Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-22
Nebraska
REPUBLICANS SAVE The DAY
Democratic Party Forced to Call for
Help When Something Must
Be Done.
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS
NO
lErom a sad correspondentl

tFrom a staff Correspondent
LINCOLN. Feb. i-tSpecial)--It Is be-
ginning to be shown that when the house
members Of the Nebraska legislature
really get into their minds that they want
10 transact business and lots OF II they
call to the chair either Representative
James Nichols of Madison county. the
Moses 20 whom republicans OF the Third
congressional district arc looking two
years hence TO lead them out OF demo-
cratic darkness and the desert OF despond.
o: Representative Dennis Cronin Of Holt
county. the editor-statesman from Tip
perary.
There are other good men who have a
faculty OF pulling off business when the
house Is In committee OF the whole. two
OF them especially are good men In the
Representative Henry Richmond.
the editorial journalist from Omaha, and
Representative Charles c. Van Duson.
the farmer-statesman from Washington
county
These Two Democrats.
These two men are democrats. tried and
true, and they have faculty OF getting
results, but when things have TO be done
which will count Tor real results and give
the people OF the state an idea that the
democratic legislature IL doing things.
some good democrat awakes from the
stumberous condition he is in and moves
That the house go into committee of the
whole with Nichols OF Madison. or Cronin
OF Holt. In the chair. and the motion
goes through with whoop and the menu
beers awake to a realization that there Is
a chance 70 do business in a wav .hn,
will count.
Nichols and Cronin are republicans and
'he mousse is democratic. but occasionally
u dswps on the minds OF the members
that they have u mission to perform and
constituency to represent and they
nave the good sense TO realize that tbov
must look to these two republicans 70
Keep them from getting in bad with the
people and have TO sneak in tho bach
uoor when they go home some time next
spring to meet their constituents.
Lack Leader.
However there are a LOT Of eooa ,,,,
among the democrats in the house ~
lhey only mad a leader. Two years ago
'hey had n half dozen leaders, but this
year no man seems to be able TO got
into the limelight just exactly right. Tay-
Tor looked good for while, but he cot in
Dad when he criticised the uniyerslt>,
methods OF spending the peoples money
so many of the members had TO pledre
themselves TO the u. II. c. e. C. mni-
Versity home campus extension commits
tee) TO support downtown extension or be
deteated' that II has resulted in Taylor
losing his grip on the members and he
Is partially discredited leader How.
ever, the mantle might fall upon the
shoulders of Norton OF Polk, but lust
now 1t is fitting around In a sort of mn
decided manner like a war aeropIane
looking for chance to drop a bum"
Nobody knows Just what Taylor Is GOING
to pull off ON the appropriations bill
covering important state institutions am
therefore are shying at the thing until
Norton shows his hand Some OF the
members are for slashing at everything
while others have business ideas that VIII
not permit them to allow state efficiency
TO suffer. SO that 1t may be some time
yet before the real king is crowned
SO that in this chaotic condition the
democrats are doing what they have done
for the last fifty years In the nation,
looking TO republicans FOR relief and sue
cor, and Nichols and Cronin, having the
real interests of the state at heart and
feeling sorry for their democratic breth-
rem. are helping them in their dire dis.
tress and saving the state from calamity
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