The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-25
Unusual Situation Presented in
Differences Among Democrats
Of Nebraska.
FORMER FRIENDS OPPOSE
POSITION TAKEN BY BRYAN
Split Is on Adoption or Rejec-
tion Of County Option
Plank.


ocrats of Nebraska will hold their plat
form convention in this city Tuesday
and 1t promises TO be OF greater inter
est than any gathering Of the kind held
in this state for many years. That there
viii be contest to secure i county
| option plank in the platform is admitted
by every leader in the Democratic state
organization. And that contest will be
carried on between leaders who hereto
fore have agreed in every way on what
| Democratic platforms should contain.
| William j, Bryan. for the first time
since he took UP the leadership OF the
democratic party VII be opposed by
| The fight for and against county option
has become an open one: Mr.. Bryan
and his friends are actively engaged in
| an attempt TO secure n county option
| plank, while Congressman Hitchcock OF
| Omaha and Mayor James c. Dahlman,
| also of that city, supported by Governor
| Shallenberger, are equally active In an
| effort to secure a declaration against
| such a plan.
The situation is considered an unusual
/ one, because the men who at present
are most actively opposing Mr.. Bryan
we've formerly his strongest supporters.
| This condition, considered with the fact
that the campaign for the selection of
| Of a candidate for United States senator
has taken on many different angles: has
| given impetus TO political struggle in
Nebraska seldom if ever before wilt
| messed.
Hitchcock, Candidate,
| Congressman Hitchcock has been for
several months an avowed candidate for
United States senator and has been or
ganizing forces throughout the state with
a view to securing the support OF the
rank and file OF his party. He has
stated his position as being opposed 10
county option until the people OF the
Lee, ,,,It tint i've md rnSn
dun law, shall declare specifically for IT.
There is little doubt that the anti
county option men will present such
posed by Mr. Bryan and his friends Mr.
| Bryan has always been given a place on
the resolutions committee when he at
cIes have always prevailed in the writ
ing OF platforms That he will be ac-
corded the same courtesy OF appoint
ment at Tuesdays convention IS gen
: orally admitted. although it is believed
there will be an overwhelming majority
opposed 10 him on the question OF county
option.
the fight TO the floor oF the convention
and there make a plea for straight
county option plank. Six hundred OF the
instructed or are known to be opposed
to such plank and extreme interest
centers on what effect Mr. Bryan's speech
on the convention floor viii have on the
majority.
Parting of the Ways
Richard L. Metcalfe associated with
Mr.. Bryan in the publication OF the lat
ter's paper. announced his candidacy for
United States senator at the last mo-
ment, in opposition TO Congressman
} Hitchcock He has received the unquali-
fled endorsement OF Mr. Bryan. who ex-
presses the belief that Metcalfe can poll
more votes than any other Democrat
himself not excluded.
BRYAN and Metcalfe were formerly em-
ployed by Mr.. Hitchcock. All three have
been closely associated in the political
&. world until now, and by many Demo
? cratic leaders 1t is believed the coming
, state convention will mark "the parting
OF the ways"
There stin remains In Nebraska a con-
siderable number OF Democrats who
called themselves the gold wing, OF tho
. party fourteen years ago and who have
{ never become reconciled to Mr., Bryan's
e leadership. These men have become
e strong partisans with the leaders whc
: are opposing Mr., Bryan at this time anc
have made the cause OF Congressman
: their own. They openly declare that tho
= time has come when Mr.. Bryan should
step down and out as leader of his party
and are directing their efforts to tina
G end.
/, Three candidates are making a fieh
h for the gubernatorial nomination, They
o are Governor ShallenbcrGer. Mayor Dahl
man OF Omaha, and w. r; Patrick o
Iature Patrick is the Bryan candidate
lGovernor Shallenberger Is making hi
campaign on his two-years' record ii
} office and Mayor Dahlman, who stands
squarely for personal liberty" IS max
ing "A particularly strong fight agains
i county option, The primaries take place
l. August .. week after the convention
I Capital Removal Question.
- Another important state issue is th
Z question OF capital removal. There 4
g a somewhat general feeling that the stat
n capital should be located at a point nca
G the center of the state, and Mr.. Dahl
&c man has declared himself openly as IA
, voring such action will take TN
n executive offices away from Lincoln. Thl
. proposition, of course. is strongly op
! posed by the people OF Lincoln and b.
% many county option advocates, who as
J. sert that II is All attempt 10 punish Lin
% coin and Lancaster county because Lin
coin has been dry for three years,
1. bill was introduced in the last legisla
&c ture providing for capital removal, but
20 was pigeonholcd.
~ The city OF Grand Island Is an aciiv
I, candidate for the location OF the capita
81 Kearncy and Hastings have also bee
" named as possibilities for capital cities.
,- An entire new state committee Will h
& named which will have charge OF tn
n active campaign 10 be waged for fou
months following the primary election.
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