The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-10-11
TO w. j. Bryan, Greetings
.Editorial

You have come among US today on strange and
two-fod errand The is TO re-elect Senator Hitch
cock TO the senate The other Is to elect your brother
Charley to be governor Of Nebraska.
Although your home is no longer in Nebraska but
is IN Florida today, IL would be idle f 10 say you
unwelcome in Nebraska. Although the voters
have often been in the minority for you yet many peo
pie have believed In you and many still believe in you
and have faith IN your sincerity though often dis
agreeing with the wisdom Of your policies. This has
been and is the less true In Nebraska your for
mer home.
Yet to many men and women Of Nebraska who
believe in you, your errand today surprise
and disappointment. To them. your twO-fold pur.
poses hard to reconcile with their former opinions
Of you. All your life you have said tha. you were de-
9oted to the interests Of the people and to them alone
Yet you here in the interest Of brother who is a
candidate for high Office and whose qualifications for
office to consist mostly in having served you well
and faithfully subordinate IN your personal or
ganization.
The other purpose Of your two-fod errand is
equally difficult TO understand. You say you want TO
help re-eect Senator Hitchcock to the senate although
YOU have opposed him ever since you came into public
life In order to put yourself in position to be Of aid to
him you say things which sound strangely, coming from
YOU and which your supporters Of old never expected
to hear from your lips You say for instance, that you
and Senator Hitchcock have never differed on eco
nomic questions, yet time without number, you have
called him tool Of Wall Street"
Are not the issues in which Wall Street Is interest
Hitchcock had in fact, the widest possible differences
on economic issues? Moreover, could man who for
years had been "a tool Of Wall Street." you say,
ever become sincere advocate Of the rights Of the
common peope--whose rights you have said
sacred to you?
You say the liquor issue is dead" in Nebraska to-
day. Yet, no sooner did you say this than you took
train for California to speak there against the abolish
ment Of prohibition in any form in California.
You know too, of course, for you are we'll posted,
that seven candidates for the senate Of the United
States in other states running wet platforms
with avowcd wet support.
You know too, for you we'll posted, that 100
candidates for the House Of Representatives Of the
United States running today wet platforms
with avowed wet support.
You know, too, for you we'll posted, that the
Association Against Prohibition Amendment today has
eadquarters in Nebraska for recruiting members Is
buying advertisements in Nebraska newspapers and is
in every way possible busIy engaged in developing
n.iment against prohibition in Nebraska elsewhere.
And so it is with regret to many and women
Of Nebraska who still believe in you that you here
today. They cannot help but regard your errand as
more or less personal one, and mistake. They
cannot help but change their opinion of the strength Of
your convictions Of the past or at least be confused in
regard TO them.
Moreover these people know that your errand
mere THIS week S lute 1Ou cannot nelp your
"Charley" to become governor of this state, for he is
not informed public matters and is in other ways
qualified to be Nebraska's governor. Nor does he pos
sess the confidence respect Of the people who
believe in YOU BY those who know him best he is re-
garded politician, willing to use any tools to Sc
cure his end. willing to exaggerate, misrepresent and
mis- state any subject in order to make himself Ne
braskac governor
Moreover your other errand is equally futile
on cannot help Senator Hitchcock TO be reelected to
he senate. Senator Hitchcocks day Of reckoning has
come. Completely the defensive as he is today, his
old catch-phrases and cries have hollow sound
ou hear it everywhere, to common parance that
Senator Hitchcock 's not getting the old stuff over.
The people Of Nebraska have to know him and
his works
Mr. Bryan. the people of Nebraska could not be-
ieve both what you say of Senator Hitchcock today
md what you said of him in the many years past
Therefore they believe what you have said of him in
he past. They believe you have formerly said.
hat he is unfit for public office. In coming among us
his week you have not strengthened Senator Hitch
,ocks position Instead you have weakened his position
,s we'll your own. for you have changed your words
regarding the senator while your brother Charley is
'unning as u candidate on the same ticket with him.
The only reason your coming does not weaken
our brother Chareys candidacy is because the
Nebraska already advised Of him and do take