Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-03-02
TAFT LEAD BIG IN NEBRASKA
Already One Hundred Delegates More
Than Needed Majority.
DEMOCRATS MEET THIS WEEK
POpuIIsts VIII Hold Convention, but
VIII Have Only Few County
Organizations Regularly
Represented.
REPuBnrcAN INSTRUCTIONS.


Total delegates TO state convention. e. Gas
Total delegates already chosen. ..... .e5s
Necessary TO make majority. ....... .46s
Delegates for Taft. Observation-Disclosures. .56l
Delegates for Roosevelt. ............. go
UninHtructed scattering ............ 81
| A large majority of the delegates to the
coming republican state convention to be
! held at Omaha Thursday of next week
have already been chosen and the re-
mainder will be selected this week. The
new rules of the state organization re-
quire credentials Of delegates to be in
five days in advance of the convention
date, but there will be few struggling
conventions Friday and Saturday notwith-
standing the infraction of the rule.
| Forty-nine counties have already chosen
their delegates. leaving forty-one coun-
ties to come, but of those forty-one, fif-
teen are counties that have only one or
two delegates while the forty-nine that
have already acted include most of the
republican stronghold that count for
most While three delegations with a to-
tai of sixty-six votes have given in
structions for Roosevelt present pros
poets are that the Taft majority will be
so big that there will be no division on
this subject unless some of these dele
gates want to go on record in order to
carry the record home with them.
Some counties have been instructed not
only on presidential preference, but also
for the individual delegates-at-large
Adams, Douglas and Washington are COM
mitted to Victor Rosewater for one of
the delegates. Cass and several other
counties have indorsed Governor Sheldon.
Lancaster and one or two others have
indorsed Judge Allen w. Field and sew
eral counties have expressed themselves
for Senator Norris Brown. Washington
county has gone so far as to name
complete slate for all of the big four"
expressing itself for a combination con-
sisting of Senators Brown and Burkett.
Governor Sheldon and Victor Rosewater
No other names than these five have been
projected so far for delegates-at-large.
The republican district conventions begin
coming on this week, those for the First
and Fourth districts being set for Wednes-
day at Lincoln and Wilbur, respectively.
The First district consists of seven coun-
ties. of which four have instructed for
Taft and one for Roosevelt, Nemaha and
Richardson will hold their county con-
ventions today. To keep Taft from getting
the two district delegates the "antis' would
have to carry both of these counties,
whereas It is already practically certain
that they will both be for Taft. In that
case Taft will have eighty -eight out of 142
delegates in the convention
In the Fourth district the only county
still to go on record is Saunders, which is
said to be Taft county. The Fourth dis
trict consists Of eleven counties, with 157
delegates, of which only Polk county, with
eight votes, is standing out against Taft.
The three counties constituting the se,-
ond district have all acted and instructed
for Taft, making it unanimous The in
struction in Douglas for NJ. L. Learned
and Arthur c. Smith fixes the personality |
of the delegates, although the formal Gre |
dentials will not be given until March 12
The Third district has several counties
yet to hear FROM but more than a ma.
jority of the 1s9 delegates are already in
the Taft column.
The same is true with reference TO the
Fifth district, which has IA votes in It's
convention of which more than half are
now instructed for Taft
The big Sixth is the only district in which
a majority OF the delegates are yet to be
chosen. 1t has thirty-three counties, with
l62 delegates. Nine counties have selected
their delegations, of which eight are re-
corded for Taft, although not all under In
structions. These nine counties have sew
enty out OF the 162 delegates.
The democratic organizations throughout
have also been busy choosing
delegates to their state convention, which
meets at Omaha Thursday of this week.
The populists are supposed to hold a state
simultaneously and hall has
oeen hired to accommodate them, but so far
as reports are at hand, only ridiculously
small number of counties have taken any
formal action to secure representation in
he populst state convention.
The democratic slate for delegates-at-
arge TO Denver promises to go through
Without hitch, This slate was made at the
democratic love feast at Lincoln in Janu-
Try and claims to have Mr. Bryan's an l
'rovaL 1t bears the names of William
4. Thompson OF Grand Island, Mayor j
frank Brown of Lincoln, Dan " Stephens :
Il Fremont and Ig. j. Dunn of Omaha.
each one of these men would have serious |
opposition II running by himself. Ex-Judge q
oldham of Kearney wants to break in and 7
ne or two other patriots have baen men .
ioned, but without receiving encourage
nent from the democratic oracle at Fair l
lew. G
The demo-pop exhibition will be pulled off [
s usual as circus and sideshow and every c
ne who buys a ticket to either the big {
ent or to the little tent viii be invited L
D listen to a flow Of oratory from Mr. e
ryan at the Auditorium in the evening
dthout extra charge. Mayor DahIman set a
ut to raise $500 to defray local expenses r
Though he had only promised 500 at the h
me he persuaded the committee to fix
pom Omaha as the convention place, so no b
emocrat should stay away for fear II a
oOr entertainment. q
ANCE COUNTY FOR TAFT "
tate and Federal Administration.
Are Endorsed N