Politics
In 1906 Benson ran on the Republican Party ticket to reform Omaha's reputation "open town" where anything goes. Criminal elements in the city, led by Tom Dennison, sought to defeat Benson. Their candidate, "Cowboy Jim" Dahlman, eventually won the election, and eight others thereafter. Benson never ran for public office in Omaha again.
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.”
—Richard M. Nixon (b. 1913)
“Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)
“I have come to the conclusion that the closer people are to what may be called the front lines of government ... the easier it is to see the immediate underbrush, the individual tree trunks of the moment, and to forget the nobility the usefulness and the wide extent of the forest itself.... They forget that politics after all is only an instrument through which to achieve Government.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)