Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-18
SLOAN TALKS TO TOURISTS
Brand of Travelling Men Who Are Not
Looking for Four Years Of Rest,
PoPUL1sTs ALL OFF TICKET
Democrats Bring Pressure to Bear to
Force Them to Accept FIeharty
for Attorney General
and Succeed.
IFrom a staff correspondent)

LINCOLN, Oct 17.-(Special. .)-Charles
Sloan Of Geneva spoke to the Young Mems
Republican club and the Travelling Mems
Taft club tonight at the Lindell hotel The
auditorium of the hotel was filled to the
doors and the audience was enthusiastic.
Among other things Mr.. sloa nsaid;
l am pleased to greet the travelling men.
the FURNISHED minds Of practical politicians,
the knights of traffic and the consuls OF
commerce; always the courteous and en-
lightened fellow traveller; citizens who have
well earned the title given you by a modern
novelist, 'The American Cavalier"
l understand there are two organizations
in Lincoln. One a Bryan club, interested.
apparently. in promoting the leisure ot its
members for the next four years The other
a Taft club, whose members want to sell
goods for the next quadrennium. The MEM
bers of one having prospered for the last
twelve years think they can afford to fight
the source OF their prosperity. Perhaps
they can; SO might the others, but they
won't.
Men talk of voting for Bryan as a matter
of state pride. That was done In 1896. Ne
braska was taken from the company OF
the great states of the north and lined UP
with Mississippi and Arkansas and we
weren't proud Of 1t.
II placed Nebraskans on record as sup
eSso ago platform, and net net only republicans,
but all democrats. are ashamed of that,
and, while duly appreciating the oratorical
and dramatic powers of the presidential
candidate, we do not pdopose to subject
ourselves to state shame a second time by
endorsing the folles Of the Denver plat
form to have 1t repudiated four years
hence by the quadrennial candidate. For
while republican platforms allow for
througout all it's presidential contests. and
the republicans change their candidates,
four years, while their candidate, like Ten
nysons Brook" goes on forever"
In this state the people rule. Therefore.
men may vote for whom they see fit, and
] want TO suggest that when you vote. vote
so that your wages will not be BryaniEed,
corn corn go pop The 50 per cent II rule - of the the
democratic platform enforced against them
would put their present candidate out. OF
party he Is sesd and P1 S OF i He
would have to stop running for number OF
Years until a iot oL little democrats grew
per cent OF the democratic party.
Publicity OF campaign funds is distinctly
a republican doctrine. Some years ago the
Nebraska legislature passed a statute
which has since been the law OF the land,
requiring the publication Of campaign con-
copied largely from the state Of Ohio. the
state that gave us Garfield In 1880 McKin-
yember g. This law has has been i've lived on up ITO to
by the republicans Of Nebraska. 1t has
been nOtoriously ignored and violated by
spasm of virtue. that It win do more than
the republicans in this. that they will pub
On this account am willing 10 com
promise with the opposition and offer an
amendment TO the law, providing that all
political parties shall publish as hereto-
fore, after election, but that any political
party whose memory is so short and whose
contributions are SO large and many that
for a space Of four years they forgot a
small item Of so 900 such political marty
may have the right to publish its contri-
buttons before election.
No More Withdrawals.
No one can now get off Of the election
ballot this fall by declining a nomination
as the fifteen days before election was
reached last night For three days from
last night political committees are permit
| ted 20 fill the vacancies.
T. b. Quakenbush. pOpulIst nominee for
attorney general, got busy yesterday and
violated his oath and got off OF the ticket
The democrats got the heads OF the popu-
list committee and forced them to accept
! Harry F1eharty, the democratic nominee.
The full populist committee the other day
turned down F1eharty hard but today
/ Tom Allen. Arthur Mullen and other Bryan
boosters got busy and forced the nomina-
ton OF Fleharty.
/ The same bunch is now trying 10 force
the populist committee 10 accept Senator
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