The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-05
Feud,
Old Nebraska Battle
Again Comes to Front

LINCOLN, Neb-If the Bryan
! forces I'm Nebraska can prevent IL
Senator Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock will
not be elected for third term.
The fact that w. j. Bryan is no
longer n resident but is reported to
be flirting with a senatorship from
Florida. has not ended the twenty
three year feud between these lead
ers of Nebraska democracy
Mr.. H!tchcock's health. which
was reported as not being very good
following the $4,000 republican
majority in Nebraska in 1920, has
improved greatly since the great
turning away from the republican
party and the creation OF new
third party in the state has changed
political conditions So the senator
is again candidate.
Soon after his announcement
peace overtures were made by his
immediate friends TO the Bryan ele-
ment in the party. They caused
word to be sent to certain Bryan
lieutenants that the senator did not
desire any contest of strength in
the coming primary and that he
would be willing To allow the oppo-
sltion to name the candidate for
governor-provided the candidate
should not be c. w. Bryan, brother
Of w. j..
c. w. Bryan Is again candidate
manager fer his brother in all the
years past and the Hitchcock ele-
ment has contended that the breach
would have been healed with w. J.
Bryan long ago IL It were not for
the activities and reports sent him
by his brother. In whom he has
always reposed the greatest conf
dence. In all OF the past party
quarrels It has been c. w. Bryan
who has been most direct and pitl-
less In his attacks upon the senator
and his lieutenants. After the fates
turned their thumbs down" on the
ambition of w, j., the ambition OF
c. w. began to mount. He wants
to be governor of Nebraska. In
1916 he was beaten by a Hitchcock
man, Keith Neville. and again in
1913 and the subsequent defeat OF
Neville was ascr.bed by his friends
to detection Of Bryan strength.
&. W. Won't Yield.
c. w. Bryan is agin n candidate
for governor. and he's not disposed
to step aside at the benest of the
Hitchcock managers. The third
party convention recently held was
ants, who succeeded in preventing !
nomination at that time. Mr.. Bryan
is Of the opinion that IL he can
get the democratic nomination. the
third party viii indorse him, as he
is about as radical as the most radi-
cal OF them. With the two nomina-
tions, he would be hard to beat.
So he has played a master stroke.
knowing that the senator fears
the effect on his chances at the
election IL he must go through
gruolling party primary contest and
conce.ving that this was the reason
why the senator held out the olive
branch. c. w. has responded with
the declaration that II "the pro-
gressive forces of the democratic |
party are to be compelled to make |
fight 1t will put n fun ticket In |
the field, meaning that unless the |
senator does not agree TO put up no
one against him for governor, n |
Bryan candidate for senator will be |
entered in the primary.
The several Bryan lieutenants /
who have been offered support from /
the Hitchcock camp have rot |
warmed up to the proposal, because |
G. W. Bryan controls the Bryan or /
ganization and il would not be put |
back OF the candidates. and Mr.. |
HitchcOck's lleutenants decline to |
consent TO Bryan having a free field |
for governor.
Say Chances Favor Hitchcock.
In spite OF the situation, political |
experts say the senator's chances |
for reelection are good. II, b. |
Howard. republican national COM
mttteeman, who Is so progressive |
that the business interests call him /
a radical, is fairly certain TO cap
ture the republican nomination from /
Congressman Jefferis of Omaha, a |
conservative with wet record |
Howell has been at the head of a |
number OF municil al enterprises IN |
Omaha, and has made a big success |
OF public ownership. This has |
earned him the hostility OF the busi-
ness interests OF the entire state. |
His only chance OF defeat lies in the |
possibility that many republicans /
who would naturally support him
have gone over TO the third party, |
Senator Hitchcock's chances de-
pend upon the nomination OF How
ell. who would then divide the pro-
gressive vote in the state with the
third party candidate, leaving
Hitchcock heir 10 the conservative
strength, II this should result in
his election, as II well might, It /
would be the third time he struck
things Just right. The first time
he drew an unpopular republican
as an opponent. and the second time
he was swept in by the Wilson