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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1925)
nB.v T. W. M'Cl IXOt'GH. IK sunny afternoon in the early part of last month X foregath ered with Herman Bethge down nt San Antonio, Tex. Herman used to live at Fremont, hut is now prop erty man and stage director at the wonderful Scottish Kite cathedral at San Antonio. Sitting in his head quarters at the back end of the mag nificent building, we. talked about an cient history and old-timers of Oma ha and Fremont, and other parts of Nebraska. Suddenly Herman said: 4-Do you remember the time we put dim Boyd in the governor’s chair?” Probably nobody who lived in Ne i raska nt the t me will forget any part of that exciting episode. Already. 1 have had something to say in re tard to tlie election of 1S90, when Bovd was chosen as the first governor ihe democrats ever elected for Ne braska. Bight here I want to record )ny belief that Boyd was fairly en titled to the office. No doubt exists as to the commission of fraud in the < lection in Douglas county, but it was not enough to throw out the entire 'ole of" the county. On the other hand, if statements made to me by lending workers of the Farmers’ Al liance had any foundation, Douglas county was not the sole offender, nor '■ere all the fraudulent votes cast for t -I.ones 1C. Boyd, if the contest had been carried through after it was s.acted, it is quite possible that the result would have been the same. Two Plots. Between the time t lie result of the < e tion became known and the date for .the convening of the legislature at l-'ust two plots were laid to prevent J tinea K. Boyd from taking bis seat a ; governor. Governor Thayer, per r iled by counsellors more partisan tint wise at the moment, decided to <i..--egard Boyd's claim to the office, as : cling that lie was not eligible, be c itise ho was not a citizen of the Vniteil Slates. Boyd's father, born in j Ireland, had settled in Ohio, but had not completed his naturalization. Gov ernor Boyd himself -had made his home in Nebraska long before the ter ritory became a state. On this point finally turned his right to the gover nor’s office. The farmers’ alliance group con r ived what appeared to he a simpler though quite as effective a plan. They v ould organize the legislature, and than refuse to recognize the election, pending the result of an inquiry to be carried on by a committee named by the legislature. Naturally, this com mittee would he expected to find in favor of ’ Honest” John Powers. I*ireworKs in iiegisiamri-. l'nder the constitution, the first duty laid on the legislature, nfier the house had elected its presiding officer, wvs to convene in joint session, when t e speaker of the house would receive from the secretary of state the returns f.-om the election, and "open and pub p hslt the .same." It was at this joint W .-ion the fireworks occurred. George I). Meikl* john was lieuten ant governor under Thayer, and i was his duty to preside over the sen :ntiiil th'- election of his star ■ s or had been declared in open joint sen >ion Thomas J. Majors was the lieu tenant governor-elect. Samuel M; r sPatl Eider, representative from 'Hay county, was elected speaker of tho house that did not adjourn, hut sim ply "unhitched." Gathered at Lincoln were the wait- chiefs of all Nebraska pdiUcs. "Bill" lJeeh, defeated candi date for lieutenant governor cm the f. r.tiers' t ckrt. led tin forces on that side. Charlie Ogden, John «'. t'owin, •■Bill" Oldham. W. G. Thompson. Judge Iteagnn, Albert Watkins. J. I' Gilhoun, 'T. J Mahoney anti some others looked after the interests of Jtoyd. John Leo Webster of Omaha and Judge Richard Nerval of Seward were attorneys for Thayer, v.l.i! around them clustered such loaders MS John G. Watson of Nebraska City, church Howe, the sage of Nentchi ’ Tom" Benton anil a galaxy of- lesi cr lights. On the whole, it was such a gathering as probably never again will he assembled in the i pital of Nebraska. Everybody Present. on the opening day of the session, 100 representative* responded to the roll call In the house and 33 senator? answered ' here" in the seriate. On tlie first ballot for speaker, "Marsh" Elder was chosen, having 33 vote.-, two more than a constitutional ma jority. The farmers hud the house. Twenty six democrats and 21 repuL llcans were there. T'nfamiliar with the method of procedure, the house adopted the rule.* of the preceding session, to govern until new rules could he formulated. The role of ‘'philo sopher, guide anil friend" to the speaker was assumed by "Paddy" Fold of Douglas county. Who expounded par liamentary law and practice ns he had learned it in the city council pf Al)\ KRTIHKHVNT. I ir PHILLIPS-| ^OFMAe/y^ /VNTACID CORRECTIVE LAXATIVE THE CHAS H PHILLIPS CHEMICAL CO NEW VO»K 0 Unlees you ask lor 'Phillip#.’* you may not get the original Milk of Mag nesia prescribed by physicians for 50 tear*. Protect your doctor and your »elf by avoiding Imitations of I lie genuine “Phillips." 25 cent bottle", also 60 rent bottle route In itlrect|nn«- "nv dm-- ■ t"t Omaha. This served well enough, and the senate was notified that the house was ready for the joint session. In the senate IS farmers' alliance votes had been cast on organisation, giving tiie new party control in tiie upper house as well as in the lower. Headed by Lieutenant Governor Meiklejohn. the senators marched into the house chamber, and there began the most exciting sitting of the Nebraska legislature on record. Speaker Elder undertook to wield the gavel, hut Meiklejohn got it away from him and called the convention to order. At once, the majority fac tion started to carry out its program. Meiklejohn refused to recognize any motions save the one that speaker proceed to carry cut his constitutional duty, lo open and publish the returns of tiie election. This Elder refused to do. All afternoon and far into tiie night the deadlock continued, with fiery speeches, fierce denunciations and threats as furious as they were Im potent. Doors were locked, and no body was allowed to enter or retire, save such as were entrusted with a password, which would admit them through the speaker's private office, which was under a trusty guard of husky members of the Farmers' Al liance. Consultations and confer ences were held, and finally the Elder crowd resorted to what seemed to lie a winning move. About 3 o'clock In tiie morning a recess was taken to K, when the joint session would recon vene. Troops on Guard. Governor Thayer, having begun quo warranto proceedings against James E. Doyd, had barricaded himself in the executive chambers and called in a company of state troops to guard ids quarters. Doyil had quietly gone before a notary public up town am! taken the oath of office as governor. Meruing came, and with it an ex position of the strategem planned by the majority. This simply was lo pre vent Meiklejohn from entering the chamber, where the joint session met. Thpn Elder, as speaker of the hous \ would preside, and the rest would be ■ asy. Meiklejohn and his friends also knew a thing or two, and just before fi o’clock that morning the guards at the door of the house cham ber were surprised by the approach of the lieutenant governor, accom panied by four stalwart supporters A brief argument, a solid punch < • You Can ' j Buy the Wonderful | u • » _!Rg j Saxophone n If You Want the Hcsl He Sure It’s a King Come in and See Our New Line of “KING” Band Instrument* EXTRA SPECIAL Regular $3.50 d* 1 7C Uke.1 • # O Repairs and Repairing of AM Kindt MICK EDS 11 15fh and Harnay AT 4361 | two exchanged, and th® lientenant governor entered the chamber and mounted the rostrum, from whence he greeted the members as they as sembled. Excited crowds swarmed through nil the corridors of the old state house, • and a riot seemed imminent. fJeseeohed for aid, the governor or dered his guard to clear the corri dors. This was done with difficulty, hut finally the members of the leg!* la lure gained admission, and the joint session resumed just where it had left off. Meiklejohn refused to en tertain a motion, made again and again, that the session adjourn and the house proceed with its organiza tion. This would have carried out the majority plan for throwing the election into the hands of a commit tee without publishing the returns. Meiklejohn held this to be unconsti tutional. While this was gbing on the- republicans and democrats car ried out their part of the program. Court Takes Haim. On the relation of Thomas O. Ben ton, that the speaker of the house had refused to perform the rluty laid upon him by the constitution, and thereby exposed the slate to great danger of anarchy, Amusa Cobb, chief justice of the supreme court of Nebraska, issueil n writ of mandamus in which Samuel Marshall Elder, as speaker of the house of representa tives, was ordered to open anil pub lish the returns. The writ was turned over to Samuel Met .‘la y, sheriff of lam caste,' county, who, with Deputy fflierlff Hoxie and Deputy l‘lilted States Marshal "Pop’’ Hastings, proceeded t ) the door of the house. Hera a genuine battle ensued. The guard did Its' level best to prevent the entrance of the sheriff and his retainers. Blows were ex changed, clothes torn, and the door was broken down. "Pop" Hastings Immortalised himself by Scrambling through the struggling crowd and making his way triumphant'?' to the speaker's desk, where he served the writ ort Elder. The show was over. Calmed by the dignified order of the court, the speak er opened and published the returns, and the democratic governor, repub lican lieutenant governor, secretary of stuto, treasurer, auditor, attorney Bene’-al. commissioner of public land* and buildings anil superintendent of public instruction were declared elect ed. Elaborate plans that had been laid in Omaha for the inauguration of Governor Boyd were abandoned, but a special train carried the niemliers of the Samoset club and several hun dred of their friends, including Her man Ttethge, to Lincoln, where they gave the new governor their heartiest congratulations. Cold Routs Tbuyer. Temporary offices were arranged for Governor Boyd, and the steam was turned off the rooms occupied by Thayer nnd his supporters. Zero weather soon raised the siege. The quo warranto proceedings liefore the supreme court resulted in the ousting if Governor Boyd and the return of Governor Thayer late in the spring (>n appeal to the supreme court of tlie United States the Nebraska de cision was reversed, and Boyd was declared to be a citizen of the United States, because be had been a res.dent of Nebraska at the time the territory was admitted to statehood. Colutnbus Sets Record for Building in 1924 Columbus, Neb., Jan. 3.—Residence property improvements nnd construc tion for 1924 have broken all previous records, approximately a quarter of a million dollars being spent for that purpose. Total building improvement investment in Columbus amounts to $625,000 for the year. Two public buildings, costing $300,000, and 16 business buildings at $42,025 were constructed, and 4S new homes were built for a total cost of *240,350. l Second-Hand Lamb Blankets Puzzle Ewes. Who Lose Scent of Hungry Babesj Omnium's Novel Idea to Shel ter Sheep Hits Hoiks: Even Soap Suds Fail. .VI Scott curried a route of The Omaha Roe year* ago, before he be came president of the Chamber of Commerce. Then he went Into the business of manufacturing tpnts, awnings and other line* of protection for man and beast. A few years ago he bad a dream, in which he beheld a lamb shivering beneath a March wind. Familiar with the conditions and exigencies of the western sheep country, he pondered over the idea of commercializing blanket* for lambs. The more he thought of the Idea, the more It ap pealed to him. A design was made and approved. Thousands of the blankets were made at machines. Out In the sheep country It Is quite a chore during the lambing season to watch the newborn lambs in ihe cold weather. They are taken under shelter and nursed until their ewes take them in charge. If a ewe gets the scent of its own lamb within the first few days, the mother can find her ewe out of a thousand. A hungry' lamb will approach any ewe, but only' the natural mother will permit It to feed. 1 when Scott went out into the sheep country with his lamb blankets he was surprised at the success of his idea. Dealers in the town* im portuned him for the exclusive rights. More than 300,OOfl blankets were sold, within a short time. Scott, however, forgot to' take na ture into his confidence when he pro A.C..Scott moled the lamb blanket Idea. The blankets worked all right for the firs' wearing, but when transferred to* ojher lambs they carried the scent of th<- original lambs and defeated the efforts of the ewes to locate their lambs. The result was that many lambs were orphans. The lamb blanket market suffered a slump. And just about the time Scott retired from the lamb blanket I & NO CONNECTION WITH FIRMS IN ANY OTHER LOCATIONS USING SIMILAR NAMES *\ i i5i2 T /I r # 13,2 I 1 Julius Urkw *S2r 1 Continuing Our . i COATSand t DRESSES i I' „ Your Buying ,< Every * Carmen, Opportunity ^ in This Sf Guaranteed Clearance Is From U Regular Stocl PnCeS OR JUST Half Price I The Dresses '«t $19,60 Dresses -Year- $Q75 / End Clearance Price, t/ ‘ • $26.00 Dresses—Year- $1 050 * * End Clearance Price, 1«( ’ $29.50 Dresses—Year- $”| \ 75 < i End Clearance Price, i I $35.00 Dresses—Year- $"| ^750 •(, End Clearance Price, A I ** $39.50 Dresses—Year- $"| Q75 End Clearance Price, JLt/ $49.50 Dresses—Year- $0/4 75 End Clearance Price, Ld jL $59.50 Dresses—Year- $0075 End Clearance Price, 1 $69.50 Dresses—Year- $0^75 t * End Clearance Price, O*: $79.50 Dresses—Year- IOQ75 < ( End Clearance Price, Ot/ $89.60 Dresses -Year- $ J ,4 75 1 End Clearance Price, l\!* £ T —1W* "*» —* I The Coats $29.50 Coats Year- $^| J75 End Clearance Price, Xtt $35.00 Coats—Year- $ >0 End Clearance Price, $39.50 Coats -Year- *1 Q75 j End Clearance Price, X</ $49.50 Coats—Year- $0 ,J75 End (Clearance Price, hid it $69.50 Coats—Year- $0/175 End Clearance Price, Otl $79.50 Coats Year $QQ75 End Clearance Price, ill/ $110 Coats—Year- $rrOO End Clearance Price, OO $125 Coats- Year $£050 End Clearance Price. Um $175 Coats—Year- $OP750 End Clearance Price, O I $195 Coats—Year- $0750 End <'learanee Price, f field, several of hi* competitors rushed In with large supplies and their order book* ready for signatures on the dotted lines. "For a while we thought we had (he world by the caudal appendage,’ Scott reminisced, "but we did not reckon with nature. It shows that you can't always sometimes tell.” WOMAN DIES ON 93D BIRTHDAY Wymote. Veb., Jan. 3.—Mrs. rieorge Crippin, mother of Mrs. Claude Craig of) Wymote, died recently in Athens, ()., on her it 3d birthday and the 20th anniversary of her husband's death. • She died on the day that Mrs. Craig arrived In Athens to pay her a visit during the holidays, and on the day that Mr. Craig left Wymore to join his wife, ller funeral took place on the 20th anniversary of her husband's, funeral. CATTLE FEEDERS PREDICT BIG YEAR 11v Intern.itioniil New# gf»r»icr. | poncii, Neb., Jan. 3.—Farmers afifl other feeders throughout northeaVj Nebraska are greatly encouraged ovtr ihe top price* they have been r*o'4t4 ing for stock shipments. Shippers in th^ l««salitlcs of Titurtl llartlngion, Ponca and other towns iU northeast Nebraska have topped l» cattle, h »g anil sheep markets at * several ft'Odri> who hftve tskpn **ll4 cinl care to have fat and finely finin1| eil stock have topped the market tw* or three times during the year. ,1 In spite of the high pilee of coni the prospective decreased supply if meats and the present healthtia economic conditions makes farmei* feel that profits from feeding thil year Will approach file high waft,' mark of 1924. 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