Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-10-12
DOES C. NJ. APPEAL TO ". ]?
Story is Hitchcock Asks Bryan TO Pull
Dahlman in Line.
MAYOR REFUSES TO BE PULLED
Not Even for MIR. Bryan VIII He and
His Forces Agree to Support
Hitchcock for COn-
Rress.

Local democrats are becoming almost
as interesting as they were last spring
when flying at each others throats over
the election OF delegates to the national
convention. A certain story has crept
through a crevice from the secret cham
oers of the party which Indicate plainly
that the seeds of strife sown last spring
are producing a harvest of discord mis-
beautiful autumn FAR more abundant than
could have been anticipated.
Jim Dahlman, so the story goes, has
been asked by Bryan to get the Dahlman
democracy vote in line for Gilbert M
Hitchcock Jim Dahlman refuses.
This simple fact is all that is necessary
TO show how lmplacable is the enmity be-
tween the Dahlman forces and the Hitch
cock forces. Everybody knows that Dahl
man is Bryan's most intimate personal
and political friend and that Da1lman
idolizes Bryan. This being true It iF obvi-
Gus that If anybody could influenceiAfaSor
Dab imam Bryan could. Dahlman Is quofsd
as saying that it hurts him to have "a
turn down a request of Mr. Bryan's but
that not even his love for the Peerless
Leader could constrain him to forget what
Hitchcock did to him and his friends
DRhImaR Men Not PItabIe.
Here is the way one strong Dahlman
advocate puts It:
Mr. Hitchcock came to the desperate
strait of making an overture for peace
with the Dahlman Democracy and wasn't
himself equal to the task. He goes, there
tore, TO Mr. Bryan and gets him to exert
MS Influence toward pulling Dahlman in
line and delivering the Dahlnan Democ-
racy vote to Hitchcock Hitchcock knew
that If anybody could wheel our leader
and us around II would be BRYAN. hut
Hitchcock ought to have known that that
task was not possible to any living man.
The Dahlman Democracy is not pur-
chasable either BY money or sophistry and
Mr.. Bryan could not secure its deliverance
to any man. Jim Dahlman would not and
could not If he would deliver our vote to
anybody unless that body was one who
had been with us.
I'VE know that without the vote of the
Dab Imam men Hitchcock's chances are
hopeless, but why should we allow that to
pull us into line for Hitchcock? What has
hitchcock done for us? What has he not
done against usP Last spring he opposed
us at every turn of the road in the dele
gate contest and then when he thought
ne had US beaten he sent his man over
10 our meeting and tried to soft-soap us
with lot OF hot air about harmony. After
they thought they had carried the dav
against us then they tried to make us
take our medicine and not frown.
Openly Rejected Mayor.
But that's nothing as compared TO
later movements. The time of the nrimarv
election campaign rolled round. Omaha
mad candidate for the democratic pornJ-
nation for governor. 1t was Mayor Dahl
,lrsn rn' ahree members of our club. Tom
fiyhn' Tom Butler and Sam Rothwell
were selected by us to ask Mr. Hitchcock
LOT he support Of his paper for our man
Whst did they get? The flattest refusal
tiitchcock could give. He not only refused
10 support Jim Dahlman he did everv-
thing he could on the O. r. to heat bin,
apd nominate the railroad candidate sbaI'
lenoerger When Dahlman was called an,
OF the city Hitchcock had Shallenberaer
come 10 omaha and went around and can
Vassed the two cities with him
YES Well get out and root for Hitch
COCK, won't we? Well, when we do Mr.
hitchcock will get elected, but unttI we
do he won't VIC
hou may remember that at a meetIn1
OF our club not so long ago we adontad q
resolution clearly setting forth our atti-
tude toward Mr.. Hitchcock. In that raso-
iution we advocated that Mr.. Hitchcock
De elected to stay at home. That resoIu-
tion Is still in effect and our attituda
toward Hitchcock is TODAY lust ~ q.
was then. ~
It's smooth trick Hitchcock triss 70
work In appealing to Bryan to wbin I,r,,
Danlnnan into line Bryan knows ha
couldn't do such thing. and between vo,
ana me- he doesn't want to do IL. Bur eve,
ne did succeed Dahlman knows ha
couid not deliver any votes in this c,,,h
20 that man Hitchcock. and DabIman
doesn't want to-"