Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-23
SENATORIAL
CANDIDATES
GUMSH0E|NG
Editorial Association Meeting
Causes Candidates for Senate
to Visit in Gate City Dur
ing ConcIave.

The Nebraska editors were in Oma-
ha this week, purely on pleasure bent
but there was lot of political medi-
cine mixing on the outskirts, just the
same.
Ross Hammond and Edgar Howard
were in attendance, of course, as
members of the press association
without a thought of their ambitions
to capture their respective party NOM
nations for United States senator,
and Ex-Governor Morehead dropped
in wholly by accident, in complete
ignorance of the prospect of bump
ing into his competitors for that same
job.
Sloan and Norris Absent.
On the republican side neither
Sloan nor Norris happened to be ed
itors, but they too, were represented
by trustworthy emissaries carefully
spying out the land. One question
which remained unanswered was, why
had Senator Norris been so slow to
file reelection? Speculation, per
haps borne of the hope, turned on
what might happen if he should I'm.
ally funk and leave Hammond ant
Sloan TO fight it out among them
selves viii there be other entrie,
in the republican primary contest fol
the scnatorship, was still another
question, asked more than once, and
left unanswered.
This democratic senatorial melee
resolves itself largely into a contest
between the Hitchcock. Mullen forces
and the Bryan mourners. Lieutenant
Governor Howard took occasion to
read into the records a positive state
ment that he would rather 60 down
to an ignominious defeat than to sit
in the councils of the mighty at Wash
ington and wear a brass collar bear
ing &c. NJ. H." thereon. He cata-
logued Morehead, Reed and Price as
personal and political friends Of
Hitchcock, with the cards running in
favor of Morehead for the Hitchcock
blessing.
Bill Price got into the democratic
senatorial free-for-all with patriotic
motives, according to confession he
made at Lincoln few days ago. He
proceeded to explain that Morehead,
Reed and Howard are wasting good
time and money, while he, the new
Moses, entered at the psychological
moment.
Morehead Optimistic.
Mr. Morehead, formerly governor
and now charged with being the
Hitchcock Mullen senatorial candi-
date, although he denies the allega-
ton, was optimistic, but agreed that
the votes would have to be counted
before the nominee could be deter
mined.
81 really believe that have a good
chance, but it is hard to tell this year,
when the people seem to be a great
mass of independent thinkers" he
said. Il recall that in 1912, when
Reed was making senatorial primary
race, he met me in the Rome hotel,
tdiicd lie INTO DdCk room ana con-
fldentially impaired to me the infor-
nation that he had the best little or
ganization that ever was organized
and that there would be nothing to
it. When the votes were counted,
there was nothing to it is far as Reed
was concerned. SO you see, you can't
always tell by the looks of frog
which way he is going to jump"
As for Willis Reed, the debonair
little attorney general of the Antelope
state, he keeps milling around, shak-
ing hands and smiling and talking
about Washington, D. c., with a ia
miliarity that makes some of his
democratic brethren sit up and look
twice