official headquarters and arrange with the | local committee all details with which the | grand body has to do CREIGHTON MEDICAL COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT | Degrees Conferred on Clasx of Twen= ty=-Nine at Hotel R Night. The seventeenth annual commencement of Creighton Medical college was held at the Rome hotel Saturday night The ceremonics took place in the ban- quet room, which was appropriately dec- | orated and brilliantiy lighted. An elabo- | rate banquet was first served, to which 13 members of the graduating class, fac- ulty and invited guests sat down. The degrees were conferred by President | Fugaie A. Magevney, who distributed the | much-coveted and long sought sheepskins | with appropriate words to each graduate. | Dr. Archibald T. Muirhead, vice dean of the delivered an address on “Thoroughness,” which was one of the en Jovable features of the evening. The valedictory was delivered by Dr. Bd Jward O. Wilson and was the subject of much favorable comment by those who |heara 1t Dr. Frank E. Couiter of the chalr of neurology presided as toastmaster The class 18 composed of twenty-nine members, of whom three are women a few scho | Hoarseness, bronchitis and other throat | | troubles are quickly cured by Foley's Honey | and Tar, as it soothes and heals the in- | flamed throat and bronchial tubes and the most obstinate cough disappears. In- | having the genuine Foley's For sale by all druggists. | stat | Honey and Tar SOLOISTS FOR MAY FESTIVAL! upon. Noted M rs of the Min Orchestra Who Will Be Heard in Omaha. » the Min director of | Oberhoffer, conductor eapolis Symphony to Mr. Penni | the Music Festival estra lett an speaking of two of the { Instrumental so of the orchestra tM‘ s "Besides My scher, T have just en- | gaged Mr. Richard Czerwonky, violin so- | | loist. who was formerly concertmelster of | the Bosion Symphony orchestra and made | ation there as soloist. 1 am glad to | to tell you that we carry very ac vocal salofsts. So. altogether, we have a much greater organization.”” This | | personal word as to the abilities of these | sololsts from one whose reputation as & musiclan is as high as that of Mr. Ober- | hotfer, serves to whet curlosity and pleas- | urable anticlpation for the concerts of the very attractive series of programs of this { teatival music | ser | be at ceptable | i A Bloody Aftair is lung hemorrhage. Stop it and cure weak | lungs. coughs and colds with Dr. King's New Discovery e and §1.00, For sale by Beaton Drug Co, Better The Busier—That s what ad Bee does for Bigger vertising in business. your | Whes you nuy Geld Measl Fio be » t s Washburn-COrosby’s Geld Medal Fleur, This i important THE OMAHA WATER BOARD. MILTON T. BARLOW, ISAAC E. CONGDON, A. H. HIPPLE, R. B. HOWELL, CHARLES R. SHERMAN, D J. O’'BRIEN. An Appeal to the Voters of Omaha We, the undersigned tax payers of the city, heing thoroughly familiar with the situation and having the best interests of the City at heart, would advise all voters to vote against the $6,500,000 Water Bonds, as we do not think they should be voted before the case is finally adjudicated in the Supreme Court of the United States. The voting of the Bonds now would look like a surrender and might have a serious influence against the City" Rome Miller, Rome Hotel. Ralph Kitchen, Paxton Hotel Tolf Hanson, Hanson Cafe W. Hill., jr., ller Grand Hotel Arthur C. Smith, President M. E. Smith Co. Ward M. Burgess, Vice President M. E. Smith Co. Thomas C. Byrne, President Byrne-Hammer Dry Goods (o George L. Hammer, Vice President Byrne-Hammer Dry Goods Co. Daniel B. Fuller, Vice President Byrne-Hammer Dry Goods Co W. G. Carpenter, Secretary Carpenter Paper Co. . E. Bruce, President E. E. Bruce Co. . E. Bedwell, E. E. Bruce Co. . F. Weller, Richardson Drug Co. . W. Ryerson, Richardson Drug Co. . C. Patton, Richardson Drug Co. F. P. Kirkendall, Yetter-Davison Wall Paper Co.,, Will L. Yetter. Midland Glass and Paint Co., F. N. Judson. Lee-Glass-Aydreesen Hardware Co., C. M. Andreesen, Treas. Hayden Bros., Robert Cowell, Vice President Thomas Kilpatrick Co. Miller, Stewart & Beaton Carpet and Furniture Co,, D. D. Miller, Pres. Peaples Store, 16th and Farnam Henry J. Abrahams, Omaha Furniture & Carpet Co, A. J. Simpson Son & Co., Carriage Manufacturers. Morris Levy, Nebraska Clothing Co R. 8. Wllcox, Browning, King & Co. F. 8. King, King-Swanson Co Omaha Paint & Glass Co.,, W. H. White, President. Dreibus Candy Co. A. C. Dreibus. Jacob Copp. Nebraska Fuel Co., J. E. Tetard, Manager. C. W. Hull Co,, C. W. Hull, President, J. H. Sunderland. Havens-White Coal Co. Harmon & Weeth Co. Omaha Ice & Cold Storage Co., Frank Lehmer, Albert Edholm, Jeweler, 16th and Harney A. Mandelberg, Jeweler, 1522 Farnam Street. C. E. Shukert, Furrier, 16th and Harney, Chas. E. Burmester, Jr., Iler & Co. ¥rank B. Johnson, Omaha Printing Co. Edward F. Riley, Riley Bros Co. Raapke Grocery Co., G. L. Raapke. H. A. Reapke, Architect, 522 Bee Bldg. Myers-Dillon Drug Co., P. B. Myers, President. Hess & Swoboda, Florists W. H. hmoller, President Schmoller & Mueller Piane Ceo. Thos. F. Parker, Manager Columbia Phonograph Co. Nebraska Cycle Co., Geo. E. Mickel, Arthur F. Smith, A. F. Smith Co. Joseph Houska, 2603 Sherman Avenue, A. Hospe Co., A. Hospe, President J. P. Cook Co.. James Cook. Updike Grain Co., N. B. Updike, President Edward Updike, 3612 Farnam, Cavers Elevator Co., J. A, Cavers Boyer Van Kuran Lumber & Coal Co, Black, The Hatter W. C. Bullard, Bullard, Hoagland, Benedict Co Geo. A, Joslyn, President Western Newspaper Union John A. Scott, agent estate F. L. Ames, C. B. Nash Co., L. F. Crofoot. Paxton Real Estate Co., W. A. Paxton, Jr,, President J. H. Millard, Omaba National Bank. William Wallace, Omaha National Bank John D. Creighton, First National Bank Bldg John M. Daugherty, First National Bank Bldg. K. C. Barton J. C. Root, Woodmen of the World John T. Yates, Woodmen of the World. Geo. H. Fitchett, Supt. Woodmen of the World Bldg. Alfred C. Kennedy, Real Estate. Fred A. Nash, President Omaha Electric Light & Pdwer Ce. John Grant, Grant Paving Ce. Geo. W. Loomis. E. H, Hoel. F. W. Corlise. Wm. P. Mumaugh, Contractor, rase. Yy