Omaha daily bee., 1914-06-22
PRINCE CHARLES HAPPY MAN
Secretary Brysn's Brother Is Felici-
tated, While Maher Is in Dumps.
PLANS ARE ALL OVERTHROW
Strategy TO Take Control of the
state Democrats from "BoyRl"
Family Fails utterly Mt
the Last Moment.
CFrom a staff Correspondent

(FrOm a Staff Correspondent
LINCOLN, June n.-(Special )-without
doubt. the happiest man in Nebraska this
morning Is Prince Charles of the roal
family of Bryan and the most disgusted,
Colonel John G. Mayer. candidate for the
democratic nomination for governor.
Prince Charles can we'll be happy for
he pulled off about the smoothest piece
of political generalship yesterday at the
meeting Of the democratic state commit
tee that has been pulled off in Nebraska
in a long day, and a result the anti
bryan crowd is just waking up to the
fact that the prince put one over
Il is true that NJ L. Corey OF Clay
Center. an ardent anti-Bryan man, was
recommended for temporary chairman Of
the state convention and that the con-
vention will he held in Columbus, In
stead Of Hastings. but by their vote OF
nearly two to one on the committee the
anti-Bryan faction could have put that
over anyway. The very thing that they
expected to make fight on and show to
the democrats OF the state that the So
called royal family could no longer die
tate the policy OF democracy-the appoint
of e. c. Kembel by Chairman Shompson,
as secretary of the committee, failed to
develop because w. II. Thompson would
not put motion covering the proposition,
and the anti-fellows laid down, lost their
nerve and went home happy In the
thcSlght that they had won out in their
own minds.
See They Were HOrnswaEEled.
However, after sleeping over II all
night and having fully recovered from the
Bryan virus inoculated into them by
Prince Charlie, with the able assistance
of w II. Thompson, they are beginning
to see how they were hornswaggled by
the versatile prince and the smooth chair
man of the committee and the dark brown
political taste in their mouths the morn
ing after only reminds them of that very
trite saying, What Fools We Nor
tails Re"
But to return to Colonel Maher and his
feelings this morning. When the colonel
left Lincoln yesterday noon for Omaha,
where he was to deliver an address in
which he proposed to assissinate Cecil
Mathews of the Riverton Review for
saulting the memory of such old-time
democrats as ]. Sterling Morton, DIR.
Miller, James E. Boyd and several others,
the lines were all laid and the plans per-
fected TO take from the democratic party
the control Of the royal family Noses on
tho state committee had been counted and
II was discovered that there was o suffi-
cient majority to put across any old
thing which the anti-Bryan men desired,
and when the colonel boarded the train
for Omaha, after shaking hands with his
trusty lieutenants, is heart was full to
overflowing and he was happy in the
thought that democracy was at last to
be saved from the royal family.
But when he learned later that his
plans had been overthrown and that
Prince Charlie had taken advantage of
the eyes of his lieutenants, his rage
knew no bounds and this morning he was
busily at work laying new plans for the
overthrow of the House of Bryan, and
tomorrow he will issue his fifth epistle
to the Phlistines and 1t will be some
epistle, too
The colonel knows there was cclored
man of considerable proportions in the
democratic woodpile yesterday and he
proposes to pull him out even II he has
to overturn the whole pile Closeted with
several OF his most trusty lieutcnants
this morning, while emissaries nave been
hurrying hither and thither, It is evil
dent that the victory of The loyal family
will beshort lived and that IN the fuure
Colonel Maher will direct operations per-
sonally and not leave the battle ground,
even when victory seems assured AS it
was yesterday.