Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-18
Nebraska
HITCHCOCK Is AFTER BRYAN
Proposes if Elected to Make Him
Swallow Harmon.
HAS FEW ACCOUNTS TO SETTLE
Plan Under way 20 secure Control
Of Next Democratic National
Convention--Old Guard
Seeks Control.
HAS FEW ACCOUNTS TO SETTLE

LINCOLN. Nov 17-(special. )-Should no
hitch occur in the program Of Mr. Hitch
cock to be United States senator from Ne
braska and should he be chosen by the
legislature this winter 70 represent the
state in the upper branch Of congress there
will be- formed at once a combination to
control the next national democratic con-
vention The combination will have for
It's object the removal from leadership Of
Mr.. Bryan.
The big four that will lead the fight
'or the reorganization Of the party will
.onsist OF John r. Mclean Of Ohio, Gov
rnor Harmon Of Ohio, william Randolph
iearst Of New York and Mr.. Hitchcock
Il Nebraska.
This Information comes almost direct
from some of the campaign managers Of
the editor Of the World Herald, and 1t was
told here shortly after election.
The plan is to nominate Governor Har-
mon Of Ohio for president and turn the
democratic organization back into the
hands OF the old guard.
Should Mr. Hitchcock be elected senator
the plan outlined as having come direct
from the Hitchcock managers is to open
headquarters in Omaha to work for a
Nebraska delegation to the national con-
vention pledged to Harmon.
d No fight will be made to keep Mr.. Bryan
off of the national delegation, but It is
the intention to send him hobbled and tied
flown with instructions to vote for the
nomination OF Harmon first, last and all
| the time.
! knife for bryan.
According to these informants. regardless
of the fact that Mr.. Bryan stood for Hitch
cock for senator there Is no love between
the two men and the Omaha editor would
like to wrest from Bryan his leadership OF
democracy They say he still has ranking
in his soul that sting of ingratitude" and
the late remarks Of Mr.. Bryan about Hitch
cock have not tended to remove the sting
MIR. Hitchcock, so his lieutenants have re-
marked since the election, has 1t in for
Bryan good and hard, charging, among
other things, that Metcalfe's entry into the
senatorial race was due to the Bryan in
fluence He objected to Bryan injecting
county option into the campaign this year
Bryan does not feel kindly to Hitchcock
for it was Hitchcock who Tor the first
time, probably, shut off a Bryan speech in
a democratic state convention Hitchcoob
fathered the motion that put the gag rule
on the peerless leader.
Plans Under Way.
Three of the Big -Four anu-Bryan combi
nation are already at work shaping senti
ment against the Nebraska leader. Hears
has endorsed the candidacy of Mclean fol
United States senator in Ohio and Harmon
has thanked Hearst for the good work hi
did in Ohio to bring about his reelection
So soon as the legislature decides tina
Mr.. Hitchcock shall 90 to the senate tn,
Hearst papers, the Mclean paper and tn
World-Herald will, 1t is said, start in t
create sentiment for Harmon for the dem
ocartio nomination and to fight for a rSoS
ganization of the democratic party, whicl
new organization will be altogether fire.
from the dictation of Mr.. Bryan
1t is not expected, that Hitchcock viii
make any Harmon mbve until he is electe
senator, for on one occasion recently Gov
ernor Shallenberger endorsed David +
Francis for president and straightaway h
not only lost the democratic nomination
but Francis also lost out for United State
senator from Missouri.