The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-07-25
BRYAN SAFE IN
HIS OWN STATE
PERSONAL POPULARITY OF DEM.
oCRATic NOMINEE iNSUREs
SUCCESS IN NEBRASKA
(By John E LathrOp.)

(By John E Lathrop.)
| LINCOLN Neb.. July 25.-"Win
Bryan and Kern carry Nebraska?" This
question 1 have asked many times
while going westward through this
state, before che Denver convention
and returning therefrom. Basing
judgment on answers given by all
sorts of people. Of all classes and par
ties, one feels justified in believing
the commoner is more likely to carry
than lose Nebraska.
| Politicians estimate that the normal
republican majority in the state IS
about 1900 Bryan carried the state
| in 1896 by about 10000 and lost it
in 1900 by less. Not many votes will
need be changed to give democratic
majority.
The weak spot for the republicans
| is the nomination Of James Sherman
for vice president, because he is a
stand patter" on the tariff. Governor
Sheldon of this state, at Chicago, when
interviewed by the Omaha World
Herald on Sherman's candidacy, said:
THAT would be fine thing for the
democrats and bad for the republi-
cans" Now that Sherman is the NOM
inee, Governor Sheldon's interview
rises to plague the republicans. Ne.
braska is a. state of the Cummins-La
Toilette brand, where tariff revisionists
live. They don't like the presence VI
a tariff "standpatter" on the ticket.
Cummins was the choice in this
Iowa statesman Of Chicago during the
discussion Of him and Dolliver for the
vice presidency, angered the immense
Cummins following In Nebraska, as It
did in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Kansas
| Cummins would have been proof evi-
dent of a sincere intention to lower
cxactions caused by the too high tariff,
Sherman causes honest revisionists to
scrutinize very closely the revision
program Of the republican party as
set forth in the platform, wherein is
stated no fact of the tariff as now
administered being too high, at least
in spots.
The republicans failed to insert
planks for valuation of rail properties,
popular election Of senators and pub
licity of campaign contributions.
These planks were demanded strong
ly hereabouts.
Again, Bryan has grewn on these
Nebraskans. They operated in for
mer years on the theory that no pro-
phet should have honor in his own
country; hence, they turned him down
in 1900. Everyone here says the pop
ular feeling towards the commoner In
Nebraska has changed, that the masses
recognize in him a much larger human
/ qquantity than that at which they
estimated him in the past
Lncoln-hotbed Of Nebraska repub-
licanism-now has a Bryan democrat
as mayor, a personal friend of the
commoner, and they now take pride in
their neighbor There is no bitterness
in the newspaper coment..
The Nebraska State Journal. next to
the Omaha Bee, she strongest republi-
can paper in the state. speaks kindly
of Bryan and openly admits that he
may carry Nebraska.
| Roosevelt would have defeated Bry-
an in Observation-Disclosures; at least.
there was tremendous Roosevelt senti-
ment here. But when he undertook to
force another-one intellectually a con-
servative-on his party, there was re-
sentiment; not passing resentment, but
deep resentment among all classes.
obviously, the masses had confidence
In Roosevelt, Bryan, La Toilette and
| Cummins. Failing to get either or any
one OF their real favorites on the tick
ct, they are disposed to turn to BRYAN.
SO that there is more than a. good
cnance for Bryan to carry Nebraska
there's little likelihood that he will not