Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-13
Nebraska Looks Safe
For the Republicans
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having visited all of the principal
towns in Howard, Greeley, Garfield
and Valley counties in search Of the
political truth. and listening to the
voice OF the people rather than office.
seekers andp OPTICIANS. | was sur
prised to learn how little stock the
voters out In the state are taking
in the attack which the. democratic
press OF the country has been max
ing on Charles E. Hughes during the
last month. The voters out in Ne
braska do not think that Mr.. Hughes
is q common scold or that he Is q
knocker. S. G.. Moore, proprietor oil
the Howard hotel at St. Paul, an in
dependent, said when suggested
this argument:
What do, you expectf Surely you
don't expect patriotic and loyal re-
publican candidate to spend all of his
time passing sweetineats to the ad-
ministratioh. | consider the evasive
attempts OF the democratic press as
the greatest sign OF weakness in the
administration yet displayed. Do you
see that dilapidated old shack over
thercf Well, sir, If you were going to
erect on that site new and perfect
structure you would first tear down
that shack, and that would involve
destructive work for time, but
eventually you would begin building
the new edifice. And. mark my word,
Mr.. Hughes will spend the next two
months in the most edifying OF con-
structive speech making, for 1t didn't
take him long to wreck the defective
structure OF the democratic regime"
Mr.. Moore keeps on the paper
racks OF his hotel two Bees, namely,
The Omaha Bee and the Franchitas
(Texas) Bee, founded by H. H. Phil
pott, who was for years correspond
ent for The Omaha Bee at Lincoln,
Mr.. Moore and Mr.. Philpott were
close friends in Texas.
At Scotia, bright spot OF repub-
licanism in a wilderness OF democ-
racy in Greeley county, one can learn
a great deal on the why's and where
fores OF the politics of the past four
years. inadvertently ! suggested to
a crowd that Wilson had kept us out
Of war and at peace with Mexico,
Immediately a number were ready to
clear me upon this. They asked me
when there had been any immediate
danger OF war, except such as was
brought on by the administration it.
self with its "officious and inefficient
diplomacy which had forced the with
drawal OF Secretary OF State Bryan
and Secretary OF War Garrison, the
only two positive factors in the Viii
son administration. One man refer
red to President Wilson as the poll
teal dare devil, who like the looper
OF loops created crises in order to win
applause by extricating himself from
a self-made ENHANCEMENT, and he
cited &c the case OF the recently
threatened railroad strike, which was
crisis in which nobody seemed to
be in favor OF what was threatened.
My informant was farmer and he
was mad, and now that ! have
thought abou, it | guess he was justi-
fed. am unable to show the voters
in these parts how they can hope to
escape bearing the burdens of demo-
cratic default, except by reinstatement
of the true guardians of the public
veal.
When I told a Bryan democrat up
at Burwell that Wilson had kept US
out OF war with Mexico and that
peace had been accomplished,
caught the echo OF the speech Of
Colonel Roosevelt delivered at Lewis