Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-01
POLITICAL COMMENT.

Schuyler Free Lance: Edgar Howard got
a little dose at the hands Of the dirty,
degraded, unprincipled. lying democratic
press that falls to the lot Of the Free Lance
editor. How did he like IL?
Norfolk Press: Tom Allen has been vim
dicated in the matter of that little $4,000
contributed by the big life insurance mag
mates by his reelection as chairman OF
the democratic state committee. Any uues-
tons as to how the money was spent will
now be impertinent.
Grand Island Independent: In his adj
dress in this city Senator Brown certainly
exposed the insinccrity of the democratic
party leaders with reference to the cleo
ton Of United States senators by direct
vote of the people, when he showed that
more republicans than democrats in the
senate voted for the Owens resolution. in
the last session, in this direction, and that
for the last twelve years the democratic
platforms have contained such a declara-
ton and yet its leaders never attempted
to carry out the pledge. Every democrat
In the senate was elected under that plat.
form, and yet the roll calls showed that
three fourths of them vote against It.
Neigh Leader: When the populists party
OF the state. through its leaders. bowed
to the fatted calf of democracy. O.. a.
Williams Of this city objected to being de-
livered with tied hands into the tolls of the
Tammany tiger. He at once entered a
vigorous protest against the unwarranted
action>of the populist minority of the con-
%vention, which. with the aid of the chair
man, committed the deed. His action was
manly, and he gave good reasons for MAX
ing a strenuous fight. Finally the party
threw off all semblance Of Independence
and Mr.. Williams cast his lot with the
party OF Roosevelt and Taft. Many other
sincere populists have dcne the same thing.
Throughout, Mr.. williams position has
been honorable. straightforward and credl-
table.
Callaway Queen: What a difference a
few years may make! In 1896 Candidate
Bryan appealed to the Nebaska farmer for
his vote. It's a good thing he didn't ask
him for anything else. because al that
time, after four years of democratic ad-
ministration and democratic starvation
prices for farm products his vote was
about all the Nebraska farmer had left.
But now, what "a differences! This year.
1908, after a dozen years Of republican pros
perity, Candidate Bryan is asking the Ne
braska farmer not only for his vote. but
ItG ilbullOnS OF money 10 llS cam
paign fund. This time he wants his vote
and his money both, because the Nebraska
farmer has both the vote and q plentiful
supply of republican prosperity In the
shape Of ready mony. VIII Candidate
Bryan get either? Hardly-not until Ne
braska farmers take a notion to contribute
to an institution for the breeding OF grass
hoppers, chinch bugs, weevil and other de-
stroyers OF prosperity on the farm.
Tecumseh Chieftain: Candidate Bryan's
extremely noisy support of publicity of
campaign subscription" is getting into the
class of the boy who whistled through the
graveyard to keep up his courage and scare
off ghosts. Candidate Bryan is trying by
noisy demonstration to keep off that ghost
of the past when Brother-in-law Tom Allen
got $4,000 from Wall street politicians to
use" in the democra tic campaign i'm Ne
braska i'm 1904. 1t now further develops
that Oklahoma, the residence of Governor
Haskell. treasurer OF the democratic ma
ton committee, has no law for publicity
OF campaign subscriptions and that Haskell
was very probably chosen to handle the
democratic party treasury for that very
reason. The state of New York has the
most stringent publicity" law Of any state
in the union and the treasurer Of the re-
publican national committee was selected
from that state purposely 10 give the great
est publicity to the republican party IL
nances. Another case of democratic prom