10 THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5,. 1912. MOOSERS ENDORSE TICKET State Progressives Will Support Be publican. Slate. TWO ELECTORS ABE NOMINATED W. O. Henry of Omaha and O. G. Smith of Kearney Placed on Electoral Ticket ta Place af Two Taft Mm. Forty Million Words Daily . jboard to meetcontractors Stored in Minds of Omahans (From a Staff Correspondent) - LINCOLN, Sept 4 (Special Telegram.) N'ebraska bull moosers last night endorsed the candidates on the ' republican state ticket with the exception of two electors who have declared for President Taft Dr. W. O. Henry of Omaha and O. O. Smith of Kearney were chosen in placs j of these men. The state convention this afternoon was wiled to order with scarcely 150 per sons present and after these few dele gates fought for over an hour a reso lution to permit a chalr-cho?en commit tee to do the nominating, a recess until evening was taken, when Party Manager P. P. Corrick admitted that the party petition did not contain the requisite number of names to make It legal. By evening the managers had solicited enough signers from the state fair crowds to permit completion of the con vention program. ;,Th committee was finally named, but to serve in an advisory capacity only. Governor Hiram W. Johnson of Cali fornia, was in the city during the pro ceedings.. He made two speeches during the day, one at the fair grounds in the afternoon and the other at the convention at night He was entertained by Gover nor Alddch at the executive mansion and William J. Bryan came from F&irvlew to attend a reception and luncheon tend ered by the commercial club. It was S o'clock when C-nairman Wray rapped the convention to order, and called for the report of the resolutions committee, which , was read by Don L. Love, as follows: ' ' We, the progressive party of the state of Nebraska, in convention assembled, hereby endorse and reaffirm the plat form adopted by the progressives In na tional convention assembled In Chicago, on August S, 1912. We regard this plat form as the greatest document ever writ ten in the history of American politics. We believe In the principles set forth by our great leader, Theodore Roose velt, in his confession nf faith before that convention, and we pledge ourselves to embody those principles In the statues in the state of Nebraska as far as it Is possible to do. Plans for the Tariff, n'e ixiioo iii a peruiiuieiii nOii-partl-san tariff commission, and w demand that those schedules of the present tariff which have already been proven exor bitant be immediately .reduced. While we believe in the strict enforce ment of the Sherman anti-trust law, and the prosecution and imprisonment of all violators thereof, we do not believe that this will settle the trust problem, and we believe that a non-partisan industrial commission should be created, with the same power over the monopolistic trusts that the Interstate Commerce commis sion has over the railroads, because we do not believe that the common people of the nation will permanently permit any set of men to control the output of any commodity, as well as the price. We believe that the people who elect presidents have the right to nominate them, and we call upon congress to speedily enact general presidential prim ary law. We believe In the direct election of United State senators. We cannot ignore the fact that all over this land there la a growing distrust of the federal judiciary, and we demand that congress enact a law limiting the power of Inferior federal courts to set aside a statute of sovereign statf-s; and we advocate the passage of a law that will require the president of the-United States, In sending to the senate a nomi nation for federal Judge, to send there with all the endorsements, written or oral, of said candidate and objections thereto. i Better Itoads nasi Rqaal Rights. We believe In a thorough revision of our public road laws, looking to a more efficient system of road administration, to the end that the farmers may have better meant of transportation from their farms to the markets. We believe in equal suffrage for women, and we pledge the progressive party of Nebraska to do all in its power to bring it about We favor the enactment of a uniform marriage and divorce law. We view with apprehension the fact that practically every home fire Insur ance company baa been forced out of existence during the last two years, and that tendency is to monopolise both fire and life insurance to the detriment of development of home Insurance for Ne braska, : We favor the enactment of such Insur ance legislation that will preserve the policyholders their fair and equal rights and we favor a law that will provide for a more direct control of fraternal Insurance companies by their members. ' We favor the enactiretit of a "blue ky" law, to the end that our people may not be robbed by promoters from this or other states. We favor the creation of an Immigra tion .agent and publicity bureau, to the end that vast areas of tillable land In the western part of the state may be brought to the attention of the landless people everywhere. Down with the Postmaetera. We object to the interference of fed eral officeholders with conventions and Primaries, and we believe that a law ehouid be passed taking the entire Post office department out of politics. We favor the use of our publio schools for the discussion of all subjects con cerning the publio welfare, both economi cal and political. ' Water power in Nebraska Is one of the great natural resources and control Is still within the power of the state. We believe that If properly developed cheaper power can be found and great manufacturing centers built up. And we believe that laws should be enacted and if necessary a constitutional amend ment adapted to the end that these great natural resources of the state should be conserved and developed in the interests of the people of the state. ' We believe in the short ballot as neces sary for the preservation of the direct primary law, We believe in the Initiative and referen dum und the recall, and the non-partisan board of control of our state in stitutions under civil service regulations, and we call upon all of the people of the state to vote for the constituttonnl amendment providing for direct legisla tion. We believe and declare that the rights of the individual should be exalted and placed above property rights and that all honest labor and toll should be Justly tympensated. We also favor first and second choice voting at primary elections. Official publicity pamphlets, state wide registra tion, stringent corrupt practice acts and the limitation of the use of money In campaigns. tt e (specifically endorse the five ronstt tuti.mal amendments submitted to the people by the last legislature, towlt: The liii'latlve and referendum, legislative, term r;d compensation, non-partisan hoard of control, biennial elections, and home rule for cities. J. L. McBrien. In behalf of the com mittee on organization announced that sufficient names had been secured on the petition to Insure Its legality and moved that the selection of Wray ' as chairman and J. C Sprecher be made permanent McBrien then moved that a committee of seven be appointed to per- f ct the organization in the way it should be, so that it would be legal A Oelcgate with much earnestness op posed any plan ton the part of the con vention to saddle on the party a commit tee that they knew nothing about or who they were. He was finally assured ty air. McBrien that they would be good men and the belligerent objector acknowl edged the 'plan to be satisfactory. The iJiotioa then passed. Business was suspended on motion of WORDS A DAY 13) .SiS. leri'ite the tact that old Doc i'aliren helt has a habit of climbing up to murky heights and the atmosphere at times causes heated remarks featuring the un der regions, Omahans are reading 40,000,600 words of literature daily in volumes loaned from the shelves of the public library. Head Librarian Edith Tobltt places the estimate of books loaned out daily during the summer months at 900, which would mean a total of 6,400 volumes a week as the pi !ves are closed on Sunday. Al lowing 225 pages to each book as an average, the leaves of (,400 copies would sum up to 1,215,000. The usual page of a light novel, a . political ' treatise or a biography contains approximately 250 words, so that the aggregate number of words for the week would be 303,750,000. I Subtracting 23,750,000 words for those or dinarily skipped in hurried perusing, lost places, et cetera, a safe estimate for the week would be 280,000,000 or 40,000,000 words each day. Of this immense amount of reading ma terial which goes Into local gray matter, the children absorb ene-fourth or 10,000,000 gems of diction, while the grown folks masticate the remainder. More political works have been read in Omaha this summer than during the last twelve months combined, biographies, in cidents of life, and addresses of the presi dential candidates being in constant de mand. A steady demand for suffrage literature Is being pushed by Omaha women and books of this nature are nearly always absent from the shelves. Jasper L. McBrien to allow Governor Johnson to speak before his train should leave. Chairman Wray Introduced Miss Lucille Eaves of the University of Ne braska to preside during the address of Governor Johnson. He referred to her as the "Jarta Addams of Nebraska." The Auditorium was well filled, a large number being women, when Miss Eaves, after a ten-minute speech, Introduced Governor Johnson. Johnson Lara basts Opponents. The address of the visiting governor be gan with a long tirade against the Chicago national republican convention. He gave a history of the primary which elected the delegates from California, and assured the people that the third party convention In Chicago organized a party which will be the salvation of the country. He made many radical prophecies, among them one that If the progressive cause won, this country would Jump ahead twenty-five years In the space of two month He seemed to be particularly opposed to Mr. Wilson and the democratic platform and ridiculed the latter to the apparent de light of the audience. In closing Gover nor Johnson paid a high tribute to Gov ernor Aid rich and said he was glad he was a fighter that made him worthy to be the executive of such a great state as Nebraska. At the close of. Coventor Johnson' address Chairman Wray announced that the committee on nomination would re port The committee reported in favor of endorsing the six Rooeevelt elector on the republican tlcffet and that W. X Henry of Omaha and O. G. Smith of Kearney be selected to make up the full eight electors. John C. Sprecher offered a resolution asking that the six Roosevelt electors on the republican ticket be endorsed and that inasmuch as Taft and Sherman are the legal nominee of the republican party, that these six electors be asked to resign. He said that the Taft men had a right to vote for the nominees of their party, and In all common decency should be given that right ' D. C. Van Dusen opposed the resolu tion saying he was opposed to any kind of a deal which would recognise steal ing. , . W. T. Graham of Omaha In a red hot speech denounced the proposition to ask the Roosevelt elector to withdraw, be cause the third party has no right to ask candidate of another party to withdraw. Sprecher' resolution was not adopted. George W. Norrie was endorsed for the United State senate a waa also C. H. Aldrlch for governor. FisTht Over Endorsement. The resolution also called tor the en dorsement of the full republican atate ticket but a delegate offered as an amendment that all the candidate on the state ticket be asked to state where they stand on president Another delegate offered an amendment that no one be Indorsed until he had announced how he stood. F. P. Corrick then suggested that the candidate be voted on as thetr name wer called which seemed to meet general favor. Mr. William of Lincoln a&id that he came out of the democratic party and had burned the bridge behind him and he wanted no man on the ticket unless he 1 for Roosevelt and Johnson. Van Dusen volunteered to vouch for all of the state officers, and Bald that while three of them were for Taft they had a right to be, and any move of the convention to turn them down would put the party in hot water. The amendment that the state candi date be required to announce their choice for president was voted down and the state officer on the republican ticket were all endorsed. The convention then took up the matter of finance and adjourned. Commercial Club Eesumes Activities The active work of the Commercial club waa taken up again when- the executive committee met yesterday for the first time since the vacation season began. The invitation of the Knights of Ak-8ar-BPn to be at the Den for next Mon day night, Omaha night was accepted. The club will go to the Den in a body. The club took cognisance of th com ing of a "Made In Pittsburgh" train that is to be In Omaha Monday afternoon, Sep tember 16. Joseph Barker, chairman of the entertainment committee. Is to have charge of details of the entertainment to be offered the Pittsburgh party. J. A. C. Kennedy was appointed repre sentative of the Commercial club on the committee of four provided for by the city council to draft an ordinance cover ing the proposed taxation of areaways and subways. T. P. Redmond of J. L. Brandels A Son Co., wa elected member of the executive committee to fill the vacancy left by the death of H. Hugo Brandeis. Elected to active membership were Frank E. Ooatsworth of George H. Lee & Co., and W. II. Jones, freight and passerwr agent of the Northwestern railroad. HONEYMOON MARRED BY SUIT .'''' .,, Attorney Digltoa and Florence Walton Wedded in Virginia. SUED BY INSANE MAN'S WIFE She Ask Fifty Thousand Dollars for , "Knocking Former Officer Edward F. Morrison Crasy." Married to a beautiful southern girl and his honeymoon dream marred by a suit for damage of 150,000 for "knocking a man crasy" thi wa the unhappy ex perience of Samuel B. Dighton, an Omaha lawyer. Tuesday Dighton and Mis Florence Walton, both of Omaha, surprised their friends by wedding in Richmond, Va., Mis Walton' former home. Today Digh ton and the Independent Auto Repair company wer sued for $50,000 by Edward F. Morrison, former health officer of the Omaha polio department, who now la an Inmate of the atate hospital for Insane at Lincoln. The suit I the result of a fight between Morrison and Dighton In the hops of the Independent Company. Miss Walton came to Omaha ' -om Vir ginia about two years ago. 8. at the Pratt hotel and worked as s. v v rapher in several business office. A cently she became acquainted with Mr. Dighton. A few day ago ahe wa called to Richmond on account of the illnes of a relative. Mr. Dighton followed and the wedding wa olemnised yesterday. Mr. Dighton now la on hi way to Omaha. Mrs. Dighton will come later, Mrs. Teresa Morrison, wife and guard ian of former Officer Morrlsol, I the plaintiff In fact In the damage suit The allegation of the petition are In sub stance as follow: ' atorrinoa-Dlghtaa Fight. Morrison had employed the Independent company to repair hi automobile. He believed the company' charge exorbi tant and refused to pay them. When the company rtfuaed to deliver th car to Mm he started an action to replevin and accompanied a constable to the shop to get the machine. The company asked time to consult it attorney, Dighton, be fore delivering the car. The request was granted. After Dighton arrived a quarrel enusued and Dighton struck Morrison 'In th head." Morrison was In good health, but hi akuil once had been crushed and the attorney's blow Injured the weakened skull and the brain. Mor rison became mildly Insane and his mania Increased until he' became a raving maniac. The fight occurred July 1. At the time ot the fight Dighton de clared Morrison was the aggressor and started damage suit against him. Commissioners and Caldwell & Drake to Adjust All Details. TO CHECK UP NEW BUILDING Foehs, Son Blind are Given Con tract for Hnral Paintings in the New County Conrt House. . No Toothpicks on Illinois Central Cars No more will toothpicks be served with meal on Illinois Central dining cars. This Is the order of F. M. Dow, superintendent of dining car service. . When the Illinois Central financial statement became public right after th end of June SO, the close of the fiscal rear, it wa discovered that during th twelve month the company had paid out $1,400 for toothpicks served with meal on the dining car. Then, cam the or der to retrench. In hi advice Superintedent Dow ex plain that the use of a toothpick la vulgar and that it 1 not pleasing to go Into a car and see people sitting around tables chewing toothpicks. Little Girls to Talk Temperance A silver medal declamatory contest will be held this evening at the South West Methodist Episcopal church at Fifty-first and Hickory streets, under tat auspices of the Frances Willard Wo man's Christian Temperance union. Seven girl between 10 and 12 year of age will give temperance recitations. The girU are Eldora Gants, Henrietta Jackaon, Lucy 'Weston, Anna Jensen, Clara Aim borg, Emma Palm and Ruby Hansen. The medal tor the best recitat'on wi 1 bt presented by Mrs. C. J. Roberts, "presi dent of the Frances Willard union. The Glad Hand la seen when liver inaction and bowel utoppage file before Dr. King's New Life Pills, the easy regulator. lac For sale by Beaton Drug Co. Husband Destroys His Wife's Clothes Because hi wife refused to live with htm and wa contemplating a divorce, Steve O'Donnell, 3312 North Th'rty-nlnth street entered the house occupied b) her a few door from ' his own room and threw sulphuric acid over her bed ding and clothes, resulting In damage to the amount of loOOi Hi wife swore out a warrant tor his ar rest, charging h'm with malicious de struction of property and he wa sen tenced to ninety day in JaO. The sen tence was suspended on the promla of Btev to make good the losa, Conference of the Board of County Commissioners and Caldwell & Drake, county building general contractors, pre liminary to the, . county's occupancy ot ; the new building was called for next j Tuesday by the Board of County Com missioners yesterday. According 10 me resolution- the parties to the "Conference will be the board, John Latenser, county building architect; the county attorney, the general contractors and their counsel, Stout & Rose, and the general contrac tors' bondsman, the Fidelity and Deposit company of Maryland, and it counsel, Mahoney & Kennedy. The purpose of the conference is to adjust details of the occupancy and it effect upon contracts and agreement be tween, the county and the general con tractors. Check Up the Work. Next week the board and the architect will go over 'the entire building, checking up the work so far done, detail by detail, to make sure that It is up to specifica tions.' Mr. Latenser said that probably in some minor details the work is not up to specification standards, but no building can be absolutely so, and this building will be nearer than the average. Mr. Latenser explained his estimate on work done, on which payment to Caldwell 4 Drake have been made, and satisfied the board that the estimates have been correctly made. " Commissioner Harte, who last Saturday said he thought the estimate had been excessive, had nothing to ay. . Sam Blind, of Fuch, Son & Blind, who have the interior painting and decorating contract, informed the board that he has no contract with Phllllpson & Co. of New York for the mural paintings and asked the board to let Fuchs do this work. The contract was given Fuchs, Son & Blind with the understanding that they would employ Phllllpson & Co. to do the murals. Mr. Latenser said Phllllpson & Co. are working on the murals, but Mr. Blind said he has no arrangement with Phllllpson & Co. This decoration matter will have to he thrashei out by the board. Commissioner Lynch said he will favor holding Fuchs, Bon & Blind to their agreement regard ing Phllllpson ft Co. or else give the mural work to Edward J. Holslag of Chi cago, who wa In charge of the mural decoration of the Congressional Library In Washington, D. C. Orkin's Doors Closed Because of Throngs Orkin's Douglas street store waa the seen of an Immense Jam yesterday morn ing, the occasion being the opening of a clean-up sale of summer dresses. : The crush wa o large when the atore opened that the people could not be han dled and It wa necessary to close the doors for a while. The business all morning wa tremendous. Another sale, which the Orkln expect to be a record breaker, will be started Saturday morn ing, when uiU and coats will be closed out at price never before known here. FRIENDS OF FRIENDLESS CONSIDER CRIME CURES Annual meeting of -the Nebraska So ciety for the Friendless waa held at the Young Men' Christian association last evening. About forty members' ware present Judge Howard Kennedy of Omaha, presided and delivered the prin cipal address, speaking on "Restitution a a Penalty for Crime.". C. L. Carlson, editor of the Breeders' Review, spoke on the relation of heredity and the prenatal influence for the pre vention of crime. James Parke Sullivan; using himself as a personal illustration, talked on the cure of crime. Dr. E.' A. Fredenhagen, national super intendent of the Society for the Friend less, attended and wa called upon for a few remark. . V ' LONG-SOUGHT VACATION FOR OFFICER VANDERF0RD Officer Joe Vanderford left Wednesday evening for a two-months' vacation in Colorado and Californ'a. HI sister, Mrs. Margaret Whipple of Curtis, will accom pany him on the trip. . " . This la the first vacation Mr. Vander ford has taken during h's thirty-six years In the service of the city. He ha been employed as a police officer for sixteen years and prior to that time he was as sociated with the fire department and the Board of Health. , During his residence here he has been out of the city but two weeks. He Is mak ing the trip in an endeavor to benefit his health upon advice of doctors. London Stock Market. LONDON, Sept 4. American securities were quiet and steady during the early trading today. Prices advanced on light covering and at noon the list ranged from unchanged to He higher than yestaray'a New York closing. . Valuable Discovery ; Complexion Beautifier (From the Home Maker.) Because of its peculiar power of 'ab sorption, also because It serve every em ollient purpose, ordinary mercolised wax is perhap the most valuable complexion beautifier discovered within recent year. It one uses this she needs no toilet cream. Some use powder afterward, but this la not necessary and is Inadvisable partic ularly when one perspires freely. This rule for applying mercollaed wax has been found very satisfactory: Wash the face w-th warm water, drying- lightly. Before thoroughly dry, snoint face and neck with the wax, but don't rub It in. The favorite way is to use before retiring allow'tig It to 'remain on all night and washing it off In the morning with warm water. All druggists have this wax in original one-ounce packages. For the removal of a wrinkled or flabby condition there' nothing better than to bathe the face- In a solution made by dissolving 1 ounce powdered saxolite in to pint witch hecel. Beneficial result are quickly noticeable. m,t iim mm 1 1 -" ,' " ' '-' nmmm k J U a -ft '77? Tjj , ' NEW FALL Every section of the store is ready for fall demands with stocks of fall merchandise ab solutely correct In every way. New Fall Walking Skirts Three styles where you usually find one all new colors every popular fabric. A wonder ful stock ready for an Immense fall skirt sea son. Four specials at 95, $6.98, $8.98 aad $10 NVwr Qiflr Pretty 8tyle8' clever noYeities,. e?:j3 '" seen xor the first time and seen pM-Mj Dresses--SnX:n..$10-$15 0 4 Women's New Taflored Fall Suits at 19-522.50 IPor practical tailored suits that have real style, there's only one satisfactory place to buy. Brandeis has the greater variety. Brandeis offers the better qualities. : C BiiHe3i! Advance Notice of Special Sales Saturday AT BRANDEIS STORES BIG SALE OF Women's Fine Leather Bags Two Immense Sample Lines Saturday at 1 TTfc -&. rmna Gloves, worth Greatest Sale of Kid Gloves Ever Held by Any Store. Importer's Samples and Odd Lots of Womea's Long and Short Kid Glovei in all sizes whites, blacks and colors. Short Kid Gloves, it np to $2.50 69c I Long Kid I r!lAAC ws.rl up to $3.50. $1 Special. Purchase of MEN'S NEW FALL HATS bought from a New York commission house, soft or derby styles, at absut i their Value t5 BRANDEIS STORES 90 PER CENT OF THE HOMES IN OMAHA NEED A NEW RUG IN AT LEAST ONE ROOM, BIGHT NOW. v " In thousands' of , these homes new rugs will be bought some time this fall nd most of them will be bought at regular prices. . If your home needs a rug any time this season, this Rug Sale Announce ment talks money to you. You can buy a rug of highest quality next Monday, choosing it from an immense variety and paying about one-half the regular price for it, if you will attend this sale at Brandeis Stores. The stock in this sale, is from a purchase of a Philadelphia house' and every rug is a new pattern. They are all rugs of high and medium grades, and every price is a fraction of the original value. t If you can possibly take a minute's time to see. these rugs in the windows you should do so. The chances are you will see just the rug you want at much less than you have expected to pay for it.' , . Next Monday this Sale of Rugs begins. BRANDEIS STORES. Send Your Wer Clothes to Be Cleaned Where the System of Handling Them Guarantees You Careful Attention. Little you know of how your clothes are handled when you 'send them to the ordinary cleaners and dyers to have them renovated. - ' ' : . ,'. . '". . You don't know whether your suit is thrown In with a batch of other people's clothes no matter if they be black, blue, brown, green or not. . Nor do you know whether the same dirty gasoline is .used for the whole day's cleaning. . Yet these are important items and risks that you should ba careful about. - Th Paatorinm Byta ayt Only anit of th wmi color bU eleaaad toftbr nlaok with laok, ffr7 wlta fray, to and that irh gaaolia shall b d Xor aoa wmo,' These law for your clothe' protection made It neoesaary for thouwmd of dollar' worth o apectal equipment Special rotary washers for each color of clothe special gasolin cleansing equipment, and nunveroua otter device for the care ful handling of clothe. . Such protection eome only with th Fantorlam Bye- . tern of cltminy and dyeing. Th Vantorlum plant 1 th . fint tquipped and moat modern eleani&- and dyeing plant in the middle west, and every employ In our plant i an expert la hi particular lis. Set a nggt that yon send your next work to u for comparison with your old y tem. TouH he pleased with th result. Call DougUa 983 r aad one of oar machine will calL The Pantorium Good Cleaners and Dyers V r Phone Douglas 963 1515 Jones Street. Foot Comfort for We have a shoe espe cially designed for men with tired, aching feet. Unquestionably .the best shoe for real comfort ever designed. Do not let ill fitting, poorly - shapeu shoes spoil your disposi tion by 'giving you , foot troubles. Hundreds are wearing these shoes. They are made of soft kid, broad, common sense toe and flat heels. ' We have them in either high or low styles. f. $400 D REX EL ' 1419 Farnam m'im 1 npHE BEE "For Sale, Miscellaneous" column is a T great, silent auctioneer of the ne wspaper world. You have but to make known what you have for sale in this column, and you will be surprised at the speed with which some baraiahuiiter will swoop down upon you. mmmm000m1mfs