Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-30
BRYAN STRIKES A SNAG
FORMER REPRESENTATIVE Shall
LENBERGER DEMURs.
Was Refused Help When He Wanted
the Governorship-W Con-
test-New York Politics.

A dispatch from Omaha last night saws:
Since the democratic national convention
William J. Bryan has been working to Sc
cure legislature composed OF men friendly
to his candidacy for the United States
Senate, and when fusion in Nebraska be-
came assured it was the opinion of politi-
clans that the senatorship was within his
reach. Now. however, trouble has arisen
in his own party.
The obstacle is the refusal of former Rep
resentative A. c. Shallenberger of the fifth
district 10 take up the fight in his district.
With the fifth district In line for Bryan
there was every chance that Bryan would
control the Legislature. Without the fifth
district there is no chance at all. so say the
political leaders. Shallenberger is the only
democrat who can carry the district, and
he declines to make the race
when | wanted to be candidate for
governor and had n good chance to get
the nomination and the Office Bryan re-
fused to let me rum. Shallenberger cx-
plains. He was In control. and what he
said was law Now | hold the whiphand
and | don't intend to help him and his am
bition to run things. l am tired of the die
tation of Bryan. and I am glad to let him
get the party out Of the hole in which he
has placed 1t"
The Wisconsin Contest.
A dispatch from Madison. Wis last night
says: Attorneys for Secretary of State
Walter l.. Houser filed his answer with
the clerk of the supreme court this evening
In the suit brought against Houser on
August 8 by the nominees of the faction of
the republican party headed by Samuel 4.
COOK Tor governor to compel Houser to
place the names of the Cook ticket I'm the
republican column on the official ballot and
TO restrain Houser from placing the names
or the La Toilette nominees In that column.
The answer. which is voluminous. denies
the jurisdiction of the court or any tribunal
other than that created and established by
Wisconsin statutes of 1888 which names
the old state central committed headed hy
Gen. G. T. Bryant.
The answer AYERS that the plaintiffs have
no remedy in law or equity except as pro-
vided in said statutes; that the REALTORS
have no right to maintain the suit in the
name OF the state. and that the averments
OF complaint present no questions of public
right to be determined by the supreme court
In brief, the answer denies all of the allie
cations on which the suit rests.
Labor Leaders Oppose McCarren
A dispatch from New York last night
says; Primaries throughout Greater New
York will be held tomorrow. and the in
tcrest centers in the Borough of Brooklyn
There the leadership of State Senator Nc
Carren is in the balance, and the fight
promises to be a bitter one from the onen-
ing of the polls.
The la Dor leaders of Brooklyn today serv-
ed notice on State Chairman Cord Meyer
that Senator McCarren would have to
sign as chairman of the state executive
committee If he is not promptly dropped
from democratic councils the labor men say
that 100000 democrats identified with the
building trades will vote against Parker
and Davis. They had previously written to
Chairman Meyer. today they called upon
him as committee to emphasize their de-
mands. He gave them no definite reply.
The primary election this year means
more to the republicans than usual. owing
to the fact that under Gov. Odells plan to
strengthen the organization in New York
county the size of the county committee
has been doubled and the additional men,
bers will be elected tomorrow The only dis
trict in which the issue is at all in doubt
on the republican side is the twenty-fifth.
Woodruff Feels Confident.
On the of the city primaries there is
a great deal of uncertainty about the
publican candidate for governor of New
York. Some men are beginning to suspect
that Gov Odell has been in earnest in the
declarations that he has often made that
he did not know who would be named.
Three men only are now talked about.
Timothy l.. Woodruff, Lieut.. Gov. Higgins
and Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia
University. Mr.. Woodruff Is the most act
i've candidate and he believes he Is going
to win Gov OdelI does not share that con-
fidence, which probably means that Odell
is not for the Brooklyn man. Although
Gov Odell has declared from the beginning
that he had no candidate, and asserted that
it would be an open convention. II Is NOT
believed that he has ever thought IL wouid
be open for Woodruff
Odell and Hills Retirement.
The decision of David b. Hill to retire
from politics after the lst of January was
a topic of discussion in all the political
headuuarters today His friends declared
that Hill would still be very much in evil
dence during the campaign Gov. Odeii
only comment was: Il am glad ne Is going
to remain in until January.
Nominated for Congress.
The democrats of Beaver county. Pa.
Yesterday nominated w. J. Mellen OF Mo-
naca for Congress
At a meeting of the republican congress
sional committee of the sixth tennessee
district yesterday Maxwell OF Nashvihe
was nominated to make the race against
John Wesley Gaines. democrat, the present
representative.