Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-05-26
New York Tines.l II

Mr. George r. Craw of the Chicago
Tribune has been making some in
quiries about Mr. Bryan's prosperous
newspaper, The Commoner, and about
ms fortune, with results that viii
| interest the American people, who
as they have often been assured by
Mr.. Roosevelt, Mr.. Bourke Cochran
| and Mr.. Bryan himself. have 10 quar-
rel with wealth honestly acquired. IF
nominated says Mr. CTaW. Mr.
Bryan, / believe, expects the circula-
ton Of his weekly magazine, The
Commoner, to 60 to 100000 subscri-
bers. This would yield him a net
personal profit of S280000 per year. 2
He is willing to accept the statement
of The Commoner that it has a pres
ent circulation of $4,000 copies
weekly, and he estimates that its pro-
fits from sales and advertising now
| reach the very respectable sum of
$50, 900 annually That is doing pref
ty we'll But if Mr. Browns fond
hopes, as expressed in circulars now
| being mailed to advertisers by The
Commoner Office, are realized, his
net profit derived from The CommoneT
alone during the year 1908 will be
at the annual rate of $3.50, 900 >"
The business office of The Com
| moner clearly sees the advantages OF
capitalizing Mr.. Bryan. If he is
nominated, circulation will jump In
a letter from Mr. Limburner. the
business manager of the paper, we
| find these reflections upon its ex-
pected prosperity:
*InclOse you our milliOn-circulation
circular Mr.. Bryan seems to be very
optimistic regarding reaching that
point before the year is over, and
! the stack of letters l saw coming in
| to the Lincoln office on my last visit
there a short while ago indicate it
will reach the mark There is not
a better medium today, pro rata cost
10 carry your business in than The
COmmOneT. 1t is one of the papers
=; not affected by the new Post Office
ruling.
L believe, however. it is not neces-
| sary to explain any further to you
regarding the matter, as you fully I'M
derstand conditions that will make
| the COmmOner potent force this year
for advertisers. 1t will be a good
stroke of policy for you to get in. ana
| get in at oncse, or else in a short
time you will be up against higher
rates"
Mr. Bryan is a fortunate man. He
can face the future without the least
anxiety. ii nominated and elected
| he will be far and away the richest
President that ever occupied the
White House. If nominated and not
elected he viii still have the COM
Portable 100000 a year income. sub
| ject to natural increment The only
| thing he has to fear is failure to get
| the nomination. That might have
| an unfavorable effect upon the bust
ness of The COmmOner, and upon his
| lecture business, from which he de-
| riyes some additional thousands OF
| income
Diligent and well-directed indus
try thus has its reward. Mr.. Bryan
| is one of the hardest worked men in
| the country, not, to be sure, in the
/ daily drudgery Of the Commoner Of
fee, but in the larger tributary labor
Of organizing his forces to ger the
| nomination. Col. Harvey was wrong
| evidently, when he insisted that
/ newspaper editors should keep out OF
politics. Politics is a gold mine for
| the COmmoner and for Mr. Bryan