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-'wwwfrwBCT" w jw!(r"'"';f-ws',-, '"'mi 4MM p)PMMKWWWWiWWiwVifci The Commoner VQL. 16, NO. 5 L- fr oration of parties is far moro to bo desired than gumshoo methods and brewery domination of weak spincd public servants. Ho may bo defeat ed, but in his defeat ho will bring down tho liquor interest control of tho party with him. If ho ac complishes that much ho has rendered great and lasting sorvico to tho party ho serves. But Charles W. Bryan is not defeated. Ho is ready to provo that tho cry that tho democratic party is tho "whiskey party" is not the truth. Ho be llovcs, and wo believe, that tho democratic party1 is unworthy the support of a single man if such is tho caso. In his candidacy tho democrats of Nebraska will have a chanco to say whether they want tho party to continue wearing tho label of tho dirty handed brewery interests. That is what his candidacy means pure and simple and it has no other meaning. Tierce County Leader (Dem.): Charles Bryan, mayor of Lincoln, has announced himself as a candidate for governor at the primaries to bo held on April 18. Ho is a brother of tho Illus trious William Jennings Bryan and as good a democrat at heart, if not as big. Norfolk Press (Dem.): Judge Howard of tho Columbus Telegram was in the city en route from Pierce, where ho was chief sponkcr at a Commercial club banquot Mr. Howard is very enthusiastic about the Bryan gubernatorial boom and holds that the Lincoln mayor will make a winning fight. "He is the logical candidate of tho democrats," said Mr. Howard, "and let no one think he is the dictator his onomlcs would picture him." Croighton Liberal: For years it was sec ond naturo for this paper to boost for any candidate) named on tho democratic ticket. Our political creed might bo taken from tho disap pointed office seoker who said that he never voted for any that was on his ticket. It takes moro than a name to create political enthusiasm any moro. Fourth of July commit tees will bo able to secure some fireworks after Chas. W. Bryan gets his little machine to work ing. Thoro are thoso who think that Mayor Bryan Is sjmply a psalm singing sabbath school teach er, but thoso people never saw him in action in a national convention with nearly all of tho big leaders coming in to consult with him. A man who can stand tho strain at a national conven tion to nover undress for forty hours at a stretch is going to bo a hard man to rough house. Norfolk News (Rep.) : Charley Bryan has two planks in his platform which ought to be adopt ed by some of the other candidates, in order to give tho voters of both parties a chance to vote for these measures. Ono is a plank favoring a state hail-lnsuranco plan, and tho other is a plank permitting the creation of district water power plants, publicly owned, for generating electric power from Nebraska rivers. Canadian farmers are never made destitute by hail, be cause tho Canadian government provides a hail insurance at low cost, by taxation. And there is no reason why the tremendous power now going to waste in Nebraska's rivers should not be util ized for tho benefit of tho people of the state. Blair Pilot (Hep.): Brother Charles Bryan has announced the platform on which he expects to make the race for tho democratic nomination for governor, and there's no use denying it's a strong one, for it is. He is for the constitutional amendment to put old John Barleycorn out of business, of course. He is also in favor of state regulation of telephone rates, state aid in irri gation projects, ho is in favor of a municipal electric lighting plant for Omaha, good highways, state owned water power plants, the maintenance of fire insurance competition, and is opposed to a large military program, though he favors the re-nomination of President Wilson on an anti-preparedness plank. His big brother, W. J., will campaign for him in the state, and other candidates will find tho Bryan strength still formidable in good old Nebraska. date for the democratic nomination for governor. I was among those who appealed to him to filo for the nomination. I do not want him to with draw in my favor, nor in favor of any other democrat. Ho is tho logical democratic candi date. His platform breathes the anti-monopoly spirit, and he is the right man to carry that good platform to the people and arouse them to the danger of permitting Organized Booze and the public service corporations to longer control in democratic and state affairs in Nebraska. Charley Bryan will not withdraw from the fight. He is not that kind of a fighter. EDGAR HOWARD. A WORD FROM TEXAS W. A. Dean, Sherman, Texas: Texas wants to see Charles W. Bryan governor of Nebraska. Wayne Democrat (Dem.): With Chas. Bryan for governor, Edgar Howard for lieutenant gov ernor and I. J. Dunn for the United States sen ate, the dry and progressive democrats of Ne braska will have ample chance to stand up and be counted. You may not like Bryan, you per haps think Howard is a fanatic and that Dunn has some failing which you do not like, but the question comes right down to one point if you agree with tho policy they stand for they are tho men to vote for. They are not trying to carry on both shoulders. It is time for the rank and file of the party to stand up and be counted and see if the party is a tool .of the corporate and liquor interests or the progressive people of the state. Both sides claim the right to rule the party because of number let's know who is who. Pity the poor republican spellbinder. He was all ready to point out to the people in 1916 that the democratic tariff had flooded this country with pauper-made European goods and thus closed the factories of the United States when he discovered that the lack of prosperity he thought he saw was due to the fact that war had restored the tariff wall in America by vastly cur tailing imports. Then he seized upon the fact that the customs revenues have been insufficient to meet government expenses, and was ready to exploit this as demonstrating democratic inca pacity for ruling. But somebody jolted him into a realization of the fact that an intelligent au ditor might ask him whether his idea of a tariff 4 is one that would bring in more goods. Crete Democrat (Dem.): Have you read C. W Bryan's platform which he proposes to, stand on in case he is elected governor? It is a good one and while he may not be able to accomplish all he desires, yet any part of it will be a step in the right direction. The great New York banker, Jacob Schiff, rose in the Republican club of New York recent ly and issued a solemn warning to the tariff ba rons that if they renewed the tariff agitation of the past and threatened the country with the renewal of special privilege and high protection, the people would have none of it. It is a safe wager that it will go unheeded. Sixteen years ago William McKinley, in the last speech he made, warned the party of the excesses that sent it to the scrapheap in 1912. The only way hog raisers have found possible to. keep -porkers' from the trough is by knocking them over, the snout with a club. That's the only effective way the people have ever found of treating greedy monopoly. r, , ., Columbus, February 19, 1916. Omaha Daily News, Omaha, Neb. It was in answer to the appeals .of the pro gressive democrats of Nebraska that . Hon Charles W. Bryan consented to stand as a candi- For the United States to change its traditional policy on the question of a large army and navy more reasons will have to be advanced than are those born of panic and sudden fear. A hundred million people are not to be stampeded by wav ing spectres in front of them on a road they have traveled in safety and serenity for a hun dred years and more. Ti Tir i i ii. HOW DARE Wfl !..!? I minrr.imi t , , '1 f j&Sifev l-xzffijfe rax wSSJSry3fcv PEEVED! From the Chicago Journal; "LOOKS MORETlKE AN ELEPHANT EVERY AY -: . From the St; Louis Times." " A m '' & i -H2ijjffr i ?iMi-tjmjlaJi!ik''vi!