Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-21
PLAN TOTAEEH EARSTLEACUE
Bryan Will Attempt to Have it En-
dorse His Candidacy.
HUNT FOR A NEW EMBLEM
Serious Talk of DiscardinE the
DOnkey and Making TIGER
omciaI Democratic
Beast.
CFrom a staff Correspondent

(From a Staff Correspondent
LINCOLN, July 2O.-(special) -Mr. Bryan
will attempt to capture the Hearst lnoe-
pendence league convention and either Sc
cure his own endorsement at the hands OF
that convention or prevent a nomination.
Mr.. Bryan will be in Chicago July % at
the time of the convention and will attend
to the job personally.
The above is talked here and is believed
to be true by those who have been watch
ing events in Lincoln for the last ten days.
Mr.. Bryan on his own front porch set the
date of the meeting of the subcommittee OF
the national democratic committee for July
% in Chicago. This subcommittee is clothed
with authority to select a chairman and
secretary of the national committee. II
has already had it's conference with Mr..
Bryan. Tho fact that the date of the meet
ing Of the committee is the date of the con-
vention Of the Independence league is be-
lieved to be more than a mere coincidence
and this belief is further strengthened by
the fact that Mr.. Bryan Is going to attend
the committee meeting. 1t is probably a
fact that the entire scheme was Matched
up on the front porch at Fairview when
Mr.. Bryan met with the national commit
tee several days ago.
In the Hearst convention there will be
many followers of the democratic nominee,
and these will naturally line up to secure
the endorsement OF Mr.. Bryan. with Bryan
on the ground to personally superintend
the job 1t is expected to make it easier to
get the endorsement for him.
The supposltlon that Mr.. Bryan expects
to prevent the nomination of Hearst ard
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of the Hearst convention is further
strengthened b. the fact that he has re-
fused to say anything about the Hearst
statement denouncing both old parties and
Bryan in particular. And further, there
can be no other explanation for the pro-
posed trip to Chicago. The subcommittee
of the democratic natiopal committee,
which is to select the officers Of the COM
mittee, is composed Of men picked by Mr..
Bryan. They are his true friends because
he chose them and consequently they must
know his views on the matter of organiza-
ton. All Of which is current talk in
Lincoln
Hunt for New Emblem.
Donkey or the Tiger"
The present democratic party is anxious
to stable the donkey and adopt the tiger
as the party emblem.
The leaders of the party have two rea-
sons for this: First, the tiger sounds like
fight; second, the long suffering, patient
donkey which carried William jennings
Bryan twice to defeat is considered a
hoodoo.
How can we expect to win with d
Jackass for a party emblem said Hon
Frank Battley Of Minnesota, who called or
Mr.. Bryan while on his way home from the
Denver convention. I'VE intend to adop'
the tiger as the party emblem and discard
the donkey. The donkey has outlived III
usefulness a long time ago and the leaders
of the party believe it will inject more
ginger into the rank and file of the party
were the leaders to adopt the tiger as the
party emblem"
From reliable sources 1t is learned tina
at the psychological moment in all part,
Of the country there will suddenly spriryf
UP campaign literature with the tiger 70
the party emblem. The question has beer
seriously talked over by prominent mem
beers of the new democratic party and tn,
donkey must go.
TIL two factions of the party have agreed
on this though each reached it's conclu
sion by a different course OF reasoning
The Bryanite democrats desire to discar,
ONClJ bN u az pdIdpltIndlld Oh the CleNe
land democracy. and as the donkey twic
carried Cleveland to victory and twic,
carried Bryan to defeat. this faction ha
decided the animal must be stabbed. o.
the other hand the Cleveland democrac,
has decided that 1t is not short of cruelt,
to ask the donkey to again carry the loal
which has twice been strapped upon 1
during the last twelve years. Thus the tw,
factions agree.
The Bryan democrats believe It vii
tickle the vanity of Tammany should /
adopt the tiger, and this has been a stronJ
argument in favor of the gumshoe beast
Just how to brig about the change with
out IT appearing as a cut and dried affai
has occasioned considerable worry, but
is a part of the program of this campaign
The question Of stabling the donkey ha
been a serious one for the party leader
because there are many democrats VIII
have learned to revere the patient pac,
horse and he is the last connection betwee
the Bryan democracy and the regular dem
ocratic party. The new leaders fear tn
love for the donkey by the old line demo
Gratis will be too great for them to car
for the tiger. But Mr.. Bryan is runnin