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QUESTIONS BRYAN
!. PREFERS TO IGNORE
Seven Pointed Queries Propounded
the Democratic Candidate.
Failed to Answer Any of tho
Questions.

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following pertinent questions by the
Omaha Bee. Mr.. Bryan did not see
ut to attempt to answer amy of them.
l. YOU, Mr.. Bryan, aye making much
OF Democratic friendship for labor.
Why is it that practically no legislation
to protect labor has been enacted in
the Southern States in which Demo-
Gratis have absolute control? Why are
there no child labor laws in the South?
WHY are there no laws to protect wom-
en- wage earners in the South? You
and your fusion friends had absolute
executive and legislative control of
Nebraska for several years. Why was
no legislation to protect labor passed
then? Why did the wage workers of
Nebraska have to wait for succeeding
Republican legislatures to remove the
$4,000 death damage limit, to get an
equitable employers liability act and
to get a child labor law?
2. You, Mr.. Bryan. are trying to
make your paramount issue, "Slall the
people rule! The most advanced
step toward popular rule has been
through the direct primary. Why is
1t, Mr.. Bryan, that our fusion friends
when incomplete control did not give
Nebraska a direct primary law? Why
is it that the Republicans of Nebraska
had to secure the direct primary law
over the opposition of the Democrats?
Why is it that the progressive Repub-
lican States have enacted direct pri-
mary laws to bring the filling of offices
closer to the people, while in the Demo-
cratic States of the South direct pri-
mary laws have been enacted avowedly
to ~disfranchise the people?
j. You, Mr.. Bryan, are bidding for
Office on YOUR antitrust remedies.
Why is 1t that all the effective legisla-
ton against Illegal combinations has
been enacted by Republican congresses
and for the most part by Republican
State legislatures, while the Demo-
cratic States have no effective anti.
trust legislation?
4. You, Mr.. Bryan, are bidding for
labor votes by promising to abolish
the writ OF injunction in labor dis.
putes. Do you not know that injunc-
ton abuses have been ~clargeable as
much to State courts as to federal
courts? Can you name a single Demo-
cr1tic State which has passed a law
to prevent the abuse of injunction by
State courts? Why was no such law
passed in Nebraska when your fusion
friends were in complete control?
5. You, Mr.. Bryan, are bidding for
votes on our scheme Of bank deposit
guaranty. Oklahoma is the only State
that has put such a law on its statute
books. Why have none Of the other
Democratic States enacted deposit guar
anty laws: You, especially, intro
duced such a bill into Congress in the
early 90s. Why did you not get your
fusion friends to enact the bill as a
State law when they We're in complete
control of Nebraska? A deposit guar
anty bin, which you endorsed, was
substitute for the Vreeland bill, but
only a handful of the Democratic Con-
gressmen voted for it, the remaining
others voting against it or refusing to
vote. The only Democratic Congress-
man from Nebraska was one Of those
who refused to vote. If your endorse
mHlt of that bill was unable to make
these Democratic Congressman vote for
1T last winter, how will you be able
to make them vote for 1t next winter?
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make much of the popular election of
United States Senator's. We have the
statement of Mr.. l'ibbles, made three
years ago, that a large sum Of money,
said to be $4,000 or $4,000, was con-
tributed by Ryan, Belmont & Co" in
1907, through your brother-in-law to-
ward your campaign for United States
Senator in Nebraska. Is Mr.. I'ibules
mistaken in his assertions? If so, why
did you not correct them long ago? If
not, why did you not put your name
on the ballot as a candidate for Senator
and ask a vote Of popular preference
under the Nebraska law which gives
you that right? Why did the Demo-
Gratis refuse to submit candidates for
United States Senator q popular vote
in Nebraska in 1898, in 1900 and 1904?
Z. You. Mr.. Bryan, are making
much of publicity OF campaign contri-
buttons. Nebraska has a campaign pub
LEFTY law, but it was enacted, as you
know. by a Republican Legislature af-
ter your fusion State administration
had failed to pass such a law. Why is
1t. Mr.. Bryan, that your brother-inlaw
and Democratic campaign managers
have persistcntly and willfully violated
the Nebraska campaign publicity law?
Why, if you are,so devoted to campaign
fund publicity. were you so insistent
that the $4,000 contribution to your
campaign made by the Bennett will
should be kept secret?
The Hon. John w. Kern, Democratic