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Tho World-Herald, after two days of reflec
tion makes a reply which virtually cofesfes
gVery charge made in Mr. Bryan's indictment' of
Senator Hitchcock. -
First It is silent on tho, charge that in 1912
Senator Hitchcock championed Wall street's can
didate for the Democratic nomination for presi
dent The senator is not sorry and makes no
pretense of change in his sympathies.
Second It does not deny that the senator
vroto the Republican minority report against
the Currency bill and stood with Wall street
against the material features of the bill. It
simply claims for him that he proposed some
amendments and voted for it on its final passage
(when he found that he could,, not kill the bill
and his vote was not needed for its passage) .
Third It claims that prohibition is a DEAD
issue and that Mr. Hitchcock's advocacy of wine
and beer does not raise "a major issue." He
does not deny that the senator tried to prevent
prohibition and refused to give expression to the
known wjshes of his constituents on the ques
tion. It does not give Senator Hitchcock's defini
tion of HARMLESS beverages alcoholic con
tent is not mentioned or explain why the sena
tor dignified the wine and beer issue by making
it tho ONLY one mentioned in his telegram to
those in charge of his Omaha coming-out ban
quet. THE NATION CAN NOT INTRUST THE
THE ENFORCEMENT OP PROHIBITION TO
ONE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE IN IT. His
nomination would be an insult to the forty-five
states that ratified prohibition, and a handicap
to the Democratic candidates in the thirty-four
states that have adopted prohibition and in the
dry districts of the states that have not adopted
prohibition by state action.
Fourth The World-Herald waves the suf
frage question aside as a SETTLED question,
but does not explain why the party should of
fend all tho women voters of the country by
nominating a man who insolently insisted upon
putting the most depraved men al)ove women
as citizens, and c7;d this after his own state had
conferred suffrage by statute and after the leg
islature had by unanimous vote requested him to
vote for submission of the national amendment.
Fifth- It misrepresents Mr. Bryan's position
on the treaty. He commended Mr. Hitchcock's
fight for ratification without reservations while
that seemed possible, but Mr. Bryan insisted
on ratification WITH reservations when a ma
jority agreed upon reservations and he condemns
Senator Hitchcock for opposing majority rule in
he Senate and for trying to make the treaty an
issue in' the coming campaign.
After ignoring the charges against Mr. Hitch
cock, the World-Herald attonmts to belittle the
differences between Senator Hitchcock and Mr.
Bryan. It is sufficient to say in reply that these
differences. WHEN MUCH LESS IMPORTANT
THAN THEY ARE NOW, were sufficient to make
Mr. Hitchcock feel justified in opposing Mr.
Bryan as delegate to two national conventions.
JF. IN SPITE OP PAST AGREEMENTS. THE
DIFFERENCES WERE SUCH AS TO FORFEIT
rSLCLA of MR, BRYAN, THRICE A
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT,
i?MR HITCHCOCK'S SUPPORT FOR DELE
ll E!NlDl2 AND 1916 (AND IN 1920 ALSO).
til i fc conaistency can the senator deny that
SJf H?.r dlfferences of today are sufficient to
Si x,s claim t0 Mr- Bryan's support for a
prntial nomination?
DPunn?BAL' QUESTION BEFORE THE
IT n?RACY 0F NEBRASKA IS WHETHER
RAN BEST AID THE CAUSE OF DEMOC
Uvl 51 SENDING MR. BRYAN AS A DELE
BY ?, THB NATIONAL CONVENTION OR
Sfpr?vG SENATOR HITCHCOCK AN
fllPTY COMPLIMENT. W. J. BRYAN.
The Women in Action
Every woman should read the following let
ter which is signed by the leading women of
tte ItS w dTr 8U BDlenclidTork in
. ate w; ? T. U.f tho State Suffrage As
sociation, and the Woman's Federation of Clubs.
These women know the important issuo in Ne
oraska and have suggested the only way that
the women dan use the ballot to uphold tho
moral standard that they are so vitally interested
in. The letter follows:
m ., T , Omaha, Nebr., April 10 1920.
To the Independent Women Voters of Nebraska:
The women of Nebraska are entitled to voto
in the coming primary election for their choico
of presidential candidates and for dologates to
the national convention, also for national com
mitteeman. The women have acquired tho bal
lot at a most opportune time.. The combined
liquor interests of the country are making a
most determined and insidious attempt to modi
fy, nullify or repeal tho grandest moral and eco
nomic reform prohibition.
The liquor powCr has undertaken to concen
trate its forces in the Democratic primary for tho
purpose of electing wet delegates to tho national
convention so as to write a wet platform and
nominate a wet candidate. They believe that
they could carry the solid south and wet east
and elect their wet president, and ho would bo
expected to use his powerful influence to re
store the manufacture and sale of beer and wine
with all the debauching, degrading and demoral
izing, effect.
Women are not Democrats and Republicans
because their husbands or fathers are. If they
were, equal suffrage would be a farce. Women
are yet independent first voters, and as such we
lay before you the situation and urge you to ineet
your worst enemy liquor on the battlefield
selected by the liquor interests the Democratic
primary.
If the liquor interests can be prevented from
capturing the Democratic party in this primary,
the liquor business is down and out for all time.
If they win in the Democratic primary, they
may undo all the good work that tho temperance
and moral element of the country has accom
plished in the past twenty years. The women
have it in their power to deal the liquor interest
its death blow. There is no "wet and dry" is
sue in the Republican party this year. The wo
men have the same privilege as the men; they
can register in cities, giving the party affiliation
of the party they desire to vote in, in the prim
ary, and they have the same privilege as the men
of selecting whatever candidates from any of tho
party tickets and vote for them in the fall elections.
A MISSTATEMENT CORRECTED
EWorld-Herald:,
toornT30. cn-ect mistatement contained in this
port World-Herald. The Omaha News re
said twCmyou quote is incorrect in figures. I
latifi;:?,1 TWENTY-THREE Democrats favored
era , n, twenty-ono voted' for it, and two
"emocrnta i:r: U.7""7"""V .'.::.
Voted a? i i,1,U8ea ratification, twenty-mree
Button lt and onewas paired against, it.
l0r of the twenty-four were against ratifi
cation on any terms. Senator Hitchcock led on
ly nineteen Democrats besides himself. Twenty
seven Democrats were against him twenty
three favoring ratification with the reservations
agreed upon and four opposing any ratification.
Senator Hitchcock now wants to run for presi
dent with his treaty record as an issue. I am
opposed to making the treaty a campaign Issue.
It ouKht to be ratified at once with the reserva
tion favored by eighteen majority. If democracy
means anything, it means the right of a majority
X sneak for the people. If domocracy is worth
flghftas fw to flSroJe it is worth trying in tho
UnABfMpwh"5ltlon issue, Senator Hitch
cock "brings it into the campaign in Nebraska V
declaring for wine and beer. Ho re-opens a
declaring iui .. known sentiment of
closed Jlsthelltlon of his party
fthetatiol. WILLUM JENNINGS BRYAN.
NEBRASKA WOMEN
nn nmnloved by the Republican na
Tlib men em, Jloyeo 7 o Nfl.
tional commit ee to i hem i yory
braska into tuXr"sti0n of Mr. Bryan in
indignant over m su Bgesua a
Uis Linco n a ipee fJfi fwlth they consider
what party f t jjbe of more value to the
whether or not they can inciuding tb
causes closest to , tftei ' on nIbItIon m
Holding of the giouna g the Republican
In cities of less than ten-thousand population
and in the country voting precincts woman tho
samo as men do not have to register but can oall
for whatever political party ticket they want to.
voto.
National platforms are writton by tho dele
gates to tho convention from tho several states,
and the delegates also select tho presidential
candidate. Tho Important thing, therofora, Is
to elect dry dologates in this state to tho Demo
cratic national convention. '
Mr. W. J. Bryan is a candidate for dologato
to tho Democratic national convention. Mr.
Bryan docllnod to stand as a candidate for presi
dent in order to go as a dologato and make tho
fight on tho convention floor to prevent tho
liquor Interests from capturing tho Democratic
party. Tho moral dry forces of tho country, and
especially tho women, aro looking to Mr. Bryan
to fight their battles for prohibition and sutfrngo.
Tho combined wet, antl-siiffrago elomont, under
tho leadership of Hitchcock and Mullen, a;o try
ing to dofeat Mr. Bryan and tho other dry candi
dates for delegates and national committeeman.-
Tho names of tho Bryan dclogatoH-at-largo
aro W. J. Bryan, Lincoln; Dan V. Stephens,
Fremont; Georgo W. Bergo, Llncojn, and J. J,
Thomas, Soward. National committeeman, W.
H. Thompson. District Delegates for First Dis
trict: Charles A. Lord, Joseph H. Miles, Sec
cond District: Mrs. E. B. Toul, Llout. Albort 13.
May. Third District: Seymour S. Sidner, Mrs,
Mario Weokes. Fourth District: Georgo Land
gren, V. E. Stahl. Fifth District: Geo. E. Hall,
W. M. Somervllle. Sixth District: Frank J.
Taylor, Charles W. Coal.
You aro entitled to voto for four dolegatos-at-largo,
one national committeeman, and for two
district delegate from the congressional district
in which you live.
Independent Women Voters The undorslgnod
committee appeal to you to go to tho polls on
April 20, call for a Democratic ballot, and put
a cross mark opposite the names of each of the
names given above as the Bryan candidates and
help hold the moral ground that wo have con
quered. Yours truly
Mrs. Dr. Jennie Callfas, Omaha,
Pres. Netf. Women's Dry Foderation;
Mrs. Lela Dyar, Boono,
Mrs. Mamie Claflin, University Place,
Mrs. Edna M. Barkloy, Lincoln,
Mrs. W. E. Hardy, Lincoln,
Mrs. P. T. McGeer, Falls City, .
Mrs. Chas, Roberts, Omaha,
Mrs. Frank T. Ransom, Omaha, ,
Mrs. W. T. Graham, Omaha,
Mrs. Geo. W. Covel, Omaha.
ning for president on a platform, the chief plank
of which is nullification of tho prohibition
amendment. Yet the fact remains that if Ne
braska women, who desire to preserve prohibi
tion from the knifing that Senator Hitchcock
and his followers openly pledge themselves, wish
to make their votes effective on that issue there
is but ono primary in which it can be done, viz.,
the Democratic primary.
VOTE FOR THOMPSON
Arthur F. Mullen, at present national com
mitteeman from Nebraska, is asking the Demo
crats to re-elect him. Mr. Mullen has been na
tional committeeman for four years. As a man
in active charge of the making of the platform
in 1918 and of the campaign that followed,
Mr . Mullen was responsible for the fact that
Democratic majorities ranging from 7,000 to
55,000 in 191C were changed into Republican
majorities ranging as high as 30,000 in 1918,
that every Democratic state officer was turned
out and six Republican congressmen elected for
the first time in years. Mr. Mullen's record
on this score certainly does not entitle him to
a re-election as titular head of tho Democratic
organization in Nebraska. Mr. Bryan is ask
ing that the Democrats substitute for national
committeeman Hon. W. H. Thompson of Grand
Island, and presents him as a real Democrat
with real ability for leadership. Mr, Mullen
has made the issue very plain. He says that
he is against everything that Mr. Bryan ia for.
This simplifies things. It avoids any necessity
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