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been giveH. an opportunity to take advantage
of the aing o omission and commission of the
Republican party. The Republican candidate,
for instance, has fc good official record on one
vital issue of the campaign, that of national
prohibition of having always voted one way,
for prohibition and law-enforcement. This
made it possible for the wets and drys to vote
for him consistently though reluctantly. The
Democrats, on the other hand not only refused,
as did the Republicans, to insert a dry plank
in their platform, but nominated a man whoso
public record 18 been consistently with the
liquor group, and was supported solidly by the
liquor forces In the convention, who thus po
litely gave n invitation to men like Bryan and
hundreds of the other leaders of the party in
their respective states of the west a section of
the country that made possible the election of
Mr. Wilson in 1916 to get out of the party if
they didn't like it. In plain words, the wets, with
the assistance of the dry forces the latter
acting on the grounds of expediency nominated
a man who is a "red flag" to the prohibition
element throughout the west.
The south is safe for the party. There is no
question of this fact. It will remain solid for
the Democratic party. This is as it should' bo;
r--Montgomery, Ala., Journal.
BRYAN - ,
The man who casts .political expediency to
the four winds and hews to the line of principle
with his conscience as his guide makes friends
and enemies alike. That so great and so cour
ageous,' so eloquent and so renowed, so bril
liant and so uncompromising a leader of men
as William . Jennings Bryan should stand be
fore the nation today as the most formidable
The Commoner
o?tUH?,nUfactur0' 8ale and Attribution
of alcoholic liquor places Bryan in a unique
S C0 Sfr,h,VWni ar " "to wlTole peo
ple. That he declined to accept tho prohibi
tion party nomination for tho presidency is
not surprising to those who know Jjim best,
inis was in part his answer to that party-:
"My connection with other reforms would
make it impossible for mo to focus my atten
tion upon the prohibition question alono, and
besides, I am not willing to sever my connec
tion with the Democratic party which has so
signally honored me in the past years."
That was apparent In his address beforo the
Democratic national convention at San Fran
cisco with tho State Register today prints in
response to numerous requests. Ho was easily
the leading orator of that convention. Ho and
Bourke Cockran, the champion of tho wets;
Secretary of State Bainbridgo Colby and Chair
man Homer Cummlngs, with several other able
speakers, presented an oratorical battalion
which totally eclipsed the best orators of the
Chicago convention. There tho women for out
classed the men, with the possible exception of
former Governor Wilis of Ohio, whoso address
nominating Senator Harding was quite Bryan
esque, but lacking Bryan's beautiful touches
of finished oratory and dramatic force.
Throughout it all at San Francisco beforo
the resolutions committee and tho convention
proper where he lost all his fights except to
keep a wet plank out of tho platform, Bryan,
more than any other one man stood cham
pion,, of the great, towering cause of democ
racy which is greater than any one man or any
one issue.
Bryan has been signally honored by his party,
as he says. Yes, and his party has been signal-
IS
ly honored by Bryan It is his isacrsd r!ht ti
vote as ho pleases with his conaoianoe aa hii
guide as it is tho right of any othor individual.
Ever will ho strive to servo humanity through
out the world. Thoro you have his rule and
guide of action. Tho State Register pray that
he may bo spared to his nation for many years.
Ho is yot a young man Jn mental, physical and
oratorical force. Through tho years ho will
uattlo on always with his faco turned afalnut
tho foes of humanity; always wielding the
sword of conscience in fearless championship
of what ho bol loves to bo right as God gives
him to see tho right; yes, and always a Demo
crat. When tho final trump Is sounded his ovory
aotand word will have givon groater luster to
his good namo and brilliant statesmanship.
Decades honco as history tells of tho world's
moat famous leadors, well up In the list of
names of those who fought moat effectively in
the servico ot tho common cause of humanity,
ot tho men, tho women and tho children of tho
world will appear In bold relief the namo -WILLIAM
JENNINGS BRYAN. '
Springfield, 111., Stnto Register,
A TIMELY INQUIRY
Portland, Maine, Aug. 27, 1920, The Com
moner, Lincoln, Nob, Gentlemen: What ob
jection Is thero to having the expenses for pri
mary elections for tho nomination of candidates
for president of tho United States, United States
senators, and representatives In congress paid
from tho federal treasury, tho law to provide
just what expenses wore legal in such elections?
I wish Mr. Bryan would discuss In Tho Com-,
moner such legislation. Very truly yours,
V. D. COOMBS.
GOVERNMENT GUESSES ON SIZE
OP CROPS
i Referring to an article on "Bump
er Crntis" srlven out by one Lionel L.
Jane. , and published, simultaneously-
nent'daljy papers of the ricebelt, in
which" article tha most ridiculous
claims for an unprecedented crop are
made, ostensibly" for the benefit of
the planters, but in reality for the
sole and exclusive use of the market
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sharks and speculators in agricul
tural products, wo wish to "make a
protest against being stabbed in the
back by our alleged friends.
It is a part of the same old game
that has been played on the planter
ever slncq this pernicious statistical
fraud on the planter has been insti
tuted and in the nature of things
that surround the making of crops:
Boll wevils; boll worms; cotton
worms; too wet or too dry, Indigo;
Mexican weed; poor stand; shortage
ofy labor; deleterious grasses and
weeds; floods in harvest such as we
have had for the past two years and
are having right now at the time
when Mr. Janes is predicting a
"bumper rice cropVsuch claims as
he makes are criminally fraudulent,
as there is no humanly possible way
Por anv one to determine, even ap
proximately, what a rice crop will
actually make until it is tnresnen
and itt the sack and no one should
know this better than those who are
rushing into print with such pre
posterous guesses as this Jane is
making for the. board of trade of
New Orleans and the crop specula
tors In general.
It is probable that when the agri
cultural department of our govern
ment was organized, it was intended
and expected that it woum do op
erated in the interest of that great
class of our people, who as producers
of the most essential element in hu
man life, food, are certainly worthy
of and entitled to all possible en
c aragement and assistance from tho
government but the untimely, wild
and altogether vicious guesses made
and published, broadcast over the
land by such men as DeLancy 3?vans,
Lionel Jane and Paul D. Perkins,
have been used by the rice specula
tors and rice millers to manipulate the
rice market and have cost the rlco
planters more than all the other pests
and storms we have had In the past
twenty years.
This Jane person guesses that tne
1920 crop will he 33 larger than
that of 1919 before half the 1920
crop is oven headed out ri b"JeB to
miess , on an average yield of nma
lacks per acre, which any one who
knows anything at all, knows is far
out of reason, such an average not
having been made in years and tho
conditions of poor stand, grass, weeds
and heavy rains which are hampering
the harvest of tho early rice at this
time, make such a guess ridlculoun
and there is the probability of storm
during the equinoxial period still
further damaging and shortening
the crop.
If the agricultural department can
show how these guesses, always 15
to 33 per cont too high, made long
before the crop is made, to nay noth
ing of, being saved, can be of any pos
sible advantage to any one except
those who are interested In bearin
the market, claiming that thero is t
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wild guesses to prove it, then we will
take off our hats to it, but It cannot
be done.
Just why the Agricultural depart
ment, which is presumed to bo op
erated in the interest of the planter,
is willing to Btand sponsor for these
wild arid maliciously false pre-har-ves.t
guesses year after year, in the
face of the tearful protests of tho
planter victims, is almost beyond hu
man understanding.
It has rained almost every day
since the first early rice was ready
to cut and is still raining and any one
who can make "bumper crop" pre
dictions in the face of such condi
tions, is super-Qualified for member
ship In the "Ananias Club'
There is an expensive Agricultural
Rice Station near Crowley, La.,
maintained at the expense of the
taxpayers, but it remained for a lo
cal rice planter, without assistance
from the Agricultural department or
any one else, to develop seed rices
that saved the rice Industry of the
South from certain disaster. All hall
to Sol. Wright, the Burbank of the
rice belt.
If some steps can be taken that
will eliminate the statistical bureau
from the Department of Agriculture,
or at least keep their guesses on
crops under cover, where the market
manipulators can not unearth them
until the said crops are harvested, it
will be tho greatest boon the planters
have ever received from the govern
ment. God grant it, H. L. Gary,
Planter, Jennings., La.
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