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FOLLOWING SACKETT'S LEAD

City Attorney Conneli Decides
That Petition Must Appear
as Party Candiates

Municipal League and People's Party
Independent Candulates Will
Be So Designated.

City Clear Ecans Will Be Mandam used in the
interest of Convention Candidates-
Mrs. Peattie the Only One.

City Attourney Conneli yesterday
gave the following opinion to Clerk
Evans.

Omaha, Neb, Oct 31, 1894-John T.
Evans Esq, City Clerk, Omaha-Dear
Sir' In compliance with your request
for my opinion regarding the suffciency
of the several petitions filled with you
nominating candidates for city offices,
and also for my opinion regarding the
form of the offical ballot I would respectfully
state that I have carefully
examined all the petitions and objections
filled in your office I find nearly
all the petitions, and especially those
relating to the peoples independent
party defective in from, and if a
technical rule was to be observed
they might all be ignored
I think, however, the proper
course for you to pursue to carry out
the real purpose of the petitions purporting
to be cerificates of nomination
and place all the names of the candidates
on the tickes, designating the
party or principles the candidate is supposed
to represent as best as you can
from considering the entire contents
of the certificate. The form which has
been made up, and which I here with
return is sunstantially correct. It is
my opinion that you should print the
tickets according to this form, ignoring
all defects and overruling all objections.
This I believe to be the fair and true
course and one which if pursude by
you will place you beyond critcism for
your action. Any departure or exception
to the rule I think would subject
you to just critcism and would be a
failture to treat all candidates nominated
by peririon alike which I think
ought to be done.

Where one candidate has received
two nominations by certifcate or petition
the name should be placed on the
ballot once, with bracket following,
and on seperate lines should be placed
the party or principle such candidate
represents, as shown by the certificate
or petition. Very respectfully.

W J CONNELL, City Attorney

As stated exclusively in the World-
Herald yesterday. Frederick Volzman,
on whose affidavit it that his name
had been forged to be petition of
Woleshenskay in the First ward the petition
was the own out, filed another
affidavit to the effect that he cannot
write or understand English, and that
he did authroize a man to sign his name
to petitions This turn of the case
was the direct cause of all petitions
being submitted to the city attorney.

Several days ago Mr Connell expressed
the opinion that all candidates
except those certified by conventions
should go on the offical ballots simply
as petition candidates He has since
then, as shown by his opinion, decided
that the wish ecpressed by signers of
each petition must be carried out to the
letter.

City Clerk Evans at noon yesterday
sent the revised copy to the printer and
had sample tickets for distribution in
the afternnon He said that no matter
how the tickets were pringted he would
be mandamused by the courts to make
changes and that he would follow
striclty and promptly the orders of the
court.

The offical-ballots, unless changes
are made, will only contain one petition
candidate Mrs. Peattie will have
three bracketed lines after her name,
having been nominated by the democrats,
the populists and by a straight
petition. James Gilmore's name will
have Municipal League Nonpartisan
candidate" after it. Populist petition
candidates will have "Peoples Independent
party' after the names.

Political Notes.

Dave Mercer in jubilant at having dictated
the judges and clerks of election.
The democrats claim the mayor did not
appoint half the men they requested.

At the Benson barbecue today two
steers, ten sheep and three calves will be
roasted in a pan 8x16 feet. There will be
coffee poured by the wives of the candidates,
and teh country precincts will supply
the milk.

The Sixth Ward Republican Reform
club, at a meeting held last Sunday
night at Storz hall, indorsed James E.
Boyd for congress. The club has a
large membership, consisting of republicans
who are protesting against the
election of C. L. Jaynes for ward coucilman,
and are working for the election
of Gould P. Dettz.

According to the revised statutes of
Nebraska no soldier shall be deemed a
resident of the state of Nebraska in consequence
of being stationed therein. The
mere fact of station within Nebraska will
not suffice to make a soldier a voter. To
this there must be added the present intention
of making him home here. Officers
and soldiers at Fort Omaha are not
resident, because living on government
reservation.