Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-04
VOTER RtFUTES BRYAN
Walter Johnson Shows that Repub-
Hcans Did Not Help Dahlmsn.
HITCHCOCK WAS REAL SUPPORT
south Omaha Man Explains Alliance
Between Bryan and shallen-
berger and Hitchcock and
OahImnm.

With an overwhelming array Of facts and I.
logic, Walter Johnson Of South Omaha has
written refutauon OF W. J. Bryans state /
ment that republican votes had nominated /
Dahlman. Mr.. Johnson shows that, instead !
of that fact, IL was an alliance between /
and Dahlman against MetCalte |
and Shahenberger with the Anu-Saioon I
league entering against the latter, that in /
reality defeated Governor Shallenberger. |
Following Is MIR. Johnson's Letters
To the Editor OF The Bee II you have
read Mr. Bryan's speech at Lincoln you
will notice that he charges the nomination
of Mr.. Dahlman up to republican votes. l
want TO say that this assertion Of Mr..
Bryan's is not the truth and Mr.. Bryan
should know IT, and surely he does know II.
The people OF this state will bear in mind
that there was a serious contention In the
ranks Of the Antl-saloon league which
came to the public mind just previous to
the last primary election. That conten-
ton was largely on account Of question
OF party politics. Mr. Bryan was at the
bottom of a part of it, AT that time Mr..
Bryan was lending his support to the rival
organization, the County option league.
There is where the Shallenberger defeat
started. Mr., Bryan was sore on the Anti
Saloon league because it would not throw
Is support in part, to democratic Candi-
oates. Hence his war on the league.
But MIR. Bryan won his point with the
league, and rather than have two rival
organizations in the state, the league sup
ported Mr.. Shanenberger at the primary
election-and such was the secret order that
went out all over the state from the league
headquarters.
This explains why Mr.. Shallenberger was
face to face with what he would do with
a county option bill in case one should pass
the Legislature. The league demanded that,
Of course-and It was through Mr.. Bryans
efforts that Mr.. shallenberger was induced
to express himself as to what he would do
we're he governor and a county option bill
should pass.
Hence it may be seen just how Dick
Metcalfe came to run for senator and how
Mr.. Shallenberger came to be mixed in the
question Of county option. The whole thing
was Mr.. Bryan's own invention. He was
the one man who was at the bottom of it.
1t will be remembered that the Metcalfe
deal. and Mr. Shallenbergers support to
| Mr.. Metcalfe all happened after the Grand
| island convention. Shallenberger was pop
ular at that convention and would have
| Oeen nominated by that convention, or by
| a primary at that time evidently, had a pri-
| mary been held under the conditions exist
ing at that time. But the later events with
respect to the candidacy of Mr. Metcalfe
and the signing of a county option meas
ure is what did the whole thing.
Personal Quarrel.
| The real foundation, then, of the defeat
Of Mr.. Shallenberger and the consequent
nomination of Mr.. Dahlman may be
charged up to a secret personal quarrei
! between Mr. Bryan and Mr.. Hitchcock
| Hitchcock was nervous at the doIngs OF
Mr.. Bryan with respect to putting1 Mr..
Price out of the race for the senate ana
putting Mr., Metcalfe in the race in oppo-
tsltIon 70 Mr.. Hitchcock.
With the powerful influence Of Mr.. Bryan
in the state behind Mr.. ShalIenberger and
Mr.. Metcalfe, With the compelled obedience
u OF the Anti-Saloon league in the game, Mr.
Hitchcock became wroth at the governor
for taking position which looked like
the defeat of the Omaha editor il Mr.
Bryan's scheme was to work.
Who will deny that Mr. Bryan brought
out Mr.. Metcalfe for the senate? Who will
deny that it was Mr.. Bryan who compelled
the withdrawal of Mr.. Price? What wer,
those things done for? Was Mr.. Bryan try
ing to fill in the ticket for a case O
sham, or was he trying to defeat tn,
Omaha editor for the senator Did Mr.
Bryan load his gun for bear, or did he LOAF
1t for a grandstand parade? We all thinl
he figured to defeat Mr.. Hitchcock an,
: from Mr.. Hitchcock's tactics we believ
that Mr. Hitchcock thought so.
Now, taking the above facts into consid
Grafton, what did Mr.. Hitchcock do witt
Il 20. hi
! didates2 DO you think that Hitchcock sun
4 ported Mr.. Shallenberger or MIR. Dahlman
! He said that he stood neutral but those O
, us who were watching the tactics Of thes
o political leaders, know how MIR. Hltchcoc
stood neutral on the candidates for gov
d ernor.
r The real fact Of the matter was tina
t what Hitchcock said at the Grand Islam
l. convention went; he was the unqualfie
e boss Of the situation, and at the time {
n that convention AIR. hitchcock favored NJ
0 Shallenbergers nomination. But Smaller
II berger butted in on the question of senate
u and Mr.. Hitchcock then insugated ever
: possible secret device to defeat Mr.. Sha
lenberger for the nomination.
Reason for the Cards.
3 This explains why the Hitchcock mi
Cnlnb got out the lALAG NASNAlNA NeAAN W
Is the Hitchcock machine candidates read
le printed to lead the Omaha and South Omai
l. voter to vote for Mr. Dahman. That cal
- was printed not long ago In the State Jou
10 nal. The Omaha people will remember
Is Before the Metcalfe deal occurred tn
., writer contended that Mr.. Shallenberg
g had the nomination in his hands--b
I'd Hitchcock changed the whole situation.
As Now the reader will bear in mind tn
IS there are two powerful nonpartisan orga
" izatons in this state-the Anti-Salo
n. league and the Merchants and Manufa
~ turers' association, These are rival organ
es cations / am not discussing their merit
p Il will also be remembered that Hitchco
k stands at the head OF the brewers organ
We zauon In this state and his influence wi
er the Merchants and Manufacturers assoc
alton must, Of course. be very eXtensiN
a These organizations are so thorough
"a their work that they may set thousands
We men at work In the political field OF I
state on a few hours notice.
he Now you can see where Hitchcock &
C. in his work on shallenberger. without
at doubt he nominated Dahlman through I
r. influence Of this organization. l might S
that the Merchants organization did I