Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1910-10-20
CONGRESSMAN
GEO. M. HITCHCOCK
IN BROKEN BOW.
lie Spoke at The Opera House Last Night
TO li5 People of Whom About
Is Were Voters.
HIS SPEECH WAS NOTED
FOR WHAT lie DID NOT SAY

Congressma G. NJ. Hitchcock of
Omaha spoke to a fair sized audienc
at the opera house last night where
but little enthusiasm was manifest
ed, there were probably 1925 people
present including women and child
rem. There were about IS voters
besides C. w. Beal, j. A. Oils, Ross
Moore and w. b. Eastman, who oc-
cupied the platform with the speak
err
The congressman, not unlike most
men is not an eloquent speaker and
several left the room before he was
half through. No women left when
he told his twin baby story as they
were up to the front where they
could not get away but some others
did.
He complimented w. ]. Taylor
for his energy and fighting qualities
and condemned Congressman Kin
kaid because he did take positive
stand with the democrats on tariff
measures and because he bought / 80
acre tract of coal land in Alaska
through Ballinger when Ballinger
was a private citizen.
Mr. Hitchcock omitted to compare
the amount of work Congressman
Kinkaid had done for the Nebraska
homCsteader with his own work in
the same congress.
Nor did he mention his part in
of state funds.
The announcement that BARLEY
is coming back to Nebraska to eX-
pose the whole deal between HIM
self and Hitchcock doubtless was
gentle reminder that to ignore any
referance to that matter was the
better part of wisdom.
1t was distressing interest to note
that he did not say a word in favor
of his friend and running mate, jim
Dahlman.
1t was not so much a surprise
that he forgot to speak a good word
for w. b. Eastman, democrat can
didate for Land Commissioner, J. A.
Oils, democrat candidate for the
state senate and C. w. Beal, editor
of the only democrat paper in the
county and his party's nominee for
county attorney, all of whom sat on
the platform with him, but for him
to entirely forget his own townsman,
Jim Dahlman, the democrat candidat
for governor was too bad, for even
democrat candidate for the I'm
tied States Senate.
He told us that his first vote was
| for a republican president because
! his father was a republican but that
his second vote was for the demo-
crat ticket from due consideration
of the political parties. He express
ed his regret and surprise that the
entire west had not been democrat
ic all these years, but had come to
the conclusion it was because so
many of the Abraham Lincoln soldi-
ers had taken the advice of Horace
Greedy and gone west and they were
still votin the republican ticket.
He stated htat there was no use
trying to deny the question but
what the tariff is still the issue be-
tween the democrats and republicans
| He stated that the government is
imposing a consumption tax upon
the people of the county six times
greater than was their tax for state
and county taxes. That every thing
they consumed and used were taxed
out of reason and the cost Of living
had been greatly increased, That
the manufactures and trusts of the
east We're the sole benefactors.
The old thread bare argument OF
American goods selling cheaper in
European countries than at home
was again rehearsed and urged as
the reason why a protective tariff