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Show DAHLMAN DEFIANT AND GAME TO THE CORE OMAHA, Neb., Sept. L'0. .Mayor James C. Dahlman, Democratic candidate for governor, tonight hurled defiance at William Wil-liam .1. Bryan, who gave out a statement that he would not support the mayor In his gubernatorial campulgn. Tho mayor closes with tho declaration: "They will Dud out thev have got hold of the wrong end or a red-hot poker and will get Ihe biggest trlmuling that has been given in this or any other stale for many years." Tho rnoyor's statement follows: "Mr. Brvan and 1 have boon co-workers and friends, politically and personally, person-ally, Tor twenty years, and during that tlino 1 have never wavered at. any point along tho line whou his enemies assailed him. nor when ho was a candidate for office. "Tho position I lake on tho liquor question is purely Democratic, and follows fol-lows the spirit of Democratic principles, which stand at all limes for personal liberty and self-government. The party has nlwavs stood for personal liberty, and that. Is why I am a Democrat. "The Slocum liquor law of our state liar, been on Ihe statute books for thirty vears. H gives each city, town and village vil-lage tho right to votu saloons in or out, which means local solf-government. County option, which Mr. Bryan is advocating, ad-vocating, enlarscs tho unit and taken from tho people the right of local self-government- "Mr. Brvan and his friends try in mnko it appear that this Is a biuwery tight. The primary election Just held In Nebraska luits demonstrated that the people peo-ple of our stale without regard to vocationfanners, voca-tionfanners, merchants and working-nun working-nun alike lmvo rallied to my support and gavo me I ho nomination regardless of politics, because they arc opposed to sumptuary laws.' "1 regret exceedingly that Mr. Bryan and mvsolf mus! part company for a short time at least. When tho votes are counted November S. Mr. Hryan. tho county optionlsts and all the people who aro Irving to force sumptuary laws on the citizens of this slate, will llnd out tliev have got hold of tho wrong end of a ed-hot poker, because wo wll glvo them tho biggest trimming which hns boon given in this or any oilier state in several decades.' |