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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1924)
Plot to Throw Election Into House Is Bared ■Demorcats and La Follette "Conspired Months Ago to Block Voters’ Choice, Sears Charges. (CnntiniiMl l rovn l’age One.) ■against the candidate in whose favor they were perpetrated. Corruption Rampant. '• “In lvehalf of the Bloom candidacy there was more fraud and corruption than 1 have ever heard of before in • ny one election. Mr. Nelson is the plain lieutenant of Ba Follette in Wls ponsin. A few days after the hearing Hud report of the committee, Mr. kelson secured a copy of the evidence pnd so was conversant with the facts. „ '( “He at once got busy with the democrats and Bloom supporters, but had nothing to do with republican members of the committee, although ha claimed to be a republican, j "The record as made up, that was before the committee, disclosed the following frauds perpetrated by the Bloom forces at that election—and ^ome I may have forgotten. “In one voting precinct the judges <jf election forged 1(1 liallots after the filters had placed them in the hands Of the judges, changing them from Chandler to Bloom. In one precinct 511 ballots were taken from the pile ballots in front of the judges. Seven teen of them were later discovered In an adjoining back room with the top three marked for Bloom. Ballots Were Stolen. ' “In another precinct 35 were taken out of the pile of ballots with the knowledge of the judges and were bever heard of afterwards, undoubted ly being used for fraudulent voting i "In one precinct four workers for Chandler were ordered out of the precinct on pain of physical violence. In one precinct a man and his four sons, democrats who had always voted fOr Chandler, on attempting to vote were told that they had already been Voted. In one precinct, contrary to law, a sign was up ‘Vote for Bloom,’ oltise t j the poll. In one precinct on Account of the frauds that had been perpetrated during the day. a woman clerk refused to sign the record. “When the 17 ballots were discov ered in the back room, within a few moments, four men came in and de manded the ballots that had been found, giving as the reason that they were officers and that they wanted fo take them to the police station. The ballots never found their way to the police station and the men were undoubtedly from the democratic headquarters nearby. There was evi dence that voters remained away from the polls because they heard of t'he frauds that were being per petrated. “When the votes were all counted it was found that on the face of the record Bloom had 126 majority over Chandler. The majority of the com mittee, all republicans, concluded that lp the face of the fraud shown that d'hdoubtedly Chandler had been de prived of more than 126 votes by fjtauds perpetrated against him and tj{ie election, and so held. Election CoJfheiuned. ■ “The republican members of the uommittee did not make a party ques tion of this election, but tried to dis pose of the same as a case would be tiled on Its merits In court. On that basis we concluded that an election <^o tainted by fraud should not be al lowed to stand. ^“The congressional delegation from ADVERTISEMENT. smut ike COUGH OK COLD l! 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Her mother, who died recently, was Judge Woodrough's secretary. Her father, the late Frank Rut cliffe, deceased, was a court reporter In Judge Woodrough’s court. Jane Sutcliffe was a popular stu dent at Omaha Central High school. Judge Woodrough has appointed Charles AV. Pearsall, court reporter for more than a quarter of a cen tury. as his secretary. New York, with Bloom, a democrat, on it. was split, 23 democrats and 22 republicans. I do not think that any member of the committee knew of the numerical division between the parties. I have been told that by several of the republicans and at least one democrat. I did not know how Iowa or Kansas were divided, nor New York. “After our report was In, that is. the majority report, an attache of Senator Copeland's office—so ho after wards told me—wrote an interview and placed it in the mouth of a New York democratic congressman, saying that the reason for our report was that should Chandler replace Bloom it would give the republicans the New York vote should the presidential elec tion be thrown into the house. My understanding is that the democratic member of congress did not know of the pretended interview until after it had appeared in the paper. “It was then that Mr. Nelson got busy, and when the house took the matter up on the floor some days afterwards Nelson came down the aisle with 45 minutes of democratic time to talk in favor of Bloom, in spite of the fact that he claimed to be a republican, which would cut no figure, and in spite of the fact that all the facts that I state above, and more, were contained in the evidence and data that were in Mr. Nelson's hands. “Nelson did not and could not argue the facts in the case, hut with a holy rolling of his eyes he charged fraud on the republicans. Myself and others on that day concluded that La Fol lette was going to be a candidate for president and that Nelaon'a motive was solely and nlone, that his hope was to get a few states for La Fol lette and throw the election in tile house if possible nnd to keep the New York vote from going to the repub lican nominee. Mr. Bloom expected to be thrown out, his friends expec'ed him to be thrown out nnd he would have been had not Mr. Nelson's con duct been a fitting climax to the frauds perpetrated by the Bloom candidacy on election day. Mr. Nel son’s committee, as I recall, has never reported on tho Isi Ganrdla contest, Mr. Iwi Gaurdta being a member of the Nelson bloc. “In the house Nelson was known as one who simply carried out Iji Fob lette's orders and enough of the La Foliette bloc Joined the democrats as purely a political proposition to con tinue Bloom in his seat. As I recall, Mr. La Ouardia, however, voted for Chandler." Brother of Auto Victim Hurt in Similar Accident Fremont, Neb., Oct. 15.—Clair Losee, 2, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Losee and brother of Gordon Losee, 10, who was run down and killed by an auto a few weeks ago, was struck and painfully injured In a similar nr cldent that narrowly escaped being fatal. The child darted across the street in front of a car driven by J. M Kelly of Albion, on the wny to Oma ha. One fender struck the boy, knock lng him to the pavement. A deer gash over Ids rigid eye necessitated several stitches. Rato Hearing Canceled. Chicago, Oct. 15.—A hearing con cernlng proposed revision of mer chandlse dass rates In the western trunk line area called for hero today was canceled, the Western Trunk Line committee announced. No fu ture date was announced. Major General Retires. Washington, Oct. 15.—MaJ. Gen. Waiter A. Bethel, Judge advocate general of the army, will retire No vember 15 because of falling eye sight, nnd will be succeeded by Colonel John A. Hull. BATTLE SPLITS “BOB’S” PARTY (Continued From Page One.) they were tossed Into a waiting dray. In the corridors stood other occu pants of the building who were frank ly amused by the troubles of their neighbors. Kven the elevator opera tor, who, earlier In the day told me the fight wes over, now grinned and spoke of the trenches. And trenches they were to Otto Mutz. aged Nebraskan, and Frank Harrison, vigorous Californian. At 3 Harrison carried the war to the enemy. The idea of a restraining order had been abandoned. In its stead was substituted a writ of re plevin to the La Follette treasurer. Again the thin constable came down the corridor. Again he carried a folded strip of paper. But this time It was for Otto Mutz. The state chairman was standing guard by his precious packages. I'p stepped the constable, handed the paper to the old man, and service had been ob tained. And again their was a flight to a lawer. From that flight Mutz had not returned tonight to the scene of his earlier triumph. "I Want a Lawyer.” As he hurried down tho steps, time flying too rapidly to permit waiting for the elevator, he shriuted, in an swer to a request for his next move: •'I've got to see a lawyer." There was something tragic in It. He had been so completely victorious a few moments before. Perhaps he will bo victorious again. Tho courts will decide October 18 when hearing e'n his writ will be given. eHarlng on Harrison's writ Is set for October 20. in the meantime. Justice Stephens Is trying to figure It all out. "If a replevins B and C replevin B?" he asked plaintively of a lawyer who wandered Into his court. The answer was missing and Justice Stephens turned bark to a pile of law books to learn the answer to this riddle. However, he has more than a wait of replevin on his hands. Mutz has filed a petition for a court order di recting Will H. Clay, Lincoln post master, to deliver to him all mall addressed to the Iai Follette head quarters, Harrison Is named as de fendant. At 10 tomorrow morning Mutz and Harrison will meet again, to tell the judge who should have the privilege of opening letters In the offices of the La Follette campaign headquarters. Literature Moves Hark. Anil while Justice Stephens wns crinkling his brow In an endeavor to solve the A 1! (' puzzle, Harrison, with a broom as a sword, stood watching tho return of the property. Piece by piece it came back and then mile* of onlookers In tho corridors grow more and more broad. Probably tlie only happy persons on the scene, disinterested spectators ex cepted, were the draymen. "Well, we get a double Job out of this," one of them said, as he stag gered down the corridor under the weight of a thousand circulars extoll ing the virtues of "Fighting Boh," and his grin was tho grin of a man who has seen two dollars grow where seed was planted for only one. Four NrltraHka Couples Married at Sidney, la. Shenandoah, la., Oct. 15.—iHdney inlnlHtor-H and Justice* of the peace ire bu*y marrying Nchra*ka couple* who come to Iowa to encape the marriage 1/nv* of their Mate. Among the recent newly wed* nt Sidney are: AnsM H Hwcst, Nflhruskn City .21 Myrtta Murklln, Nobr.ifkn City .?1 Hurt Hopkins. Fremont .32 Jlornlre do Unibank, Fremont ..3«i Frank HMward Still. Ilavelork .. ..42 Umtp Whltford llavi'lm k ..42 Carl Hill, I,lr»roln .30 lit rule* Matts, UartlctL .U Two Injured in Nebraska Wreck Oil Cars Burn as Train Goes in Ditch at Grand Island. By Associated Press. Grand Island, Neb., Oct. 13.—Three men stealing rides were Injured, two perhaps fatally, several others are un accounted for, and seven carloads of oil and five carloads of livestock are burning as a result of a wreck near Abbott. 10 miles west of Grand Island, at 9 a. m. today. There are no means of combating the flames which, it is expected, will burn for several days. The train wrecked was an extra Burlington through freight, No. 5087, composed mostly of oil cars. Tlie cause of the wreck is unknown. According to the engineer, something flew up in front and passed the cab as the train reached the spot where the cars, 14 in ali, were derailed. The airbrakes were immediately applied, but when the train was brought to a stop the wreckage was in flames. Oc casional explosions marked the prog res? of the flames. Of the seven cars of livestock In the ditch, two were saved by the train crew and community volun teers. The engine crew af passenger train No. 42, following the freight, pulled over a score of oil cars from the fire from the rear. With an unknown number of men stealing rides, only three are account ed for. all having been removed to Ht. Francis hospital In this city with burns and other serious injuries. The column of smoke from the burning cars can be seen for 10 miles, and the hissing of the burning eil can be heard nearly a mile. At the hospital the names of the two men more seriously injured were given as William Haggarty of Fre mont, and Amos Dougherty of Gree ley, Neb. The third man, Lesley Charlton, 2112 Windsor avenue, Kan sas City, Mo., will be able to leave the hospital today, his Injuries being not serious. MOTHER LEAVES BABE IN FLIGHT Special Dispatch la The Omaha lice. Fairbury, Neb., Oct. 15.—Nearly suffocated by the weight of tho hay under which she had hidden, Mrs. Henry Wagner, 25, was found late today by a searching party of 200 which had scoured the countryside since early this morning. Mrs. Wagner, a mother of two weeks, disappeared from the home of her father, Joseph Bauer, nbout 4 this morning. Her baby was left In its crib. The searching party was organized a short time later. It was feared that the young mother had ended her life In a fit of nervous despondency. The search covered more than 20 square miles. Returning to the farm late In the day the searchers discovered the woman hidden under the hay In Bauer's barn. TWO FOUND GUILTY IN BURKS MURDER Beatrice. Neb., Oct. 15.—Tony Dam lco and Nick Guido, who were arrest ed at Chicago for the slaying of J. R. j Burks, former Beatrice resident, have , been found guilty and sentenced to 25 years each In the penitentiary, according to Information received here. Robbery was the motive, offi cers say. Mr. Burks was found dead In Ms apartments with a towel tied around his neck and after an Investigation Damico and Guido were arrested. Tho murder was committed last summer. The body was brought to Mr. Burks’ old home hero for burial. He was a son of J. R. Burks, one-time mayor of Beatrice and prominent citizen. Ho was also the brother of Miss Ida Do zier and Mrs. Mattie Harley, now residents of I.lncoln. PRESIDENT COOMDGE SAYS: We do not nred to import any foreign economic ideas of any foreign government. We had better stick to tlie American brand of wages. Amer Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION | INDICESTjO*J} 6 Bcll-ans Hot wa?dr Sure Relief E LL'AN S 25* and 75a Packages Evwrywhera f— Nebraska News Nubbins ___' Beatrice—Word was received here of the death of Paul Dewey, 30, formerly of this city, at his home at Garnet, Kan. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Dewey. Bloomfield—Alfred Olson suffered a fracture of his right arm when a heavy bolt fell from the top of a well drilling machine, striking him just below the shoulder. Beatrice — Funeral services for Griffith D. Evans, held at the First Baptist church, were conducted by Rev. Mr. McCown. Burial was In Evergreen Home cemetery. Mr. Ks'ans a pioneer of Beatrice, died at the soldiers' homo at Milford. Hebron—Superintendent H. E. Bar bee has arranged for a county teachers' institute to be held here Oc tober 24 and 25. riainview—At a monthly meeting of the Riainview Woman's club a com mittee was appointed to confer with and assist the W. C. T. U. in an ef fort to induce women voters in the vicinity of Plainview to vote at the coming election. Wife May Testify •f J on Mate’s Belial f Edward Schucrman to Have Preliminary Hearing on Murder Charge Today. Special Itlsjaitch to The Omaha lice. Beatrice, Neb., Oct. 15.—The pre liminary hearing of Edward Schuer mann, DeWitt, Neb., farmer charged with the slaying of George Reinmiller at DeWitt last Friday, will be held In country court tomorrow. Although Schuermann slew Reln mlller, he says, because he tried to wreck his home and for alleged rela tions with Mrs. Schuermann, the de fendant’s wife may bo called to testify on behalf of-her husband. The prosecution will be represented by County Attorney Mattoon and the defense by F. W. Bartos of Wilber. Witnesses subpoenaed by the state are Charles Ross, bridge foreman, and Jesse Buss, supervisor, who wit nessed the shooting: J. W. Hendricks, Dr. Cross of DeWitt and Dr. C. J. Reilly of this city. A alrge number of farmers and others are expected here to attend the hearing. GRADUATING CLASS ELECTS OFFICERS Officers of the class graduating from Technical High school in De cember have been elected. They are: George Vauter, president; Georgia Spencer. vice president; Dorothy Klein, secretary; Esther Nelson, treas urer; Elizabeth Glmple, reporter; Or leen Purth and Nelson Short, aer geants-at-arms. PRESIDENT COOIJDGE I SAYS: I do not favor a corporation Gov ernment, a hank Government, a farm Government or a labor Government. I am for a common-sense Govern ment by all the people according to the American Constitution. If You Are Seeking HEALTH Investigate Chiropractic NTr> matter what your disease may be, you can investigate with safety, as no qualified practitioner will accept a case he cannot help. Hours, 9 A. M. to 8 P. M. 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Crowd Meets Sire Train at Holdrege , . —r J Holstein Bull Given to Boyb and Girls’ Calf Club at Minden. By WILL M. MAIPIN, Staff t'orreH|Htmieiit Tllp Omtilin flw. Holdrege, Neb., Oct. 15.—No better nor moro interested crowds have met the Burlington’s purebred sire spe cial than those greeting it at Minden and Holdrege today. Seventeen hundred persons went through the train at Minden. At that point the Holstein bull donated by the1 North Platte agriculture experiment station was given over to the Minden Community Commercial club for the Boys’ and Girls' Calf club of Kear ney county. The total attendance at Holdrege In afternoon was more than 3,000. The local commercial club fed more than 5,000 persons at noon. The purebred sire at this point was donated by ex-Governor Keith Neville of North Platte and was consigned to J. C. Ericson for the Boys’ and Girls’ Calf club. Local men financed the purchase of 12 pure bred Holstein heifers for the calf clubs of the county. MAGENAU BRIDGE MOVING PLANNED Fremont, Neb., Oct. 15.—Dodge county board of supervisors has named a committee of Fremont busi ness men to confer with State Engl neer Cochran in regard to getting state aid for reconstruction of the Magenau bridge across the Elkhorn river northeast of Fremont. The committee, consisting of Ray Hammond. John Monnich, John So nin, A. J. Eddy and George Wolz, was to meet Cochran at Lincoln Wednesday. At a later date the Dodga supervisors will meet with those of Washington county to cqp fer on the bridge that will Join the two counties and save farmers in that vicinity from a roundabout trip to reach the Dodge county seat. The Magenau bridge was left high and dry some years ago when the river changed its course. It Is planned to move the bridge to a de sirable point where it will again traverse the Elkhorn. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE SAYS: We do not need to Import any I foreign economic ideas of any foreign government. Wp had better stick to the American brand of wages. Amer- j lea had better stay American. ,, , —Ti f iftoen-) ear-Olil Boy Taking Premedic Course at Hastings College v------* Hebron, Neb., Oct. 16.—Arthur Bowles, son of Drs. Arthur and Loetta Bowles of Hebron, is said to he the youngest student In college in Nebraska, lie Is registered at the University of Nebraska, and is tak ing a premedic course at the Has tings college. Ho "ns graduated from the Hebron High school May 29, 1924, at tiie age of 15 years, 1 month and 1 day. He is said to be the youngest student in the United States regis tered for a premedic course in col lege. Towns Believed in Bridge Fight — Ashland and Ralston Sus pected in Platte River Injunction Suit. That Ashland and Ralston are be hind the bridge injunction suit now beinj? heard before District Judge Goss was an opinion voiced following testimony by George Cowles, one of the two nominal plaintiffs, Wednes day morning. 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