Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-19
POsTMORTEM EXPLANATIONS.

for governor. but Il Is crushing rebulye
to the element that thought il could cor
rupt Nebraska with beer, money and an
offer OF immunity from the law. There
are still too many good citizens IN this
state for such a campaign TO be effective
IL has been rather a tempestuous expert
ence. but II has been a profitable one after
all, for il has demonstrated that Nebraska
has a conscience and that it is in working
order
Geneva Signal: Whatever the brewers
and saloon keepers get as the result Of
this election they had It coming. Always
and everywhere they are arrogant selfish
and tyrannical Not content with running
their own business, they want TO run the
| politics Of the city, county, STATE a..u ,.,..
ton. IL Is always rule or ruin With them
and party lines arc never observed unless
/ IL is that they may prove useful In herding
hde-bound voters who worship a party
name When they captured the democratic
/ party In August they did not foresee the
stampede that came to a head election day.
Beatrice Express: The republicans Of Ne
braska, while they will regret the loss Of
Senator Burkett still have much to be
thankful for, considering the results in
other states. The feeling is somewhat like
that a man experiences when he finds out
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walking on the edge OF a precipict = whose
existence he was unaware The oyorwhelm-
ing democratic victories in many other
states where the republicans had been alb
solutely confident of success, shows Ne
braska republicans how il might have been
much worse here. While republican states
to the east Of US are losing congressman
after congressman and many OF them losing
the state offices, Nebraska retains its for
mer representation in the lower house and
redeems the state from a democratic adj
ministration to a republican one.
Fremont Tribune The election seems to
have emphasized the idea that there are
two kinds of citizens in Observation-Disclosures
and others That that city should have
given the liquor candidate a vote Of two
to one, while the balance of the state
voted nearly 5000 tho other way shows a
pretty distinct line OF cleavage between tn,
two. Omaha was willing and anxious to
elevate the mayor to the governorship
| This anxiety was in no wise diminished
by knowledge OF the character Of the
forces behind him nor OF the characteristic
campaign he made. The citizens elsewher,
had a perspective view of the situation and
they were the better judges. They de.
manded higher ideals in the executive-cer-
tainly different ideals. They were not con-
tent to have the barroom vernacular made
the court language for Nebraska.
West Point Republican: The tremendous
majority Of Aldrich for governor amply
verifies the prediction Of this paper that
Dahlman would be the worst beaten man
for that high office in recent years The
reason for 1t is plain. The people simply
wouldn't stand for that kind Of a man
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take drink and be respectable but 1t is
quite another thing to boast of that &C
compnshment in a gubernatoral race and
give constant proof OF such ability upon
the stump. Had Mr.. Dahlman remained
at home he might have had some show Oh
election, but wherever he went and made
his rattle headed booze" talk, he thor
oughly discredited himself and was a
positive detriment to the very cause he had
espoused and was endeavoring to advance
Besides, he represents a state of society
that has long since become obsolete in Ne
braska.
Grand Island Independent: 1t is probably
a combination Of circumstances that has
led the people OF Nebraska to prefer Con-
gresham Hitchcock to Senator Burkett
The charges brought by Edgar Howard
have evidently not seriously affected the
vote, despite the fact that the evidence
submitted warranted him in making the
facts known to the people There is no
way Of ascertaining whether Hitchcock s
vote would have been large. the same, or
smaller but for these charges and the man
ner in which they were kept up for the last
four weeks in the campaign. One can only
conclude on general principles that 1t
would have been larger but for these
charges The fact that Mr.. Bryan's ef-
forts and influence were thrown to Hitch
cock and away from Dahlman and that he
was followed by the entire populist organi-
cation must, Of course, have been a consid-
cradle factor in the campaign.
st. Paul Republican: While the Repub-
lican deplores the defeat Of Senator Bur
kett and bushes to think that Hitchcock
a man who was backed by the very identi-
ical influences which were backing Dahl
man in the last campaign, a man whose
hands are unclean from pollution with a
treasurer miXup, in which he does not
deny his guilt Is to represent this state in
the senate, at the same time we believe
I that the defeat of Burkett is very largely
his own fault Had he asserted himself
! against the tide OF Lancaster county, in
which the professional agitatOrs of the
state would not have controlled the max
Ing or the state PLATFORM so that the ughl
would have been carried on sane lines, and
not az the beck and call of the Frank
Harrisons, the McBriens and Darnells and
the Paulsens, the result on the state ticket
{ would have been different. As It WAS II
raised a hue and cry about Dahlman, and
the democrat who had = conscientious
I streak in him voted for Aldrioh and Their
felt he had done his whole duty, jumped
back to his ticket, voted for the brewery
Hitchcock and the entire democratic ticket
] The wet republicans felt that the repub'
D lican party had deserted them entirely, and
that It should be punished, voted the en-
I tire democratic ticket, without the off
} setting help OF the democrats who voted
for Aldrich. And these same people who
a have disrupted the republicans have &C
r complished nothing. for the democratic
9 state senate will block every county option
E measure. The whole county option fight
has fallen down. taking a senator with IT,
, who has no more to do with option than 6
p pig.
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