Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-23
POPULISTS ARE UP IN ARMS
Scheme Of Bryan Men to Deprive
Them Of Place on Ballot.
WATSON FOLLOWERS INDIGNANT
VecretRry of state Junkin Announce,
They VIII Have Place on Ballot
-MhudRmus in Pros
pect.
From a staff Correspondsnt)

tfrom a Staff Correspondent
LINCOLN, July % go Especially 90 The
scheme of Tom Allen to shut the populists
out Of an electoral ticket has aroused the
followers of Thomas Watson and :he fur
Is Liable to fly and the courts ar, liable to
he called upon before the affair is ended.
This morning Secretary OF State Junkin
received the following letter, signed by
Allen L. Powell and dated at Sterling:
II understand that the populist party Of
Nebraska has endorsed Mr.. Bryan for pres
ldent. How would It be possible to get
Watson and Williams electors on the ballot
In this state? Could we accept the name
OF peoples party? / believe the official
name Of the ~popuIst party in the state is
peoples independent How must we pro-
coed to get electors on the ticket for Wat
SON"
Mr.. Junkin replied that the names OF
populist electors would be placed on the
primary ballot II they were sent to him.
The eight electors to be filed by Tom Allen
will go on the ticket in brackets as candi-
dates Of both the pop and the democratic
parties. The p~opulists who have not been
agreed upon by the democrats will go on
the ballots merely as populists. Should the
fusion bunch win out over the straight
populists, then It may be a question for
tttS NpuENS 70 uEClIe WlelHeT SlIdlEnt walt
son electors could so on the ballot this fall
as populists,
Some have Informed the secretary of
state that Watson being the national can
didate of the populist party Is entitled to
have his electors on the ballot under the
populist name. Others contend that as the
popullst convention in Nebraska, which
was manipulated by the democrats, en-
dorsed Bryan, this faction is entitled TO
use the name. If there is any objection to
Tom Aliens scheme. Mr.. Junkin may de-
eide to permit himself to be m~andamused
in the matter In order to have the question
tested in the courts.
Explanation that il Funny.
The efforts OF the demo-pop World
Herald to explain away the fact that some
Bryan sympathizer cut down the Taft and
Sherman banner across o street has
created some amusement in Lincoln. The
paper has contained several different YER
sions of the affair. 1t first said the re-
publican committee had It done in order
to escape the wrath of Lincoln people, ior
words to that effect. The paper today
brought the Information that the com
mittee had 1t taken down so the union
label could be placed on the banner.
The same flag that was cut down and
~ = u Lying over street. IL does not
carry the union label for the simple reason
there is no union sign painting house in
Lincoln. or. for that matter. so union labor
men said today. in Nebraska. The pro-
prietors of the shop, that made the banner
employ union electricians and union paint
ers, but they do not belong to a union be-
cause there is no sign painters union in
Nebraska. This is the information Secre-
tary Corrick of the republican state COM
mittee said the painter of the sign told
him.
Those who saw the cut ends Of the big
wire cable shy the explanation of the
World-Herald is absolutely ridiculous. Had
anyone been taking the banner down for
some lawful purpose he would not have
cut the big cable. when he could just as
well unfastened it and saved the expense
of buying a new cable.
Republican Times Bring Autos.
4 significant story was told here today
during a discussion of politics and condi-
lions financial. The story is as follows:
The World-Herald in 1886 had a story
that a man walked forty miles TO Aims
worth to hear Bryan speak. The paper
played It up as a display of great patriot
ism and love for the man. The other day
Mr.. Bryan spoke at Ainsworth and the
same man rode in forty miles in his auto
mobile to listen to him speak.
w. t. Thompson Files.
w. T. Thompson, attorney general, today
filed his application to be placed on the
ballot as a candidate on the republican
ticket to succeed himself. Mr.. Thompson
has been so busy looking after the legal
affairs Of the state and bringing the big
corporations to a proper observance of the
law that he came very near forgetting this
little detail. Thu other filings of the day
were as follows: w. II. Cowgirl, Holdrege.
demo-pop, railway commissioner; E. 0.
Garrett, Fremont, democrat, lieutenant