Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-20
ATDOLLAR DINNER
Shallenberger Spouts to Democrats
Gathered at Kearney.
TAKES BACK-HAND RAP AT BRYAN
Affair Notable for Those who Were
Not Present as Well as for
the Outburst of the
Executive.

KEARNEY, Neb June 19.-(Special Tel
egram.)-The dollar dinner for democrats
here tonight was notable for some Of the
democrats who were not present Among
these were Richard L. Metcalfe of The
Commoner, and DIR. p. l.. Hall, defender
of the faith and head flnancier of the
party in the state. Some others were not
present, but these were overlooked in the
noise that greeted Governor Shallenberger
and Arthur Mullen, oil inspector and
keeper of the gubernatorial conscience,
Former Mayor Brown of Lincoln was
among the guests and the speakers The
! chief talk of the evening was made by
Governor Shalenberger, who hurled de-
| fiance at the bankers who seek TO test the
deposit law in the courts; at the men
who want TO apply a similar test to the
| "non-partsan' judiciary law, and at
everybody and everything that did not
agree with him that democracy is the one
saving grace of the nation, and that he
is its local prophet He paid a back-handed
| compliment to the Peerless Leader OF the
Unterrified, by pointing out that in all
his life but one democrat had been elected
TO the presidency. and at the same time
roll call of democracy today than ever
, before. The Inference is that these demo-
Gratis do not rally behind Bryan. The
! governor also defled the liquor dealers
and brewers of the state, and said he ex-
pected to keep right on fighting through
out the time of his term Of office
| Governor ShaIlenberEer's Address.
Governor Shallenberger said he came
as a messenger from the democratic ad-
ministration, bearing the news that It
had made good in Nebraska. 1t had re-
| deemed all its promises in the enactment
OF a bank deposit guaranty law, law
for a nonpartisan judiciary and for the
physical valuation of railroads, and he
defied all "nullfiers and repudiators
| saying; 81 would warn those who con-
| template assaults upon this law fol-
| selfish and mercenary reasons that nulli-
fication has never been popular nor sus-
| tained in this state, or in the nation, and
| that II by any means. either by cunning
| or for partisan reasons. they should
thwart the expressed will Of the people
| through their representatives in this
matter they will only put off the day
| of reckoning" After some further re-
marks congratulating the people of tho
state that he and his fellow democrats
in the Legislature were elected. he tool
| up the liquor questions, saying.
In matters affecting public morals tho
last legislature took advanced grounds. Th'
republican party has long professed TO b.
| the party OF morality and reform But 1
remained for the late legislature to pass
more bills regulating unbridled license anc
promoting orderly liberty than have beer
enacted by republican legislatures in TWEEN
ty-five years They stamped upon the stat
ute books a law prohibiting drinking and
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= selling Of liquor to Indians: the desecra
ton Of the Sabbath by the selling of liquor
| selling intONicants to imbeciles or inebri
ates and last, but not least, the late legis
lature enacted a law which DEGREES tha
liquor shall be sold in Nebraska by day
light only All of this legislation is in thu
| interest OF law and order and is bound u
be powerful the prevention cs vice anC
crime. l have heard rumors Cs 3isapproya
from alleged c~mocrauc s1L->os and re
publican nulifiers, but | here wish Z
to republican nullifiers or democratic re
pudiatOrs, II such there be, that these law
which ! have mentioned are notice to tn
world that democracy and decency hav
Joined hands in the state OF Nebraska ant
all HI cannot put them asunder
solid on Eight O'clock.
The daylight saloon bill" is alread
upon trial In dozen representative Ne
braska commonwaalths ana in every on
OF them IL is being received with unquali
fled appreciation by all classes OF people
Even liquor dealers themselves find tina
. IL Is helping to relieve them from som
OF the evils and curses OF their business
Every one who has sense enough to thin
intelllgenuy upon the sub@sct knows tina
the all-night saloon Is the natural haunt q
vice and crime and the producer OF miser
and woe, and the man who advocates
or opposes any sort Of regulation, as d
the opponents OF the daylight saloon bill
, is the advance agent and promoter Of state
wide prohibition, far more than the part
? prohibitionists themselves. ! was accuse
r by democrat OF having violated she prlr
, ciple Of home rule by affixng my sid
nature TO that bill, but my reply 10 him wa
l that this bill In my judgment was IN
greatest home rule" measure ever passe
because IL was notice 10 the world ths
hereafter In Nebraska u" home shoul
2 rule after o'clock and aOt the saloon.
e does not repeal the right Of local optiol
the power OF each community TO detel
mine whether or not liquor shall be sol