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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. Ecans Esq, City Clerk, Omaha-Dear Sir' In compliance with your request for my opinion regarding the siffciency 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 especaially 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 propet course for you to pursue to carry our the real purpose of the petitions purporting to be cerificates of nomination and place all the names of the candiates 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 pring 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 candidates 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 affidacit 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 Independt party' after the names