Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-29
Dahlman Motion as Substitute Lets
Chairman Name Head of Plat
form Making Body.
THOMPSON is STATE CHAIRMl
Delegates Put in Sprague, Hitchcock
Man, as Secretary.
APPEARANCE OF COMPROMISE
Early Hours spent In Demand on
Part of Leaders that Their
Claims ne Given RecoE-
milton.
CFrom a staff Correspondent }

iIeleRram.) the only thing that senator
G. NJ. Hitchcock has gained in the dem2-
cratic factional Eight in the convention
here up till . o'clock ton MT, after the
first round of the bate had been fought,
was the possibility that he will be spe-
officially named in the resolutions.
Aside from that 1t was said after the
resolutions committee was appointed that
he would get no str)rsor endorsement
than he got in Laucaster cJunty, wl.ich
was practically no endorsement at all.
| Chairman Corey IN the desire to remain
popular with Nebraska democracy,
dropped his idea of choosing John cut
( right Of Lincoln as chairman of the reso-
lutions committee
! Instead he appointed Dr. p, l.. Hall OF
| Lincoln, a Bryan man, and a man
! looked up to by all the democracy Il
! the state.
! Tho personnel of the com'littee then
stood four for Hitchcock and three for
the anti-Hitchcock ar Bryan wing
| The committee was made up of DR.
p. l.. Hall of Lincoln, chairman; Thomas
Allen Of Lincoln, First district; Harry
B. Fleharty, Omaha, Second district; John
: c. Byrne Columbus; Third district; j. J.
Thomas, Seward, Fourth district; w. II
Thompson Grand Island, Fifth district;
! w. D. Oldham, Kearney Sixth district.
! The committee was picked by congress
/ sional districts with the chairman, chosen
/ at large, after a little fight resulting In
the defeat of the Bryan proposition to
fhave the committee chosen by congres.
tsional districts and the chairman by the
convention.
! w. H. Thompson OF Grand Island was
elected state chairman without oppos-
! ton. ,f
&c. Sprague OF York, a Hitchcock man.
was elected secretary OF the state conn
mittee over E C. .Kembe OF Lncoln, a
Bryan man, 649 to 4S1 5-e.
The convention opened at 2:55 o'clock.
Mayor Dahlman tried to deliver a part
of the Douglas delegation to Kemble for
secretary. He failed The delegation held
him to the Unit rule and made him get up
and vote the 129 delegates for Sprague,
1t is known that Dahlman and Tom
! Allen had a conference for an hour dur
ing the afternoon before the convention
opened 1t was then that the agreement
4
said to have been agreed between the
Bryan wing and Dahlman that Tom Allen
should make the motion to take the whole
resolutions matter out Of the hands OF the
chairman and that Dahlman should then
make the telling stroke by amending it
to the effect that Corey should be allowed
to choose the chairman.
The game worked.
Tor baI bonr before the opening or
the convention there was band music and
singing in chorus by the various delega-
tions conspicuous among these was the
Douglas county delegation singing
whats the Matter With Wilson, He's
All Right" and son on down the line
paying a number of choral tributes to
Bryan, Thompson, Dahlman and Others.
Opens with Tributes.
In opening the convention w. II.
Thompson paid a tribute to President
Wilson. speaking of him as the greatest
president that has adorned the White
House since the lamented Abraham LIN
coin.
we used to call Andrew Jackson old
rough and ready" he continued, but we
feel that Wilson while not quite so rough
is al all times as ready"
20 Senator Hitchcock. He pointed to
Governor Morehcad as a governor whose
record has not been excelled by any
governor in the states history.
1--WE want to elect our candidates this
fall and we can do this only by so acting
in this convention that the people will
get behind the candidates and elect them"
we can endorse by our votes the
national administration, the state ad-
nnInistration and every democrat in ocn-
gress.
Opens with Prayer.
Rev c. T. Williams OF Columbus gave
the invocstions. Mayor NJ. NJ Rothleut-
ner OF Columbus made an address Of well
come. He praised President Wilson and
granted tn evisitors the privilege OF the
city.
THE keys are in the Loup bottom" he
said, "and the police force is on fishing
expedition"
Chairman COrey's speech.
II is for democrats to say in mex
autumn's election whether the admins
tration Of President Wilson shall be per
mitted TO complete its progTam-"a pro
gram with teeth in IT," In this manneI
Merton l.. Corey, temporary chairman
interpreted the party outlook in his ad
dress here today before the democrats
state convention. The adoption OF
platform was the primary object OF III
convention. Nominations will be mad
at primaries August ls
Mr. Corey warmly defended the Mexica
policy OF President Wilson and secretsr,
TTyaa. which. he said. is democracy
. greatest asset in the coming campaign.
In this connection he took a fling a
, Theodore Roosevelt Teddy" he said
would. with dagger in his teeth an
six-shooter in his belt. have plOwed hi