Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-10-17
BRYAN AND STATE PRIDE
How the Peerless Did Not Help in Its
Great Contests.
TAKES NO PART IN THE BATTLES
Passes to the white House the Latest
Dodge of Democrats to Catch
the Vote of Railway
Men.
TAKES NO PART IN THE BATTLE
(From a staff Correspondent


LINCOLN, Oct. 16,-(Speoial, )-Friends Of
Mr.. Bryan are appealing to Nebraskans to
vote for him on the ground of state
pride" has started a discussion as to the
amount of pride Mr. Bryan has in Me-
braska and how much interest he has taken
in the welfare of the people of this state.
When the republican legislature and re-
publican governor. George l.. Sheldon. en-
acted into law an anti-pass bill, March
30. 1907, Mr.. Bryan was pulling out OF Aus
tin Tex, where the day before he had ad-
dressed the Texas legislature. On the same
dayt here was made public in Boston a
letter he had written to II. w. Whitney in
which he said the ultimate solution OF the
railroad question is government ownership.
That was how much interest Mr.. Bryan
had in his home state that day.
April the republican legislature and
republican governor enacted into law a bill
providing for a state wide primary. in
cluding the nomination of candidates for
the United States senate. Mr.. Bryan did
not appear before any committee in be-
half Of that bill, but on the following night
he entertained the fusion members of the
legislature at home at dinner, many Of
whom voted against II.
Mr.. Bryan is now talking about republi-
cans spending so much money in the con-
duct OF the government. While a republican
governor was cutting down appropriation
bills which had first been pruned by a
republican finance committee of a republ-
can legislature, Mr.. Bryan was making a
speech at Chattanooga, Tenn. This was
April 10. The speech was delivered at a
banquet during which John Temple Graves
called upon Bryan to nominate Theodore
Roosevelt for president at the democratic
convention.
Mr. Bryan's reply was that he believed he
would not do this but, bear in mind" he
said, ct say as at present advised" That
was how much interest Mr.. Bryan had in
Nebraska on that date.
March % the republican legislature and a
republican governor enacted into law the
terminal tax bill which increased the value
Of railroad property for taxation in towns
and villages and cities some t1s0Oo.0Oo Mr.
Bryan was not on hand to help enact that
legislation and members of his party voted
against the law. That was how much in
terest Mr.. Bryan had in Nebraska that
day.
Employers Liability Bill.
On March II, the republican legislature
and republican governor enacted into law
an employers liability bill. Mr. Bryan was
not on hand to help push that bill through.
That was how much interest Mr.. Bryan
took in Nebraska and Nebraska working
men on that date.
March q the republican legislature and a
republican governor enacted a law giving
power to the State Railway commission to
regulate railroad business in Nebraska. Mr..
Bryan was not on hand on that day to help.
That was how much interest he had in
Nebraska on March q.
April the republican legislature and a
republican governor enacted a pure food
law. Mr.. Bryan was not present to help
pass that bill. That was how much inter-
est he had in Nebraska on that day
In the paragraphs above where the loca-
ton Of Mr. Bryan Is not given his doings
were not OF sufficient importance for his
name TO be carried in the headlines Of the
local papers. 1t is very probable he was
on the road going to some lecture point. A
portion of the time he was at his home in
Lincoln under the shadows OF the capitol
dome. But he did not come to the legis-
lative halls. He did not appear before a
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