Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-19
Nebraska
Bryan May Try
to Force Plans
on Democrats
Report from Lincoln Will jump in
Senatorial Race Unless Party
Grants Session.
From staff Correspondent

From a staff Correspondent
LINCOLN May 1S.-tSpecial)-w william
j. Bryan, candidate for the United States
senate! Is this the program? To change
IL. II may be necessary for the democratic
party to force the democratic legislators
to force the democratic governor to cal
an extra session of the legislature and
submit the initiative and referendum.
The above report is being circulated
here in the Bryan wing of the democratic
party. In addition to making the race
for the senate, in event Of the failure OF
the democratic legislature to submit the
initiative and referendum, Mr. Bryan is
said to contemplate forcing the democratic
state invention to endorse county option
and is reported to be willing to wage the
hardest fight of his life.
c. W. Bryan is managing the fight fol-
the initiative and referendum and IL that
fight is lost, it is said he will continue
the scrap for county option and that his
forces will include w. j. Bryan, as a SEN
atorial candidate
Mr. Bryan has announced officially that
he will be in Nebraska from the first ia
the middle of July and that he will take
a hand in politics and those who are close
to him believe that he cannot support
G. NJ. Hitchcock for the senate since
Hitchcock came out publicly in an inter
view here in opposition to the Bryan pro-
gram. These same persons insist there
is no chance that Bryan will support
Hitchcock Those who know Mr.. Hitch.
cock here insist that he will never with.
draw from the race in the interest of Mr.
Bryan, but that he will fight. Consequently
there will be real knock down and dras
out in the ranks of democracy within g
very few weeks.
Democrats who have been at the state
house lately and those who are taking al
interest in proceedings, are not enthus
iastic over the candidacy of Mr.. Hitchcock
but they believe that If he would supper
some other candidate when Mr.. Bryan an
nounces his candidacy and withdraw him
self, he would be able u defeat the pres
Dental aspirant in the democratic pri
maries. Some of these are even predicting
that Mr. Hitchcock may even urge thu
democrats of the state to vote for Richard
l.. Metcalfe but there is not one chanc,
in many that Metcalfe will ever be a can
didate, unless when Hitchcock gets out Mr.
Bryan will follow suit.
All of which brings up the question did
Mr.. Bryan promise Mr.. Hitchcock that he
would not be candidate for the senator
The significant feature of this is that nc
statement of the matter can be secured al
the Commoner office. If Mr.. Bryan be.
lieved that he really promised Mr.. Hitch.
cock that he would under no circumstance
make the race, those who have discussed 1t
say there would be no reason for the presi
dental candidate to keep still about 1t
The excuse offered by those who say they
are on the inside" for Mr.. Bryan failing
to deny the Hitchcock statement is thai
| to do so would be equivalent to announc.
ing his candidacy, and the time is not YET
ripe for that ,...- e. y--~.
No man in Nebraska is watching tn
Bryan maneuvers more closely than Il
Governor Shalenberger. He had two rep
resentatives at the Bryan Omaha meeting
last night and he is keeping close tab oil
those legislators who have called on tn
peerless leader. The governor does no
want to call that session and he does no
want to break with Bryan, and he doe
not want to run for office on county OF
ton platform, even though he said h
would make the fight on any platform. Il
the meantime fireworks are due befor
many days.