Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-09-08
SOME MORE REAL Mr.. BRYAN
What Thomas H. Tibbles Had to Say
About Him Four Years Ago.
OFFICE PUT ABOVE PRINCIPLES
Lincoln Labor Has Big Parade-Ex-
else Board Proposes to Tighten
Up some More On Liquor
Regulations.
tFrom a Staff Correspondent

LINCOLN, Sept. 7.-(special)-An inter-
esting article written by Tom Tibbles three
years ago telling hom Mr.. Bryan attempted
| to vote the populists for Parker and how
he forced fusion between the democratic
and populist parties is particularly pat at
this time when Tom Allen is trying to
steal the Watson votes for his brother-in-
| law. That Mr.. Tfbbles is now on the Bryan
band wagon and is consorting with Sulli-
van, Taggart, Sheehan and Murphy at this
time makes his articles of 1905 the more
readable. Here Is what he had to say in
Tom watson's magazine:
'"The proposition to force a fusion with
the democrats under the lead OF the most
disreputable end of Wall street, fresh from
| its victory In st. Louis, on the face OF It is
absurd. But the doing of absurd things
never ruffles the placid countenance of Mr..
| Bryan. The idea that tehre could be any
real opposition to his imperial will in Ne
| braka, aside from the republican party
never seemed to enter his mind. Hereto
fore when Mr.. Bryan entered democratic
or populist convention the fusion populists
and democrats Immediately bowed and wor-
shipped. The only thing that convention
| had to do was to find out what Mr.. Bryan
| wished and then proceed to do It with all
possible haste. 1t became evident that this
convention would have to be handled diff
! ferentIy. Mr.. Bry an all the winter, spring
| and summer has been denouncing Judge
i parker as a dishonest candidate. running
! on dishonest PLATFORM and when he had
come home from St. Louis sat down at his
desk and the first words that he wrote
were: I shall vote for Parker and Davis.
| The popullsts remembered how. for eight
years he had been coming to their conven-
| tions and in his sweet and winning way
telling them how noble they were to put
! principle above party and vote for men Of
| another party If they thought they could
advance reform by so doing. Many Of them
who had always supported Mr.. Bryan since
! he first appeared on the battlefield of poll
/ tics, thought that the time had come when
he should practice what he preached"
Eeitor Is ObstreperOus.
| from the chief justice down, TO use per-
suasion. That failed. Then Mr.. Bryan's
personal organ in the state tried a new
deal 1t poured out on Mr.. Tibbles the most
! fulsome flattery day after day. 1t said If
he would only say fusion" every popu-
! list in the state would obey his commands
/ When all that failed Mr. Bryan came him
self The proposition that he made was
I that a fusion electoral ticket be put in
I NAS LlcAh COIupbbcu OI IOuE pOpullSlS ana
four democrats. Mr. Bryan saying that 'ln
the event OF their election, each party
would count the full vote as it's own" The
proposition was instantly rejected. others
followed. Mr.. Bryan came to the Independ-
ent editorial rooms four different times,
using all his eloquence and persuasive
powers to get the editor TO consent to and
advocate fusion with the party that had
nominated Parker. and whose campaign
was put into the hands of the most dis
reputable gang that ever sought Wall street
favors.
Mr. Bryan realized that there was trouble
ahead, but thought that II the Nebraska
Independent would support the Bryan plan
| that fusion legislature would send Mr.
! Bryan TO the United States senate The
editor OF the Independent was obstreperous
He had had enough Of fusion with a party.
half Of which was more disreputabIy pluto
cratic than the republican party and whose
| irrevocable rules were so rigid that they
required a man, upon a vote OF a conven-
tion, TO come out boldly before the people
and advocate policy he had denounced
by pen and voice for eight years. All sorts
OF schemes were devised to bring this OBJ
streperous editor into subsection to the
imperial will Of Mr.. Bryan The first was
to send all the leading men OF the state
Mr.. Bryan gave orders that everything
visible clear to the political horizon ant
other things invisible, lying behind III,
floating clouds. should be offered to tn,
populist convention, providing that tht
populists would fuse. The battle wa.
fought out on the convention floor Man,
democrats had procured seats as delegates
One democrat came over from his own con
vention and answered 70 the call Of Thurs
ton county In the popalist convention
which county had TO delegates present
and voted the fifteen votes that county wa
entitled TO every time for fusion. out o
the hell broth brewed IN that all nigh
session there floated upon the fusion scum
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