Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-31

buking the republicans for their at
tempts to buy the election, corrupt the
electorate and start the country on the
d%ownshoot Ia perdition. The plea is
neither new nor novel, from Bryan.
He has made 1t before. He has sought
in two former campaigns to convince
the American voters that he is the en-
bodiment of all the virtues, and that he
has pledged his heart and his mar
velous lungs to the moral regeneration
OF the whole people and to the saving
of the nation from the evil designs of
INSCRIPTIONS politicians who, in this
instance, all happen to be republicans.
In making charges against the char
acter of the men who have been active
and prominent in republican political
circles Mr.. Bryan invites attention to
his own record and to the character of
the men whom he has taken into polit-
zeal chumship. An inspection of this
list establishes the fact that Mr.. Bryan
has displayed a positive genius for
picking political crooks as his closest
friends and advisers.
In Nebraska, for example, he is de-
handing that the people be allowed to
rule and he is asking them to vote for
him and his ticket, thus placing Omaha
in the rule of Walter Noise & Co.,
aided and abetted by Dahlman and the
whole list Of politicians who would
make ducks and brakes of law and
decency for their personal political or
financial advancement. In the rural
districts he is asking votes for Shallen-
berger because of his prohibition or
county option views and promises,
while in Omaha he is seeking support
for Sh~allenberger, who is always
chaperoned in this city by the head of
the local Whisky trust. His success
in the state would give wide power to
Brother-in-Law Allen and Mayor Dahl
man, who have not yet explained what
they did with that $4,000 contributed
in 1904 by the Ryan and Belmont
crowd in New York to aid Mr.. Bryan
in his senatorial fight in Nebraska.
In New York Mr.. Bryan has made
Lewis Stuyvesant Astor Chambers
cause his own. Chanler is the Tam
many candidate for governor, for
whom the race track syndicate has
raised $500, 000-and this statement
is made on the authority of Colonel
Henry Watterson, n of Mr.. Bryan's
closest political advisers-on Chanler's
specific promise to cause the repeal of
the law prohibiting race-track betting,
which was forced through the legisla-
ture by Governor Hughes. Mr.. Bryan's
state chairman in New York is "Fingy"
Corners, a Buffalo statesman who
measures politicians by the pocketbook
standard, and his closest friends and
advisers are Pat McCarren, the Stand
ard Oil representative; Ryan and Bel
mont and Murphy n the Tammany
leaders, who have made public Office
a license for public loot since the days
when public opinion forced Boss
Croker-also a friend of Bryan-to
flee to Europe with his ill-gotten gains.
Mr.. Bryan picked his candidate for
the vice presidency from Indiana and
took pains to pick John Worth Kern,
the attorney for Tom Taggart, the boss
gambler of French Lick Springs. Kern
has since admitted that he is the attor-
ney of the big railroad syndicates in
his state and that Taggart, with his
gambling joint, is his most prominent
and profitable client. Taggart is the
one man in the state who is called to
Chicago, when Mr.. Bryan is passing
through, for a conference on the tricks
necessary to urn to advance the cause
of Organism and the moral uplift in
the state of Indiana.
In Illinois Mr.. Bryan has placed his
political fortunes in the hands OF
Roger Sullivan, whom he has publicly
denounced as a corporation tool and a
menace to good government. Sullivan
is ably aided by Jake" Kern and
"Hinky Dink" McKenna, and Bath
house" John Caughlin, each of whom
is better posted on the price of Votes
than he is on THE Prince of Peace"
In Missouri Mr.. Bryan relies upor
Harry Halves and Ed Butler, leader Of
the st. Louis Tammany, which ha:
done more to corrupt elections in thai
: state than has its namesake in New
York. Butler has rubbed his nose
against the penitentiary doors a couple
of times for election frauds and hal
: many indictments still hanging ovel
him.
In Pennsylvania Mr.. Bryan is hand
in-glove with Colonel Guffey, notorious
as a Standard Oil boss. He denounced
Gufey at the Denver convention, blu
has since made peace with him.
At the Denver convention Mr.. Bryan
dictated the selection of the unspeaka
BILE Haskell of Oklahoma as chairman
of the committee on resolutions an
=. afteTward made him treasurer of tn,
national convention. Just about tn
time Haskell had pipe line connection
between the Democratic treasury an,