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Show usnal one Dccauso ine men wdo at present are most active opposing Mr. Bryan were formerly his strongest supporters. This condition considered with tho fact that tho campaign (or the selection of a slate ticket and the recommending of a candidate for United Slates aenator has taken oo r-any different ancles, has given Impetus Im-petus to tho political strugglo In Nebraska Ne-braska seldom If eier before wltnegp. ed. Congressman Hitchcock has be?rt for neveral months an avowed candidate candi-date for United States senator and ha been organizing hla force throughout the mate with a view to securing the support of the rank and file of his party. He has tdated bis position a being opposed to county option until the people of the tate, under an Intl. atlvo and referendum law shall d-claro d-claro specifically for It. There I" little doubt that the antt-county antt-county option man will present such a plank and that It will be heartily opposed by Mr, Bryan and his friends. Mr. Bryan haj always been given a plnce on the resolutions committer and his policies have always prevailed when he attended utate conventions ! In tho writing of platforms. That lie will accorded the nam courtesy of appointment at Tuesdays convention conven-tion Is generally admitted, although It Is llleved there will be nn over-wheln'ng over-wheln'ng majority oppoged to him on the qnertlon of county option. It Is cow apparent that he will carry the frht to the floor of the convention and thero mrvke a plea for a straight rountv option plank. Six hundred of the eight hundred delegates to the convention are either Instructed or r known to bo opposed to such a plank and extreme Interest center on what effect Mr. Bryan rpeoch on the convention floor will have, on the majority. ma-jority. Richard K. Metcalfe, associated wPh Mr. Bryon In the publication of the latter paper, announced his candidacy candi-dacy for United States senator at the last moment. In opjosltlon to Congressman Con-gressman Hitchcock. He has received the unqual.fied endorsement of Mr. Bryan, who expresses the belief that Metcalfe can poll more votes than other Democrats, himself not excepted. Bryan and Metcalfe were formerly eployed by Mr. Hitchcock. All three have been closely associated in the political world until now, and by many Democrat leaders It is believed tb coming state convention will mark "the parting of the ways." There still remains In Nebraska a considerable number of Democrat, who called themselves the "gold wing" of the party II years ago and who have never become reconciled to Mr. Bryan's leadership. These men have become strong partisans par-tisans with the leuders who are on-posing on-posing Mr. Bryan at this time and have mado the eauv of Congressman Hitchcock and bis political associates their own. They openly declare that the time has come when Mr. Bryan i-hould Ptep down and out aa leader of his party and are directing theli efforts to that end. Three candidates are making t fight for the gubernatorial nomlna tton. They aro Governor Shallenber grr, Mayor Dahlm?n of Omaha and W. R Patrick of South Omaha, a member of the last legislature. Pat rick la the Bryan candidate, Gov ernor ShaJlnbrger la making hli campaign on his two years' record Ii offlco and Mayor Da hi man. wtu stands squarely for "personal liberty,' in making a particularly strong flgh' against county option. The prlmarlei occur August 2, a veek after the con ventlon. Another Important state is me Is the question of capital removal There Is a somewhat general teeiini that th. state capital should be lo cated at a point near tho center o tho stato, and Mr. Dahlman has do clared himself openly as favorlni such action as will take the cxecu tlvc ofllces away from Lincoln. Thii proposition, of course, is strongly op posed by tho people of Lincoln, an by many county option advocates wh fisaert that it la an attempt to pun lsh Lincoln and Uincaster county bo cause Lincoln has been "dry" for 1 years. A bill was Introduced In th last legislature providing for capita removal, but It wa pigeon holed. The city of Grand Island Is an ac tlve candidate for tho location of th cnpltal. Kearney and Hafltlnes have aino been named as possibilities for capital sites. An entire new elate committee wil! be named which will have charge ol tho actlvo campaign to be waged for four months following tho primary t-jcctlon. DEMOCRATS WILL OPPOSE BRYAN GRAND ISLAND, Neb, July 21. Democrats of Nebraska will hold tbelr platform convention in this city Tues. day and it promises to be of greater Interest than any gathering of tho kind held In this state for many years. That there lll me a contest to secure se-cure a county option plank in tho pl.U-form pl.U-form Is admitted by every leader In the Democratic state organization. n that the contest will bo carried on be-tweeu be-tweeu leaders who heretofore have agreed In every way on what Democratic Demo-cratic platform should contain. William Will-iam J. Bryan, for the ilrst time hlnco he took up the leadership of the Iem. ocratlc party will bo opposed by former for-mer associates within his own state. Tho fltht for and against county option op-tion has become an cjpon emo. Mr. Bryan and his friends ure actively engaged In an attempt to secure a county rption plauk while Concrress-man Concrress-man Hitchcock of Omaha and Mayor James C. Dahlman. also of that cltv, supported by Governor Shallenhrrger. are equally active n an effort to secure se-cure a declaration axalnst such a plan. The situation Is considered an tin |