Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-07-29
BRYAN VERSUS
H|S0LDFR|ENDS
pITTED AGAINST HIS oLD-TiME
ASSOCIATES IN NEBRASKA
CONVENTION.
THREE ARE OUT FOR GOVERNOR
County Option Battle to Be an Open
One at Grand lsand.-Hitchcock
and Dahln1an oppose Leader
ship Of commoner.
THREE ARE OUT FOR GOVERNOR

form convention in this city Thursday.
1t will be composed of S55 delegates.
The preliminaries are completed by
the selection of Senator Norris Brown
as temporary chairman.
An effort will be made by the or.
eanization to have Brown made perma.
nent chairman, but it is believed that
the insurgents will oppose this apd
will push Congressman Norris for the
place. They will attempt to do this
as an Endorsement of Norris course
in congress. This is likely to bring
a clash between the supporters of the
administration and those who approve
the action of the insurgents.
Practically the only other contest of
any Importance is over the party's at.
titude on the liquor question. Indica-
tons from two-thirds of the county
conventions in the state are that slight
ly less than half of the delegates will
be instructed to support straight
county option plank.
There is some possibility of an OBJ
lection to sweeping Endorsement on
the part of the convention of the
party's action since 1908. but the indi
cations are that President Taft will
receive a hearty Endorsement for the
work he has done as president and for
, the stand he has taken regarding leg
islation.
Fight on Option.
That there will be a contest to Sc.
cure county option plank in the plat
form is admitted by every leader in
the Democratic state organization. AID
that contest will be carried on be-
tween leaders who heretofore have
agreed in every way on what Demo
cratic platforms should contain. Will
lam ]. Bryan, for the first time since
he took up the leadership of the Demo
cratic party, will be opposed by for.
mer associates within his own state. 4
The fight for and against county
option has become an open one. Mr..
Bryan and his friends are actively en-
gagged in an attempt to secure coun-
ty option plank, while Congressman
Hitchcock of Omaha and Mayor James
G. Dahlman, also Of that city, support
ed by Governor Shallenberger, are
equally active in an effort to secure
a declaration against such a plank.
Hitchcock a Candidate.
Congressman Hitchcock has been for
several months an avowed candidate
for United States senator and has
been organizing his forces throughout
the state with view to securing the
support of the rank and file of his
party. He has stated his position as
being opposed to county option until
the people of the state, under an in
itiative and referendum law shall de.
clare specifically for it.
Mr.. Bryan in the publication of the
latter's paper, announced his candidacy
for United States senator at the last
moment in opposition to Congressman
Hitchcock. He has received the un.
qualified endorsement of Mr.. Bryan.
Efforts to Gust Bryan.
There still remains in Nebraska a
considerable number of democrats who
allied themselves with the gold
wing OF Lne party IL years ago, ana
who have never become reconciled to
Mr.. Bryan's leadership. These men
have become strong partisans with the
leaders who are opposing Mr. Bryan
at this time, and have made the cause
of Congressman Hitchcock and his DO.
litical associates their own. They open.
ly declare that the time has come
when Mr.. Bryan should step down and
out as leader of his party, and are di.
recting their efforts to that end"
Three candidates are making fight
for the gubernatorial nomination They
are Governor Shallenberger. Mayor
Dahlman of Omaha and w. r. Patrick
OF South Omaha, member of the
last legislature. Patrick is the Bryan
candidate, Governor Shallenberger is
making his campaign on his two years
record in Office and Mayor Dahlman,
who stands squarely for personal lib.
erty' is making particularly strong
fight against county option.