New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-12-31
DEMOCRAT LEADERS
TURN TO COMMONER.
w. j. BRYAN LONG UNWELCOME
SEEN AS MAN OF THE
HOUR
CATERING TO SPECIAL INTER
EsTs HAS ALIENATED
VOTERS

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Bryan has come back. and oh, how glad
the remnants of the Wilson admiinistra-
ton are to see him!
That is to say, the Democrats who
are interested in winning against the
G. 0. P. next year are glad-of any help
they can get, even though it come
from the unWelcome Commoner, whom
the Tumulty and Burleson Democrats
secretly undermined and almost open
" sneered at during the two years he
held the office OF secretary of state.
Today, broken down by the weight Of
their own ignorance and their lack of
sympathy with the people, these Bour-
bons speak OF Bryan as their bosom
friend, their guide and their rock Of
security against threatening political
storm
! But behind their glib quotation Of
Mr.. Bryan's views on the peace treaty
there are traces of private doubt. The
Nebraskan is talking too much about
Wall street; he is laying too much
emphasis on the necessity Of clean
cut issue between the Democrats as
champions of the common folks and the
Republicans as champions Of a small
ruling class
For Public Ownerhip.
Railroads are up near the top of the
Bryan program, upon which all presi-
Dental aspirants are to be asked to de
clare themselves. In his recent con
fidential meeting with a score OF Demo-
cratic senators here most of them
former Bryan men but recently active
IN the rankse Of the ultra I Tories the
Commoner declared that the railroads
should not be returned to private opera
ton, but should be held until the people
could declare themselves on the cues
ton Of public ownership. He set forth
his own belief that the federal govern
ment should own the main trunk lines,
and that the states should own the rest
One of the most astonishing incidents
in the career of Mr.. Bryan has been
this return from retirement to active
control Of the destinies Of his party.
Even the bitterest Of his opponents in
the eastern press are now proclaiming
the fitness of his return, and are pointing
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out that he has made possible the rati-
fication of a treaty with adequate reser-
Vations service to the country which
they declare to be very great. And on
this statement they build prediction
that he will take the place Of the stricken
president, for all practical purposes, IN
turning the party away from the path
recently entered by the cabinet under
the leadership Of Mr.. Palmer, to a path
Endorsed perhaps by the producers, the
housewives and the mass Of people who
are suffering most severely from the high
cost Of living.
That Mr.. Bryan will try to win the
railroad workers, as surely as the presii-
dent won them in 1916, is assumed with
out further ado. The party chiefs in
event of victory would undoubtedly
euchre the easy-going Bryan out Of
power again.
The Largest Petition
Getting up big petition to congress
is a dihcultijob. The public Ownership
League of America, having its head
quarters in Chicago. recently sent out
to its members and friends in SO states
q petition calling upon cohgTess to provide
for the permanent public. ownership Of
the .silroads, under terms which should
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