The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-07-15

we'll known to ObServant citizens that
an amendment to the constitution can
not hope to carry.
Senator Patrick, in his speech be-
fore the Lancaster county democratic
made many assertions that
were unworthy of him. He asserted
that the liquor trust controlled the
party machinery, and further declared
that the "pie biters' brigade stood
in the way of reform along the lines
sought by him. There is not an ap-
pointee of Governor Shallenberger'
who has drawn as much money from
the public treasury as this same Mr..
Patrick. Nor has Nebraska ever had
a governor who showed himself so
free from liquor trust domination as
Governor Shallenberger. The only
progressive liquor legislation enacted
in twenty years in Nebraska was en-
acted by the last legislature. The
brewers and distillers sought to Sc
cure the repeal of the law prohibiting
saloons within a certain distance of
Fort Crook. Governor Shallenberger
prevented it, and the prohibition still
stands. The brewers and distillers
fought the passage Of the bill prohib-
iting drinking on trains, but the demo-
cratic legislature passed the bill and
Governor Shallenberger signed it. If
ever the liquor interests put up
fight against measure designed to
cripple them, they put it up when the
daylight saloon bill was shot through
the legislature and sent to Governor
Shallenberger without warning. If
Governor Shallenberger was in any
wise dominated by the liquor trust
does even Senator Patrick imagine
that he would have signed that bill9
The statesman from Sarpy county
merely discounts his own intelligence
and indicts the intelligence of the peo-
pie when he declares by inference that
Governor Shallenberger is dominated
by the liquor interests. If that were
true, why is Mayor Dahlman the self
confessed candidate of the brewers and
distillers? And Patrick's assertion
that the liquor interests spent $4,000
to defeat him for state senator from
Sarpy county-well, that sounds so
much like joke that one is inclined to
smile and let it pass.
1t is only justice to Senator Patrick
to say that his record as member of
the senate is as straight as string
His vote was always recorded on the
c11o cf ho h., -: -
to resent the fact that he was turned
down. Perhaps the liquor trust did
effect that result. But Senator Patrick
should realize that his personal victory
or defeat is not sufficient to- force it.
self upon great party as matter
that must be taken cognizance of to
the detriment of the party as whole
Only once in generation arises man
who is bigger than his party, and Sen
ator Patrick was debarred from get
ting that distinction by reason of the
fact that another stood forth while the
Patrick political prominence was still
an eventuality of future time.
The speech made by j. H. Harley
at the Lancaster county democratic
convention was a revelation to even
his most intimate friends 1t was not
eloquent in the respect that it appealed
by reason of dramatic effect or elocu
tionary perfection. 1t was eloquent OF
deep conviction couched in forcefu
phrase and homely illustration. Not
even Mr.. Harley had hopes that his
appeal would fall on other than un
needing ears. He realized, as did every
other delegate, that the result was {
foregone conclusion. 1t did not nee6
the personal appeal of Mr.. Bryan a
the close of the debate to carry th'
county option endorsement through
Long before the convention met the re
suit was known. Democrats who hav
testified to their democracy by un
swerving and unselish devotion to
in times Of stress and storm, were in
formed at their caucuses that the,