Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-03-09 | Page 17 | Bryan Opens Fight Against Senator Hitchcock

BRYAN OPENS FIGHT AGAINST SENATOR HITCHCOCK Commoner moner Raps Rap His Fellow Fellow Nebraskan sk n on Suffrage ge I and Prohibition LINCOLN Neb 9 March 0 Op Op Opposition position to United States Senator G. G M.- M. Hitchcock as as' as asa a a ca candidate fob fo for forthe i ithe the Democratic presidential nomina tion was walt expressed e ed by William Jennings T Ten Jen en- en sings Bryan in statement a made mad public here today Mr Bryan announced that if elected a a. delegate to the Democratic national convention he he will not vote mole for tor forSen Sen Senator Senator Sen- Sen ator Hitchcock If U the state In Instructs Instructs tn- tn tor for him he declared d I Ishall Ishall Ishall shall allow an alternate to vote in my place I I Among reasons reasons' given for tor his op opposition opposition op op- position to Senator Sel Hitchcock were that he ho voted against submission oC ot the federal prohibition pro and woman suffrage amendments' amendments and had opposed op op- posed the currency bill passe passed l during President Wilsons Wilson's first tion Referring to prohibition Mr l Bryan Bryan- said Forty five s states sha e have ra ratified d th the j i 1 prohibition amendment to the constitution constitution con con- it would be an insult to to these states for the Democrats to put putt put up Ht A u man roan who like e Sensor Hitchcock Hitchcock Hitch Hitch- cock voted against the submission of the national nation f amendment after Nebraska Ne- Ne tb Ne braska had had adopted constitutional 1 prohibition by y majority The statement given out by Mr 11 Br Bryans Bryan's an brother C Charles arles w w. Bryan Bryant declared S Senator Hitchcock had hafl had signified his intention of filing as a ar candidate for president before the I Nebraska primary and added that his nO nomination would be 6 equivalent to an announcement that the party part I had n no l desire success or the hope of ot victory