Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-09
nnYAN AND sRYANrsMs.

Fairbury Journals: A Nebraska paper
says the house and senate and w. j..
Bryan are in session at Lincoln. Judsing
from the work or some past legislatures,
II would probably be just as well II the
house and senate would adjourn.
Columbus Journsla Mr.. Bryan opposes
the acceptance of Mr.. Carnegie's pension
fund. AS Mr.. Bryan will not become a
beneficiary from MIR. Carnegle's iibsraiity
he is not in a position TO raise a personal
objection. People to whom Mr.. Carnegie
offers his money have as moral and legal
right TO accept il as Mr.. Bryan did the
money given him by Mr.. Bennett.
ord Quiz: From the way Bryan is boss
ing the present lamentable legislature you
may see what kind of job he would do at
bossing the country. II is tough on Ne
braska. but after all we owe 1t to the whole
country to demonstrate just what kind Of
a fool political boss Bryan would be IL he
had a chance. We have raced about after
this great windbsg for a long time and
we ought to take our medicine.
O'Neil Frontier: Colonel Bryan has found
Il necessary to abandon a proposed trip TO
Cuba and come home TO look after the
Nebraska legislature, which in the absence
of the peerless leader threatens 10 turn
down the bank guarantee proposition, the
only one OF the democratic pledges there
has been even a bluff at redeeming. Aren't
some OF the fellows who voted to repudiate
the last splendid body of legislators and
to put the bunch we have now, getting
a little ashamed of themselves?
Beatrice Express: An organized effort is
being made to persuade w. ]. Bryan to
say where he stands on county option or
the saloon question. Mr.. Bryan is a prac-
tical temperance man. but whether he be-
lieves absolute prohibition can be made
effective. or that strict license regulations
are more feasible is not known. But people
who recognize the liquor question as the
paramount issue want TO put him on record.
Whether he will deem it necessary to dis
cuss the subject or explain his attitude
remains to be seen.
Kearney Hub: Bryan has placed himself
in an Inconsistent attitude In his opposi-
ton to legislative endorsement of Carnegie's
pension plan for retired university pro.
~fessors, while endorsing a project for a
Carnegie donation for a public library. AS
between the two it would appear that thu
professors pension has the call. AS to the
libraries, communities can build and sup
port them without using private bounty.
But great men are noted for their incon-
sistencies and eccentricities, so 1t Is only
proper TO be charitable with the sage of
Fairview.
Alliance Times: At the lnstigation. it is
said of w. J. Bryan, a bill has been in
troduced in the legislature providing for a
socalled department of citizenship in the
State university. Mr.. Bryan has kindly vol
u~nteered to instruct the pupils of the uni
versity in the duties of citizenship free
gratis, for nothing. This is only a scheme
to perpetuate in Nebraska the isms of
Bryan which have been three times re-
Jected Overwhelmingly by the majority
Of the intelligent and educated voters of the
United States. AS might have been ex-
pected the Lincoln Journal is attempting to
boost the project.
Minden News: Since the legislature has
been in session this winter, Mr.. Bryan has
tried TO unload several of his theories, but
many OF them have been of such a dubious
nature that even the legislature, controlled
by members OF his own party, could not
be induced to swallow them. His attempt
to establish a department OF politics in the
State university met with a cool reception
and the legislature wisely decided that the
curriculum of the State university met the
requirements of the student body better
without the political department than It
would with it. Fortunately, there are
1AA01GA ~ AA1oA1A AAO III NlO AAG
ture to sit down on freak bills.
o'Neill Independent: All this about
Bryan, or any other democrat, trying 10 in
tect politics into the state university is
tommyrot. The proposition which Mr..
Bryan favors, and which is favored by
some of the best friends the university
ever had, merely provides that the political
science department shall become an integral
| mart Rf the nnfvoraffy fnataa1 If ~-A-o
side issue as it now is. There is nothing
of partisan spirit in the whole matter. Mr..
Bryan is already maintaining several schol-
arships at the state university, the interest
on his donations being paid to the students
who make the best showing In certain lines
OF study and research. Failing to find any
thing in the democratic program that may
be fairly criticised, the republican organs
and leaders are adopting the tactics OF the
lawyer who, having a poor case, 'cusses
the opposition" and are now "cussing
Bryan" with a volubility born Of long prac-
tice.
Sterling News: Mr.. Bryan has heretofore
held the good graces of the temperance peo-
Pile of the state and nation by his moral
and temperate character; but since he has
joined the Eagles. the recognized order of
the saloon keepers, brewers and distillers
of the country. their suspicious that he
was trying to carry water on both shout
ders have been so strengthened that the
temperance league OF the state has de-
termined TO make him fish or cut bait. They
say that It is well known that the legisla-
cure will do whatever Mr.. Bryan wants
done on legislative matters. hence he must
come out in the open and say where he
stands on the county option and prohibition
question. II Mr.. Bryan comes out against
the saloons he will lose their vote when he
runs for senator in 1911 and II he declares
for the saloon he will lose the support OF
the temperance league. There seems no
reason. however, why Mr.. Bryan should be
permitted to remain longer silent on this
great question. The prince OF Peace and
the Eagles are not compatible companions.
Mr.. Bryan, however, is a pretty smooth
proposition and has evaded the question a
long time and has now left the state for a
few weeks and II they corner him they
will have 10 do It when he is not looking.
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