The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-15
ALLEN NOT A CANDIDATE
THE SENATOR SAYS HE WILL NOT
RUN FOR GOVERNOR.
WOULD NOT ACCEPT NOMINATION

Effort of the Bee to Place Him Before
the People as the Democratic candi-
date Is "Just Writing" Without
Foundation.
Will William V. Allen Of Madison be
the next democratic nominee for gov
ernor? No, not II the senator knows
anything about 1t.
"Allen For Governor" formed the
subject for half column discussion
in the Omaha Bee. Senator Allen,
who was up from Madison yesterday,
said the matter was nonsense"
Just writing" was Senator Aliens
comment in Norfolk. Nothing in 1t.
| would not accept the nomination.
have always appreciated the honors
that have been given me but | have
served in office enough"
Senator Aliens friends, while they
admit that Nebraska couldn't place
many better men in the governors
office, don't put any faith in boom talk
for the ex-senator. Senator Allen,
they say, is tout Of politics" in Office
filling sense.
This Is the Bees Allen boom:
Jim Dahlman will never run for
governor on the democratic ticket, at
least not in 1905" asserts an Omaha
democrat, who processes to be in the
confidence of the powers that be"
in the house of democracy.
Shall I tell you who will be-" he
continued. "Well, William V. Allen
has been decided on as the man; the
only question is whether the former
senator will accept the nomination.
81 have 1t on the best authority that
this is the card decided on by Mr..
Bryan and other leaders Of the fusion
forces in Nebraska at recent confab,
one held since the election, and that
all plans for the campaign will be
shaped toward that end. The under
standing is that ex-senator Allen will
, agree to run under proper pressure.
Bryan, am told, has said that Dahl
man is simply out of the question, not
!. possibility, and while he and Jim
are still good friends, he cannot be
made to see that Jim would stand a
ghost of show running for governor.
The results of Tuesdays election In
Omaha confirm that view"
. Does Bryan construe the election
in Omaha and Douglas county as re-
fecting the public sentiment toward
: the Dahlman city administration?
was asked
! "How could he help it?" was the
D reply. "This is the first time the peo-
). pie who elected Dahlman have had
p since his election to express their
;. opinion of him and his government,
G and they expressed themselves"
o "How about the sting of ingrati-
!. tude,' that is in case of Aliens candi-
dacy, would Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock sup
: port him personally and with his pa,
4 PERI"
: "Now you're asking some ques'
= lions, my friend; you're getting down
!, now to the real subject matter. I'm
p sure | can't tell whether the sting OF
+ ingratitude' would be felt in that case
II or not. 1t might be that, owing to the
n same political ambition and conditions
which have forced him to smother the
q sting and get behind Bryan more thar
q once, Mr.. Hitchcock would see mt tc
- lend an unwilling support to the Aller
candidacy. But there is no doubt ne
~ has never forgotten that Governor
a POINTER at the instigation Of Bryan
q who telegraphed from Texas, appoint
ed w. V. Allen as a populist and no
II, G. M. Hitchcock, as democrat, tt
y, the United States senate to fill the va
n cancy occasioned by a death. Well
a. Mr.. Hitchcock may have chance t.
II show us what he would do.
O. "You see, there is much method II
n the madness of this scheme. Tit
O. democrats or Mr.. Bryan must resecur'
" control of the populist vote in Ne
- braska. 1t is all we'll and good to sa!
=, there isn't a populist party, may b.
W not, but there are populists just TIT
". same, and one thing is plainly evident
is the democrats did not swing thos
h pops to their man Loomis last Tues
10 day. Nobody is more keenly awar
~ of this fact than Mr.. Bryan. And MI
-. Bryan knows that before 1908 1t woult
be a good thing for him to get his arm
- laround the recaicitrants."