he Omaha Sunday Bee
WEATIIER TORECAST.
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V'or Iowa hair.
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OMAHA, SUNDAY MOll-NIXO. XOVEMNKK C 11U0 SKVKN SECTIONS -FOIfTV-KICHT PAMX
S1X0LK COl'V FIVE (TATS.
COLONEL SHOWS
ITG YUAKM0N
Qjestiou Regaidiug Paul Morton'i
Cc unction with Paying Rebates
Brings Instant Pvt spouse.
End of Campaign
Has Been Reached
Out in Wyoming
LYNCHERS FOILED
BY BLUFFS JAIL
Missourians Pursue Man Charged with
Serious Crime to Glenwood, la.,
in Vain.
Coming and Going in Omaha
iMAYOK DAHLMAN
! FLAYED HY ltltVAN
i
I
t
Speaks Before an Omaha Audience and
Points Out the Issues in the
Campaig-n.
AH Kinds of Claims Are Made and All
the Factions Are Confident of
Victory.
GOVERNOR SlliiV J IV.O MASTERS
IN MILLS COUNTY BASTELE
URGES ELECTION OF HITCHCOCK
r
Drew Salary as Receiver of C, H. &
D. ar.d Executive at Same Time.
STATE GIVEN WORST OF IT
Taxes Not Paid Because Railroad Was I hi
In'olvfnt !
BIG D Ail AGE CLAIMS PAID
harge Made that Democratic Leader
While Acting; as Hecrlver of
Knllrnnd Was (Julltr of
Rrhailng.
TOLKDO, i., Nov. i - A sever personal
attack on Governor Judson Harmon of
Ohio was made by Theodore Roosevelt
here toilay la his fltst spoeeh In the
campaign In Ohio. Colonel Roosevelt re
viewed Governor Harmon's connection with
the Cincinnati, Hamilton Dayton rail
road of which he was receiver and said
the governor had not performed his duty
to the state faithfully.
Colonel Roosevelt's address was de
livered In the Valentine building. He be
gan his address by saying that "In the
democratic press" there had appeared to
day a telegram addressed to him, and sent
' apparently on Governor Harmon's behalf
by Mr. Powell, a former democratic candi
date for governor." The telegram read:
"Governor Judson Harmon la the same
Judson Harmon who as special counsel
traced the crime of rebating to Paul
Morton, resigning when you refused to pro
cod against this member of your cabinet."
Harmon's Question Answered.
The message asks Colonel Roosevelt why
he did not act against Mr. Morton.
The colonel asserted that Mr. Harmon
failed completely to trace the crime of
relating to Mr. Morton.
The attorney general then, Mr. Moody,
reported to him Colonel Roosevelt said,
that Mr. Harmon had produced no evidence
whatever to Justify his recommendation of
action against Mr. Morton. Mr. Harmon,
ha said, proposed to indict Mr. Morton
any way, "apparently on the theory that
evidence might subsequently be found that
would connect Mr. Morton with miscon
duct" Colonel Roosevelt went on to ssy that
he had sustained the attorney general'a
opinion, directing htm to lay all the evi
dence on which Mr. Harmon made hta
recommendation before the court.
"Tha case waa brought up before a
demoeratlo Judge. Judge Phillips," Colonel
Roosevelt continued, "and In hla opinion
from the bench lie specifically and abso
lutely justified the course of the at
torney general stating that there
waa no ertdenne whatever In tha
esse that In any way Implicated Mr.
Morton."
Serves State Md Hormu.
Saying Mr. Harmon had sought to dis
credit an Innocent man, Colonel Rooee
vlt took tip the receivership of the Cin
cinnati, Hamilton A Dayton, which he
said was owned In Wall street. 'It being,
ss I am Informed, one of the Morgan prop
erties and the Morgan people, or whichever
Interest It was In Wall street, applying to
have their friend, Mr. Harmon, made re
ceiver. "He received a salary of fc,000 a year."
Colonel Roosevelt continued. "It Is shown
by actual record that while he wa re
ceiver the road under him was engaged con
tinuously In paying damage claims to cer
tain parties for the purpose of holding
business, under circumstances which clearly
indicated that the payment of such damages
served the same purpose as the payment
of rebates.
"It has been shown that the road waa
In a combination with other roads to fix
rates, such combination being certainly
against the spirit and apparently also
against the letter of the law. The read
Aid not pay its taxes to the state of Ohio,
hitherto escaping several hundred thou
sand dollars of auch taxes on the plea,
among others, of Insolvency.
Why Taaea Were ot Paid.
"'Mr. Harmon became governor, but con
tinued hla dual position as receiver of the
road at a salary of l.." 0 0 and governor
at a salary of 110.000. His services to his
two clients, the state of Ohio and the Wall
street owned railroad, appear to have been
about In proportion to the respective sal
aries they paid hlnv For eight months he
continued In this position, getting about
SIS.OOO from the railroad and about 17.000
from the state.
"During this time, he claims as one of his
reasons for Justification, that, as the rail
road was insolvent, that It should not pay
the taxea to his officials, but It was not
too insolvent to pay his salary ss receiver
of tha railroad."
Colonel Roosevelt said Governor Harmon
asserted "he knew nothing of the evasion
. 1 1 f i, m. .A , , An.i . i . .
tlon of the road with other r-iir.
Big frier far Ignorance.
' If that la so," he continued, "what did
he mean by accepting the ixtilllon of re
ceiver and drawing a salary f J3r..uj0 a
year? If he drew a ala:y like that It
was his business to make himself thoroughly
acquainted with what the road under hlni
was doing and especially to s.-o to It tliat
it did nothing Illegal and that it paid Its I
lost debts to the state " '
The colonel said Governor Harmon had '
asserted he d'.d not want to continue as
receiver of the road, but that the Judge
would not allow him to jrlve up the work.
"If Governor Harmon had not wanted to
remain aa receiver." said Colonel Roose
velt, "no Judwe in the land could have'
forotd him to remain " The colonel then
referred to the public utilities bill defeated '
in the Ohio legislature last winter, against
which, he said, the democrats In the lels- j
lature stood almoxt solidly. j
"Governor Harmon protested that he
knew nothing about It," said Colonel
Roosevelt, "and by h supine attitude and
failure to make a stand he brought about
Us defeat"
He declared the author of the bill had
charged publicly that the governor knew
all alH.ut it and that he himself had gone
ovrr It With tha sovernoi . lie iin
that, although the governor said be waa
Kain.t tvettv araft h I,. ,
..ft.... - t ,... . ..
'iivW m iiu ui uru luinv tir insn
graft which he denounced In others, and ',
H at he had on the ticket with him one
tCoatinaed on Second Paga.)
CI I KM DAK. Wyo.. -Nov. t Special Tel-
rKiom )-i'oiay closes the hottest political
campaign In the history of Wyoming, with
both side apparently confident of the out
come. While the democrats arid indo
pendent republicans are claiming a land
slide for Judge Joseph M. Carey. Insurgent
candidate for governor on the democratic
1 Mi.lfkl In. uton.lnanai'1 urn inuluMnir tliu
ornament. Atti.mev General w. e. mui-
ne regular republican nominee, will
pull through safely.
Tliat the Insurgent element la strong In
northern Wyoming admit of no doubt.
The Carey forceH, therefore, figure on a
big vote for the democratic state ticket In
Park. Hlg Horn, Sheridan, Johnson, We
ton and Crook counties, the northern tier.
They alao count on substantial majorities
In the central countlne, Fremont, Natrona
and Converse.
The southern part of the atate, known
as the Union Pacific counties, is where the
Mtundpatters base their hope for more than
offsetting the deniscr a tic-Independent re
publican sentiment In northern Wyoming
and electing Mullen, together with the en
tire republican state ticket. With the pos
sible exception of laj-amlc county. In which
Cheyenne Is located. Insurgency has nut
probably made such great Inroads in
southern Wyoming ns In other sections of
the state, and the Mullen followers claim
a normal republican majority there. Carey
la expected to receive a good vote In Chey
enne, his home town, and materially re
duce the usual republican majority In that
city. If not wipe It out altogether.
The result In Sheridan county, which ia
second In population In the state. Is ex
pected to be considerably mixed. Here the
insurgents won out In a legal fight with
the ftandpatters and plaoed their nominees
for county offices on the official ballot.
The Insurgents and democrats, who also
have a county ticket In the field, are bulb
supporting Carey.
Son is Best Man
at His Father's
Wedding to Aunt
Seymour F. Locke Marries His Sister
in -Law with Full Approval of
His Former Wife.
NBW TURK, Nov. S. With the hearty
approval of hla divorced wife, Seymour K
Locke married his sisuir -In-law, Miss Mar
garet Qreenleaf, a magaaina writer, whose
home U In Lexington, Ky. The first Mrs.
Locke was so far from bearing enmity
towards her sister that it waa at her
special request that her son was his falit
si a best man at the ceremony.
The newly married couple are at present
at Coleman Falls, Va., on thoir honey
moon. Although they were married sev
eral weeks age, cards announcing their
marriage were nut received here until
today.
The first Mra Locke obtained her divorce
In Los Angeles, Cal., in 1903, and was
granted a small portion of her husband's
property, located at Pasadena, Cal. 8he
then returned to New York, where she now
resides.
When asked to comment about the mar
riage, she said:
"Ha should have married Margaret In
the first place; I was quite willing be
should marry her now."
Mex can Banker
Gets Twelve. Years
Cashier Crump Convicted of Embei
clement and Draws Maxi
mum Penalty.
MKX1CO CITY, Nov. 5. Robert A,
Crump, former cashier of the Federal
Banking company, which failed several
months ago, was today sentenced to twelve
years' Imprisonment following his convic
tion for embexxllng SGS.OOO from the inst -ution.
This Is the maximum penalty pro
vided by Mexican laws. The bank waa an
American house.
C. C. WILSON FILES APPEAL
President of ultvd Wireless Takes
Contempt Case to Supreme
t'onrt.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. An appeal from
the decision of the New York federal
courts, holding Christopher C. Wilson
guilty of cantempt of court for not pro
ducing certain books of the United Wire
less Telegraph company for examination
i before the grand Jury was filed today In
I the supreme court of the United States
i v-n.,.n .im ,nnialMl from tha action of the
I lower court In refusing to release him on!0"6 ,oa1 backtracked to Pacific Junction.
habeas corpus proceedings from the cus
tody of the United States marshal.
Will Hitchcock Put it Back.?
Hrpndiallon Is Dishonesty.
Bhelton Clipper.
Whether O. M. Hitchcock borrowed state
money or money belonging to J. S. Hartley,
in pleading the ste'.cte of limitation he
ahotel himself to te dishonest, inasmuch
aa he la abundantly able to pay the niouey.
The people of Nebraka don't want a ro
pudlator to represent them In tha United
Htates senate.
NslliK It Dans.
Grand Island Indeiienrtcnt.
The finals in the Howard-llltchcock-Bartley
shortage game seem to be in
progress. r.aitor tiowara or me oemo-
cratic Columbus Telegram yesterday gave
' 10 l"' V V y w
i of hta chre h" " hm
rower of state funds and had not put It
' bck' A"d th" furth" P'"f '" dam-
aKin,t '" 4" "a,Ur' ' ' orld-Herald
"nd "r,'oor1'- ho "em'1 trrt"r ,0
muse mm- -,, .
lM'",,,,
have come out toviay witn Int
I facsimile uf a letter ironi ivaniey. oated
facsimile uf a letter from Hartley, dated
in VH. to the effect that the U.ooo loan
. .
mot the fc'.Uuoi was from Hartley's private
account in Wattles' bank. The mortgage
u,nHnc this 11000 note was. acenrrfinff to
" Hitcbcok himself, foreclosed In IWt Mr.
Sheriff, Fearing for Safety of Pris
oner, Makes Hurried Trip.
POSSE DECIDES TO STOP EFFORTS
rate Neighbors Must Await the
Process of Law.
ACCUSED MAN 7)ISGUISES SELF
Harry Riri'r la Irresled at J'aclfle
Junction, Following Aliened At
tack on Woman In Atchison
Connty, Missouri.
Harry Barger, accused of a criminal as
sault upon Mrs. diet Raker, reading In
Atchison county, Missouri, a few mites
southeast of Hamburg, la., was captured
at Taclflc Junction, la., Friday afternoon
and brought to Council Bluffs late In the
evening for the purpose of preventing a
posse of pursuing Missourians from lyneh-
ng him.
Rarger was taken from Pacific Junction
to Glenwood, la., and lodged in the Mills
county Jail, but when Sheriff LIndeville
heard that a band of resolute Missourians,
recruited from the neighborhood where the
assault was committed, were coming to
Glenwood in automobiles determined and
well prepared to lynch Barger, he placed
the prisoner In an auto and sped across the
country with him to Council Bluffs, ex
acting a promise from Sheriff McCaffery
not under any circumstances, to divulge
the fact that the prisoner was In Council
Bluffs Jail lest the Irate Missourians should
cotno up there and finish the Job they had
undertaken. The fact, however, won widely
circulated around Glenwood where the
pursuers easily acquired all necessary In
formation about the eendltlon of the Coun
cil Bluffs Jail. They neglected to take ad
vantage of the oppoitunity offered them
to continue their Juorney, but would un
doubtedly have finished Harger if he had
remained In Mills county.
Goes to Baker Home.
Barger was a hired man on a farm near
the Baker residence and waa acquainted
with Mrs. Baker and her family. He went
to the house when he knew she would be
alone and left her In an Insensible condi
tion. He left the place before she recov
ered and before any member of her family
returned. When she regained conscious
ness the telephoned her brother, having
only strength enough to tell him to come
r . sTjr: r tt:
Way ha metBarger oomlng from the direc
tion of the house, but. not knowing what
had happened, merely spoke to. him - In
passing. Mrs. Baker told her brother the
story, an dthe farm telephones were quickly
used to raise a pursuing party.
Barger was followed, but he got Into the j
hills and went acrosa country, where hla
purnuera, mostly In automobiles, were un
able to follow and they lost him. He came
to the vicinity of Pacific Junction, where,
partially dlsgulshed by a stained face, he
found employment husking corn for a
farmer named Moore. He worked until
Friday before he was recognised a the
possible fugitive and Miila county off icon
placed him under arrest. An hour or so
after he waa brought fhto Paclflo Junction
the pursuing Missourians had reached the
Moore farm and learned of the arrest. It
was then a chase between them and the
sheriff. In which tbe sheriff won by get
ting hla man. No one has been permitted
to see Barger and his own version of the
case nan not been made publlo.
Sheriff Klndes Parsuers.
GLENWOOD, la., Nov. 6. (Special.)
Marshal John Farrell of Pacific Junction,
accompanied by Leputy Sheriff Robert
Allen of Atchison county, Missouri, arrived
here yesterday and had placed In Jail Harry
Barger, or Harts, wanted in Missouri on a
charge of assaulting Mrs. C. C. Baker at
her home six miles southeast of Hamburg.
Several automobile loads of relatives and
friends, prepared to make quick work of
Barger, it caught, were known to be close
to Glenwood and Sheriff LinviUe thought
Council Bluffs a safer place for the man,
even If the Jail there had been recently
condemned by tbe grand Jury. In a few
minutea after a transfer of the prisoner
had been decided upon, Clyde Stranathan
was In front of tbe Jail with an auto
mobile. Sheriff Llnvllle, Deputy Allen and
the prisoner made a record trip to Council
Bluffs, the condition of the roads being
taken into consideration.
Tha first automobile load of pursuers
drew up In front of the Glenwood Jail and
the men Jumped out aa one man. No In
quiry waa made as to the location of the
Jail aa far aa known her. They seemed
to know exactly where to draw up. They
were told misleading stories at the Jail and
The destination of
the others was not
known here.
Uitchcock ndmits, too, that he did not
repay the loan dollar for dollar, though he
does not even claim he lias not been able
to do so. The further fact that Mr. Hitch
cock, in 1LXH, aks Hartley for this letter
explaining how he got the note In ISI or
IsSj, the mortgage securing which waa
foreclosed In ifc. carries little weight If,
Indeed, It does not corroborate the charge
of the very close and very Mendly rela
tions between Hitchcock and Bartley.
A Mistake and Then Some.
Bloomington Advocate.
Kdltor Hitchcock evidently made a mis
take w hen he said that he had never bor
rowed any money from the state, for the
pr0 i.,n forthcoming that he not
only borrowed several thousand dollars.
hut he never paid It hark. At the time
hr '-arrowed the nviney his newspaper was
about swamped and no one would loan
'lni money to keep It afloat until he up-
peaien to me iiien state li easurer, Joe
- ; partiey. Then when Hartley wanted the
money back Hitchcock refused to
, money back Hitchcock refused to pay it. !
I Hartley served time for his emt.enn.r,.
-
but this man, Hitchcock, who was guilty
of borrowing state money and not putting!"' J"rt"on Harmon as governor of the state
It back, now wanta ta
States senator.
run for United
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MWETTE, OHAHAinr ""WJ "
Events
RIVAL CLAIMS FOR CONGRES
Chairman McKinley Says Republicans
Will Have Working Majority.
STAlta mOU DEMOCRATS
taunpnlan Committee Sara Conservn
tlTe Bstlmate OItcs Present Mi
nority Party a Majerltr
. of Fifty-One.
CHICAGO, Nov. 6 Statements regarding
the control of the next house of representa
tives were given out today by the demo
cratic congressional committee and by
Chairman W. IS. McKinley of the repub
lican congressional committee. The demo
cratic committee believes its party will
have a majority of fifty-one In the sixty
second congress, while Mr. McKinley,
speaking for the republicans, saya he Is
nnnfidnnt thev will retain control by a fair
working majority. The democratic com
mltfce statement follows:
"We believe that, after a conservative
estimate of the political situation, we will
have a majority of fifty-one. In the next
house. We arrive at this conclusion by
giving to each party the dtstrloU which
we think It Is reasonably certain to carry
and dividing the doubtful districts equally
between them.
While our galna will be most pronounced
In the east, we have every reason to be
lieve we will make gains In every state
which now has republican representation,
with the possible exception of four, and
wa do not expect to lose more than two
districts that are now represented by demo
crats. "In the beginning of the campaign the
prospects for democratic victory looked so
bright that we feared It would be only
temporary. We congratulate ourselves that
.... w-. . . . J V- kill
the revolt against tne rym-mnwi um
and the republican mismanagement of gov
ernment has grown each day since the
campaign began and until now It has be
come evident that a very overwhelming
victory for democracy la assured."
Chairman McKinley In hla statement
says: y
"From the best reports obtainable from
candldatea on the republican ticket and
others Interested Tfi republican politica. I
am confident the republican party will con
trol the sixty-second congress by a fair
working majority.
"The size of tha majority, In fact the
outcome of thte election, will be deter
mined by the percentage of the republican
vote of the country which comes to the
polls on the bth of November.
"That the voters have taken but a slight
Interest In the pending political campaign
is evidenced by the small vote cast at the
pnniurtes for the candidates on the sev
eral tickets. This It would seem forecasts
an extraordinarily light vote, especially
in the districts where the farmers are en
joying an unusual degree of prosperity."
NI2W VORK. Nov. 5. "It is not possible
that Pix will have less than 100,000 plu
rality in the state." declared William S.
Rodte, chairman of the executive com
mittee of the democratic state committee
today.
"We will carry the state for the ticket
by more than lflu.OUO and for Stlnuion by at
lead SO.OUO," said Chairman Prentina, of
the republican state committee In a type
written statement issued at tha same time
from republican headquarters.
The democratic chairman said that John
A. Iix. would run ahead of the ticket.
The republican campaign manager ad
mitted that Henry I. Stlmson would run
behind.
Ohio Democrats Confident.
COLUMBUS, O.. Nov. S.-Hugh L.
Nichols, cii.ilrmau of the democratic execu
tive committee today issued a statement
vtng:
! The xe unv
committee of the ileino-
' ciatlc isrtv of Ohio i Urns the re-election
"' ,n" r:eil majority given a de mocratic
tCoullnued a tievuuvl Page
of the Week, as Viewed by The Bee's Artist.
Uncle Sam Orders
Tovvboats for the
Missouri River
contract Let for Three Craft to Be j
Used for Improvement Work in
Omaha District.
DUBUQUE, la.. Nov. 6.-Spe-ial.)-The
United States War department has
just closed the contract with the Du
buque Boat and Boiler works for the de
struction of three tow boats to be uueil
In Missouri river Improvement work In
the vicinity of Kansas City and Omaha
Major E. 11. Schulz, in charge of Im
provement work on the Missouri In the
division which Includes Kansas City and
Omaha, with hla asalstunt, Mr. Hayden,
was In Dubuque the latter part of this
week and completed tha deal whereby the
three boats will be constructed here.
The boats are to be entirely of steel
and built to draw a minimum amount of
water. They are to be exact counterparts
of each other In every particular. They
are to be 138 feet long and twenty-four
feet acrosa the beam. They will be
equipped with the moot modern and power
ful boilers and engines and are calcu
lated to do service for many years to come,
at least till the Missouri river Is made
navigable aa far north as Canada.
Major BchuJa was greatly pleased with
the plans and etated that he believed the
boats when they are put In commission
will be among the most serviceable the gov
ernment has engaged In such work. The
contract calls for their completion, ready
to go into commission within nine months,
which means they are to tic delivered to
the government at Kansas City about Au
gust 1.
The boats are to be known aa the Curney,
tha Augustine and the Lewis.
Wants Divorce
Because Wife is
Too Economical
James Conklin of Sterling1, 111., Al
leges She Refused to Buy New
Dress for Two Years.
STERLING, III., Nov. a. James Conklin
of Bureau county today filed a petition for
a divorce In which he sets forth that his
wife refuses to dress Ilka other women In
the neighborhood and that the style of
attire worn by her causes him much em
barrassment. He alleges that she has refused to buy a
new dress for two years. lie states that
he had frequently urged her to dress more
fashionably and in keeping with the sea
son's styles, but that I. is wife maintained
tliat it waa too costly, lie also alleges that
she had deserted him.
CZAR AND KAISER SHOOT
Fifteen linndred Deer nnd Other
Animals luipoonded for
Them.
BERLIN. Nov. 5. Em)ror Nicholas
hunted today in Kmpertir Williams new
game preserve, near Oranlenhui g. twenty
six miles northeast of Potsdam. A
battalion of soldiers with foresters had
been engaged for some days in assembling
some 1.5! deer. I.iue and other four
footed game within an enclosure und
when the animals were driven out today
past a line of plu'oiin concealed by pine
branches and upon which tlo. roal party
and twei,(-lwu other court hunters had
taken positions ready for the killing.
Emperor Nicholas a as permitted the first
shot.
TI.e forest was thoroughly searched by
troops to make sure that it onntalned no
un whose pr;jiue was unnuthonxed.
CRIPPEN TO I1ANG TUESDAY
Court of Appeals Rules Against Him
on All Points.
MOTHER TRESIS REFUSED
Contention that Jury Was Hot Prop,
erlr Guarded and that Corps
Waa Not Identified Are
Without Merit.
LONDON. Nov. 6 Dr. Hawley H. Crip
pen, convicted of the murder of Ids wife.
Belle Elmore, the actress, today played
his last card and lost. He will be hanged
on November a.
The criminal court of appeals heard his
appeal from the conviction In the lower
court nd doulded against him on all
points. The court refused to grant a new
trial and confirmed the order of execution,
which will be carried out on Tuesday next.
Crippen was brought to the court house,
but kept In a cell pending a decision on an
appeal against Justice Ridley's ruling that
he could not attend the proceedings. This
ruling waa set aside and Crippen was
brought into the dock. He was very pale
and evidently had lost strength since bis
conviction.
The prisoner's counsel was the same as
appeared for him at hla trisi. The prlnci
pal grounds upon which they based their
appeal, were: First, that one of the Jur
ors, having been taken 111 during tha trial,
was removed from the oourt by physicians
without being In the custody of an officer;
second, the Identity of the corpse found In
the cellar of the Crippen home haa not
been established, and third, that the
crown's rebutting evidence had been Im
properly admitted.
Solicitor Tobin said It was not chiuped
that any one had tampered with the Juror
while h'e whs temporarily excused, but that
an Important principle of law was Involved.
In reply, the crown offered the evidence
of a bailiff that the juror was In his
charge throughout his Illness. Deciding
this point, the court ruled that the tem
porary separation of the Jury did not af
fect the trial.
Three Children
Burned to Death
Farm Home of Peter Peterson Near
Hartington Destroyed and Lit
tles Ones Incinerated.
HARTINGTON, Neo.. Nov. 5 pe.-lal
Telegram.) The three small children, rsng
Ing in age from 3 to (j years, of Peter
Peterson, a farmer living four or five milus
from Hamilton, were burned to death last
night shout S o'clock. Mr. Peterson Is In
s. hocpltal In Sioux City and .va to be
operated on today, nnd last night Mrs.
Peterson went to one of the neighbors to
get them to stay with the children while
she went to Sioux City on the early morn
ing train today, and while she was absent
the house caught flr. in some manner and
the thieo children were buined to death.
PITTSBURG GRAFT HUNT ENDS
Hrnislnlsg I edict men ta Aanlnat
Hankers an Councllmeu Are
Dismissed.
PITTSBURG. Nov 5-At the request of
District Attorney William Hlakelv. Ju.le
J.iah t ohen. in common pleao court to
day nolle prossed the reine'ning Iif.llct-
nint agalnxt bankers, maiiufact urcrs
and councilman connected with the munic
ipal Kisft cases.
The indictments were bgair.si W. .
Ramsey and A. A.Vllhack. bankers; John
F. Kliin and W. P. Weber, fouiic, linen,
snil I 'alias C. Her, steel manufacturer.
All ate serving terms in prison exevpt
Uyeis, vim Ui'rd abroad last yrar
Would Have Democratic Candidate
for Governor Pffeated.
NOT THE CH0IC OF DEMOCRATS
Is the Candidate of Brewers and
Liquor Interests.
OPTION IN NO VT'F. PROHIBITION
Men Who lleel In I iq nor. Slid t
the Masses. Are Mreklnar in
Hefrnt the Mrnanrr, "ays
penKer,
William J Bryan sookc In Omaha last
night at tln auditorium In opposition to
the candidacy of .Ihimcs C. Dahlman for
governor.
He declared him.tclf In favor of all
office. In discussing state Issues, he
should lie supported unless lie favored
the initiative and referendum.
Mr. Bryan favored the election of Gil
bert M. Hitchcock for United Htntrs sen
ator and the election of C. O. Lobeck to
congress.
On the liquor question Mr. llrynn snld:
First. The liquor question would not
have been In this campaign but for the
liquor Interests. When at the last regu
lar session of the legislature they de
feated the resolution submitting tho
Initiative md referendum, and when Inter
they prevented the calling of n special
session to submit the Initiative snd ref
erendum, now endorsed by all parties,
they forced the liquor question to thu
front as tho paramount Issue, and a
Omaha's three; senators could have se
cured the submission of tho Initiative
and referendum by voting for It, Omaha's
liquor Interests are responsible for th.
fact that we are now confronted with
this question.
o Interference In IlnnalHs,
"Second. County option does not inter
fere with the saloon business In Douglas
county. Under county option tho sa
loons will not bo Interfered with In any
county so long as the majority of tha
people of the county desive unions. No
body suppose that under county op
tion Douglas county would go dry.
'Third. Instead of the state trying to
to force saloons out of Dougjos county.
Douglas county Is trying to force xalona
Into the counties that might. If given
the privilege, vote tho saloona out. This
atempt on the part of Douglas county to
compl other counties to permit saloons
against their will In likely to provokM
retaliation. If Douglas county Is not
willing to let other counties voto out tha
aloon, she cannot, complain If other
counties object to her keeping aaloona.
Fourth Only your brewers, distillers
and wholesale liquor dealera are pecuniarily
In defeating county option, and even they
cannot be Injured If, as they say, tho
refusal to license saloons Increases tho
sale of liquor. Can Omaha afford to
array Itaelf against the people of the state
merely to please Its brewers, distillers and
liquor dealers?
Will Delay Prohibition.
"Fifth County option does not mean
state prohibition. It will delay state pro
hibition instead of hastening It. Take the
case of Ohio for Instance, Ohio has county
option, notwithstanding Us large cities
and the large German element In Its tabu
lation. No attempt Is being made to re
peal county option; no party Is demanding
lta repeal, and no effort Is being made to
secure state prohibition in Ohio.
"Sixth County option does not give too
large a unit. No county outside of Doug
las contains as many people as Omaha,
and yet, the whole of Omaha Is the unit
In acting upon the liquor question. No
county excepting Douglas and Itncastar
haa as many people as the city of lAn
coln ,and yet, Lincoln acts as a unit In
deciding the liquor question. The city
of Chicago is larger In area than our
average county, and yet, it can act as it
unit. Whether population or area is con
sidered, no logical argument can be made
against the county us a unit.
Position of Uahliuun.
"Seventh Mr. Ihihlmaii cannot claim,
democratic support on tho ground of reg
ularity, for while he has a legal title to
the democratic nomination, he was not the
choice of a majority of tho democrats who
voted at the primaries. His nomination waa
forced upon the party by the votea of thou
sands of wet republicans who entered our
primary and added their votes to the votes
o fa minority o ftho democrats.
"Eighth Mr. Dahlman la not running on
the democratic platform. He announces
that he will veto a county option bill, al
though the last democratic atate convention
by a vote of W to Mi refused to condemn
county option. He also announces that ha
will sign a bill repealing the daylight saloon
law, notwithstanding the fuel that the
last democratic slate convention endorsed
the daylight saloon law by a vote of 710
to P3. The democratic party polled mora
than 130.JO ovtes two years ago, while Mr.
aDhlman polled only 27.&:d. Subtract from
Mr. Dahlman' s vote the thousands of wet
republicans who voted lor hlni and he will
have less than ono-fidh of the democratic,
votes of the state. A candidate receiving
his nomination as .Mr. Dahlman did hla
and receiving so small u percentage of tha
democratic vote (ai-.,...v repudiate liiu plai
form, make the lltjuor question the sole
issue und then claim tho support of dem
ocrat on the ground of regularity.
The World Moves.
"Mr. Dahlman's ix.aitlon In this rauipaik.ii
presents an Issue Hiirpasnlrig even the
county option lsiue and the daylight saloou
Issue. The Issue pieseiuud by Ids candi
dacy la whether the liquor interests shall
control this suite. No official should ba
expected to res.st the. Influences upon whlcU
he relies for nomination and election, and
Mr. Dahlman Is too honest to accept the
governorship at the hands of the liquor in
terest and then oppose the proximo of the
llqi;nr Interests. If he carries out the pro
gram of the liquor Inwrrns, the liqu-r
question will be more acute iwo iai
from now than it la iow, for the party will
have to endorse or r puiilatu the action i f
the ailmimsti atlou oil this subject anil
that. too. during a pic-Mdenllal atiipaigu.
"The liquor Interests put the hqiU'i que
tlon above everything else, i'hes have in)
li. It-rest In oilier questions; they ignore na
tional Issues and other stale Issues alike
when to liquor question uppcuiu, JuKleaJ
