The Cordova daily times., 1919-07-12
SATURDAY, JULY u, 1919
Mr.. M'ADoo A CANDIDATE

eraI of the railroads, raised the wages
of the great bulk of the railroad en-
ployes of the United States, the opin-
ion was freely expressed that be was
laying the basis for his candidacy for
the presidency. 1t was argued that
by that move he thought to make him
self solid with the railroad vote. Of
course that was far from his purpose
His only idea was to get more money
into circulation. He would not at that
time have considered the possibility
of ever becoming a presidential can
didate. So the suspicious public was
entirely wrong. Of course it is true
that where the treasure is, there the
heart is ALSO" and the railroad men
whose wages were increased might
we'll have feeling Of gratitude toward
Mr.. McAdoo for his generous action.
Or was it generosity?
Gratitude has been defined as "a
lively sense of favors to come" We
wonder if it would be very far wrong
if we should define generosity as "a
lively expectation of political support
to come" A candidate will go around
the country kissing all the babies, to
say nothing of the young and pretty
women, but perish the thought that
anyone ever entertained the idea of
using public funds to further political
fortunes. No, we are certain that the
public were wrong and that the state
ment made by Mr. McAdOO that the
wages paid were too low was the real
and only reason he had for advancing
them.
So "America" did this? Napoleon
said II am the state" 1t remains for
Mr.. McAdoo to say in effect Il am
America" That is a great assump-
ton, but the truth is that he is not
America. nor was the money which
he handed out to the railroad men his
money.
The fact of the business is that Mr..
McAdOO took advantage of his tempo
rarv authority to give increases in
wages to a deserving class of people,
but the increases did not come out OF
his pocket, but out of the public treas
1rv. It was not his money, nor we're
the employees whom he thus favored
government employees, but employees
of private corporations, and the in
crease to them was nothing more nor
less than an outrageous abuse of au-
thority.
We see the result of the abuse of
this authority in the statement that
the net loss of the railroads for the
month of April was $58,OOO,OOO. This
loss would not have occurred had Mr..
McAdoo managed the railroads as
they should have been managed. 1t
is true that he was not in charge dur
ing the month of April, but we do not
see that it is entirely to his credit
to get the railroad systems of the cOun-
try into such a jangle and then resign
and leave it for someone else to un-
tangle them.
Possibly some people thought that
when Mr.. McAdoo told the customs
men, inferentially, that they were bet
ter able to revise the customs laws
than the members of the congress, he
was batting his hook for their votes,
but they were certainly mistaken. At
that time he had no idea of becoming
a presidential candidate. No, that
came later. Possibly his long service
as a movie lawyer" had something
to do with inducing him to stifle his
ambitions to become great lawyer
and to sacrifice his personal feelings
for the benefit of his country. Any
way, he is a candidate, and has opened
headquarters in New York city. Let
every good American rush to his sup
port
AS a starter, Mr.. McAdoo says that
"a Democratic administration waged a
successful war" Yes, the administra-
ton waged the war just as Mr.. Nc
Adoo is America. AS matter of fact,
the administration got it's main sup
port from the opposition party. The
opposition party voted the appropri-
ations, voted the administration au-