Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-02
DLMUo HAVE FAMlLl INV
Bryan and Shallenberger Pulling
Against Each Other.
PEERLESS ONE HANGS ON VERGE
whip Cracking over senate, which
Defeated Initiative and Referen-
dum-wuI involve second
struggle Later.
From a staff Correspondent

were governor OF the state and had been
down in the south enjoying life to the
fullest and come home to be greeted by
the announcement OF the boss of the demo-
cratic party that you must call an extra
session OF the legislature. and YOU did
not want to call that extra session and
knew If you did call it Is would probably
cause your defeat for second term and
knew that II you did not call it. your
action would probably cause your defeat for
a second nomination, would 1t make DJu
pout?
That Is what confronts Governor Shsllen-
berger
II you were the democratic party and
YOU had an idea that everything was COM
ing your way and you were just having
the time Of your life, anticipating a great
victory in November and your boss were
TO come home from South America and
start row that insured defeat at the
polls, that caused your brethren to no
longer dwell together in peace and har-
mony and that just simply knocked every
thing end ways, would it fret you just
a little?
That ID what the democrats faces.
And there is no doubt in the mind of
democrats, who have been TO the state
house since the PRONUNCIATION Of the latest
| Bryan Paramount issue, that the division
in the ranks of the party is now more
serious than II has ever been before, in
GLIDING even the days of the free silver
fight over the state organization.
Elimination of Bryan.
There are those here who believe it means
the elimination of Bryan as a boss II ne
is defeated. or 1t means the DETECTION from
the party OF some of its ablest workers II
he is successful In either case II means
that a real organized and determined effort
will be made to prove to Mr.. Bryan that
| the democratic party in Nebraska is bigger
! that he is. And Mr.. Bryan and his friends
! will fight just as hard to prove that he Is
bigger than the party.
( All Of which makes it very uncomfort.
! able for Governor Shallenberger and other
democratic candidates for office AS pub
| ished in The Bee several weeks ago, every
democratic candidate in Nebraska must
conform to the Bryan program or fight
HIM. This includes Governor Shallenberger
| The first scra pocCurs over Mr. Bryan S
! attempt to persuade or force three-fifths
of the members of the Legislature to pledge
themselves in writing that they will vote
| for the submission OF the initiative and
| referendum. 1t is necessary for Mr.. Bryan
to get the promises in writing, for Gov
enor Shallenberger will take no verba
pledges-thats how much he trusts his
democratic legislators The governor i'm
| posed this condition before he will issue
the call.
II Mr.. Bryan is unable to secure tn,
necessary three-fIfths, he will begin his
fight TO secure delegates to the democratic
5f,V
and who will agree to insert that p.ank il
the democratic state platform. That anc
the initiative and referendum also,
The members of the house passed tbs
initiative and referendum last wlntr ant
they will naturally do the same thinl
again il given an opportunity. The senat,
killed the bill. so Mr.. Brysn's fight will b,
centered on the senate. The bill lacked
five votes of going through the uppel
house, and II Mir. Bryan gets those five
votes from among the democrats he mus
secure them in this bunch all of whom
voted contrary to his orders; Bartos o.
Saline Besse OF Webster Suck of Otoe
Fuller of Seward, Howell. Ransom ant
Tanner of Douglas, Klein of Gage anC
Volpp Of Dodge.
Leader Beaten at Time.
| Wnen tne Dill was ptHullB MI blydl
bi ought TO bear every bit Of pressure III
could command to force them to obey hi
WILL but in vain. To some OF them h,
wrote letters expressing his personal View
OF the reasons they opposed the bill. Blu
the faithful nine stood pat. Whether an!
of the nine have deserted is not known b!
the public, but the odds are even that the,
have grown to the spot and Mr. Bryan
xriII ha IN N
he belief OF those who watched that figh
last winter that insofar as those nine dem
ocrats are concerned, Mr. Bryan has me
his Waterloo. In other words, the "Bil
Nine" will stand pat
All of which fight is going to affec
Governor Shallenberger His friends know
that he will not endorse county option
unless the state convention first includes
1t in the platform. So he Will be no hell
to the presidential candidate in the, pre-
liminary fight. And he may be entlrel!
obliterated by the Bryan influence. Blu
should Mr. Bryan be successful in his frs
fight, then all the responsibility OF the ex
ira session will have to be borne by tn
governor. and his friends realize an extr;
session is not good campaign material 70
the man who calls IL. His friends insis
that to call the extra session will violat
the state constitution because no grea
danger threatens the state and no grea
emergency exists which necessitates II.
Some people are saying Mr.. Bryan is de
manding this extra session simply to sc
cure revenge upon a few democrats VIII
dared 20 against his will last winter ant
that the governor should not spend thous
ands of dollars of the peoples none
merely TO crafty the within of the peerles
leader. lie had his chance and he was de
feated by his own democratic Legislature
! they say. and for him TO force the issu
now signifies that he will either rule o
leave his claw marks all up and down tn