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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1920)
THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, APRIL 19, 11)20. : TM? UTIEBABV 1IEST MIL A canvass of 11,000,000 voters by The Literary Digest is being used in advertisements in Nebraska to indicate the probable victory of General Leonard Wood in tomorrow's s primary. But that advertisement DID riOT STATE THE FACTS 11 as to the poll of Nebraska voters. The poll, recorded on Page 34 of The Literary Digest of April 17, shows the three candidates to be voted for in the Nebraska primary running in the following order: First (BY ONLY ONE VOTE) Hiram Johnson Second. .JOHN J. PERSHING . THIRD Leonard Wood Pershing and Johnson are NECK AND NECK. Wood is THIRD Correspondents of eastern newspapers, who are watching the results in this state,-agree that Wood is practically out of the running. i "His advisors," says the Washington Times, in commenting upon Wood's suddert trip to this state, "are evidently non plussed at the reports that Pershing is certain to carry Ne braska, with Johnson second." So far as regards Wood's chance in the national convention, Mark Sullivan, leading political authority, writes in the New York Evening Post: "The fact is that General Wood is in a less desirable position than any other candidate of winning delegates to him after the convention opens," And Sullivan also points out that the larg i est number of delegates with which Wood can go into the con vention is less than half of the number which would be needed to nominate him. ' ....(.. Every indication is that Pershing is going to carry his home state by an bverwhelming majority just as Wood has already ' f carried his home state of New Hampshire and as Johnson ex- , pects to carry his home state of California. ) s . But there'll danger. That danger is a possible split in the responsible vote in this state. It is this on which the Johnson forces are counting. In Michigan there was such a split. The responsible vote was almost evenly divided between Wood and Lowden of Illinois. The irresponsible vote, which was not split, rolled up a majority which was sufficient to nomi nate Johnson. - r , Nebraska must guard against a repetition of what happened in Michigan. Here the task is easier, because the people of this state have their own citizen to unite on. But there must be no . wavering, ho divided allegiance. The real American vote must center on' one man. ' All considerations of state loyalty and human loyalty aside, political common sense counsels support of the candidate who has already shown the most strength in this state John J. Pershing. Remember, there would be no need for this cau tion if Wood, pursuing the same tactics which have already reaped him defeat in Illinois, had not chosen to contest the nomination with Pershing in Pershing's home state. Think it over as a Nebraskan, no one presumed to contest . Wood for nomination in his home state. What reason has any Nebraskan to support the easterner who, by challenging the candidacy of Nebraska's greatest citizen, has complicated the issues in this primary, who has laid this state open to the un ' enviable distinction of indorsing Hiram W. Johnson for the presidentil nomination on the republican ticket. As stated, the indications are all that Nebraska will do what ' five other, states, similarly placed, have already dope in the present campaign nominate its own citizen in preference to any outside candidate. But nothing can be gained by over- , confidence.' The one way for Nebraska to be sure the one way to guard against the disaster of the split vote the only way to send a truly representative American to the national convention as the nominee of this truly American common wealth is to Unite on PERSHING and a REAL Nebraska Delegation (This Advertisement Paid For by the Subscriptions of Nebraska Citizens). LARGE AUDIENCE HEARS ADDRESS V BY HITCHCOCK j Nebraska Senator Directs Much of His Attention to Bryan in Talk at Audi torium in Omaha. United States Senator G. M. Hitchcock, addressing an audience which nearly filled the auditorium Saturday night, suggested a way out of the democratic dilemma in Nebraska might be to send W, J. Bryan to the republican national convention as a delegate. The senator directed much of his talk to Mr. Bryan, one of his bon mots being: "Shall we send a man who will run amuck and will lead the wrecking crew? We know what Mr. Bryan will do if we send him to the national convention at san Francisco." The meeting was called to order by J. II. Mithen, president of the Hitchcock-for-President club. T. C. Dahlman.' democratic cotintv chair man, presided and introduced Ralph Clark of Stella, candidate for gov ernor. Arthur b. Mullen, candidate for re-election asxiiational commit teeman, made a bnct talk in which he said: "I have never sought publicity nor given interviews , nor do I make many political speeches. I learned in 1896 that speeches do not win a campaign. I didn't break into the democratic party; I was invited in." Keviewmg the1 history of V. J. Bryan, Mr. Mullen stated that he waylaid Mr. Dahlman and Champ Clark, tried to waylay the president and is now trying to waylay Sen ator Hitchiock. Chairman. Dahlman said he thought that Mr. Mullen was as qualified as any man in tho nation to carry on the work of -na tional committeeman. Senator Hitchcock asserted that Mr. Mul len was recognized as one of the great political generals. "I have been restraining myself all week and I may be growing overwrought tonight," said the sen ator during his excoriation of Mr. Bryan. One of the issues before us is: 'Shall we adhere to the reform which we adopted in this state when we enacted the primary law?'" h continued. "We adopted that refon under the slogan of: 'Let the pepple rule, and no man was louder than Mr. Bryan at that time m pro claiming that the instructions given by the people to 3 delegate should be binding. Now Mr. Bryan of Miami, Fla"r, abaidons the reform i. i . , ... wmcn ne saia was necessary mar the people might rule. "Bryan Rides a Hobby." ""What sort of a platform are we to adopt at the San Francisco con vention? Shall we send democrats who are in line with democracy of the country, or shall we send a man who rides a hobby and who denounces as tools of Wall street all, who do not agree with his hob bies? "In January Mr. Bryan came gal loping into Washington to the Jack son day dinner and he made it known that he would be for a gov ernment - ownership - of - railroads plank in the platform and we know that there will not be one state dele gation at the convention for that policy. Mr. Bryan also stated that if the democrats in the senate could not compromise with the repub licans over the league of nations, they should surrender to them. It was an attempt to displace Presi dent Wilson as leader of the party and it was notice to the republicans that the democrats were going to surrender. If Mr. Bryan must be sent as a delegate, send him to the i republican national convention, j where they will indorse the Lodge j resolution." " j Denounces Plea to Women. The senator denounced Bryan's J attempt to obtain votes of republi- can women in the democratic pri mary, as colonization of voters, un- lair and a corrupt practice. He also stated that a vote for, Bryan is a vote for a boss who would defy the will of the rank and file of the demo cratic party. Senator Hitchcock said he had hoped that Mr. Bryan would have filed as a presidential candidate, so that the issue might have been fought out. He also explained his position on the eighteenth amend ment, by stating that h-e accepted as final the verdict of the people on the subject of intoxicating liquors and the saloon, and he added that congress may define intoxicating liquor and, having such power, he Lbclieved congress will be reason able, rte explained that when tne people of Nebraska voted dry they did not intend to deprive them selves to the extent that thev did and he expressed the belief that when congress modifies its inter pretation dn the alcoholic content, that Nebraska will likewise modify its prohibitory law. He reviewed the league of nations and the fight which was made in the senate for its adoption. Hidden War Stores Are Found Buried On German Estates Berlin, April 17. The recent dis covery of guns on the island of Sylt by the allied commission has been followed by the discovery of quantities of arms and ammunition in various parts of Germany. A great haul was made on the estate of Baron von Berstein at Gross-Beeren, near Berlin. x A num ber of Baltic troops, who were bTl leted on the estate for a consider able period, before their departure buried their complete armament. Ur to the present four heavy ma chine guns, ISO cases of mchine gun ammunition and 400 cases of small arms ammunition have been dug up. At another nobleman's estate, also in the vicinity of Berlin, four mine throwers, eight airplane machine guns, and a quantity of other arms were found concealed in the stables. The announcement made by Herr Noske at Hamburg that 16,000 men will be wanted for the reichwehr bv April IS seems remarkable, m view of the fact that the reichwehr, which recently numbered 400,000, las ccrtainlv not yet been reduced to the 200,000 stipulated by the en tente. Drillers Strike Gas Six Feet Below the Surface Pittsburgh, April 17. Drillers sinking a well in Fern Hollow for an oil and gas company struck gas at a depth of only six feet. , The How was estimated at 2,000,000 feet daily and the roar was deafening. Wonder at the shallow pocket and the strong pressure was removed when it was found that the drillers simply had punctured a big gas main of the Philadelphia company. In staking off the location for the Fern Hollow well the engineers blundered and a derrick was built squarely over- the main. Vote for Walter M. Laddi Adv. I AMISEMENT.S. BRILLIANT MUSICAL. 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