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' Ji"V TTr Iw . "jw rr " i & f.r H rt t .t r kei - ft tflfc: s FV ,-& DR. WILEY FOR. GOVERNOR WILSON Tho Lincoln (Nob.) Journal, a republican paper, prints the following news item: "I am for Wilson and Marshall in this campaign. Taft and Roosevelt both had chances to rid the coun try of adulterated foods and they didn't. Both Marshall and Wilson as governors in their own states fought hard for my policies and they have my support." That is the statement of Dr. Har vey W. Wiley, who was in Lincoln recently. "I see no chance for either Roosevelt or Taft in this campaign. ' The votes are ovidently divided over the country as they appear to be In this state. I think that Roosevelt will poll many more votes than Taft, but ho will not carry more than one or two states. Roosevelt is the most popular man in the country afc the present time, not even excepting Bryan. Ho will be popular for another year then ho will fado away. "Roosevelt could have been impeached for treason, I believe, for his action in. appointing tho Rcmsen board, which set at naught the pure food laws. Tho Remsen board simply nullified tho puro food laws, allowing adulteration with bonzoatc of soda, copperas and other chemicals, putting the health and lives of thousands in danger. What right had he to put the law aside in that manner. "Ho took credit for tho pure food law after it had been passed but he was not responsible for its being. Ho even considered it of such little importance that he declined to speak' favorably of it in h'is message to congress. I am grateful to him for his backing in the whisky cases, however. I am grateful to Mr. Taft for his refusal to throw mo out of the department when ho was requested to do so." Dr. Wiloy says that his withdrawal from tho department was purely voluntary. "I got out because I couldn't stand it any longer," he ex plained. "The bureau of agriculturo is rotten clear through. It has been honey-combed for years with scandal after scandal. I don't think Secretary Wilson is to blame. Tt appears to me that he is simply the catspaw of predatory manu facturers. Members of the Remsen board, some of them men of eminence before their appoint ment to the board, have lost standing since. Tho 'bureau was rotten clear through." - "Howover," he added with a smile; '"it "will regain its' standing' after Mr.' Wilson takes the chair. Thatwill'be March 4, 1913." THE TimiDE EMBLEMS The elephant is an imposing looking beast, but it never did inhabit many countries and its species is dying out. It was an object of fear in tho jungles and is still a curiosity at the circus, but it retreats before civilization. Tho Bull Moose is even less desirable as a party em blem. It is a showy creature-r-quite striking in appearance but it is only suited to the higher latitudes its presence chills you. Neither the Elephant nor the Bull Moose makes a good party emblem. Give us tho Donkey the patient, hard-working Donkey He, is everywhere, and always toiling for the common people. Tie lifts up. his voice occasion ally in hopeful supplication for a better day and A lie kicks sometimes when he 'is mistreated but The Commoner. what animal could better symbolize utility and universality? His life is a life of service and he is omnipresent. The democratic party is to be congratulated on having escaped the ele phant and bull moose hail to the Democratic Donkey! NEEDLESSLY ALARMED Tho Jackson (Fla.) Times-Union expresses the opinion that "Mr. Underwood has .made his first blunder in offering to accept the dictation" of Governor Wilson as to the program in the house. Tho Times-Union says that even though Mr. Wilson were president, it would not be right for the democrats of the house of representa tives to accept dictation from him. The Times Union is needlessly alarmed. It will not hurt the members of the house of -representatives if they take a little counsel of the democratic nominee for tho presidency. UNTIMELY EXPOSURES It must bo very provoking to the plutocratic press to have the Archibald and Hanford ex posures come just at a time when the exploiting interests were emphasizing the faultles'sness of judges especially those appointed for life and thus freed from "fear of the mob." The recall has not suffered much the last few weeks. So Lon V. Stevens of Missouri is finding fault with Mr. Bryan, is he? Well, he has had several years practice, but why did he not state his objections at the convention? McCorkle did. It has been some time since Stevens los.t eight of the difference between a progressive and a reactionary. While Lon Stevens is talking will he bo kind enough to furnish the names of the twenty-two Missouri delegates who voted for Judge Parker for temporary chairman and any interviews they have given out indorsing Mr. Bryan's anti-Mor-ganrBelmont-Ryan resolution? "Thou shalt not steal," is to be the slogan of tho "Bull Mooso". party, according to its leader, Mr. Rooseyelt. The .last word, of the slogan has a familiar sound. DidVt we hear something that sounded like it when. we got Mr. Roosevelt's reason for permitting that famous merger? MR. CLARK'S FRIENDS PROTEST In answer to inquiries The Commoner begs to inform its readers that two Chautauqua dates in Speaker Clark's district have been cancelled and others may be. Opposition, based on the position, taken by Mr. Bryan at Baltimore, mani fested itself among Mr. Clark's friends and tho dates were cancelled with Mr. Bryan's approval. Mr. Clark is tho democratic nominee for con gress in the Ninth Missouri district and Mr. Bryan is more anxious to see him elected than ho is to answer the criticism of Mr. Clark's friends. There will be plenty of time after tho election to correct the misrepresentations that have been circulated concerning what Mr. Bryan did and his reasons for the course pursued. No friend of Mr. Bryan's should allow Mr. Clark's criticism, uttered in tho hours of disappoint ment, or the criticisms made by Mr. Clark's friends to prevent his giving his hearty support to Mr. Clark from congross. We can not afford to lose a district, not to speak of losing Mr. ' Clark from congress. Mr. Bryan can endure any criticism made of his course at Baltimore. He has already been vindicated: nothing else ho has ever done in politics has been so uni versally commended. Ho has spoken in seven western states since tho Baltimore convention and he has never .had larger or more enthusias tic audiences. Collier's advises us to spend a couple of hours every summer afternoon at tennis or golf, promising that this will cause us to forget tho heat. Now will Collier's kindly tell a lot of us how we can spare the time from office and lathe and forgo? Mr. Hearst seems willing to give Governor Wilson a lukewarm support on condition that the governor refuse to accept the support of any one else, but does this not smack of monopoly? To date we have failed to convince ourselves that this country's safety depends wholly upon any one man. 0000000 WANTED A DEMOCRATIC CAM- PAIGN FUND BY POPULAR SUBSCRIPTION Governor Wilson has announced that no campaign contributions will be re ceived from corporations. This act of the democratic candidate for the presi dency will be approved by democrats who want their party to be free from the control of the special interests. The na tional committee must, however, have money with which to carry on the cam paign and this money must come from the people. The Commoner -will assist in the collection of this fund and it will receive,, contributions, acknowledging the same in its columns and delivering the fund to the treasurer of the demo cratic national committee. Every demo crat ought to have some part in this work. Do not be ashamed to make a small contribution. Give what you feel you can afford and every penny will be acceptable. Here is a hint: Circulate a subscrip tion list at once among the democrats of your precinct and send the proceeds to The Commoner office without delay. The democratic national committee must be supplied with fund's immediately. -VOLUME 12, NUMBER 30 THE SUGAR MONOPOLY The following Associated Press dispatch tells Its own story: San Francisco, July 25. Addi tional evidence tending to show that competition was made impossible in the open market was offered today, in the hearing as a part of the government suit begun two years ago in New York to determine the extent of the control exercised by the American sugar refinery and the H. O. Havemeyer interests over the sugar industry. Assistant Attorney General Kuapp produced letters which were admitted in evi dence, in which Havemeyer is said to have dis cussed with his representatives the encroach ment of independent firms upon the trust's ter ritory and the best methods of blocking the pro gress of the smaller companies. ' W. H. Hannam, secretary of the Western Sugar Refining company, one-half of which is owned by the Havemeyer interests until two and a half years ago, was called upon by Knapp to identify the correspondence, copies of which are in possession of the government. When the details whereby the California Hawaiian Sugar company plant at Crockett, Cal., was closed, were growing to a conclusion and the Hawaiian people were preparing again to enter the field as active competitors, it is said, the letters indicate that Havemeyer laid plans to thwart that purpose. That Havemeyer be came concerned with the seriousness of the situation in 1906, after the California-Hawaiian company had been paid $200,000 a year for three years by the Spreckles interests for the closing of the plant at Crockett and retiring from the market, was brought out yesterday. Havemeyer's letters to Hannam show that he hi.d difficulty in negotiating with the Hawaiian people on account of "the absolute repugnance they have to negotiate anything that has a Spreckles end to it." The most important letter read was one writ ten by Havemeyer to J. T. Witherspoon, his New Orleans representative, on January 8, 1906, at the time when the California-Hawaiian com 'pany was about to resume operations. It in f6nried Witherspoon ttiat "there will be a row on the Pacific- coast al)6ut March rst,1" and that he Crockett' people intended bringing the price on refined sugar lqwbr. , This condition ivould be reflected on the Mis sduri 'river territory, Havemeyer wrote, and in structed Witherspoon to' make an effort to have the railroads give him rates on New Orleans shipments of sugar so that he could enter the Missouri field on a footing .with the Pacific coast refineries. t "Things may be adjusted to conditions as they exist on March 1 that,is ,raw sugar may be a little lower," he, wroe Witherspoon. "New Orleans will have to run ,at no profit to take care of this condition. ,1 should' like to know what the Illinois Central woujd be willing to do be fore February 1 the sopner the bettor." It was shown that th,e Hawaiian sugar people, acting through Charlqs J. Welch, New York, .sought to arrange with fthe Western Refining company for one-third', of the Western's refin ing business, but that Hannam and the Spreckles interests refused to consider the proposition. Late in 1905 all negotiations looking to a settle ment of the situation on these lines were dropped. Then, according to the correspondence that followed, Havemeyer began the crushing operations. AT BALTIMORE Detroit News: Woodrow Wilson had writ ten of Bryan that he was "a dangerous man;" even as Champ Clark had paraded himself as the trusted friend of Bryan." Was Bryan the small,- selfish and vain man who accepted the flattery of Clark, and who resented the criti cism from Wilson? He proved bigger than flat tery, bigger than criticism, bigger than any other man or any nominee of his party. He dominated the situation by sheer force of character. And he will remain a corrective factor. ($ 0 0 0 0 BRYAN'S BAD YEAR Washington Times: Bryan goes back to Ne braska a man politically shattered and demo cratically all in. The only things he was ablo to accomplish were to deliver tho real keynote , speech, nominate the candidate he favored, and 7JQ n e ?latf?n- They even made him re nJS i key, to the convention hall to Bob him ieJ0PS he ,eft Baltimore. Wonder what ne 11 try to do now? i Xh W "'V'S'" .iifiin Jnt -W- Vf-vAt2ijl --