Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-02
Matt Miller and Charles Graft
Accuse Senatorial Aspirant
of Double Dealing To-
ward President.
STING" STILL RANKING
Graft Sugp IS About Time for
omah so 1t in Line With
osss ,fat Sentiment.
s.sAGUE WITH BREWERS
tFrom a STAFF Correspondent }

Lincoln, No. Especial )-Mati
Miller of David City, long prominent
in democratic councils and one, OF the
leading attorneys of the state, who
was delegate to the Baltimore con.
vention four years ago and supported
Wilson for the president, is out with
a letter denouncing the president for
his Mexican policy and also opposing
Hitchcock and Neville, who, accord.
ing to Mr. Miller, "have united with
forces which have no place in demo.
cratic circles and are using the party
to subserve their interests and bring
about their desires"
Charles Graft, one OF the best
known democrats of the state, a men,
ber of two sessions OF the legislature,
president of the Red Polled Record
association, and of the Improved Live
Stock Breeders association, also calls
the senator for his disloyalty to the
president and asks him on his record
of the past if democrats can expect
anything better in the future.
Calls Bryan Leader.
Addressing himself to the progress
sive democratic rank and file voters of
Nebraska, Mr.. Miller says:
"The democratic party since 1896
has been progressive in all its doc
trines heretofore enunciated. The
democracy of Nebraska, through its
illustrious citizen, w. J. Bryan, has
been the leader of thought along such
lines in both state and nation, and to
him must be given the credit of hav-
ing aroused the party from its slum-
Der, lin which condition it existed from
the time of the civil war up to the
time when he became its standard
bearer in 1896, from which time it has
had standing as the true representa-
tive of all the people. His advocacy
of true democratic doctrines, support
ed by moral principles, reduced repub-
lican majorities in Nebraska to an ex-
tent which brought about his election
OF some Of the democratic congress
men from this state, including w. v.
Allen, United States senator, and in
time the election of most Of the state
officials, something unprecedented in
this political period. He was also the
means of giving to Gilbert M. Hitch
cock the position of United States
senator, which position he has held
for six years and to which he is at this
time seeking reelection at the hands
of the party that has dealt with him
so generously.
Outside Alliance.
"The last two years, however, have
clearly demonstrated, in conventions
and many other ways, that Mr.. Hitch
cock has united with forces which
have no place in democratic circles,
and who ostensibly claim to take no
part in political matters, but who, sub
rosa, are using the democratic party
of this state to subserve their inter-
ests and to bring about their desires.
And he is so strongly urging their de-
mands, for fear of failure, that not
withstanding their great desire for
secrecy, it appears on the surface so
thoroughly that the most unsophisti-
Gated voter easily detects it.
THAT he has allied himself with the
brewers, distillers and liquor dealers
is clearly traceable from the position
taken by his paper on that question.
Il have been in favor of keeping the
liquor question out of the democratic
platform, and whenever any action
was taken or sought to be taken in
any convention which attended, vot-
ed to keep it out of party politics, as
| did not believe in attempting to
weigh a moral question in political
scale; but observation has clearly
demonstrated that no matter how
thoroughly kept out of the platform of
the party, sub rosa, it has kept on each
year getting the democratic party in