Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-02

reasons you give therein for being re-
turned to the United States senate
sound very nice to a real Wilson DENT
ocrat, but when compared with your
conduct in the senate for the last
three or four years, it is difficult for
one to believe that those are the real
purposes of your desire to be re-
elected.
If, as you claim, your chief motive
and desires TO be again returned are
to assist the president to carry out
progressive legislation and to help
him in keeping this country out OF
war, it will become necessary for YOU
to act somewhat different in the fu-
ture than you have in the past in or
der to be of much value, for is it not
true that in the past you have upon
numerous occasions very much ham
pered and harrasscd the president
along these lines, Did you not know
from the beginning that the president
was opposed to your munitions EN-
barge bill, and did you not also know
that the senate and house both were
also opposed to this measure, and did
you not also know from the start that
your embargo bill stood no more
show of passage than a SNOWFALL il
hades? Then why did you do it? Did
you never stop to think, senator, that
your action i'll this matter was very
unfair TO the president. especially
from one that promised and pretend
ed to stand by the administration?
Personal Organ Silent.
THE democrats of Nebraska have
never by you through the World-Her-
aid, or in any other way, been i'll
formed why you pulled off this stunt.
for do you not realize that we are in
the habit of doing some of our own
thinking, and that we have tried very
hard to find the real underlying mo-
tive for this peculiar action of yours
in introducing that bill, and the only
reason to US appears to be this: You
must have had in mind that this
would be the proper way to make you
Solid with the German vote, not think
ing how 1t would affect the president
or the rest Of the state ticket at the
coming election, | notice now that II
returned you will be good, but did you
Not make us that promise before? Did
it occur to you, senator, that the dis
sensions in the democratic party in
Nebraska at the present time and the
opposition by our German friends to
the president is something you are
principally responsible for?
DO you think now when you re-
fleet back over your past conduct that
il is little late to proclaim to be the
only, simon pure supporter of the
president in Nebraska? And many
democrats are of the opinion that
your sole reason in supporting the
president now is to thereby pull your
self through again,
Not on the Square.
Are you not somewhat worried
that many democrats feel that you
have not always played the political
game on the square to all those faith
full boys tina. iii the past have been
your loyal supporters2 Do you not
sometimes feel. senator, that thou
sands OF your supporters in the past
have right to think that you have
on numerous occasions stacked the
Nebraska democratic political cards
and when you had to strengthen your
hand you could slip card from the
bottom of the deck and did sol
" In your endeariug letters you seem
to be worried for fear that | may be
misinforred to your attitude toward
the president If that is. the case. YOU
will have to lay the blame for it to
the World-Hcrald, for have always
supposed through that publication
you kept us informed as to your ac-
ton upon public questions.
Sting" Home to Roost.
Il admit that the short note pur-
porting to be from the president ask
ing US boys to again support you must
be highly pleasing to you, but how
often do you find one candidate, open
ly fighting another upon the same
party ticketi l we'll remember when
a number OF years ago you contracted
that sting OF ingratitude, from which
it seems you have never fully recov-
cred, and ] fear it is going to cause
you more or less trouble the 9TH of
next month. | admit you have been
quite successful in building up a po-
litical machine within the democratic
party in this state, aetuated, no doubt,
to counteract your affliction referred
to above.
Trusting the time may come again
that you may be entirely cured Of this
disease referred to and that all your
old friends that have so loyalty stood
by you in the past will again rally to
your support, sincerely hope, SEN
ator, that with the coming election the
last sting of what appears to have
been almost an incurablc disease with |
you may completely disappear and |
that you can overlook the very few
political disappointnients you have in |
the past encountered upon the polit-
ical checkerboard.