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he Omaha Sunday Bee WEATIIER TORECAST. Kor Nebraska Fair and warmer. V'or Iowa hair. For weather report see ianr 2. NEWS SECTION I'AGL 1 TO OMAHA, SUNDAY MOll-NIXO. XOVEMNKK C 11U0 SKVKN SECTIONS -FOIfTV-KICHT PAMX S1X0LK COl'V FIVE (TATS. COLONEL SHOWS ITG YUAKM0N Qjestiou Regaidiug Paul Morton'i Cc unction with Paying Rebates Brings Instant Pvt spouse. End of Campaign Has Been Reached Out in Wyoming LYNCHERS FOILED BY BLUFFS JAIL Missourians Pursue Man Charged with Serious Crime to Glenwood, la., in Vain. Coming and Going in Omaha iMAYOK DAHLMAN ! FLAYED HY ltltVAN i I t Speaks Before an Omaha Audience and Points Out the Issues in the Campaig-n. AH Kinds of Claims Are Made and All the Factions Are Confident of Victory. GOVERNOR SlliiV J IV.O MASTERS IN MILLS COUNTY BASTELE URGES ELECTION OF HITCHCOCK r Drew Salary as Receiver of C, H. & D. ar.d Executive at Same Time. STATE GIVEN WORST OF IT Taxes Not Paid Because Railroad Was I hi In'olvfnt ! BIG D Ail AGE CLAIMS PAID harge Made that Democratic Leader While Acting; as Hecrlver of Knllrnnd Was (Julltr of Rrhailng. TOLKDO, i., Nov. i - A sever personal attack on Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio was made by Theodore Roosevelt here toilay la his fltst spoeeh In the campaign In Ohio. Colonel Roosevelt re viewed Governor Harmon's connection with the Cincinnati, Hamilton Dayton rail road of which he was receiver and said the governor had not performed his duty to the state faithfully. Colonel Roosevelt's address was de livered In the Valentine building. He be gan his address by saying that "In the democratic press" there had appeared to day a telegram addressed to him, and sent ' apparently on Governor Harmon's behalf by Mr. Powell, a former democratic candi date for governor." The telegram read: "Governor Judson Harmon la the same Judson Harmon who as special counsel traced the crime of rebating to Paul Morton, resigning when you refused to pro cod against this member of your cabinet." Harmon's Question Answered. The message asks Colonel Roosevelt why he did not act against Mr. Morton. The colonel asserted that Mr. Harmon failed completely to trace the crime of relating to Mr. Morton. The attorney general then, Mr. Moody, reported to him Colonel Roosevelt said, that Mr. Harmon had produced no evidence whatever to Justify his recommendation of action against Mr. Morton. Mr. Harmon, ha said, proposed to indict Mr. Morton any way, "apparently on the theory that evidence might subsequently be found that would connect Mr. Morton with miscon duct" Colonel Roosevelt went on to ssy that he had sustained the attorney general'a opinion, directing htm to lay all the evi dence on which Mr. Harmon made hta recommendation before the court. "Tha case waa brought up before a demoeratlo Judge. Judge Phillips," Colonel Roosevelt continued, "and In hla opinion from the bench lie specifically and abso lutely justified the course of the at torney general stating that there waa no ertdenne whatever In tha esse that In any way Implicated Mr. Morton." Serves State Md Hormu. Saying Mr. Harmon had sought to dis credit an Innocent man, Colonel Rooee vlt took tip the receivership of the Cin cinnati, Hamilton A Dayton, which he said was owned In Wall street. 'It being, ss I am Informed, one of the Morgan prop erties and the Morgan people, or whichever Interest It was In Wall street, applying to have their friend, Mr. Harmon, made re ceiver. "He received a salary of fc,000 a year." Colonel Roosevelt continued. "It Is shown by actual record that while he wa re ceiver the road under him was engaged con tinuously In paying damage claims to cer tain parties for the purpose of holding business, under circumstances which clearly indicated that the payment of such damages served the same purpose as the payment of rebates. "It has been shown that the road waa In a combination with other roads to fix rates, such combination being certainly against the spirit and apparently also against the letter of the law. The read Aid not pay its taxes to the state of Ohio, hitherto escaping several hundred thou sand dollars of auch taxes on the plea, among others, of Insolvency. Why Taaea Were ot Paid. "'Mr. Harmon became governor, but con tinued hla dual position as receiver of the road at a salary of l.." 0 0 and governor at a salary of 110.000. His services to his two clients, the state of Ohio and the Wall street owned railroad, appear to have been about In proportion to the respective sal aries they paid hlnv For eight months he continued In this position, getting about SIS.OOO from the railroad and about 17.000 from the state. "During this time, he claims as one of his reasons for Justification, that, as the rail road was insolvent, that It should not pay the taxea to his officials, but It was not too insolvent to pay his salary ss receiver of tha railroad." Colonel Roosevelt said Governor Harmon asserted "he knew nothing of the evasion . 1 1 f i, m. .A , , An.i . i . . tlon of the road with other r-iir. Big frier far Ignorance. ' If that la so," he continued, "what did he mean by accepting the ixtilllon of re ceiver and drawing a salary f J3r..uj0 a year? If he drew a ala:y like that It was his business to make himself thoroughly acquainted with what the road under hlni was doing and especially to s.-o to It tliat it did nothing Illegal and that it paid Its I lost debts to the state " ' The colonel said Governor Harmon had ' asserted he d'.d not want to continue as receiver of the road, but that the Judge would not allow him to jrlve up the work. "If Governor Harmon had not wanted to remain aa receiver." said Colonel Roose velt, "no Judwe in the land could have' forotd him to remain " The colonel then referred to the public utilities bill defeated ' in the Ohio legislature last winter, against which, he said, the democrats In the lels- j lature stood almoxt solidly. j "Governor Harmon protested that he knew nothing about It," said Colonel Roosevelt, "and by h supine attitude and failure to make a stand he brought about Us defeat" He declared the author of the bill had charged publicly that the governor knew all alH.ut it and that he himself had gone ovrr It With tha sovernoi . lie iin that, although the governor said be waa Kain.t tvettv araft h I,. , ..ft.... - t ,... . .. 'iivW m iiu ui uru luinv tir insn graft which he denounced In others, and ', H at he had on the ticket with him one tCoatinaed on Second Paga.) CI I KM DAK. Wyo.. -Nov. t Special Tel- rKiom )-i'oiay closes the hottest political campaign In the history of Wyoming, with both side apparently confident of the out come. While the democrats arid indo pendent republicans are claiming a land slide for Judge Joseph M. Carey. Insurgent candidate for governor on the democratic 1 Mi.lfkl In. uton.lnanai'1 urn inuluMnir tliu ornament. Atti.mev General w. e. mui- ne regular republican nominee, will pull through safely. Tliat the Insurgent element la strong In northern Wyoming admit of no doubt. The Carey forceH, therefore, figure on a big vote for the democratic state ticket In Park. Hlg Horn, Sheridan, Johnson, We ton and Crook counties, the northern tier. They alao count on substantial majorities In the central countlne, Fremont, Natrona and Converse. The southern part of the atate, known as the Union Pacific counties, is where the Mtundpatters base their hope for more than offsetting the deniscr a tic-Independent re publican sentiment In northern Wyoming and electing Mullen, together with the en tire republican state ticket. With the pos sible exception of laj-amlc county. In which Cheyenne Is located. Insurgency has nut probably made such great Inroads in southern Wyoming ns In other sections of the state, and the Mullen followers claim a normal republican majority there. Carey la expected to receive a good vote In Chey enne, his home town, and materially re duce the usual republican majority In that city. If not wipe It out altogether. The result In Sheridan county, which ia second In population In the state. Is ex pected to be considerably mixed. Here the insurgents won out In a legal fight with the ftandpatters and plaoed their nominees for county offices on the official ballot. The Insurgents and democrats, who also have a county ticket In the field, are bulb supporting Carey. Son is Best Man at His Father's Wedding to Aunt Seymour F. Locke Marries His Sister in -Law with Full Approval of His Former Wife. NBW TURK, Nov. S. With the hearty approval of hla divorced wife, Seymour K Locke married his sisuir -In-law, Miss Mar garet Qreenleaf, a magaaina writer, whose home U In Lexington, Ky. The first Mrs. Locke was so far from bearing enmity towards her sister that it waa at her special request that her son was his falit si a best man at the ceremony. The newly married couple are at present at Coleman Falls, Va., on thoir honey moon. Although they were married sev eral weeks age, cards announcing their marriage were nut received here until today. The first Mra Locke obtained her divorce In Los Angeles, Cal., in 1903, and was granted a small portion of her husband's property, located at Pasadena, Cal. 8he then returned to New York, where she now resides. When asked to comment about the mar riage, she said: "Ha should have married Margaret In the first place; I was quite willing be should marry her now." Mex can Banker Gets Twelve. Years Cashier Crump Convicted of Embei clement and Draws Maxi mum Penalty. MKX1CO CITY, Nov. 5. Robert A, Crump, former cashier of the Federal Banking company, which failed several months ago, was today sentenced to twelve years' Imprisonment following his convic tion for embexxllng SGS.OOO from the inst -ution. This Is the maximum penalty pro vided by Mexican laws. The bank waa an American house. C. C. WILSON FILES APPEAL President of ultvd Wireless Takes Contempt Case to Supreme t'onrt. WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. An appeal from the decision of the New York federal courts, holding Christopher C. Wilson guilty of cantempt of court for not pro ducing certain books of the United Wire less Telegraph company for examination i before the grand Jury was filed today In I the supreme court of the United States i v-n.,.n .im ,nnialMl from tha action of the I lower court In refusing to release him on!0"6 ,oa1 backtracked to Pacific Junction. habeas corpus proceedings from the cus tody of the United States marshal. Will Hitchcock Put it Back.? Hrpndiallon Is Dishonesty. Bhelton Clipper. Whether O. M. Hitchcock borrowed state money or money belonging to J. S. Hartley, in pleading the ste'.cte of limitation he ahotel himself to te dishonest, inasmuch aa he la abundantly able to pay the niouey. The people of Nebraka don't want a ro pudlator to represent them In tha United Htates senate. NslliK It Dans. Grand Island Indeiienrtcnt. The finals in the Howard-llltchcock-Bartley shortage game seem to be in progress. r.aitor tiowara or me oemo- cratic Columbus Telegram yesterday gave ' 10 l"' V V y w i of hta chre h" " hm rower of state funds and had not put It ' bck' A"d th" furth" P'"f '" dam- aKin,t '" 4" "a,Ur' ' ' orld-Herald "nd "r,'oor1'- ho "em'1 trrt"r ,0 muse mm- -,, . lM'",,,, have come out toviay witn Int I facsimile uf a letter ironi ivaniey. oated facsimile uf a letter from Hartley, dated in VH. to the effect that the U.ooo loan . . mot the fc'.Uuoi was from Hartley's private account in Wattles' bank. The mortgage u,nHnc this 11000 note was. acenrrfinff to " Hitcbcok himself, foreclosed In IWt Mr. Sheriff, Fearing for Safety of Pris oner, Makes Hurried Trip. POSSE DECIDES TO STOP EFFORTS rate Neighbors Must Await the Process of Law. ACCUSED MAN 7)ISGUISES SELF Harry Riri'r la Irresled at J'aclfle Junction, Following Aliened At tack on Woman In Atchison Connty, Missouri. Harry Barger, accused of a criminal as sault upon Mrs. diet Raker, reading In Atchison county, Missouri, a few mites southeast of Hamburg, la., was captured at Taclflc Junction, la., Friday afternoon and brought to Council Bluffs late In the evening for the purpose of preventing a posse of pursuing Missourians from lyneh- ng him. Rarger was taken from Pacific Junction to Glenwood, la., and lodged in the Mills county Jail, but when Sheriff LIndeville heard that a band of resolute Missourians, recruited from the neighborhood where the assault was committed, were coming to Glenwood in automobiles determined and well prepared to lynch Barger, he placed the prisoner In an auto and sped across the country with him to Council Bluffs, ex acting a promise from Sheriff McCaffery not under any circumstances, to divulge the fact that the prisoner was In Council Bluffs Jail lest the Irate Missourians should cotno up there and finish the Job they had undertaken. The fact, however, won widely circulated around Glenwood where the pursuers easily acquired all necessary In formation about the eendltlon of the Coun cil Bluffs Jail. They neglected to take ad vantage of the oppoitunity offered them to continue their Juorney, but would un doubtedly have finished Harger if he had remained In Mills county. Goes to Baker Home. Barger was a hired man on a farm near the Baker residence and waa acquainted with Mrs. Baker and her family. He went to the house when he knew she would be alone and left her In an Insensible condi tion. He left the place before she recov ered and before any member of her family returned. When she regained conscious ness the telephoned her brother, having only strength enough to tell him to come r . sTjr: r tt: Way ha metBarger oomlng from the direc tion of the house, but. not knowing what had happened, merely spoke to. him - In passing. Mrs. Baker told her brother the story, an dthe farm telephones were quickly used to raise a pursuing party. Barger was followed, but he got Into the j hills and went acrosa country, where hla purnuera, mostly In automobiles, were un able to follow and they lost him. He came to the vicinity of Pacific Junction, where, partially dlsgulshed by a stained face, he found employment husking corn for a farmer named Moore. He worked until Friday before he was recognised a the possible fugitive and Miila county off icon placed him under arrest. An hour or so after he waa brought fhto Paclflo Junction the pursuing Missourians had reached the Moore farm and learned of the arrest. It was then a chase between them and the sheriff. In which tbe sheriff won by get ting hla man. No one has been permitted to see Barger and his own version of the case nan not been made publlo. Sheriff Klndes Parsuers. GLENWOOD, la., Nov. 6. (Special.) Marshal John Farrell of Pacific Junction, accompanied by Leputy Sheriff Robert Allen of Atchison county, Missouri, arrived here yesterday and had placed In Jail Harry Barger, or Harts, wanted in Missouri on a charge of assaulting Mrs. C. C. Baker at her home six miles southeast of Hamburg. Several automobile loads of relatives and friends, prepared to make quick work of Barger, it caught, were known to be close to Glenwood and Sheriff LinviUe thought Council Bluffs a safer place for the man, even If the Jail there had been recently condemned by tbe grand Jury. In a few minutea after a transfer of the prisoner had been decided upon, Clyde Stranathan was In front of tbe Jail with an auto mobile. Sheriff Llnvllle, Deputy Allen and the prisoner made a record trip to Council Bluffs, the condition of the roads being taken into consideration. Tha first automobile load of pursuers drew up In front of the Glenwood Jail and the men Jumped out aa one man. No In quiry waa made as to the location of the Jail aa far aa known her. They seemed to know exactly where to draw up. They were told misleading stories at the Jail and The destination of the others was not known here. Uitchcock ndmits, too, that he did not repay the loan dollar for dollar, though he does not even claim he lias not been able to do so. The further fact that Mr. Hitch cock, in 1LXH, aks Hartley for this letter explaining how he got the note In ISI or IsSj, the mortgage securing which waa foreclosed In ifc. carries little weight If, Indeed, It does not corroborate the charge of the very close and very Mendly rela tions between Hitchcock and Bartley. A Mistake and Then Some. Bloomington Advocate. Kdltor Hitchcock evidently made a mis take w hen he said that he had never bor rowed any money from the state, for the pr0 i.,n forthcoming that he not only borrowed several thousand dollars. hut he never paid It hark. At the time hr '-arrowed the nviney his newspaper was about swamped and no one would loan 'lni money to keep It afloat until he up- peaien to me iiien state li easurer, Joe - ; partiey. Then when Hartley wanted the money back Hitchcock refused to , money back Hitchcock refused to pay it. ! I Hartley served time for his emt.enn.r,. - but this man, Hitchcock, who was guilty of borrowing state money and not putting!"' J"rt"on Harmon as governor of the state It back, now wanta ta States senator. run for United . 1 L ill EASY r l SQMy. jpCAT mPOltTA TIOXX yJ".Cr' - v v r awizir nrjuH 'jx $oSeS!!S:: li-W - V y ( Z IOCS LIKE THAT ? "S V rry w !g . fS MWETTE, OHAHAinr ""WJ " Events RIVAL CLAIMS FOR CONGRES Chairman McKinley Says Republicans Will Have Working Majority. STAlta mOU DEMOCRATS taunpnlan Committee Sara Conservn tlTe Bstlmate OItcs Present Mi nority Party a Majerltr . of Fifty-One. CHICAGO, Nov. 6 Statements regarding the control of the next house of representa tives were given out today by the demo cratic congressional committee and by Chairman W. IS. McKinley of the repub lican congressional committee. The demo cratic committee believes its party will have a majority of fifty-one In the sixty second congress, while Mr. McKinley, speaking for the republicans, saya he Is nnnfidnnt thev will retain control by a fair working majority. The democratic com mltfce statement follows: "We believe that, after a conservative estimate of the political situation, we will have a majority of fifty-one. In the next house. We arrive at this conclusion by giving to each party the dtstrloU which we think It Is reasonably certain to carry and dividing the doubtful districts equally between them. While our galna will be most pronounced In the east, we have every reason to be lieve we will make gains In every state which now has republican representation, with the possible exception of four, and wa do not expect to lose more than two districts that are now represented by demo crats. "In the beginning of the campaign the prospects for democratic victory looked so bright that we feared It would be only temporary. We congratulate ourselves that .... w-. . . . J V- kill the revolt against tne rym-mnwi um and the republican mismanagement of gov ernment has grown each day since the campaign began and until now It has be come evident that a very overwhelming victory for democracy la assured." Chairman McKinley In hla statement says: y "From the best reports obtainable from candldatea on the republican ticket and others Interested Tfi republican politica. I am confident the republican party will con trol the sixty-second congress by a fair working majority. "The size of tha majority, In fact the outcome of thte election, will be deter mined by the percentage of the republican vote of the country which comes to the polls on the bth of November. "That the voters have taken but a slight Interest In the pending political campaign is evidenced by the small vote cast at the pnniurtes for the candidates on the sev eral tickets. This It would seem forecasts an extraordinarily light vote, especially in the districts where the farmers are en joying an unusual degree of prosperity." NI2W VORK. Nov. 5. "It is not possible that Pix will have less than 100,000 plu rality in the state." declared William S. Rodte, chairman of the executive com mittee of the democratic state committee today. "We will carry the state for the ticket by more than lflu.OUO and for Stlnuion by at lead SO.OUO," said Chairman Prentina, of the republican state committee In a type written statement issued at tha same time from republican headquarters. The democratic chairman said that John A. Iix. would run ahead of the ticket. The republican campaign manager ad mitted that Henry I. Stlmson would run behind. Ohio Democrats Confident. COLUMBUS, O.. Nov. S.-Hugh L. Nichols, cii.ilrmau of the democratic execu tive committee today issued a statement vtng: ! The xe unv committee of the ileino- ' ciatlc isrtv of Ohio i Urns the re-election "' ,n" r:eil majority given a de mocratic tCoullnued a tievuuvl Page of the Week, as Viewed by The Bee's Artist. Uncle Sam Orders Tovvboats for the Missouri River contract Let for Three Craft to Be j Used for Improvement Work in Omaha District. DUBUQUE, la.. Nov. 6.-Spe-ial.)-The United States War department has just closed the contract with the Du buque Boat and Boiler works for the de struction of three tow boats to be uueil In Missouri river Improvement work In the vicinity of Kansas City and Omaha Major E. 11. Schulz, in charge of Im provement work on the Missouri In the division which Includes Kansas City and Omaha, with hla asalstunt, Mr. Hayden, was In Dubuque the latter part of this week and completed tha deal whereby the three boats will be constructed here. The boats are to be entirely of steel and built to draw a minimum amount of water. They are to be exact counterparts of each other In every particular. They are to be 138 feet long and twenty-four feet acrosa the beam. They will be equipped with the moot modern and power ful boilers and engines and are calcu lated to do service for many years to come, at least till the Missouri river Is made navigable aa far north as Canada. Major BchuJa was greatly pleased with the plans and etated that he believed the boats when they are put In commission will be among the most serviceable the gov ernment has engaged In such work. The contract calls for their completion, ready to go into commission within nine months, which means they are to tic delivered to the government at Kansas City about Au gust 1. The boats are to be known aa the Curney, tha Augustine and the Lewis. Wants Divorce Because Wife is Too Economical James Conklin of Sterling1, 111., Al leges She Refused to Buy New Dress for Two Years. STERLING, III., Nov. a. James Conklin of Bureau county today filed a petition for a divorce In which he sets forth that his wife refuses to dress Ilka other women In the neighborhood and that the style of attire worn by her causes him much em barrassment. He alleges that she has refused to buy a new dress for two years. lie states that he had frequently urged her to dress more fashionably and in keeping with the sea son's styles, but that I. is wife maintained tliat it waa too costly, lie also alleges that she had deserted him. CZAR AND KAISER SHOOT Fifteen linndred Deer nnd Other Animals luipoonded for Them. BERLIN. Nov. 5. Em)ror Nicholas hunted today in Kmpertir Williams new game preserve, near Oranlenhui g. twenty six miles northeast of Potsdam. A battalion of soldiers with foresters had been engaged for some days in assembling some 1.5! deer. I.iue and other four footed game within an enclosure und when the animals were driven out today past a line of plu'oiin concealed by pine branches and upon which tlo. roal party and twei,(-lwu other court hunters had taken positions ready for the killing. Emperor Nicholas a as permitted the first shot. TI.e forest was thoroughly searched by troops to make sure that it onntalned no un whose pr;jiue was unnuthonxed. CRIPPEN TO I1ANG TUESDAY Court of Appeals Rules Against Him on All Points. MOTHER TRESIS REFUSED Contention that Jury Was Hot Prop, erlr Guarded and that Corps Waa Not Identified Are Without Merit. LONDON. Nov. 6 Dr. Hawley H. Crip pen, convicted of the murder of Ids wife. Belle Elmore, the actress, today played his last card and lost. He will be hanged on November a. The criminal court of appeals heard his appeal from the conviction In the lower court nd doulded against him on all points. The court refused to grant a new trial and confirmed the order of execution, which will be carried out on Tuesday next. Crippen was brought to the court house, but kept In a cell pending a decision on an appeal against Justice Ridley's ruling that he could not attend the proceedings. This ruling waa set aside and Crippen was brought into the dock. He was very pale and evidently had lost strength since bis conviction. The prisoner's counsel was the same as appeared for him at hla trisi. The prlnci pal grounds upon which they based their appeal, were: First, that one of the Jur ors, having been taken 111 during tha trial, was removed from the oourt by physicians without being In the custody of an officer; second, the Identity of the corpse found In the cellar of the Crippen home haa not been established, and third, that the crown's rebutting evidence had been Im properly admitted. Solicitor Tobin said It was not chiuped that any one had tampered with the Juror while h'e whs temporarily excused, but that an Important principle of law was Involved. In reply, the crown offered the evidence of a bailiff that the juror was In his charge throughout his Illness. Deciding this point, the court ruled that the tem porary separation of the Jury did not af fect the trial. Three Children Burned to Death Farm Home of Peter Peterson Near Hartington Destroyed and Lit tles Ones Incinerated. HARTINGTON, Neo.. Nov. 5 pe.-lal Telegram.) The three small children, rsng Ing in age from 3 to (j years, of Peter Peterson, a farmer living four or five milus from Hamilton, were burned to death last night shout S o'clock. Mr. Peterson Is In s. hocpltal In Sioux City and .va to be operated on today, nnd last night Mrs. Peterson went to one of the neighbors to get them to stay with the children while she went to Sioux City on the early morn ing train today, and while she was absent the house caught flr. in some manner and the thieo children were buined to death. PITTSBURG GRAFT HUNT ENDS Hrnislnlsg I edict men ta Aanlnat Hankers an Councllmeu Are Dismissed. PITTSBURG. Nov 5-At the request of District Attorney William Hlakelv. Ju.le J.iah t ohen. in common pleao court to day nolle prossed the reine'ning Iif.llct- nint agalnxt bankers, maiiufact urcrs and councilman connected with the munic ipal Kisft cases. The indictments were bgair.si W. . Ramsey and A. A.Vllhack. bankers; John F. Kliin and W. P. Weber, fouiic, linen, snil I 'alias C. Her, steel manufacturer. All ate serving terms in prison exevpt Uyeis, vim Ui'rd abroad last yrar Would Have Democratic Candidate for Governor Pffeated. NOT THE CH0IC OF DEMOCRATS Is the Candidate of Brewers and Liquor Interests. OPTION IN NO VT'F. PROHIBITION Men Who lleel In I iq nor. Slid t the Masses. Are Mreklnar in Hefrnt the Mrnanrr, "ays penKer, William J Bryan sookc In Omaha last night at tln auditorium In opposition to the candidacy of .Ihimcs C. Dahlman for governor. He declared him.tclf In favor of all office. In discussing state Issues, he should lie supported unless lie favored the initiative and referendum. Mr. Bryan favored the election of Gil bert M. Hitchcock for United Htntrs sen ator and the election of C. O. Lobeck to congress. On the liquor question Mr. llrynn snld: First. The liquor question would not have been In this campaign but for the liquor Interests. When at the last regu lar session of the legislature they de feated the resolution submitting tho Initiative md referendum, and when Inter they prevented the calling of n special session to submit the Initiative snd ref erendum, now endorsed by all parties, they forced the liquor question to thu front as tho paramount Issue, and a Omaha's three; senators could have se cured the submission of tho Initiative and referendum by voting for It, Omaha's liquor Interests are responsible for th. fact that we are now confronted with this question. o Interference In IlnnalHs, "Second. County option does not inter fere with the saloon business In Douglas county. Under county option tho sa loons will not bo Interfered with In any county so long as the majority of tha people of the county desive unions. No body suppose that under county op tion Douglas county would go dry. 'Third. Instead of the state trying to to force saloons out of Dougjos county. Douglas county Is trying to force xalona Into the counties that might. If given the privilege, vote tho saloona out. This atempt on the part of Douglas county to compl other counties to permit saloons against their will In likely to provokM retaliation. If Douglas county Is not willing to let other counties voto out tha aloon, she cannot, complain If other counties object to her keeping aaloona. Fourth Only your brewers, distillers and wholesale liquor dealera are pecuniarily In defeating county option, and even they cannot be Injured If, as they say, tho refusal to license saloons Increases tho sale of liquor. Can Omaha afford to array Itaelf against the people of the state merely to please Its brewers, distillers and liquor dealers? Will Delay Prohibition. "Fifth County option does not mean state prohibition. It will delay state pro hibition instead of hastening It. Take the case of Ohio for Instance, Ohio has county option, notwithstanding Us large cities and the large German element In Its tabu lation. No attempt Is being made to re peal county option; no party Is demanding lta repeal, and no effort Is being made to secure state prohibition in Ohio. "Sixth County option does not give too large a unit. No county outside of Doug las contains as many people as Omaha, and yet, the whole of Omaha Is the unit In acting upon the liquor question. No county excepting Douglas and Itncastar haa as many people as the city of lAn coln ,and yet, Lincoln acts as a unit In deciding the liquor question. The city of Chicago is larger In area than our average county, and yet, it can act as it unit. Whether population or area is con sidered, no logical argument can be made against the county us a unit. Position of Uahliuun. "Seventh Mr. Ihihlmaii cannot claim, democratic support on tho ground of reg ularity, for while he has a legal title to the democratic nomination, he was not the choice of a majority of tho democrats who voted at the primaries. His nomination waa forced upon the party by the votea of thou sands of wet republicans who entered our primary and added their votes to the votes o fa minority o ftho democrats. "Eighth Mr. Dahlman la not running on the democratic platform. He announces that he will veto a county option bill, al though the last democratic atate convention by a vote of W to Mi refused to condemn county option. He also announces that ha will sign a bill repealing the daylight saloon law, notwithstanding the fuel that the last democratic slate convention endorsed the daylight saloon law by a vote of 710 to P3. The democratic party polled mora than 130.JO ovtes two years ago, while Mr. aDhlman polled only 27.&:d. Subtract from Mr. Dahlman' s vote the thousands of wet republicans who voted lor hlni and he will have less than ono-fidh of the democratic, votes of the state. A candidate receiving his nomination as .Mr. Dahlman did hla and receiving so small u percentage of tha democratic vote (ai-.,...v repudiate liiu plai form, make the lltjuor question the sole issue und then claim tho support of dem ocrat on the ground of regularity. The World Moves. "Mr. Dahlman's ix.aitlon In this rauipaik.ii presents an Issue Hiirpasnlrig even the county option lsiue and the daylight saloou Issue. The Issue pieseiuud by Ids candi dacy la whether the liquor interests shall control this suite. No official should ba expected to res.st the. Influences upon whlcU he relies for nomination and election, and Mr. Dahlman Is too honest to accept the governorship at the hands of the liquor in terest and then oppose the proximo of the llqi;nr Interests. If he carries out the pro gram of the liquor Inwrrns, the liqu-r question will be more acute iwo iai from now than it la iow, for the party will have to endorse or r puiilatu the action i f the ailmimsti atlou oil this subject anil that. too. during a pic-Mdenllal atiipaigu. "The liquor Interests put the hqiU'i que tlon above everything else, i'hes have in) li. It-rest In oilier questions; they ignore na tional Issues and other stale Issues alike when to liquor question uppcuiu, JuKleaJ