The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-09-29
Party Lines Broken in Ne.
braska Campaign.
STANDPATISM IS SET ASIDE
Bryan Charged with Facing One
Way in Nebraska and Another In
Other States-FOreign Labor Vote
Hitherto Republican Likely TO Co
DemOcatic-Burkett ON Fence.
BY WILLIS j. ABBOT.

/
Omaha, Nebr.. Sept, 2.-Here in Ne
! braska is in heated progress the most
I interesting campaign that l have seen
I in these Northwestern States. Wisconsin
] was strongly insurgent and is safely Re-
publican except for one Congressional dis
| trict. Minnesota, as evinced by the de-
feat of Tawney, is also strongly insur-
gent and will. / believe. be in the main
RepublicanAin the November elections.
Missouri wiiNbe almost as solidly Demo-
cratic as Texas and Kansas as certainly
Republican as Vermont-a few weeks ago
We would have said Maine. but that H.
| lustTatiOn is now denied 10 the news
paper writer.
Burkett on the Fence.
But here In Nebraska there is a. real
| campaign going on. The primaries have
been held and the parties are aligned for
the November election. A Senator is TO
/ be chosen TO succeed Senator Burkett
/ and a governor TO succeed Shallenberger
| Though il cannot be said that in the
| primaries the insurgent Republicans made
| such sweeping gains here as they did IN
/ Kansas or Minnesota, nevertheless the
influence Of public sentiment in other
States has made even those who were
nominated as standpatters profess a GER
| tain degree or insurgency. Senator Bur-
| kett, for example, calls himself d stand
| t-progressiye-a designation which
| think even others than Mrs. Malaprop
would be justified in describing as "a
| fine arrangement of epitaphs"
| What makes the situation IN Nebraska
particularly complicated this year is the
| doubt as 20 the effect on politics OF the
| liquor question and. of the honorable w
J. Bryan. People are puzzled about both
Let US consider the liquor question first
County Option the Issue.
| The fight in the State Is over a county
| option law Probably two-thrds OF the
| Republicans favor such a law; certainly
as shown by the action at the primaries
| and IN convention two-thirds of the DEM
! ocrats oppose it. It's strongest partisan
on the Democratic side is Mr. Bryan.
whose well-known temperance principles
| seem TO be gradually progressing toward
/ the point OF prohibition.
! The Republicans in their convention for
| the declaration OF principles urged the
county option law practically without
| contest. In the Democratic convention
three factions struggled with the ques-
ton. one led by Mr.. Bryan. who insisted
upon a declaration in favor Of such
lawi a second by Mayor Jim Dahlman,
who favored a declaration demanding It's
denunciation. and a third by Congressman
Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock. who favored the
middle course OF saying nothing whatso-
ever about H. In the end the Hitchcock
plan was adopted Dahlman has been
nominated for governor after a bitter
struggle with the present Gov Shallen.
berger. who was more moderate on the
liquor question. while Hitchcock Is the
regular party nominee for United States
Senator. The Bryan faction. the extreme
drys as ii is put. are practically without
recognition and Bryan and his associate
editor have bolted
So there is a peculiar situation OF the
Democratic party having for it's candi-