Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-04-18


ticians view the situation, will depend
Mr.. Bryan's future status and the part
he is to play in the national convention
at st. Louis next June.
Mr.. Bryan il a candidate for dele
gate-at-iarge TO the st. Louis conven-
tion. and 1t is generally conceded that
he will be elected. But mere election
as one of the Nebraska big four will
not count for much in the big issues at
stake. To score a real victory Mr..
Bryan must succeed in pulling through
the numerous candidates he has in
dorsed for places on the state. congress
sional and legislative tickets, all of
whom are to be voted for In tomor-
rows primaries. A victory of this sort
will give Mr.. Bryan the cards to play II
stiff game when the Democratic hosts
assemble next June to name their ma
tional ticket.
Prohibition is Big Issue.
In the primary battle Mr.. Bryan is,
heading combination, including his
brother Charles, who is candidate for
the Democratic nomination for gov
ernor on a dry" platform. The Bry-
ans have made statewide prohibition
the big issue OF the night. At the start
they announced that no candidate for
any nomination on the Nebraska Dem
ocratic ticket need look for the Bryan
Endorsement unless he pledged himself
in favor of prohibition. The opposi-
ton, however. declares that Mr.. Bryan
and his friends have not hesitated to
form combinations with some of the
'wets" wherever such combinations
have appeared to offer an advantage.
With Mr.. Bryan on the same ticket is
James Dahlman, the wet mayor Of
Omaha, and the leader Of the fight
against Bryan a couple of years ago.
Another wet candidate on the Bryan
ticket is /. J. Dunn, who aspires to sue
coed Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock. who
| Is running as Wilson Democrat"
Dunn it is said, has been attorney for
the Nebraska brewers for years.
Make But Three Nominations.
Charles Bryan is opposed by Keith
| Neville. a ranchman at North Platte.
who has proclaimed his championship
of the Wilson administration The Ne
vile ticket has nominated only three Of
the four candidates for delegates at
large, leaving William j. Bryan with a
fairly clear field. But it is regarded as
possible that the opposition will omit to
vote for Bryan as the fourth member of
their delegate at large ticket and CEN
ter upon Louis Patti, who is one Of
Bryan's associates on the wet dry"
ticket.
The forces opposed to Bryan, who are
conducting their fight under the lead
ership of Senator Hitchcock, do not
claim they will be able to prevent him
from going as a delegate to st. Louis.
| But, even If Mr.. Bryan succeeds in get
/ ting through the primary fight with a
majority of the Democratic votes, the
4 loss Of the other candidates favored by
! him is expected to affect adversely his
standing and influence in the presi :
Dental nominating convention.
Efforts to enlist the support of Presi-
dent Wilson in the fight against his
former secretary of state have met with
decided rebuke. The president has
made 1t clear to some of the Nebraska
leaders that he will not interfere with
| the contest in the state. He has ex-
pressed the opinion that no obstacle
should be thrown in the way of Mr..
Bryan in the fullfllment Of his desire to
represent his state in the convention
and to be accorded the high honors that
his past services to the party merit.
Many of the presidents friends, how
ever, are not SO generously inclined to-
ward the Nebraska leader. But to all
suggestions that he take hand in the
! Nebraska contest, the president has
stated his belief that Mr.. Bryan, like
any other member of the party, should
be privileged to utter any criticism he
likes and to have a hand in the Or
| on nizafion itself and the nreDarafion of