Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-08
Nebraska
DEMOCRATS HUNT
IN VAIN FOR MOSES
Unable, Look Where They Will, to
Discover State Leader at
This Trying Time,
SPLIT is BECOMING WIDER
(From a Staff Correspondent

(From a Staff Correspondent
LINCOLN. Jan. 7.-(Special won't
some good democrat please step forward
and offer himself upon the altar of poll
tics for the good OF the democratic party
and give himself as a sacrifice for the
nomination for governor?
This is the cry going up on every hand
where democrats gather and was the
theme for discussion among some of the
faithful who gathered here today. The
man who has the courage to step Tor
ward must be a perfect man. II Will not
do for him to have any flaws IN MS
makeup He must be a wet man with
dry proclivities or dry man with wet
proclivities; he must be for hitchcock
and also for Mr.. Bryan; he must be for
peace and also for preparedness, for only
such a man can hope to receive the united
vote of a badly demoralized though once
powerful party.
Bryan Opposed Hall.
1t was thought few weeks ago that
DR.. T. l.. Hall could qualify under those
requirements, but two things stood in the
way. One was that the doctor utterly
refused to toe the line and the other was
that Mr.. Bryan announced that he could
not receive the Bryan support.
iall0Cf NOulu nave put any man W NHc
bad, but when the two together doomed
up the stuff was off and the democratic
Diogenes once more started out with his
lantern looking for the perfect democrat.
Rerecently the cry went out that he
had been found in the person of a Lin
coin business man, but when the political
council gathered at least two flaws were
discovered in his supposedly perfect
and anotbar idol auna ali o
State officers recognize that the demo
cratic nomination for governor is liable
to go by default and with no one to lead
the party their chances for reelection
will be greatly harmed.
George Hall Barred.
Some one this morning who has watched
with considerable interest the way II
which state Treasurer George Hall ha!
stood up for the law and the constitution
suggested that perhaps Hall might be tn,
political Moses to save the party, but III
was promptly informed with considerabl,
JOY by a democrat who has not been il
sympathy with the treasurer's stubborn
ness" that the statutes prohibited thu
state tsreasurer from being a candidate
for governor during his term of office a.
treasurer.
Attorney General Willis f. Reed ha
been quoted as saying that were it no
for the "abominable statutes he would
be just the man TO fit into the situation
and lead the party in an attempt TO dupli
cate the stunt of the Noble Six Hun
dred" of history.
No, Not Mayor Sryan!
So there you are. Suggestions that tn
nomination might go by default are me
with gloomy shakes of heads and tn
thing appears to be shaping itself eithe
into that or toward the nomination o
Mayor Charles Bryan.
OF course there is still Edgar Howar
and J. S. Canaday of Minden left, bu
neither of these looks good to the demo
crat who takes little for his stomach
sake. Both OF these men are just as dr.
as Mayor Bryan and nothing looks goo
to most of the fellows who are now in tn
saddle if it is attached to the waite
wagon.
The situation from a democratic stand
point is very serious and getting more .
all the time.