The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-11
.BRYAN'S FIGHT ON
 LIQUOR QUESTION
Formally Enters Nebraska Cam paign and Out For County
 Option

Lincoln. Neb., July 11.-'1 am not a candidate for any office; I desire nothing at the hands of my co-work- CTS. They have already rewarded me, and I am indebted to them for what ever influence I may have"
 In these words, included in a long statement, William Jennings Bryan practically declares himself a free lance in the coming campaign in Ne braska, and gives advance notice that he will advocate such principles as he sees fit. He puts as the foremost of these principles the divorce of the Democratic party from the liquor in terests and declares the campaign in its great issue.
 MT. Bryan does not spare the recog- nized leaders of the party in the state who have taken a stand against him in his advocacy of county option. but his language Is not bitter. He de- plores the refusal of Governor Shal- lenberger to call an extra session of and referendum whereby, MT. Bryan says the issue of county option might have been referred to the people.
 The governor, MT. Bryan contends, was justified in ignoring the petition for an extra session which contained the udII1eS OL 6 uldJOTlCy OI the HfSIIl- bers@ of the legislature, but he adds significantly that if the governor and his advisers are right they must bear the responsibility if disaster comes.
 Throughout MT. Bryan is outspoken and bitter in his arraignment of the liquor interests, which he accuses of all the sins in the calendar.
 Discussing his differences with lead CTS in the party in Nebraska, MT. Bryan says:
 "The defeat of the special session plan is a disappointment. In the statement given out when inquiries were sent to the legislators. I said that the submission of the initiative, securing a great advantage to the state, would to a large extent elimi- nate county option as a party issue and enable use to conduct our cam paign along national lines.
 Some of the more partisan Repub- 1cans accused me of trying to se- cure an advantage for the Democratic party-an accusation which amounted to the confession that the Republicans were not prepared to defend the na- tional policies of their party, but fair minded men in both parties recognized the propriety of making the fight on national issues, without asking which party would derive most advantage from 1t.
 eff I had had the hearty co-opera- tion of the two Democratic candidates for governor, Governor Shallenberger and Mayor Dahlan, and the support of The World tHerald, the property of Congressman Hitchcock, one of the candidates for the United States Sen- ate. the special session would have been called before this, the initiative and referendum would have been sub mitted, and we would be ready to challenge the Republicans to defend their national measures.
 ourselves to the. liquor question-there is no escape from it. Consideration of the subject has been forced upon the party, not by the advocates of county option, but by the opponents of it.
 "The blame primarily rests upon a handful of Democratic senators who thwarted the efforts of the majority of the Democrats of the senate and house to submit the initiative and ref erendum at the regular session. The further accentuated the issue when they declared against county option last summer, and the breweries and other special interests have closed all doors of escape from the issue by entering upon organized effort to con- trol the next state senate.
 ''When I speak of blame attaching to certain persons who are responsible for forcing the county option question into the campaign I may be using the wrong word-perhaps I should say credit instead of blame. It may pos sibly be to the party's advantage to escape the discussion of national is- sues and make a fight on the liquor question:"