Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-16
DEMOS FLIRTING
WITH GERMANS
IN CAMPAIGN
GOurbon Political Machine,
Now Desires Support
of NonpartiSan
League.
From a Staff Correspondent.

Lincoln Sept. l5.-(Special.) y
The pro-German and Nonpartisan
league vote, pronounced by Gov
ernor Neville and his political CO.
horts before the primary as not
wanted and charged with being be-
hind Charles w. Bryan in his can
dldacy for the democratic nominal
ton for governor or of having gone
over to the republicans, is now
much desired thing by the demo-
cratic political machine, according
to reports coming to the republican
i state committee from different parts
of the state.
Efforts are being made, so the
information goes, that led by Val
Peter, editor of the Omaha Tribune.
the German paper which has fought
the State Council of Defense so
persstently because of its taboo of
the German language in school and
church, to get the German vote and
Nonpartisan league support behind
Governor Neville.
Metcalfe the Goat.
In order to bring this about Rich
ard L. Metcalfe, recently publicity
man for the state council and more
recently defeated candidate for the
democratic nomination for the
United States senate, is to be the
goat. The information goes that
there will be reorganization of the
State Council of Defense by the
present governor. Care will be
taken to keep out the radicals who
have had so much to do with putting
the German language out of CONF
mission and there will be more
conservative stand taken at least in
The use of the language in churches.
The reason given for the backing
up of the democratic machine in its
attitude against the Germans and
the Nonpartisan league, which it
took such a decided stand against
before the primary, is the growing
popularity of S. r. McKelvie, can
didate for governor on the repub-
lean ticket. 1t is we'll understood
among the democratic brethren that
McKelvie's candidacy has been
meeting with approval by the farm
ers of Nebraska, especially SO i'll the
last two weeks, and to save the big
fyThe2l i'll the democratic MACHINE
from bursting and causing havoc to
the rest of the candidates, some
thing desperate has to be done.
To Use Lubricator.
The fact that the democratic state
committee has rented all of one side
OF the second floor of. the Lindell
hotel for headquarters, indicates
that notwithstanding the attitude
OF the democratic administration
along conservation lines that there
is going to be whole lot of lubri-
Gator used by the machine this CAM
palgn. Where the money is coming
from is evidenced by the disclosures
which will be made later by the re-
publican state committee, disclos-
ures OF a nature which will aston
ish the people of the whole country
and give further indications of the
desperate straits to which the COM
mittee is pushed in its efforts to
save the Offices and political jobs
10 the party.
Seek Non-partisan Leaguers.
1t is becoming known that demo-
cratic henchmen have been out in
an effort to convince the people
charged with disloyalty before the
primary, that Richard L. Metcalfe
is responsible for the whole thing,
and they are pointing to his defeat
for the democratic nomination for
the United States senate as an indi-
cation that the people did not ap-
prove of the stand of the State
Council of Defense. The Non-parti-
san league, which was ordered by
Governor Neville not to hold meet
ings because it was a disloyal or
ganization is now a much sought
after institution by the democratic
machine and every effort is being
made to convince them that Met
calfe, and not the governor, was the
real cause of their being charged
with dis1oya1ty