Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-01
BRYAN TALKS At LINCOLN
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take II for granted that candidates for
the Legislature are all committed 20 il.

stands by Party.
Our United States senator must be
elected by the legislature and therefore
we must elect him when we elect the
legislature, hut fortunately our state has
adopted the oregon plan. which enables us
to separate local issues from national ones
II the legislators are willing to do 80. In
any district in which the republican candi-
date refuses to sign statement No. T. agree
ing to support the national candidate re-
ceiving the highest number Of votes at the
election, IN such district the democratic
candidate should. in. my Judgment, be
elected, no matter what his position may
be on state issues,
When both candidates sign statement
No. 1 national questions are eliminated and
voters can be governed by their views on
local issues ,i
IN sRch districts = would advise demo-
Gratis 70 vote against democratic csndi-
dates committed 70 the programme Of the
liquor interests. provided the opposing re-
publicans are committed against the liquor
programme.
The state officers, except the governor,
have nothing to do with legislation and but
little to do with shaping the course Of the
party on public questions. and shall sup
opposes DahIman.
''rhe governor, however, stands in a diff
ferent position, and I owe It to the demo-
Gratis Of the state to define my own atti-
tude and to set forth the reasons for with
holding my support from Dahlman. It
might he sufficient to say that he was not
the choice of majority Of the democrats
who voted at the primary. He received
considerable less than half Of the demo-
cratic vote polled and owes his nomination
to the support Of wet republicans who
entered our primary and converted a
democratic minority into a combination
majority Even then his majority was only
about 200 and while this majority, secured
in the open primary through the aid OF
republicans, gives him a legal right to
the nomination, Il does not give him a
moral right to the democratic vote of the
state. He received 1851 votes, including
the votes of the wet republicans, little
more than One-fifth OF the democratic vote
cast two years ago. On the strength OF
this kind of an endorsement he proceeds
to announce that he will veto, II passed,
the proposition which the last democratic
state convention, and he was member
Of It, refused by a vote of 6Ss to 2O2 to
condemn.
And not content with that, he an
nounced that he will sign, II passed,
bill repeating the daylight saloon law, a
law endorsed by the last democratic state
convention by a vote of 10 to 1863.
Surely no democrat should be asked to
vote for Mr.. Dahlman on the ground OF
regularity. He does not expect IT, for he
presents the issue which he embodies as
a non-partisan issue and tustifes his de-
termination to veto a county option bill
on the grounds that his election will mean
that a majority OF the people want him TO
veto It. Since the issue is presented upon
its own merits and not as a party issue
each coter is at liberty to cast his vote
regardless of theuparty affiliations OF the
candidate" glc sci
IN the exercise Of that right, 1 with
hold my support from Mr.. Dahlman. Ma
uonal issues are not involved and the sub
ordination of all other local issues to the
liquor question makes It impossible for
democrat to vote for him without endors-
ing the position which he has taken in re-
gard to liquor legislation.
Il am not willing to turn the demo-
cratic party over to the breweries and
make 1t the open and Rvowed champion of
the liquor interests. Our party has a
higher mission than that. It is not ueces-
sary 10 consider Mr.. Dahlmans good quail
ties, and he has many of them, but no
man is good enough TO be entrusted with
executive power when that power lie con-
ferred by those who constitute the con-
trolling influence back Of his campaign"