The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, September 27, 1924, Page 2, Image 2

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Jamieson Bi"
Thorn in Side
Anti-Female Suffrage Work
of Democratic Congression
al Candidate Returns Like
Banquo’s Chost.
Omaha women who are being asked
to vote for W. N. Jamieson, demo
cratic candidate for congress in this
district, are wondering whether
Jatnleson believes their memory is
so short that they have forgotten the
role he played in connection with the
referendum petition against women's
suffrage filed with the secretary of
state during July, 1917.
A memorable action was brought In
Lancaster county against this peti
tion hy Edna M. Barkley, president
of the Women's Suffrage association
of Nebraska, against the secretary of
state and various other defendants
and Intervenors. District Judge
Leonard A. Klansburg entered a de
cree on January 25, 1919, holding the
referendum petition Insufficient, and
his ruling was sustained hy the su
preme court.
Jamieson Had Charge.
The transcript of the case won by
the suffragists covers thousands of
pages and shows that Jamieson had
complete charge of the actual field
work and the circulation of petitions,
this being testified to by Mrs. L F.
Crofoot, who said she employed
Jamieson for her association. Tesll
mbny shows that Jamieson was paid
$2,150.17 for his work of -dx walks
and four days in preparing a refer
endum petition which Judge F.ans
h$irg held was invalid because of
“fraud, forgery, false and detective
Certificates, signatures of minors or
persons who were not electors, signa
tures procured through false repre
sentation of the circulator and signa
tures with Incoriect or fictitious ad
dresses.’’
The court found that 29,147 legal
signatures were necessary upon the
referendum petition in order to con
stitute 10 per cent of the legal voters
of the state, and that there appeared
tm the petition 3,840 names in ex
cess of that number, and the court
further found that considerably more
than 3,840 names on the petition were
invalidated and could not be counted.
The decree reads that in the case of
a circulator named Barclay, 28 of
his petitions appeared to be each in
the same hadwriting; that 105 wit
nesses denied the signatures on these
petitions purporting to be theirs, and
that most of the 105 signatures were
proved to be forgeries.
Controlled All Movements.
Miss M. G. Paul, who had charge
of the office of the Anti-Suffrage as
sociation during the circulation of
the petitions, testified that Jamieson
was “the person who hired and con
trolled the movements of the circula
tors.’’
"And when the work was going on
by the circulators, who controlled
their movements as to where they
Should go and what they should do?"
•&iiss Paul was asked during her testi
mony.
"With the exception of just a few,
he (Jamieson) did entirely,’’ she re
plied.
"And when Informatftin was desired.
Child Victims of Love Pact
Face Life in Alien Homes
‘'Reckon Wc Don't Ever Want to See Mother Again." Says
Son, 14. of Mrs. Elsie Sweetin; Doesn't Eare
XX hat Happens to Her.
’ By SONIA LEE.
Vnternationa! »w« Servlre suit for respondeat.
Tamarna, III* Sept. 2S.—Six other victims of the "love pack" murder*
of a preacher and ^iis "perfect love"— the children of Elsie Sweatin and Rev.
Lawrence M. Hlght., derelicted now. seeking alien homes in the shadows of
pointing fingers and the sound of suddenly stilled whispers—today sat in
judgment on the sins of their parents.
by them, or by you, as to the details
of the work, and that you could or
could not do, who nupplled that?"
"I would go to Mr. Jamieson, so
that he was really the person In
charge of getting signatures."
"Who employed the circulators who
were paid?”
"Mr. Jamieson did."
During his own testimony Jamie
son stated that ho believed he was
employed on this referendum petition
work by the antisuffiraglsts because
he had filed the referendum petition
against the workman's compensation
law.
Fraud Was Apparent.
Mrs. C. C. GeArge testified to vari
ous instances of petitions being re
ceived at antisuffragist headquarters
and that their fraudulence was so ap
parent "that any child could have
seen that, and they were all put In the
waste basket. "Jamieson,” she testi
fied, “had charge right up to the end
and he went to Lincoln and filed the
petition.”
Paul Sutton, then operating the
Sutton Detective agency, testified to
signatures of persons who did not
exist. J. B. Haynes, who started the
referendum petition work, testified he
quit because he could not get reliable
men to do the work and he so in
formed the women.
The women who fought for the
enactment of the limited women's
suffrage law by the legislature in
1917 and who defeated Jamieson’s
fraudulent referendum petition, are
out in this campaign to remember
the democratic nominee for congress
but not in the way that he would
prefer. The women who engaged
Jamieson in 1917 also remember that
they paid him $2,160.17 to do work
which Judge Flansburg held in his
decree contained "fraud, forgery,
false and defective certificates.”
Omaha women assert they will not
forget W. N. Jamieson, democratic
candidate for congress, on election
day next month.
Rev. Bryant Howe to Remove
From Columbus to Holdrege
Columbus, Neb., Sept. 26.—Aboli.
tion of Columbus district of the
Methodist Episcopal church In the in
terests of administrative economy,
announced at tha closing session of
the annual Nebraska conference at
Omaha, necessitates removal of Rev.
Bryant Howe from Columbus to
Holdrege where he becomes super
intendent of the Holdrege district.
Columbus district was created eight
years ago. It was found advisable
to reduce the number of districts In
(he Htato from eight to seven as a
matter of economy.
Beatrice— A car beiinging to H.
Heyn, Fllley farmer, parked on South
Second street, was stolen.
4 And the verdict of Hie sweetm noys
t—Byford, 14; Stanton, 13, and Harry
jce, 8—Is hard, cruel, following the
teachings of the Mosaic law.
"I reckon we don't ever want to see
her again." It was Byford, voicing
the opinion the three hold of their
mother! the mother who administered
poison to the father who romped with
them. "We re not going to jail. N'o,
she killed my father. We don't care
what happens to her. If she ever
gets out, I'll never live with her
again." *
Honor Thy Father.
The pastor, however, finds plfy and
understanding. Instilled perhaps by
the holy lessons which they learned
at his knees, prayers move the lips
of the three who called him father.
"Honor thy father and thy mother."
It is the doctrine of the church he
once represented and his children re
fuse to cast it aside.
At the home of their married sister,
Marie, at Eaton, where the despond,
ent daughter, Mildred, 16, and the
son, Robert, 14, found sanctuary, they
try to see clearly, calmly.
"If wre could only understand,”
Marie cries, sending the boy away
that she might speak what Is In her
heart. In the last year he has been
queer. He couldn't sit still. He was
not sleeping and he wasn't eating.
Mother asked him what the matter
was and he said it was funerals and
church troubles that were bothering
him."
"He wai awfully affectionate,” she
said. “He'd come in and put, his arm
around mother and Buy 'Hello there,
sweet honey,’ and she'd push him
away and tell him to stop.
Always Sick.
"And he'd tell her about the peo
ple in his congregation. As to
women, we never knew a thing.
Grace Elliott, the Centerville girl,
whose picture they were trying to
identify, was my especial chum and
I was with her at the picnio when
(hepicture they found at our house
was taken.
"Elsie Sweetin was like a girlfriend
to me. Her house is on the hard
road, and I d go there and sit on the
porch and watch the cars go by. She
once said that she wished I was her
girl. She'd always put her arm
around me. but she never talked
about my father. She respected him.
Mother thought she wan a real good
friend.
After her husband died she was
always making some excuse for not
visiting un. And she was always sick
after he died. T guess It was hep
< onsvienee. She'd route to rhurch
and she'd get so slek she'd have to go
home.
"When mother was taken sick Klsie
ramr (o see her oner She stroked
mother's arm and held her hand. She
put her arms around me and told
me not to cry; that mother might get
well."
Had l.lke a Brother.
“Yes." Marie Interpolates. “and
when I got faint she took me out
on the hack porch and brought me
to. I'd like to have her now. What
business did she have mixing up with
a married man? It's a woman's busi
ness to stop such things.
"Dad was like a brother to Robert.
The day he signed his confession was
Robert's birthday and il almost killed
him. Tomorrow is my birthday. What
a holiday for us!"
Then inherent love for the father,
which nothing the world may think
or say can quite efface, breaks
through to the surface.
"Oh, we do want to see daddy,"
Marie says impulsively, snd her sis
ter nods assent. "He’s getting all the
blame. No one is feeling sorry for
him. We don't want him to hang
We don't feel that he ought to be
out because he killed mother."
To the future the. Hight children
so far have had but little opportunity
to look. Mildred, a sophomore in
high school, and Robert, an eighth
grade student, plan to return to
school.
"We're going to t* Mptmteri,” Ily
fort! Informed the our*tinner. "Utu’le
Joe William*, my moth»r'n half-broth
er in Pickneyville. is taking Stanton.
I’m going to my father’* friend.!
Arthur Brown, who Hvo* on a farm In
Spring Garden county. 1 reckon
Harry I<ce will stay at Inn.”
1 Copyright. 1934 )
Ventral Nebraska Dentists
Hold Meeting at Aurora
Aurora, Net*., Sept, 28-—Central
Nebraska Dental association niel at
Aurora this week and the local den
tists entertained the visitors at the
Aurora Country club. Golf matches
were played during the afternoon and
in the evening a banquet Was served
to the visiting doctors by the Aurora
dentists.
Dr. O. M. Newman of Aurora was
elected president. H. Hrugh. vice
president, and l>r. *T. F. Cole, secic*
tcry-trensurer. Dr. ii. P. Reldon of
Seward was elected delegate to the
state executive council.
Dr. William Sellerr, president, and
Dr. Herbert King, secretary, of the
State Dental society, both from
Omaha, were special guests of the
meeting. Dr. Bcheer read a paper on
"Partial Dentures.”
Former Football Player
Gets Position as Manager
Beatrice, Sept. 28.—Fred Dayton,
formerly captain of the Reatrice high
school football eleven and a graduate
of the school, has been named mana
ger of the Hughes Motor company at
Wymore.
Bee Want Ads produce results.
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Burgess Bedtime
Stories
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Hy THORNTON W. IU RC3KNS.
Whrm>v»r fortune tret* I* you well.
)»o nothin* that will break th*
Ultr. Billy Po»- uw.
Black Pussy la Vpwt.
I’nr’ Billy Possum was very well
pleased with the hiding placa ne had
found under the hack porch of Farm
er Brown's house It was dark, dry
and comfortable there. line' Billy
decided that he had had excitement
enough for one night and that nt
would stay right where, he was until
he hail an opportunity to leave with
out running any risk. So htlng tired
he curled himself tip and went lc
sleep.
Reddy Fox is smart, lie knew about
t’nc' Billy Possum's favorite trick of
playing dead, and when he discover
ed that l'no' Billy had mysteriously
disappeared from Farmer Brown s
barnyard ho guessed what had hap
pened.
"1'nc,’ Billy wasn’t dead at all,”
thought. Reddy, "lie was just pretend
ing. I ought to have remembered
that trick of hi*. When I led Bowser
the ltound sway Ui>c’ Billy saw his
rhanco and made the moet of it.
Probably he is up In a tree near
Farmer Brown's house. I'll hang
around awhile. Perhaps I may get a
chance to catch the old rascal on his
way back to the Green Forest."
1 So Reddy didn't go far. Of course
he discovered almost as soon as it
happened that Bowser the Hound had
stopped following him. That was be
cause Bowser's master had stopped
him. Farmer Brown's Boy had chain
ed Bowser up. He was afraid that
the moment he went Into the nouiie
Bowser would pick up Reddy's trail
again and spend most of the night
chasing him. He didn't want him io
Tlx* install! site got under tint porch
Black Pussy ntnpptd.
do that. So Iteddy had a chance to
come bark and try to discover where
line’ Billy had gone. But he failed,
and finally gave up in disgust.
Karly the next morning Black Pussy
the Cat came out of the house. Of
course she knew nothing cf what had
happened the night before. 8h# ale
her breakfast, took a sun bath nn the
doorstep and finally decided to take a
nap under the back porch. This was
a favorite place of her* There was a
hole under it which had been left
especially for her.
The Instant she got under the porch
R!ark Pursy stopped and Ihe hair on
her tat! began to stand on end. H* •
noso told her that some one waa un
der there. Now line' Billy la a light
sleeper. He heard Black Pussy anil
Instantly he was wide awake. Hi
couldn't see who It was, hut he cothii
see a pnlr of green eyes. He aoram
bled to hl» feet, drew hack hia lips
to show all his teeth and snarled. To
Black Pussy * startled eyes t'nc’ Billy
appeared to tie a huge Hat, a bigg'i
Hat than she had ever dreamed of.
You should have seen Black Pussy go
out of that hole!
Farmer Brown's Boy happened
along just in time to see her comeoui
Every hair In Black Pussy's tail was
on end. so that it seemed to he three
times its natural sire. Fhe raecd for
the nearest tree and climbed it. (the
climbed high, and then from a crotcu
she glared down toward the back
porch—a picture of frlgnt. It wa
clear that Black Puasy wag upset
badly upset. And It was equally clea
that whatever had upset her was un
der the back porch.
(Copyright 1924 )
The next story: "Farmer Brown's
Buy Hakes a Good Guess.’’
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