Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-06
POLITICAL GOSSIP
AT STATE CAPITAL
Governor Morehead Has Promises of
Both Sides to Support dim for
Senator Next Time.
STRING TO DEAL WITH SUTTON

Political pilgrims returning from
the breeding place of candidates at
Lincoln bring back with them some
spicy gossip in circulation among the
knowing ones down there.
The projection of Governor
Morehead as candidate for vice
president on the democratic ticket"
said one of these back-from-the-
capital voyagers, ''is merely intended
to give him little advertising and
keep him in the public eye, for he
has definitely stated he is not to be
candidate for any office this year.
There is no secret about il, though,
that the governor is incubating a
senatorial bee which he is holding
in storage for two years hence, IL
he can maintain his political grip
that long.
''The governor has been occupying a
peculiarly strategic position, being as
siduously courted by both democratic
factions.
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Senator Hitchcock and his bunch tried
their best to persuade him to stand for a
third term as governor. and the Bryan
crowd at the same time exerted all their
Establishments to induce him TO try for
senator against Hitchcock. Senator
Hitchcock is commonly supposed to have
promised in advance to support More
head for senator next time. with the full
steam Of his newspaper thrown IN, in
consideration of his keeping out this
time. and Governor Morehead Is credited
with having played his cards SO shrewdly
on the other side OF the fence also that
he has letter. written and signed by
w. ]. Bryan. telling him what fine
senator he would make and how glad the
Bryans would be to give him the prestige
Of their favor. which letter has been
carefully filed away for use whenever IL
can be properly capitalized.
Draft m UnknowH.
The drafting of completely unknown
like Keith Neville as the gubernatorial
candidate OF the Hitchcock democrats is
taken TO reflect the desperate straits they
are IN Having vainly done their level
pest IlfSl 10 get aOTcnCdu Oi tlN AaNA
and then to draw out ex-senator William
v. Allen, they were Wy in the air with
one or two other names in reserve, but
none satisfactory and when at the con-
ference of the senator with his demo-
cratic lieutenants someone proposed
young Neville. he was seized on as a life
saver and orders at once issued for the
livliest publicity campaign to introduce
him to the public and TO extoll his yir-
tues ever pulled off before primary.
and this campaign is now in progress.
Another piece OF gossip comes as an
aftermath OF the deal which eliminated
Pollard from the republican competition
In favor OF sutton. As put up to Pollard
the proposition provided for submission
Of the question as to which should with
draw TO a committee OF mutual friends
and Pollard accepted the finding like a
good loser and issued his statement ask
ing his friends to fall in line for Sutton.
II has since leaked out. so the story
goes. that sutton's aeauiescence had a
/ string TO It. and that the condition OF
his consent was this: That should the
decision favor Pollard and Pollard be
elected governor he should appoint sut-
ton TO the first vacant place within his
gift, either as United States senator OF
as member OF the state supreme court.
But what sutton was TO do for Pollard
IN the reverse situation seems 10 have
been overlooked"