Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-03
HAYWARD READY FOR WORK
Republican State Chairman Begins
Conference With County Leaders.
WATSON on PARKER TICKET
Four Years Ago There Was mo- At
tempt TO steer POpulist Votes
in Nebraska TO Democratic
Nominee.
(From a staff Correspondent }

LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. Z-(Speclal.)-I
Chairman Hayward of the republican
state committee is looking forward with
great interest to his swing around the
circle to confer wit hcounty chairmen.
He begins tomorrow by meeting a bunch
of chairmen in Lincoln who live within
easy reach fthis city.
Mr.. Hayward believes great good win
come of these meetings, as the exchange
of ideas will result in better and closer
| organization. With one exception every
| chairman in the state has accepted the
invitation to attend a conference. Fol-
lowing these meetings there will be in
augurated one of the hottest fights in
every county in Nebraska ever pulled off.
Reports have come in from out in the
state that the democrats are circulating
stories that Lancaster county is much
in favor of the democratic nominee for
president. This is being done to help
them out elsewhere. AS a matter OF fact
| there Is no slip off in Lancaster county.
! Well-posted republicans say this county
| will cast its usual republican majority.
Out OF courtesy to distinguished citi-
| zen, business men and others in their
| homes displayed pictures OF the demo-
| cratic candidate, and this courtesy was
| seized upon by the democrats as good
! campaign material, so II has been en-
| ergetically used as an indication of what
Lancaster county will do. Many Of the
business houses have taken down their
| Bryan pictures, though naturally they
will post them again on notification day
and 1t is likely the republican state COM
mittee will take down it's Taft and Sher-
man banner on that day. Then 1t will
| all be over. The republicans of Lancas-
| ter county will get noisily busy. There
| will be no more playing UP Bryan as a
| business asset The count ycommittee,
| the Taft club. the Union Veterans Re-
| publican club the Young Mems Republi-
| can club and other clubs will unite to
| hold up the banner Of Lancaster county,
which, until Douglas county secured 1t,
held the prize for the banner republican
county Of the state
whose OK IL GoredF
It's Peoples Independent" when Judge
Parker is the candidate and It's Peoples
Party" when Mr.. Bryan is the democratic
nominee.
When Judge Parker was the democratic
nominee four years ago, every populist in
the state was given al; opportunity to vote
for Tom Watson electors.
With Bryan the nominee Tom Allen Is
trying desperately to make It so every
populist vote will be counted for Bryan.
At the hearing on the protests filed by
| Victor Rosewater yesterday the array of
legal talent defending Aliens scheme filed
affidavits that the Peoples independent
| Party" had no existence outside OF Ne
braska- These affldayits also set out that
the national party was labelled Peoples
Party"
Just four years ago the same Watson
was a popilist candidate for president and
TNzN-
The electors pledged to thee men went on
the ballot under the name Peoples In
dependent"
The records in the office OF the score
tary of state show this The democrats
had their electors on the ballot under the
democratic title and the Watson electors
were under the name Peoples Independ-
ent" Tom Allen was chairman OF the
democratic state committee then, as he
is now. He made no attempt to steal the
populist party label for the democrats then
because It was not TO the interest Of
Colonel Bryan at that time.
The filing of the names of a number Of
alleged populists last night as straight
peoples independent party candidates for
electors is taken az an indication OF the
weakness of Tom Aliens plea for the use
by the democrats OF the name of the
peoples independent party.
Compliments for MetcaIfe.
The compllmentar. notices and letters
being received by Richard L. Metcalfe
since the democrats failed in their plan to
nominate him for governor with the unani-
nous consent of Dahlman, Shallenberger
and Berge, is enough to make the three
so-called ''barnacles" sick. A bunch Of
clippings were displayed by one of Met
calfe's admirers yesterday, the sentiment
In each being hat the democrats made a
Il mistake in not forcing the three men to
stay out and give Metcafe the nomlna-
tion.
Filings Rt lur0Pa,
AURORA. Neb., Aug. 2.-(Special Tele-
gram.)-Petitions for primary nomina-
tions of the following candidates were
filed at closing time last night: For leg
islature, republican, r. L. O'HAra. w. L
Farley and John A whitmore; demo-
cratic, ]. L. Evans and John Meyer.
County attorney, ]. H. Grosvenor, popu-
list; Fred A. Bald. democrat. County Com
missioner, T. A. Mckay, republican;
George Haskins, democrat. The .republi-
can county central committee has en-
dorsed r. H. Abbott for railway commits
sioner.
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