Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-03-23
TO HEAR FROM NEBRASKA
Will Be Heard in Both Republican
and Democratic Conventions.
TAFT GETS STRENGTH IN WEST
Twenty-six Delegates from Iowa
with the sixteen from Nebraska
for War Secretary, Has
Helped some.

Nebraska's sixteen delegates and Iowa's
twenty-six delegates to Chicago nave
been posted up for Taft on all the politi-
cal forecasters' boards and have done
more than anything else that has nap"
pened during the last month to strengthen
the confidence that the big war secre-
tary will surely be nominated to sue
ceed President Roosevelt. The prospects
are that the Nebraska delegation at CHI
cago will at least cut as much Figure
in the game, II not more, than any dele
CATION sent to any previous republican
national convention. The arrangements
for headquarters were left to National
Committeeman Morrill,, who has made
tentative reservation i'm the Auditorium
Annex. which win be the location Of all
the candidates headquarters and the
chief center of convention activity.
The fact that the two United States
senators are kept close at Washington
will probably prevent full meeting of
the delegation until the time of the con-
vention, but the chances are that most
of the other delegates will be brought
! together at Omaha on the occasion Of the
coming visit of Secretary Taft for the
Mckinley club banquet.
Secretary Corrick of the republican
state committee has taken upon himself
the work of seeing that the credentials
for all the district conventions as
well as for the state convention are
properly framed and certified and sent
to the secretary of the national commit
tee for filing. While there is no possi-
bility of contests in Nebraska, the i'm
portance of the proper execution of the
credentials for big convention of this
Ii, 4a 4.
The members of Nebraska's delegation
to the democratic national convention at
Denver expect to attract attention as the
personal representatives Of Mr.. Bryan.
1t is understood that the Nebraska head
quarters and the Bryan headquarters will
be one and the same and that arrange
ments for these accommodations have all
ready been made, although the details
are not public, 1t is possible the demo-
Gratis will get their delegates together
for preliminary meeting before July If
it should be thought necessary to effect
an organization and q plan of operation,
but If everything continues to come
Bryans way there will be no need Of
such a meeting in advance of a rival at
Denver.
nebraska orficialdom has Jared better
than the corresponding officials in Iowa
so far as convention honors go. Ne
braska has commissioned its governor
and both its senators as representatives
at Chicago. while the Iowa delegation
contains neither governor nor senator
Iowa republicans gave places to/the edi-
tors of two of the leading republican pa
pers among the big four, while Ne
braska's delegates-at-large include the
editor OF one party organ.
The republican newspapers throughout
Nebraska all comment on the state con-
vention as evidencing an unprecedented
state of harmony among all the elements
or the party. They likewise take this
as an omen promising thorough CO.
operation all along the line for rousing
republican victory at the polls next No
vember which will establish Nebraska
more firmly than ever in the republican
column.