Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-07
Manuel ResentS
Hitchcock w avs
Chairman Of POpuhst Party Gives Out
Letter Relative to His ContrO-
versy with Tibbles.
lFrom a STAFF Correspondent

LINCOLN, Nov. 6.-(specisl. &C. B.
Manuel chairman OF the populist state
committee Is very indignant over the treat
ment he has received at the hands OF MT.
Hitchcock's World-Herald. This paper per
mitted t. II. Tibbles one OF Mr.. Hitchcock 8
henchmen. to criticize Manuel in the World
Herald and then It refused space to Mr..
Manuel in which to reply to the Tibbles
attack.
Mr.. Manuel has been a supporter Of Mr..
Hitchcock, but he opposed the election Of
Mayor Dahlman. and as chairman Of the
populist committee has sent out literature
advocating the election OF c. Il. Aldrich,
Mr.. Tibbles objected to this and evidently
Mr. Hitchcock concluded he would prefer
the support OF Tibbles rather than Manu-
els, 30 he gave space to Tibbles to criticize
Manuel but refused space for Manuels
reply.
The letter which the World-Herald re-
fused to publish is as follows:
! LINCOLN, Nov. 3-Editor World Herald
| Dear Sir: In your issue or November 2, in
| the Public Pulse" column, Mr.. Tibbles
takes me to task for sending out letters
and literature from Lincoln. He states that
| tho headquarters of the peoples independ-
ent party is located at Osceola, Neb., and
| that Mr.. Walrath, the secretary, who lives
| there, has been sending out all documents
/ that are authorized by the committee.
mere IS no controversy between MI w al
rath and myself and IL he has been sending
| out any documents he has been doing So
| on his own Voluon and without consulting
| me. 1t was agreed by the executive COM
mittee that we would open headquarters at
| Lincoln the last week Of the campaign and
/ Mr.. Walrath agreed to come down and hell
get out whatever matter we had for our
| people. Mr.. Walrath agreed to meet me
| in Lincoln on October Is. l came TO Lin
coin engaged room at the Lincoln hotel
and have been doing business ever since
/ Mr.. Walrath called me up on the telephone
saturday evening and said he was so busy
/ getting out the ballots for his county that
| ne could not come for two or three days
| Mr.. Tibbles is not the whole committee
| and Is only a member Of the executive
| committee. The chairman usually directs
! the campaign and the secretary usually
acts under instructions from the chairman
| The letters have sent out have the hearty
| sanction and support of the majority OF
! the executive committee, but did not ASK
the advice or consent OF Mr.. Tibbles, be.
cause | knew he was so welded to his
| idols that II would be useless. When Mr.
| Ilbbles states that the executive committee
| holds no such views as expressed in Mr.
false statement MIR. Tibbies is more
| rantankerous in his denunciation of demo.
cratic mlsdeeds than l could possibly be
! Mr.. Tibbles can easily recall the events OF
the Grand Island convention and how com
! pletely and effectually he was sat dowT
on by that convention, and he win also re-
call when the state committee met in Lin
coin at my call that a majority OF tn,
committee was in favor of endorsing Mr.
FAlhlltAt bul tue minority was SO bLIOnBl ~
opposed TO the endorsement that a com
| promise was agreed to. We were then in
! structed to conduct the campaign along tbs
| lines Of the Grand Island convention.
The statement 1 made in my letter Il
The Bee, that there is not a populist OF
the democratic ticket" Is true. Mr.. Jack
son was populist when elected stat,
| superin tendent but after quitting the Office
he quit working at the trade. He has no
been in a pOpulist convention in the las
ten years and every other candidate on thu
so.called fusion ticket is democrat. Tit
only popuhst on the ticket 10 Mr.. Terry
The trouble with Mr.. Tibbles is that Ia
would like to run the populist committe,
as democratic annex In the interest o
Mr.. Hitchcock, but he cannot do Il. / an
not taking orders from Mr.. Tibbles;
kroW the temper Of pOpulists and so doe
Mr.. Tibbles and he knows that I am NOR
nearly representing them than he is. I
Mr.. Tibbles viii recall the resolution passe,
BY the last populist convention at Crane
leland, he will see ample justification 10
the letters ] have been sending out.
The pOpulists OF Nebraska will supper
the entire democratic ticket, except gov
ernor and attorney general, and they viii
vote for the populist nominee for the lat
ter, and the republican nominee Mr.. AID
rich, for the former
In your anxiety for the election OF Mr.
! hitchcock you are letting your fears befal
your judgment. / am supporting Mr. Hitch
cock in every way 1 can and your spasn
will not affect the results of election. 70
had better keep out OF print unless yo
wish 10 aid in the defeat OF Mr.. Hitchcock
and the balance Of the democratic tickle
that the populists are willing. to support
G, b. MANUEL.
Chairman State Populist Committee.