Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-08-26
ALDRICH AWAITS AN ANSWER
Governor Says He Has Not Heard
from Morhead Up-to- Date.
WANTS MO0SERS OF FTICKET
Republican Executive Committee to
Meet mt Lincoln Today to Select
Select Headquarters.
(From a Staff Correspondent }

(From a Staff Correspondent)
LINCOLN, Aug. 25.--(Special. )--Politics
has been exceptionally quiet during the
week just past, the only thing that at
tracted more than passing attention in
state circles being the open letter Of
Governor Aidrieh 10 his democratte OPP
ponent, J. II. Morehead. challenging him
TO joint debate on records When asked
II he had received any answer to his
letter from Mr.. Morehead, the governor
smiled and said that he had received
none and expected none. II shall keep
on after him though and IL get q
chance will slug him one right on the
point of the chin
Then YOU do not propose to slug him
over the ropes,'" was asked.
'Ill give him all he wants before this
campaign is over" replied the governor,
while a look came over his face similar
to that when he Welded the big steel
hammer in the state convention. IF this
governorship Is going to be fought out
on the record made by Mr.. Morehead and
myself in the Nebraska negislature, or
on my record as governor of the state, I
want nothing better than a chance to
meet the gentleman, but I would like to
meet him on the platform. face to face,
and where the people who hear the dis
cussion will have a chance to size us both
up and the arguments we bring out I
have nothing to fear in an assault upon
my record by the democratic candidate"
Governor Not Worried.
The governor is not worried very much
over the rumor that the bull moosers
would put up an entirely new ticket when
they hold their convention. 1t Is true
that some Of the old populist members Of
the party, who law the cause OF the death
ofthe populist party to its fusion with
democracy, do not look with favor on
fusion relations with any OF the old par
ties, but they do not seem to be fight
ing the movement for an entirely new
state ticket very hard.
Another rumor is however afloat OF
an attempt at the third party state con-
vention to endorse only Roosevelt can
didates. This would knock in the head
all efforts to bring about a harmonious
condition of things in the republican
party and threaten the whole state
ticket. The muddle on the electoral ticket
seems to stand about this shape: Cover
want Moosers to withdraw.
nor Aldrich wants the six Roosevelt
electors on the republican ticket to with
draw. Chairman Epperson feels the
same way. but will leave 1t to the can
didates themselves to do as they please.
The Taft men insist that the Roosevelt
men shall get out, Of the way and let
men who will SUPPORT Taft be put in
their places. The 'progresslves" also 1t
is said want an entirely separate set Of
electors But Congressman Norris wants
them to remain on the republican ticket !
and also be endorsed by the bull mooser- /
ties.
Speaking Of leaders," 1t looks as II |
the new party was going to be able to
have things attended to without the rank
and file of the party having to bother
very much about 1t. So far ]. L. &C.
Rrien, who has had the front part of
his anatomy pushed up to the republican
pie counter for many years, SENS to be
the whole thing in the formation of the
new party While some things may
puzzle Mr.. McBrien to pull off success
fully, 1t must not be forgotten that he
has the advice and assistance of such
powerful political advisors as Nels P.
Hansen, Governor Aldrich's pure food
Frank P. Corrick, who
made the Roosevelt campaign in Me-
oraska the success 1t was; Senator
spreckler of Schuyler, the tall Sycamore
y the Platte, and Nathan Merriamn Of
Omaha, who knows few things about
,olitics himself. Then why 1t Is asked
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