Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-03
POLLARD IS ENCOURAGED
Attendance at Meetings Larger Than
Anticipated During Harvest
MAKING THOROUGH TOUR OF DISTRICT
Old Line Democrat Gives Reasons
why Republican Candidate for
Congress should be
Elected.
CFrom a star Correspondentl

Nf TOM a stan correspondent
LINCOLN, July 2-(special)-E. NJ.
Pollard, republican nominee for congress
in this district reached Lincoln at mid
night last night after a week Of speech
making throughout Nemaha, Pawnee and
Johnson counties. Saturday Mr. Pollard
spoke at Pawnee City in the afternoon
and at Steinauer at night.
Il find republicans much more inter-
ested than ] thought they would be at
this time Of year" said Mr. Pollard "All
Of our meetings have been well attended.
and, so far as l could learn, there are
no sore spots in the party. l did not
expect large attendance at the meetings
because the farmers at this time of the
year are unusually busy. so l have been
agreeably surprised at the number of
people who did come out"
That the republicans Of this district
are sitting up and noticing things there
Is no doubt. Vice Chairman Stroude has
been busy all week getting out literature
to send out to stir up the voters to the
Importance Of getting 10 the polls, and
| he feels that a good vote will be cast
based on the reports from the various
counties. IN each county the organiza-
ton has settled down to work and en-
couraging reports are coming in daily.
MI tolldIu leIl tonight TOT NeDTaSka
City and from there he will go to SYRIA
cuse where he will speak at the old
soldiers meeting and at the county COM
mttee meeting. He will speak at Salem
Tuesday forenoon, at Table Rock that
afternoon and at Humboldt in the even
ing. He will be out all week, but his
route has not yet been arranged by the
| committee.
Mayor Brown was at Plattsmouth and
In other towns in Cass county this week
and he, too, looks for a heavier vote than
most people are figuring on.
Democrat Bolts Brown.
The republican committee is in receipt
| of letter from ex-senator Collins of
| Lincoln, democrat, who intends to vote
| FOR Mr.. Pollard, in which the writer gives
his reasons for deserving the democratic
| nominee and reasons why other demo-
Gratis should do likewise. The letter fol-
| lows:
An old-fushioned democrat who has voted
! the democratic ticket uninterruptedly for
rue IaSt forty years, believing that the
! political contest in the coming special cleo
| ton Tor congressman in this congressional
| district is not so much between the repub-
| ilcan ana democratic parties as between
| President Roosevelt and the people on the
| one side and the corporate monopolies on
the other, in which party lines should
a great extent be ignored, asks the prvl-
| lege Of briefly staLlng the reason, nv
he intends mo intervening Providence to
| make an exception at such election to his
usual custom and vote for the republican
| congressional nominee, in the belief that
enough to induce him to so vote that they
are good and sufficient enough to induce
other democrats to go and do likewise.
1t is commendable characteristic of the
American people to have great confidence
| in and respect for any man whom they
believe to be honesb patriotic and capable
n f.IN a
courage of his convictions whether they
agree with him in his opinions or not, and
SO universal is the belief that President
Roosevelt possesses those characteristics
that if an election were to be held tomorrow
for president, freed from the manipulations
and intrigues Of professional politicians,
trusts and soulless corporations, l believe
he would be elected by such an overwhelm-
Ing majority that 1t would be practically
that a contest is soon coming on, If not
already inaugurated, between the admins
tration forces In congress and the trusts,
railroads and other corporate mOnopolies,
lis it not the duty of every patriotic demo-
holding the administration in this conten-
ton to cast aside temporarily his party
Affiliations and vote for the republican
candidate in the coming special congress
sional election?
More especially should he do so in view
of the fact that system has grown up in
congress with all political parties that is
growing stronger and more binding as the
years go by to have all important ques-
lions OF party pOncy SeILleu IN a congress
sional party caucus, the action Of which
is considered binding upon each and every
member thereof irrespective of individual
opinions. Hence, every democratic voter
who believes in standing with the president
as against the corporations and trusts
ought to appreciate the Importance of
eleCting a congressman who is of the same
political party as the president and who
is pledged to stand squarely and stead
tasty by the policy of the administration
in a republican caucus, the place where
that policy will be securely approved and
upheld or irrevocably defeated.
Brown Is POwerIess.
As to Mr.. Brown the democratic candi-
able, capable and popular citizen OF pro-
gressiVe ideas ana would receive many
votes outside Ms party and make an ideal
congressman under ordinary circumstances,
but If elected now would be practically
helpless to assist the president in his war
on the corporate mOnOpolies from the fact
that he belongs to an opposition and mi
any republican congressional caucus and
that, too, very properly-where the whole
matter will undoubtedly be settled. He
could, therefore, only stand by as a mere
spectator viewing the contest from afar
OF without the power TO render any as
sistance to the administration, no matter
how much he might be personally inclined
so to do.
Again he would be in honor bound to
abide by the action of a democratic con-
gressiOnal caucus and what that action
might be is problematiCal as political par
ties in congress as elsewhere, are apt to
stand with the old-time Kentucky democrat
the democratic party were, replied that he