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The Commoner.
WILLIAM J. BRYAN, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR'
VOL. 12, NO. 19,
Lincoln, Nebraska, May 17, 1912
Whole Number 591
To Ohio Democrats
Below will bo found a list of the progressive
candidates who will come before the Ohio pri
maries to be held on May 21. The men beljw
named are in favor of a progressive ticket upon
a progressive platform and are at all times
opposed to the nomination of Governor Harmon
or any other reactionary. Cut out this list and
carry it in your pocket so that you will be in
formed yourself and be able to inform others.
Governor Harmon is not only a reactionary but
was the choice of the Wall street crowd when
they started out to capture the democratic
party. If other reactionaries are mentioned
now, it is because Governor Harmon's case
seems hopeless. No state pride should lead a
progressive democrat to vote for a reactionary
candidate for president. The interests of the
country are at stake, and this is no time to pay
personal compliments. Governor Harmon did
not pay any attention to state pride when he
repudiated the two platforms upon which he
was elected governor and went before the con
stitutional convention to advise against the
initiative and referendum. Not only did he ad
vise against these reforms but he advised the
members of the constitutional convention to
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voters of the state even a chance to vote on the
subject.
Governor Harmon has not undergone any
change of sympathies since he helped to elect
a republican president in 189 G; his sympathies
are still with Wall street, and his nomination
would throw away the bright prospects of suc
cess which now encourage democrats.
But even if the democrats of Ohio were dis
posed to assist in the nomination of Governor
Harmon out of state pride, they ought to know
by this time that his campaign has been a failure
and that he has no chance of being nominated.
An Ohio delegation instructed for him would
not be able to do him any good it would simply
deny to Ohio the privilege of participating in
the nomination of a progressive ticket. The
Ohio democrats have been progressive in four
campaigns, and they are still progressive. The
Commoner urges them to vote for the pro
gressive delegates named below in the various
districts and to vote for Governor Wilson as
against Governor Harmon in instructing the six
delegates-at-large. In advising the progressive
democrats of Ohio to vote for Governor Wilson,
Mr. Bryan has repeatedly explained that he is
for any progressive as against any reactionary
and that ho would earnestly urge the support
of Speaker Clark if Clark woro the candidate
against Mr. Harmon in Ohio. Bo at the polls
early and see that your neighbors go to the
polls. Ohio has a chance to put herself in a
commanding position. If she defeats Governor
Harmon, she not only eliminates him as a presi
dential possibility but makes it certain that no
reactionary can bo nominated. In other words,
she takes her rightful place in the front rank
and is in position to exert a determining, in
fluence in the nomination of the democratic
ticket. Vote against Harmon!
TUB BIG FIGHT IN OHIO
The Progressive Democratic League of Ohio
with headquarters at Columbus, haB issued a
statement giving the names of the candidates
for district delegates to the democratic national
convention who are progressive and are opposed
to tho nomination of Judson Harmon. The
anti-Harmon candidates in tho various dis
tricts are as follows:
Second District Hubbard Reynolds, John
Holsom.
Third District Edward Hanloy, Edward
Sohngen.
Fourth District W. A. Browne, Sr., II. C.
Fox.
Fifth District A. J. Welty, William Fost
naught. Sixth District L. L. Faris, Dr. Galon L.
Cline.
Seventh District Henry Kampf, Charles F.
Kuehner.
BJsliih DistrictWfcWJDurbin, G. W. Mc-
droMroTi ' " i . . ' ' "
Ninth District J. B. Friend, Richard A.
Bentty.
Tenth District Mathew F. Merriman, Valiee
Harrald.
Eleventh District S. D. Webb, John F.
Bowles.
Twelfth District Dr. Ira B. Hamblln, Luke
G. Byrne. '
Thirteenth District Homer Reinhart, P. F.
Foreman.
Fourteenth District Horace G. Rodington,
Daniel B. Grubb.
Fifteenth District Joseph Ryan, Elba V.
Howell.
Sixteenth District James McConville, Daniel
E. Yost.
Seventeenth District J. A. Anderson, John
M. Vanover.
Eighteenth District J. J. Whitacre, Cant
well. Nineteenth District Len C. Koplin, Aaron S.
Firster.
Twentieth District C. W; Lapp, Theodore P.
Schmidt.
Twenty-first District N. D. Baker, Robert
Bulkley.
CONTENTS
TO OHIO DEMOCRATS
BARNHART'S VICTORY
A SINGLE TERM
THREE-FOURTHS VERDICTS -N
IN CIVIL CASES
A GOOD APPOINTMENT
THE EMPLOYES' COMPENSATION BILL
WILL DEMOCRATS INVITE DEFEAT?
WALL STREET'S MISTAKE
OHIO INDICTMENT OF HARMON
GAYNOR "A PEOPLE'S MAN"
"THE OLD SHIP IS LEAKING NOW"
HENRY W. YATES' REPLY TO THE NA
TIONAL CITIZENS' LEAGUE
MAYOR GAYNOR'S ARTICLE ON THE
JUDICIARY
HOME DEPARTMENT
WHETHER COMMON OR NOT
NEWS OF THE WEEK
WASHINGTON NEWS
GO TO THE POLLS
Every democrat in Ohio should go to tho
polls at the primaries May 21. Ohio democrats
must do their paVt in tho effort to keep the
democratic party progressive and true to its
principles. They can not afford to yield to a
false sense of, "duty to a local candidate" and
through that yielding help the special interests
to secure control of the democratic party.
Go to the polls, Ohio democrats, and do your
duty in accordance with the great principles
for which your party is presumed to stand.
THE MAGUIRE BILL
In the issue of The Commoner of May 3,
reference was made to the bill introduced by
Senator Hitchcock requiring two wireless opera
tors on each ship. Congressman Maguire of Ne
braska, at Mr. Bryan's suggestion, introduced a
similar bill in the house and has pushed it
through tho preliminary stages and secured its
incorporation in tho general bill recently drafted
embodying a number of regulations for tho
safety of passengers at sea.
Barnhart's Victory
Congressman Barnhart of Indiana scored a
great victory when ho socured tho passago of
Ills" bill to compel publicity as to tho ownership
of newspapers. Ho introduced it as a soparato
measure but with tho aid of Congressman Henry,
chairman of tho committee on rules, had It
made a part of the postofllco appropriation bill,
which insures its consideration In tho senate
Tho amendment reads:
"As an amendment to tho amondmont, after
lino 15, page 28, of 11. R. 21279, Insort tho fol
lowing: " 'That It shall bo unlawful for any person,
association, or corporation to enter or doposit,
or to have entered or deposited, Into tho malls
of tho United States, as second-class mail mat
ter, any newspaper, magazine, or other periodi
cal publication of like kind published in tho
United States, unless such publication shall
have plainly printed In a conspicuous placo
therein tho name or names of tho managing
editor or managing editors, tho name or names
of the publisher or publishers, and the name or
names of owner or owners, including tho namo
or names of owner or owners of stock, bonds, or
other securities, to the amount of $550 or more,
which have been issued or sold by tho said per
son, association, or corporation owning or con
trolling such publication and which may bo
outstanding: Provided, That in tho case of
newspapers published daily or daily except Sun
day it shall be sufficient to publish' said names
-once 'each week, on -tho same day . eaclu;weok.
Also all editorial or other reading matter pub
lished in any such circulating periodical, for
which money or other consideration is accepted
by tho publisher or publishers, shall be plainly
marked 'advertisement' or signed by the namo
or names of the person or persons in whoso
intorest or interests such article is published.
Any person, association, or corporation that
shall so enter or deposit, or have entered or
deposited, in tho mails of the United States any
such newspaper, magazine, or periodical publi
cation of like kind in violation of the foregoing
provisions shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and shall bo fined in any sum not less than
$100 nor more than $1,000 for each offense:
Provided, That nothing in tho paragraph con
tained shall apply to or include periodical pub
lications published by or under tho auspices of
fraternal or benevolent societies or orders or
trade unions.' "
Mr. Barnhart began to urge this form of pub
licity some four years ago and has persistently
pressed the subject ever since. Ho has scored
a triumph creditable to himself and serviceable
to the country. The Commoner extends congratulations.
1008 VS. 1012
"Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I
now present for your support the best equipped
man who ever ran for president. I know him
like a book. He is city broke and halter wise.
I can lead him anywhere " "Whoa, there!
Stop, I tell you! Where aro you going? You,
lineal descendant of Ananias!"
THE POLITICAL COMMENCEMENT SEASON
Your presence is invited at the annual gradu
ating exercises of the Ananias club. The class
orator will be United States Senator Dixon of
Montana. Theodore Roosevelt will present tho
diplomas, and William H. Taft of Ohio will
carry off the class honors.
AMUSEMENT LAID ASIDE
There seems to be a dearth of news in tho
amusement columns no accounts of Presi
dent Taft's victories at golf or of ex-President
Roosevelt's hunting expeditions. What is tho
matter? Where are these distinguished'
gamesters?
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