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VOL, 20, NO. 4
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BIR. BRYAN'S "REASONS"
(Omaha "World-Herald.")
If Bryan would be a bit more
candid in his fight against Senator
Hitchcock ho would at least com
pliment the intelligence of Nebraska
Democrats. .
When he says he is against Hitch
cock because Hitchcock is "a tobl of
Wall Street" ho insults their intel
ligence and raises a largo question
mark as to his own sincerity. He
says that Hitchcock stood with ''Wall
Street" on the currency bill. The
truth is that .Senator Hitchcock stood
for justice for the farming and live
stock interests in kiij successful fight
to amend the bill to permit banks
to make loans on farms and to ac
cent six months' agricultural and
cattle loans as a basis of securing
currency from tho federal reserve
banks. He fought for an amendment
to equalize interest rates through
out the country, so that the people
of the west could obtain, on the
same class of security, loans out of
money issued by the government at
the same rate of interest charged
In the east. Ho made a hard light
for an amendment for the guarantee
of funds deposited in national
banks, and while he won his light in
the Senate it was defeated in the
House. Senator Hitchcock had the
courage to light to make a bettor
bill of the currency bill, and in a
large measure he succeeded. He
then voted for the bill on final pas
sage. His efforts to secure amend
ments were in the interest of his con
stituency, and when Mr. Bryan
charges them up to Wall Street in
fluence he proves himselt. either in
sincere or uniformed.
Mr. Bryan professes to oppose
Hitchcock, further, because he was
against the federal prohibition and'
suffrage amendments. The fact that
Mr. Bryan himself never lifted a fin
ger for either prohibition or suffrage
when he was a candidate for office,
and espoused both causes only after
they became band wagon movements,
again raises a doubt as to his entire
candor. Tho prohibition fight is set
tled. As Mr. Bryan himself says
"the saloon is as dead as slavery,"
and Hitchcock agrees with him. The
present difference between the two,
as to whether home use of harmless
beverages should be permitted, does
ndt rise to the dignity of a major
issue. Woman suffrage is also a
fight that is won, requiring the ac
tion of only one "more state to estab
lish, it as the settled policy of the na
tion. Both issues are dead issues,
and Mr. Bryan is not yet so old a
man that ho chooses to light his po
litical battles in the past.
-As to practically all other issues of
the past Mr. Bryan and Senator
Hitchcock fought their battles side
by side. They were together -in sup
port of tariff reform, the income tax,
the popular election of senators,
postal savings banks, the initiative
and referendum, the direct primary,
farm loan banks, the anti-trust law,
the Alaskan railroad, tho federal
trades commission, the eight-hour
day for railroad employes, and num
erous other progressive measures. AH
these issues on which they were in
harmony Mr. Bryan chooses to for
get or ignore when he delves into
the past for "reasons" to brand
Hitchcock as a "reactionary" and a
"tool of Yall Street." a
So. too, does Mr, Bryan ignore
some important recent points of dif
ference. He makes no mention of
the fact, as a reason for opposing
Hitchcock, that the senator came to
the support of the government when
the clouds of war broke, piloting
first the armed ships resolution and
then the war resolution through the
Senate as the president's spokesman,
when Mr. Bryan had resigned in
alarm from the cabinet and sought
seclusion in his Florida and North
Carolina summer homes.
Neither does Mr. Bryan menPnn
that Senator Hitchcock l?d tho fiTt
for long months in the Senate lor
the ratification of tho peace treatv
and for the entry of the Uriitod Stvtes
into membership in the league of na
tions to presorve the peace of tho
world. While Senator Hitchcock
was holding up the president's hands
Mr. Bryan was seeking to defeat and
embarrass him by supporting the
Lodge reservations in company with
Smoot, Penrose, Brandegee and the
other reactionary Republican leaders
of the Senate. Only a few weeks ago,
in a speech in Omaha, Mr. Bryan
publicly and warmly commended
Senator Hitchcock for his services in
behalf of peace, for his determined
fight to put down militarism and big
armies and navies and to establish
a reign of justice and good will in
the world. Do these count for noth
ing now? Or has Mr. Bryan, in his
antagonism to President Wilson as
well as to Senator Hitchcock, seen
reason to change his mind?
MINNESOTA DEMOCRATS POR
PROHIBITION
A Minneapolis dispatch, dated
April 6 says: Fred B. Lynch of St.
Paul, Democratic national committee
man, was elected a delegate at large
to tho national convention of the
party after a lengthy and active ses
sion of the Democratic state con
vention here today. Chosen with him
were A. C. Weiss, Duluth; D. D. Daly,
Minneapolis, chairman of the state
central committee, and Mrs. Peter
Oleson, of Colquet. They and the
twenty district delegates will go un
instructed to the San Francisco con
vention. Mrs. Oleson was chosen by acclam
ation after she had attempted to
withdraw her name in favor of Mr.
Weiss, both nartv leaders hailing
Kfrom the Eighth congressional dis
trict.
- The Minnesota delegation will go
to the San Francisco convention not
only uninstructed, but free to vote as
they please as individuals. The unit
rule, a time-honored institution of
tho party, was attacked and beaten at
the convention.
By its platform the convention en
dorsed the Wilson administration, de
clared the Republican, leaders in the
United States senate had "maimed"
tho treaty of Versailles and went on
record as endorsing national prohibi
tion. The resolutions also declared
that the Democratic party was en
titled to credit of enfranchising the
women of the United States.
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