Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-16
jim SAYS HE'S IN TO STAY
Mayor Will Not Clear Track for
Abbott or Anybody.
HE Is AFTER THE GOvERNORsH1F
Omaha's Lnriat Executive Says H.
Has backing of Cook County
DemOcracy-LObeck Also
There for Keeps.

"when I ask for anything It is because
won before. not because have been
beaten"
This is the succnct reply Of jim Dahl
man, mayor, candidate for governor, to
Lysle Abbott, lawyer, candidate for at
torney general.
Lysle l. Abbott was democracy's candi-
date two years ago for attorney general
but he says It was a hopeless case at the
very outset and that according to an un-
written law in democratic politics when a
man sacrifices himself in a hopeless race
he is to have another chance IL he wants
It, This second chance Abbott has about
determined to ask for, despite the claims
Of Mayor Dahlman and Comptroller Lo-
beck, who are both chasing the guber-
material bee, which bee is much larger and
Of more importance and TO which more
glamor is attached than to the office of
attorney general Of a state.
"If Douglas county is entitled to a state
candidate, think the first chance should
fall to me-" says Attorney Abbott II cam
paigned six weeks last time, toured the
entire state at my own expense and spoke
once and sometimes twice day and the
party will not overlook this service. There
was no hope of winning two years ago,
year 1 think I could get it."
Abbott Cares Naught.
Regarding the chances of Dahlman and
Lobeck the attorney seems to care little,
saying he believes Shallenberger and Berge,
the ever-candidates, have the best show for
the nomination for governor, but Dahlman
and Lobeck think otherwise, naturally.
Lobeck says that Abbott has his permission
to run for attorney general, but that It
will not tease" him in the least, and
Dahlman says that forty candidates can
file for state offices as far as he is con-
cerned. but that nothing will deter him
from filing for the guberpatorial nomina-
tion.
I'm the old convention days possibly Abb
botts claim for recognition might have
counted for something, but now it is diff
ferent and he nor any one else will have
the bulge on me-" says Mayor Dahlman.
1--WE will all go before the people at the
primary stripped of all prestige and power
ard the people will decide who they want
on the ticket and later they will decide
who they want to fill the offices. The
wishes of the big democrats will cut no
ice they will make slate, and it Will
be entirely up to the people. Though as
far as the big guns are concerned, think
4 1 number as many friends among them
as the rext fellow.
abbott seems to cling to the old conven-
ton theory and that the war horses will
tell the delegates to nominate him for at
torney general on account of signal
service done the party, ard that my friend
Lobeck and 1 would therefore be left out
in the cold, dreary and forlorn. But he
has another think coming"
Jim Is in for the Finish.
'T have positively determined to make
, a try for the office of governor and will
file before September l for the nomination.
All candidates must file by that date you
know, and IL don't get the nomination. 1
, will know the reason why"
The mayor says he has received assur-
ances from Chicago that the Cook county
: democracy will come to Nebraska and
parade the streets of the city of Omaha
or any other city in the state the MAYOR
might designate, or go on a tour of the
state with him if he wishes it, In short,
the democrats of Chicago will do every
thing possible to help the chief executive
! of Omaha land the nomination for gov
error. Dahlman. it must be remembered.
has just returned from Denver, where he
r went with Roger Sullivan, but whether
: Sullivan proffered the services of the Cook
t county democracy or not, he did not say.
] There are 400 men in the Cook County
l Democracy Marching club, and, as the
mayor puts 1t, there will be something
4 doing when they go marching up Farnam
E street, and don't you forget it,"
), Both Claim Assurances.
r Both Dahlman and Lobeck say they have
e received assurances of support from all
parts of the state and both are sanguIne
of success at the primaries While the
4 mayor states unequivocally that he will
] file for the gubernatorial nomination, the
comptrolled still attaches the little word
'if' to his intentions, some local demo-
Gratis being of the opinion that the latter
is seriously considering the advisability of
running for railroad commissioner instead
of for governor, as he announced orig
inally.
a Lobeck says there is nothing in the rail-
Y road commissioner talk, but that ''if'' he
e runs for an office it will be for governor.
o Comptroller Lobeck says his gubernatorial
{ boom has passed without the confines of
O the state of Nebraska, and in proof of this
, shows copy of the Dayton Qa.) Review.
q which contains a puff for the candidate
; Lobeck lived in the Iowa town when he
v was boy and Daytonites look upon him in
the light of a favorite son. The comptroller