Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-05
Democratic Leaders
Repudiate Machine
Hitchcock, Mullen, Gooch and
Neville in Hot Water
Once Powerful Bosses Now OPP
posed by Leaders and Rank
and File of Party

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That the Machine is desperate, owing to the
wholesale reputation of and its leaders, is becom
ing apparent as election day approaches. Every day
brings its tdings that large numbers of the rank and
file going to vote the Republican ticket warn
ing to the Machine that they will no longer tolerate
Machine politics and Machine leadership, which has
brought the Democratic party to the verge of de-
struction.
Among the we'll known democrats, who for
years have stood for the best things in Democratic
politics, and who have refuted the Machine.
either openly or by refusing to endorse the Machine
candidates. are the following:
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR EDGAR HOWARD, of
Columbus.
HON. W. J. TAYLOR, of Custer, floor leader of the
last Democratic House.
CECIL MATHEWS, of Riverton, we'll known news
per man, holding Government position.
l. J. DUNN, of Omaha, we'll known lawyer and pro-
gressive Democrat.
LOUIS F. LANGHORST, former state chairman of
the Democratic State Committee, who is oppos-
ing Governor Neville.
CHARLES w. BRYAN former Mayor of Lincoln
and brother Of William J. Bryan, who, by the
way, has the first time since he a candidate
for the presidency neglected to come to Ne
braska during the campaign to help the Demo-
cratic Party. -. a. NJ
Charles Bryan has this to say of his former asso-
ciates who have succeeded in bringing once proud
and victorious party to the verge of defeat:
During the past three weeks the Hitchcock-Mul-
len-Gooch machine have been accusing the republic
candidate for governor of soliciting the votes and
support of the non-partisan league and has again
branded the farmers organization being
patriotic and unfrendly to democratic institutions
and injurious to the welfare of the people of the
state While the governor has been publicly crit
icisng the members of the non-partsan league and
appealing for the support of all those who pref
udiced against the farmers organization the
ground that it was doyal, the governors official
campaign committee. it would appear have been
making an heroic effort to the of the
members Of the nonpartisan league for the gov
errors candidacy.
"The substantial farmers of Nebraska who are
members of the nonpartisan league either good,
patriotic Nebraska citizens they not. If the
Hitchcock Mulen-Gooch machine honest and
sincere when they denounced the farmers of Ne
braska as dsloyal and pro-German the said Hitch
cock-Mulen-Gooch machine dishonest and in
sincere now when they try to the votes of the
farmers who belong to the non-partisan league for
the governors candidacy they trying to Sc
cure unparotc votes for their candidate.
"If the governor honestly believes that the farm
ers OF Nebraska, who members of the non-par-
tisan league dsoyal and undesirable citizens
and has been soliciting votes for that reason of all
those who share his views regarding the non-par-
tison league, he surely could not have possibly
known of any effort that his committee may have
been making to secure bride or buy the votes in the
nonpartlsan league to support his candidacy If
the governor does not want to be reelected to Of
flee by what he has called unpatriotic and disoya
votes, he cannot afford to be a party to the work
that his committee to be engaged in. It is
certainly dishonorable, dsloyal and unpatriotic
to attempt to buy or bargain for unpatriotic and
disoyal votes as it is to be dsoyal and unpatrotc
The democrats of Nebraska cannot afford to be
daubed with the mre that the Htchcock-Mullen-
Gooch machine seems to be wallowing in; neither
can the democrats of Nebraska afford to have
candidate for the position of chief executive of the
state mixed up in what to be an effort to Sc
cure the patriotic loyal vote through public appeals
while at the time trying to secure the so-called
unpatrigtic and disloyal votes through means and
methods that are beneath the dignity of any great
party which has led the progressive movement in
securing all the moral and progressive legislation
that has been accomplished in the last twenty
years"
/ Mr. Bryan then calls upon the Governor to repu-
date the men who have brought about the undoing
Of the Democratic Party and calls upon all true Dem
ocrats to protest to Governor Neville against his
longer cohabiting with the Machine which has