The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-27
NEBRASKA
 IS SPLIT UP Republicans Arc Figl- ing Each Other BRYAN MAY cARRl STATE LaFollette Reformers : Ake Charges Against Taft S$ ,porters. The FeeIins Has Become So Bitter That Personalities Are Being
 Thrown at Each 0ther--
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BRYAN MAY cARRl STATE

Omaha. Neb.. Jan. 2e--fSpecial)-- Whether William J. Bryan or some other good Democrat secures the nomi- nation this year. either stands first class chance of tearing Nebraska from the Republican column and placing it in the Democratic list. Especially IS this true should Bryan be nominated, Democrat who is acceptable to the Bryan element will probably carry the State. NA.
 Republicans in Nebraska are fight ing tooth and toe-nail." The La Toilette reformers are making all sorts of charges against the Taft enthusiasts and their methods; ths ATaftites" are showing up the previous records of the leaders of the La Toilette boom; and the Taftites are even fighting among themselves. So bitter has tha feeling become that leading editors who have espouaed the Taft cause, are throw ing personalities at each other and some of them are actually printing La Toilette literature in efforts to pre- vent other Taft sheets from securing too much credit for carrying the Nebraska delegation for Taft. And then, again. all these Taft organs are hitting a La Toilette head whenever one of them appears above board. And so bitter has this fight between Taft and La Toilette become in Nebraska that wounds are being made which will not heal readily when the campaign for the delegation is finished and the instructions given
 Persomal Encounter Expected.
 In a signed editorial in The Omaha Bee, Victor Rosewater, editor of that paper. and leader of the Taft move iment in the West, has taken occasion to read Frank Harrison the leading La Toilette supporter and worker in Nebraska, such lecture as almost calls for an answer In the way of . personal
 Harrisoh, the La Toilette leader h KheWn e tie isaaipa Ssilrssd lebby- VI z ns;, ssS ss oAnashasss stner snan Taft and La Toilette ars ever mention ca ffi Nebfaslxa. Hughes, FofAker. Shaw--their names are never heard in Nebraska in connection with the norni- nation. Taft and La Toilette are the only two. And the breach which the followers and supporters of those two candidates has made so wide, cannot bo healed before the presidential elec- ton, the Democrats claim. If Taft is nominated. his support will be half hearted by the La Toilette men: iR La Toilette is named. Taft men will sullky. Probably one-third of the Nebraska Republican country press have sided with La Toilette. while the other two thirds are supporting Taft a
 On the other hand, the Democrats are Going everything possible to create harmony. Almost all the old time Demo- crats who bolted Bryan and remained out so long. have at last returned to the fold and with the exception of a very few. are again backing the Demo- cratic candidate. At the recent Jack sonian banquet in Omaha. there were men who had not attended a Demo- cratic gathering since 1898. Practic- ally all the wounds engendered by the silver question, among the Nebraska Democrats have now been healed and there is more harmony and peace in the party than at any time for twelve years.
 The POpulist Vote.
 And through the new Bryan League" the Democrats expect to secure just about the full populist vote. The Nebraska Populists have de- termined to send a delegation to the Populist National Convention in St. Louis, but if that convention attempts to place a separate ticket in the field. the Nebraska "pops' will bolt. That is all settled among the leaders and In fact. they make no secret of their everything they can ter his nomina- tion and election.
 Should Bryan not be nominated but some other Democrat be named, if that nominee is acceptable to MT. Bryan, he also will receive the vote of the Nebraska Populists and when the Nebraska Democrats and the Nebras- ka PopuIists really join hands. they can control the electoral vote of this state, and especially Is this made more centain when the Republicans war amongst themselves.