The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-07-29

cumb law. This year he will be un.
able to fool the optionists, and the |
other fellows have pulled Dahlman |
into the race in an effort to make GER
tain that he doesn't hoodwink them.
Shallenberger resented the action of
Bryan in starting the special session
movement without due consultation
with him. He had ben asked before
to call a special session, but he was
playing politics and didn't give the
| plan much encouragement. The Bry-
an men are quite frank in charging
| that the governor endeavored to exc
| cute neat straddle after they had
| started the pledge.signing campaign
| for members to support the initiative
| and referendum. They say he apparent.
| ly looked with favor upon it as long
as he felt reasonably certain that
enough members could not be secured
to request the calling of the special
| session, but that when c. w. Bryan
reported that he had nineteen sena
tors pledged and intended going out
to get Volpp and Besse as per their
| agreement, he Immediately discovered
that it was too late to hold one What
ever the facts may be as to that this
distinct break in friendly relations
was what started the jealousy story
on its rounds.
| What are the facts as to the 1908
vote? In the state Bryan got 13l ,099
votes and Shallenberger 1890, or
| nearly 1000 more. Bryan's majority
was 4,102 and Shallenberger's 6,0S4
Thus Shallenberger did get more votes
| and did have a larger majority than
Bryan. But what does it prove? That
he was more popular than Bryan or
that he made a better deal with some
interest? If what the governors
friends say is an indication of what
he thinks the answer is that he is
better vote-getter than Bryan. If Bry
ans friends have the right idea it is
that the brewers in Nebraska worked
harder for Shallenberger than they
did for Bryan. In his speech before
the Lancaster county democrats Mr..
Bryan charged that the brewers were
opposed to him for president, and
that in Missouri, Ohio and Indiana
they supported Taft and the demo
cratic legislative ticket. In Ohio and
Indiana they supported the democratic
nominees for governor. While the
charge was not made so specific as
to Nebraska, Mr.. Bryan indicated that
he believed the same thing was done
in Nebraska; witness his declaration
that if it had not been for republican
friends whose state pride induced
them to vote for him he would have
lost his own state.
There are so many secret cross cur
rents in politics that it is often dan.
gerous to attempt to ascribe a given
result to any definite cause. Yet an
investigation of the figures shows a
definite basis for Mr.. Bryan's charge
that the brewers did exert their in
: fiuence as far as they dare in this
state against him. There is no other
explanation of the fact that Shallen
| DSIStl ran dutdu vi Dry oil III ully-SlA
of the ninety counties in the state
Ordinarily presidential nominee runs
ahead of the gubernatorial nominee
for the reason that a small percentage
of voters do not vote below the presi
{ Dental ticket, the offices at the head
: always getting the most votes, ant
: those at the bottom of the ballot the
I or hnr In hn nf lpHc n
I Lincoln Shallenberger ran well VI
with Bryan, but he dropped far behint
: in the dry precincts. All who were
u familiar with the campaign of 1905
recall that the word that was sen
out from Omaha headquarters of the
= liquor interests was to vote the demo
= cratic ticket straight in order tina
Shallenberger might be elected.
d it had not been feared that many o
the voters would get confused if the!
were told to pick out Shallenberge
J, only Bryan probably would not have
u been included. Yet a great many die
discriminate as shown not only b!
the Bryan and Shallenberger vote, blu
l. by the fact that the latter was but ont
II of two democratic nominees on tn,
) state ticket to be elected, the othe
e man getting the support of the rail
- roads.
T. Appended are the or1cial figure
E. which tend to prove Mr.. Bryan
s charge. Practically every county tina
lie has a distinctively wet tendency CAV
e Shallenberger many more votes tina
It Bryan. Cass and Otoe are exceptions
'e but this was due to the personal POI
re ularity there of Sheldon, the opponer
Id of Shallenberger. Take Douglas
o, Dodge Platte, Adams, Gage, Hall, 81