Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-16
atar Good, while the state officers have
been hoonoboing with the delegates.

atar Good, while the state officers have
been hoonoboing with the delegates.
Democratic, Conyention Routine.
Without a. single picture Of the Peerless
Leader" to. decorate the walls of the audi
forum and Without a Photographic like
ness of any of the IDOLS of the party In
sight. the .dernocratie, state seonvention was
called TO order at 2iso this afternoon by
II. s. Allen. chairman. Of the democratic
state committee. After the call which was
read by Secretary la, MaeGuire, OF the
state committee, Mr., Allen introduced. the
temporary organization. ca NJ. skiles of
Butler. chairman. and f. j. Bergman OF
Douglas. secretary Judge skiles spoke as
follows;
Nebraska democracy stands today I'M
haunted imrnutable yindicated: make
bold to say that the fundamental princi-
2 piles of the newer democracy are now being
advocated and adopted wherever an in
ling To be- reS iS WherePPe eTp truth ,Sstee
equality and the doctrine Of equal rights
to, all, special privileges TO none, have
viii fnd ACCOMPLISHMENTS whom the
lust Of Office does not kill, democrats
whom the spoils Of office cannot buy,
democrats who possess convictions and q
WILL democrats who dare not lie"-Jef-
ferson democrats. Jackson democrats,
And. gentlemen. If the signs of the time.
mean anything. they certainly are preg.
1ant with hope and cheer 70 the hosts OF
zen 'Va b nam Hain c are sne p Pat
form and w. J. Bryan were right. Time
has proven it. the American people nov
tom have spent r their forces : the 0P bSeS
=, streams OF denunciAtion.ltvitup erati6ns ant
;S no Longer 9ST TIE tcs%pssn
practically assured. r.
sSSa3 "stand by ROOSEVELT"
The coming battle cry or the republican
party is stand by Roosevelt" But how
- IN the name Of common sense, is this L
be done, when Roosevelt won't stand.
~ Nebraska this fall that the republicans
two years ago were pledged to give u:
relief from railroad extortlon and that OF
that issue they elected every state senator
and. all but nine representatives and ther
ask why they did not carry out theil
pledges. they WV, viii answer, Stand 2,
not pass commodity freight rate bill
demanded by the people and promised b!
nss LEADERS, As Ssn w answer Stahd
didn't enact an anti-pass law. and why
when in full power In every branch of ou
state government. the assessed value o
railroads under the new revenue law wa
the assessed Y value Of and e WAS increase'
the issue by responding. stand by Roose
vslt." And when we point out. for IN
414neA, IN Butter county, where i. reside
f7fmers were compelled to pay over 5000
nrsased taxes on their land, while tn
porlington and Union. Pacific railroad
dollars less than a year before, and onl,
rendered part OF this will the farmer
look pleasant while they sing the old re
frain, stand by ROOSEVELT" OF all tn
hypocritical. nonsensical, cheap, absurd
hogwesh. campaign phrases ever south {
be perpetrated as a fraud upon an. intel
. ngent,. long suffering. taxridden people
f, Sta nd by Roosevelt" tops them all. Tn
:, facts are that the only party in this. eoun
stood for anything worth while Is tn
that Roosevelt left such men as Tillma
and Bailey and took his stand with Aid
rich and Foraker, the American people re
fused 10 stand by Roosevelt and his popu
larity began to wane. My friends, the pee
pie OF this country have their eyes ope
and the republican party will be oompelle
10 night the next campaign upon real issue
ceptive campaign phrases
& The attorney general on this state IN
gentleman who would like reserved ses
IN our winter resort for millionaires, IN
United States senate, this gentleman, VIII
Is ahu-Burlington, anti-Union Pacific, BIZ
pro-Northwestern and ro-Nye-Schneidel
5rain-trust. said In mis- platform adopte
IN his home county by his applaudlng cor
stituents, The tsTin question Is settled.
pose a little trust Just Matched out for poi
ularity sake. but would protect and d
fend with all his might the mother
trusts He Numbered his phillipics againl
the nonpayment OF taxes by the railroad
of this state. but has done nothing to er