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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.
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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.
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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?
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