Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-22
NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT.

papnion Republican We shall snxiously
wait 10 see whether Hitchcock accom-
plishes anything IN the senate.
Fremont Tribune How viii Congress
man Latta's check book stubs balance mp
with his official campaign statement?
Falls CITY Journal. Might it not be pos
siblo that Dahlman carried enough repub-
lican votes to elect Hitchcock? lie GER
tainly defeated Hayward in that way.
Blue Springs Sentinel. HitchcocS regrets
that Jim Dahlman was defeated. This will
be doubtless pleasing to the 5000 who
voted against Dshlman and for Hitchcock
in preference to Burkett
Blair Pilot. The Bee will now continue
to knock the initiative and referendum.
even after the party has declared for IL
and a majority OF the legislature. just
elected. is pledged to submit an amend
ment q the people. Wen, thsts one kind
Of courage at least
Rails City journal: The old soldier on
the republican ticket Addison wait, seems
to have received the least number Of votes
OF any man on the ticket Was this be-
cause he was running against the ex-
speaker Of the house. who. next to Dahl
man, was the special representative OF the
liquor interests?
Bridgeport News Blade: Now that the
election is over, will somebody tell US
where county option got off? viii a dem
ocratio legislature repudiste its state plat
form and send Governor Aldrich a county
option bill to sign? It does look as though
the despised brewers had stolen a march
on the optionists- by centering the fight on
Dahlman while they stole the legislature.
sued card thanking every body but Bryan
for his election. He states that his only
regret is that his friend, Dahlman, and
some others failed Of success. Mr.. Hitch
cock would not have pulled through him
self had it not been for the endorsement
Mr.. Bryan gave him, and his association
with my friend, Dahlman," ought to have
defeated him, anyway.
Nearney Democrat: 1t matters not who
the republican candidate for Senator
Browns successor may be, we are now
going to place in nomination a man who
will be invincible in the 1912 senatorial con-
test His name is Ashton c. Shallenberger
the present democratic governor of Ne
braska. Let every true democrat and in
surgent republican blaze the slogan. "shal-
lenberger for senator" upon the outer and
inner walls.
Beatrice Express: Chairman Husenneter
of the state republican committee is feel
ing pretty good, and he has a right TO feel
that way. He and his helpers have not
only conducted the campaign so success
tuily as to elect governor In a doubtful
state, but they have pulled through the
entire state ticket To have accomplished
this in Nebraska in a year when the voters
is feat Of no mean proportions.
Red Cloud Argus: The primary law is
often responsible for the failure Of DRrti-
sans to become enthusiastic over their
ticket. There are. often candidates on the
ticket who would not have been nominated
at the hands of conventions where their
merits and dement's could have been can
vassed. The trouble with the primaries is
that almost anybody may secure the NOM
ination for state office that enters the
field. The majority Of the voters have no
means Of determining his fitness.
St Paul Republican We are really glad
that the democrats have the legislature
this year rather than the republicans. 1t
win give w. J. Bryan a chance to exert
his influence in behalf OF a county option
bill, while II the republicans had held a
practically nil. II they refuse to pass such
bin the burden OF II will be on them, and
IL Bryan IS true political prophet It will
mean their death. II they do pass it, then
II will be just as well as though the re-
publicsns controlled the legislature. II is
a bad plight, indeed, when we can't get
some satisfaction out Of It.
Kearney Hub: Governor Elect Aldrich
uses pretty blunt speech in speaking OF the
brewery trust in his open letter thanking
his supporters throughout Nebraska. For
instance: The people have decided that
the debauching of its electorate must cease.
The criminal effrontery of the brewery
combination has been emphatically halted
and they will not be given any peace until
they get out Of politics. This polluted
trust is an enemy Of common decency. It
defiles and contaminates citizenship and in
this is an arch enemy to the very principle
OF representative government" Some peo-
pie call a spade a spade and others do not
know the difference between a spade and a
pruning hook. Aldrich is evidently not one
OF the latter, and inasmuoh as every word
of this arraignment is truth he viii be
commended by most people for mis- plain
speaking