Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-08
HITCHCOCK UP IN TIE AIR
Reaping Whirlwind Of Dahlman
Wrath in His Desperate Fight.
J1Ms DO NOT FORGET EASILY
They Are Allowing the congressman
Editor 60 Paddle His own Canoe
NJ Revard for snubbing
Mayor.

Not in many a campaign have the demo-
Gratis of Omaha and Douglas county been
as seriously disorganized and disrupted
by factional feeling as they are at pre-
sent. They are making efforts to dis
guise this fact, but with little success.
The story is an old one. II had its
origin in that bitter fight between The
Jacksonians and the Dahlman Democracy
club, or the Jims, way early last spring
over the election of delegates to the ma
tional convention. 1t was accentuated by
the continuous chickering's and backbitings
growing out of hat contest leading up
to the Denver convention and eliminating
in the desperate struggle for guberna-
torial nomination at the primaries.
Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock, congressman and
nominee for reelection, who was so Bit
terly condemned by the Dahlman crowd
for HIS open and active support Of Shall
enberger and opposition to. Dahlman, is
now reaping as his harvest the whirlwind
Of Jimsonian wrath and revenge. Through
his paper and on the stump Mr.. Hitch
cock is desperately seeking to contradict
what he himself knows to be the solemn
truth, that the Jims are preparing to
knife him at the polls November 8.
just as they said they would do. And
Mr.. Hitchcock is terribly alarmed. though
making an effort to disguise his Feelings.
Toughest Job He Ever Had.
In the face Of conditions Mr.. Hitchcock
is finding the job of running for on
gress the most difficult he ever under
took. Those ardent friends of Jim Dahl
man who saw their idol slaughtered by
Hitchcock here in his own city and
county for Shallenberger. are doing just
what they said they would do-knifing
Hitchcock. Some are doing il openly,
others on the q. T.. But they are all
doing 1t. Those resolutions adopted at
the Dahlman Democracy headquarters
that night on the eve of the primary
election %denouncing Hitchcock's paper are
being lived up to, and the worst of II is
Mr.. Hitchcock knows this to be a fact.
The Dahlman men do not easily forget
the day that Tom Flynn, Joe Butler and
Sam Rothwell went down to the World
Herald office and asked Mr.. Hitchcock
personally to give Mr.. Dahlman his sup
port. Mr.. Hitchcock personally refused.
He said mo" as plainly and fatty as he
can speak the word. He didn't hum and
haw. He was honest with the Jims and
now they are paying him back. aAnd Mr..
Hitchcock can't figure out a way to
help himself. He knows that the votes,
the numbers, are on the side of Jim
Dahlman. He knows that In order to
get the full democratic vote in his dis
trict he must get the Dahlman vote.
Figured ON Republican Split.
Why, then, knowing this. did Hitchcock
ever dare to incur the enmity of the
Dahlman crowd? is asked. The answer
simply is that Hitchcock figured on disaf.
lection in the republican ranks sufficient
to give him the balance of power. Thai
has always been his stock In trade. Blu
this time. despite the ludicrous efforts o.
his paper to create an image of re.
publican disaffection, Mr.. Hitchcock know.
better than anyone can pit ssibly tell hin
that the solid republican vote of the Soc
ond congressional district is back of Alder
w Jefferis and that a good slice Of tn,
democratic vote is also there.
When Jim Dahlman made that magnifi
cent campaign OF his as organs most I'm
innate personal and political friend" 1
rancored in the breast of Hitchcock ant
his Jacksonian friends.
"We1l show him." they said. And the.
attempted it to the extent, 1t is understood
that Mr.. Bryan was importuned to cal
Dahlman down for adopting this shibbo
leth. Mr.. Bryan was in precisely the sam
boat with Mr.. Hitchcock. The editor
congressman dared not come out in hi
paper and say that Dahlman was no
Bryan's most intimate personal and politica
friend and Bryan would not. for he knev
IT was true and any settlement from hir
on the subject would be fatal.
Play Their Worst Hand.
That is where the Hitchcock men o
the party played their worst card. Despis
ing Dahlman and his methods. they lie
their tempers get away with them whe
they could not prevent the mayor fror
displaying to the world the true relation
that exist between him and Bryan. Brya
has proven that Dahlman is his most int
mate personal and political friend too man
times to give serious weight to any cor
tradiction of the statement. He not onl
delegated Dahlman as his personal repre-
sentative at the Denver convention, but h
insisted since that Jim should be place
upon the national stump, ignoring tn
Hitchcock conservatives
Hitchcock's inability to placate the Dab
man crowd is shown in many ways one
which is his failure this year to secure II
/ organization of clubs among the foreig
voters. This has been one of his CHI,
functions in former campaigns, but It hs
failed him utterly this fall.
The mans anxiety over his own IA.
has driven him 10 the demand upon Il
national committee to send John Lind, Il
former democratic governor OF Minnesot
into his district. Mr.. Lind spoke at Wasl
ington hall last night and was draggt
by Hitchcock out to Valley, where Jeffer
was accorded a tremendous ovation a Mig
or two ago and used as much as possib
in Hitchcock's district. Lind's mission
to plead with Swedish vctcrs in Hitc.
cocks behalf. After Lind John Johnso
present governor OF Minnesota, will
asked to come down and help bail Il
water out of the sinking Hitchcock craft.