Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-30
lVOCRA
PLEASED WITH
BEACH METHODS
Inclined to Dislike Manner In
Which Chairman Of Repub.
IiCan Committee is Hand
ling Campaign.
From a Staff Correspondent.

Lincoln, Sept. 29.-fSpecial.) -
Democrats are plainly not satisfied
with the way Ed Beach, chairman
of the republican state committee, is
running the campaign and the
local democratic paper expresses it.
self in no uncertain terms.
Democrats say Beach has not
called the republican committee in
session since the campaign began.
They do not know that there has
been no necessity for the committee
getting together because the cam.
paign is running along so smoothly
and satisfactorily. The executive
committee and the candidates have
had one or two meetings at head
quarters and the whole committee
may be called in some time be-
tween now and election day to cele-
brate the inevitable victory for the
ticket. Members are all busy get
ting ready for the Liberty loan
drive in order to help the demo-
cratic administration win the war.
And Another Reason.
Another reason for not calling the
committee together is that so long
as the democratic state candidates
are travelling about trying to justify
their records, the republicans need
no stronger argument that there
should be a republican victory all
along the line.
Another democratic wall that
goes up is that S. R. McKelvie,
republican candidate for governor,
is spending a lot of money travel
ing around the state making
speeches. As it happens, Governor
Neville, the democratic nominee,
has been covering the same territory
and doing it in the same automo-;
bile way. Perhaps a democrat can
travel cheaper than republican, or
perhaps the postmasters have begun
to send in their contributions to the
democratic committee, so that the !,
drain on the candidate is not as (.
heavy.
And Still Another Wall. q;
Democrats also complain that Mr..
McKelvie has employed a campaign
manager and established headquar-
tiers in the building owned by him
self where his paper is published.
This, in their mind is a crime, or
something like that. Perhaps he
ought to do like the democratic can
didates, run their campaign from
the state house, where the public
pays the freight for the room they
are using in their private offices.
They think it a horrible" thing be-
cause McKelvie has one campaign
manager, forgetting all the time that
the democratic candidate for the
United States senate has both Col
onel DeFrance and Judge Stark to
manage his canpalgI VI
be considered "two" S
Beach is W.fE.-....s5sd. 4,uss
And while the democratic demo-
Gratis are carrying on their guess
ing contest regarding the republican
campaign, Chairman Beach does not
care how much the other fellows
rave about his winning ways" He
simply says he is we'll pleased with
the situation and with the reports
coming in from out in the state.
That Mr.. McKelvie has made suf-
ficient Roadway in his Swing around
the circle" the past two weeks to
indicate that he will be elected is
evident to the committee. Large
numbers of democrats who have all
their life affiliated with the demo-
cratic party are not at all backward
in saying that they are done with
that party forever. This is no guess
work, but actual facts and shows a
condition which may readily be dis
covered in most any portion of the
ctate