Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-19
MAN DUAL CANDIDATE
Shallenberger Stands for County
Option, but Talks Against It.
JEKYL AND HYDE PLATFORM
Displays as Much Agility I'm Flip
FlOppinE on This AZ In Cham
elsOn Course ON Bank
GuRrRntg.
MEErIHas.

cal candidates.
tuesday Hvsnine-
Vansy-speaksrs, o. @. Peterson Of CHI
cage ana new. J. A. Jorden.
Wednesday EvSning-
Gh otty-Bpsakers, A. W.. Jsffsris, W.
q. urs, r. A. HOllister and James walsh.
Thursday Evening"
rwenty-ssoond and Cunning Streets
Highth and Ninth ward Republican clubs.
Fourtsenth and Dodge streets-ooIorsd
Voters Taft club. ReK's Hail, South
omaha-Polish meeting.
Friday Evening
East omaha-spsakSrr, A. W. Jsfferis,
W. q. Urs and I'd Lssdsr.
saturday zvsning-
Registration Day-No> meetings.
sunday, October as
National Hail, ThirteSnth and william
Strssts-ItAlian mestingi speakers, Prof.
soturandi, =. q. Hraggi and others, South
Thirteenth stroet-Bohsmian meeting.
AS an acrobat, Ashton c. Shallenberger,
the nominee of the democratic and peo-
pies parties for governor Of Nebraska,
takes the grand prize and as a juggler he
has mo equal.
The candidates acrobatic feats arc
shown in his easy shifting from banker
to farmer and back to banker again when
first trying to catch the farmer vote,
ana then trying to capture the vote of
the careful depositor in the banks and to
bolster up Mr.. Bryan's bank guarantee
theory by advocating 1t from the stand
point of a banker.
The juggling and sleight-of-hand feats
now come out since the duke of Alma
has become the nominee of the people's
party by the forced funk on the part OF
George Washington Berge, the rightful
nominee, but who was made the fall
guy by Brother-in law Tommy Allen.
Shallenberger then accepted the popu-
list nomination as the second high man
and blazoned abroad the Information
Democratic and Peoples Parties Nom
inee for Governor" But Shallenberger
was not as farsighted as he is credited
with being, or else he thought the voters
OF this state were too dumb to see
through the sham, for in accepting the
second nomination he accepted platform
declarations at the antipodes of his be-
liefs as previously expressed and. for that
matter, as now given vent TO.
w are In favor Of a county option
law" So reads the populist platform
adopted by the party in this state on
September % OF his year.
Fits Himself to Both.
II believe in personal rights and in
the privilege Of every man taking a drink
when he wants It," So has Mr.. Shallen-
berger, standing on the popullst plat
form. been quoted as saying in more than
one speech.
BY accepting the populist nomination Mr.
shallenberger says he believes in a county
option law and the consequent restriction
on the sale of liquor. By his speeches on
rights, Mr.. ShalIenberger saws he
does not believe in a county option law ana
the resultant restriction on the sale of in
toxicants.
which ShRllenberger is to be believed?
the democrats and populists of Ne
to believe the DR.. Jekyl ShalIen-
or are they to believe the Mr.. HYDE
Shallenberger? The candidate homes and
them to believe both, but his sham
has been discovered and the farmer-bsnker-
iquor-prohibition candidate finds himself ,
IN the perilous position Of being forced TO i
an explanation. j
The Jimocrats of Omaha, disciples of !
Mayor Dahlman, who was defeated by this
anne shallenberger want to know. The for
ign voters who have been told that Shall
ehDerser would let them rave a glass of
on Sunday the same as in the old
want to know what he means
" declaring for a county option law. The
prohibition voters of the state want %
now what the doubIe-header candidate
means by announcing that he is for per \
onal liberty. l.
But He Answers Not. S
but Ashton c. Shallenberger answers NOT ,
In Omaha the candidate, masking as Mr. -
iyde' tells the people: Il am for personal
berty and, with Mayor Dahlman, would 4
ever approve a county option law |
In the rural districts the candidate |
lasking as DR.. Jekyl, tells the people: az /
land on the platform OF the peoples party
mich declares in favor of a county option |
~ /
The attempt on the part OF the nominee |
} carry water on both shoulders has NOT |
My had its effect among the undecided |
oters whom he has been trying to con-
NICE mat the democratic Cor perhaps the
party is the party to vote for. hut
has had its effect among the democrats
nd populists themselves. The deceptlon
n the part OF their chief and the evident
tempt to capture votes by whatever !
leans possible does not set well with the
lgh-minded voter who believes in honesty :
purpose, even though that purpose NAV
e a misguided one, and with each suc.
eeding day Mr.. Shsllenberger is forced n
e votes falling away
"hie 1t is understood that Mr.. Brvan
as paid a high tribute to Mr.. shaIIen-
erger's political gymnastics in connection
lth his flip-fiopping on the banking prom =
'itlon' the same can not be said on tbis
ther question. That the Peerless Leader
oes not approve OF the gubernatoriaI can
dates standing both for and against nro-
Ioiton, or partial prohibition, goes with.
ut saying. ~
ederni Proceedings Against ERan
SIOUX FALLS, 8, d., Oct. 1S-(spe-
aI)-Judge Garland OF the United state