Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02
NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT.


Central City Nonpariel: Had Bryan mani
tested the same interest in direct legisla-
ton during the session OF the legislature
as he is now asserting there might have
been a different story TO tell regarding the
Initiative and referendum.
Farbury Gazette: The daily papers pub
lished an announcement that the Munroe
county court house at La Crosse. Wis,
had been sold at tax sale for 80 cents, the
amount being due for special tax for the
removal of weeds on the court house lawn
At that rate the state house at Lincoln
ought to bring at least half a dollar.
Tekamah Journal: The ruction that Mr..
Bryan has raised in the Nebraska camp Of
democracy is lamentable. In the big wig
wan at Omaha the braves are all in their
war paint furnished by the brewers. out
in the state the little fellowship common
herd. IL you please, are ready and curious
to follow Mr.. Bryan to the bitter end
What harvest this dlscord will bring
about is difficult to foresee.
Beaver City Times Tripune: There is a
good joke on Congressman Hitchcock, who
wants to make laws for his country in
the United States senate, Although Mr..
Hitchcock has this ambition, he was un-
and when he went to file his nomination
papers he undertook to pay the fee of $50
with the secretary of state, when 1t must
be paid to the treasurer of his home
county.
Aurora Sun (dem.): Those who are so
actively pushing tho candidacy of Mr..
Hitchcock for the senate should remember
that there is large element in the demo-
Nartu baf nj M fNr tha|
world-Herald man. And if Mr. Bryan rea-
lzed this feature to the fullest extent, we
believe he would not refuse to make the
race for the senate himself. He would poll
many more votes than would Mr..
Hitchcock.
Grand Island independent Not few Ne
braska newspapers still cling to the idea
that the proposed efforts to secure a vote
of the people of the state on the question
of relocating the capital at some more CEN
trail point are born of displeasure because
the people of Lincoln decided to keep the
saloon out of that city. However 1t Is
noticeable that nearly all OF them are pub
lished in cities in close proximity to Ian
caster county or southeast of that city.
WILDER Democrat: Except to chronicle
the death of loved friend no more I'M
pleasant duty can fall to the lot of a news
paper man than to have to record the fact
that another good man has gone wrong"
But truth is mighty and must prevail.
When w. ]. Bryan started out on his po-
litical career, protesting to be a democrat,
he had voice and vocabulary that would
charm the birds off the trees. On the
strength Of the reputation thereby gained
he got what is called the blg-head, and
thereby came his political ruinatton. He had
inordinate ambition, and when he met his
first serious opposition and came to the
crossing of the roads in 1896 ne broadly
limited to his opponents that under certain
circumstances he could serve the people
under another name" And he has been and
gone and went and done it; first as an
| assistat populist, and since he has found
| that little racket does not pan out, he Is
starting in as an assistant prohibitionist.
| He was fizzle as lawyer, could not even
make a will giving himself $4,000 that would
stick. He has been a fizzle as a politician,
being repudiated three times by the Amer
lean people for president on paramount
| issues of his own choosing, simply because
they did not think him safe; and with his
wobbly ideas, and a new paramount issue"
every succeeding campaign many of them
are beginning to doubt whether he is even
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still sets himself up as a wholesale and
retail manufacturer Of paramount issues
for the democratic party, contrary to its
ancient beliefs, articles of faith and the
traditions of the elders of the party. He
can discourse glibly about czars, potentates,
dietators and autocrats, and yet he is the
biggest humbug of the bunch on record,
only recently trying to bulldoze the gov
ernor and legislators of this great state to
his will. Who made you a ruler over us?''
the fellows who refuse to bow down to the
topping demigod are asking, and they are
further asking what has he ever done for
the people, except to play a political game
that has filled his own pockets to overflow
ing He has been sowing wind and he Is
going to reap the whirlwnd. He intimates
that he is going to fight to the bitter end
1t will be his own bitter end, and 1t is moi
going to be long in coming.