Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-05
Organization Considers ,e Offer
ing to Temperance ..se NeceS-
sary for Harmon Ste.
FLOOD OF LETTERs' WE'D
Think Success of Party DeA Nat
He Be Nominee.
THEY WOULD AVOID EXTREMES
Governor is More Anxious About Elec-
tion Than Primary.
APPoINTEE CHANGES FRONT
bryan Well Satisfied with County
Option Pledge, According to
Editorial An the COmmOner--
Defends His work.
CHANGES FRONT
trrom a Sad correspondentl

LINCOLN, Neb, Aug. 4.--tspecial.)-rhe
Governor shallenberger organization has
started out to deliver the goods to Richard
i. Metcalfe,
Thus the evidence is at hand to prove
that Mr. Hitchcock has served his useful
ness ln-Bo-far as the governor is concerned
and no Is ditchsd.
The activity on the part Of the Shallen-
berger organization for Metcalfe is due
to the flood OF letters which the chief exc
cutive has received since the Grand Island
convention urging the nomination of Met
calfe as an olive branch to the temperance
element OF the party in order to secure
harmony at the polls in November. One
member OF tho legislature, who IS a candi-
date for reelection without opposition, has
written the governor that it is absolutely
necessary to the success of the ticket, II
shallenberger is renominated. for Metcalfe
20 be the nominee for senator. This man
wrote to nominate Hitchcock and Shallen-
berger would be to make the ticket top
heavy and lose thousands OF votes, because
of the wetness OF the head man. He insisted
as a personal and political friend of the
governor that the strength Of his admins
tratIon and OF his political organization
should be placed behind Metcalfe and
everything possible done to get the demo-
Gratis 70 line up for the Bryan candidate.
Many more letters of a similar nature
have been received during the last few
days and they have had their effect The
governor is now more anxious about the
election than he is about the primary SO
he is looking for harmony. The letters he
has received indicate to him that Metcalfe
viii be able to bring more strength to the
ticket than Hitchcock and so his organl-
fnr ba ina Nor
OF the Commoner associate editor.
one OF the governors appointees. who has
heretofore been working for Hitchcock has
taken of hl4 coat and gone into the fray
FOR Metcalfe. He is now out I'm the Fourth
district plugging the voters for the new
combination. This man made the statement
himself that he was going out to do what
he could for Metcalfe. Being loyal Shall
lenberger appointee 1t is not supposed thai
he would do anything political which die
not have the approval of the governor
That Mr.. Bryan is well satisfied with
Governor Shallenberger's county optloI
pledge is Indicated in the following editoria
which viii appear in the Commoner tomor
row;
'The Nebraska democratic state conven
ton refused by vote of 647 to 19S, to en-
dorse county option an dthis has been her
alueu over Ine country as ueAedt lOT Mf
Bryan. Let all the facts be known: Abou
May / Mr.. Bryan urged the calling of
special session of the legislature to submit
the initiative and referendum He statet
that by the submission of the initiative ant
referendum the county option fight cou
be postponed for two years. He failed t
secure the special session, Then he an
nounced himself in favor of an en Sn~se
ment of county option the only -sy t
break the hold Of the liquor interests an
insure tho submission of the initiative an
referendum.
"As a result Of his fight the republican
endorsed the initiative and referendum
thus making It certain that 1t will be sub
nlttod at the coming session of the legisla
ture Cthe democrats and populists also hay
ing endorsed iO. This is victory for tn
reform for which he has contended fc
fourteen years. He can afford to be turne
down on county option II he can max
sure OF the Initiative and referendum
but the democratic convention defeate,
by vote Of 6Ss to 2O2 a plank declarin
plank declaring against county option an
Governor Shallenberger announced at n
convention that he would sign count
option bill. Since the republicans and popl
lists have declared for county option an
the democratic have refused to declal
against It the chances are largely In fave
OF tho passage of county option bin
will be seen, therefore, that Mr.. Bryan hs
reason to rejoice over the progress mao
in Nebraska. 1t matters little what is dor
TO him; he can be happy so long as II
things he is fighting, for wn-and they Al
winning in Nebraska"