Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-01
Nebraska
GEORGE SURE OF VICTORY
Republican Chairman Thinks the
Whole Ticket Will Garry.
NEBRASKA SAFE FOR PARTY
WIZ Issue Final statement of Cam
P0lEn, in which He VIII quote
Figures in support of
Claims.
tFrom a staff Correspondentl

I'lNCOLN, Oct. A.-(SpeciaL)- I'm n
statement Issued today Uncle Walt"
George, chairman of the republican state
committee, issues a statement in which
he states that he believes the whole re-
publican state ticket will be elected He
draws attntion to past history and feels
that the state will be safely republican
when he votes are counted next week.
Tomorrow he will issue his final state
ment of the campaign. in which he will
quote some figures, which he hopes the
election Will prove him a prophet. The
statement today is as follows:
Nebraska is a republican state II is
one Of the states in this union in which
the democratics have never elected their
state ticket The democratic politicians
through all these past years have sought
the party nominations. They have
smiled optimistically in each campaign.
They have talked hopefully to each other
and to the people. They have worked
with more or less energy and enthusiasm
in each state contest. They have pleaded
with the voters to give them trial at
the state government. But they have
never gained the confidence of the voters
enough to carr va single state election
in all these forty-seven years of the
states history They have been able q
few times in all these forty-seven years
to get one man elected now and then
but always that one man, after trial has
been repudated by the voters aud dis
missed with a single term.
First by Fraud.
Governor Blyd was the first democrat
to get an election certificate, but 1t was
conceded then and is yet that his pre-
tended election was a fraud. They
stuffed the ballot box with 1900 votes
that were never polled. They counted
old honest John Powers out and called
it a democratic victory for the one man.
the first one-termer Boyd. They elected
Shallenberger, their second one-term VIC
tory. and then repudiated him at the
next state primary because he signed
the O'Clock closing law. The third and
last democrat elected TO a state office,
John II. Morehcad, is now pleading for
that which he pledged himself never to
take, and which was denied the other
two, a second term. and his hackers pro-
fess to believe in his election, in spite of
all this past history in spite of the fact
lldt ne Is now more ulSCredltcu by the
voters than was either OF the other two
democratic governors, and In spite Of
the further fact that his party in this
state is now more fundamentally divided
than ever before in all these forty-seven
years.
"Shallenberger and Morehead, each in
his tearn, leaned on Mr. Bryan for the
last hard pull, leaned ON him and pleaded
with him for his endorsement while all
the time each of them was a part of the
conspiracy that has at last left him no
control of the party in this state and no
function as Nebraska democrat except
as they can use him to beg the people for
an endorsement of his enemies. One word
now from Mr.. Bryan of his honest convlc-
ton as to the Morehead combination
would make the chances OF the governors
reelection as absolutely hopeless as those
of Maupin, Pool, and the rest of their
state ticket"