The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1920-06-03

| Blanton has capitalized his hatred OF
trade unions in his speeches, and has
drawn the fire Of Samuel Gompers
and other labor officials for his reck-
less statements regarding them, he or
his manager conceived the idea" OF
passing the hat for campaign funds"
among the anti-labor employers in the
East A circular letter was issued by
Manager Blanton, describing Con-
gresham Blanton as a livery poor
man." and saying that II am of the
impression that you would deem it
privilege to contribute to his cam
paign, and I am writing this letter
only to a few business men who have
evidenced a special interest in his
| work."
Incidentally, Manager Burton says
that Congressman Blanton was large
| ly responsible for turning back the
| railroads to private hands, thus ''sav-
ing the government from bankruptcy"
| and that because of this and other pa
! triotic service the American Fedora
ton of Labor the "pernicious PLUMB
Plan league, the 1853 locals of federal
employees, the I. W. W. s and other or
| CARNATIONS" will spend 100000, II
necessary, to defeat him.
Other members of the Texas dele
cation say that Blanton is not poor,
| that his family is conspicuously we'll
TODD, that the opposition candidate
| has not strength nor support worth
mention, and that the fight is largely
| located in Blanton's imagination.
A congressman salary is $500
year. The other day Blanton put into
the Record affidavits declaring the
cost of his campaign efforts thus far,
and they run at the rate of over $4,000
| year for printing and addressing
speeches alone.
What about Bryan and M.Adoo at
| San Francisco? Administration Dem
| ocrats are worrying over the recent
| Bryan statements as to the choice of
| Homer Cummings by the national
committee to act as temporary chair
| man of the convention, and the neat
and worlmanlike flaying which the
Governor administered to Governor
Cox in that connection. The wise old
leader from the Platte is just COM
| mencing the quadrennial houseclean-
| ing, with the slogan: "No embezzle-
| ment of political power! Prison for
| the public official who betrays his
trust" They don't like that, at all.
At first glance Bryan seems to be
aiming his gun at the wet" candi-
| date, Governor Cox, and at such other
Democrats as may try to use their
freedom from instructions to commit
the party to return of the beer and
| wine traffic. But a second survey
gives one the suspicion that Bryan
has looked over the field, found Nc
| Adoo the only candidate with, any
large following among the delegates,
| and has decided to put the presidents
son-iu-Daw to the test. For, after all,
McAdoo is a mere newcomer in polit-
ical crusading, compared with Bryan
and his ideas are virtually unknown.
Bryan would like to know, there
! fore, whether McAdoo, if nominated,
intends to appoint man as his CAM
| paign manager who will furnish guar
| antees to the producers in this country
that the profiteers and gamblers are
to be put out of business. The Ne
braskan knows, far better than Nc
Adoo ever will know, how nearly uni
| versal is the resentment of the people
toward Woodrow Wilson for his keep
| ing Palmer and Burleson in the cab
met. These two agents of the Wilson
| administration personify, to the Bryan
| following the "embezzlement of pow
er," for which Bryan says prison
sentence is the just reward.
McAdoo is trying, apparently, to
evade the direct issue, but at every
turn he finds the Bryan challenge
meeting him. Bryan will head the
resolutions committee that will report
the platform. Either that platform
will represent Bryan's principles or it
will be fought on the floor of the con-
vention by the Commoner. And if
Bryan is defeated there he still has
his appeal to the people. What the
administration politicians are trying
to estimate is the probable amount of
Democratic revolt that would follow
steam-rolling of Bryan and Organism
| at San Francisco.
w. Jet Lauck, consulting econo-
mist for the railroad brotherhoods
and unions, has filed brief with the
railroad labor board, showing that "of
a representative increase of $3.50 in
prices during the war on a pair of
shoes, labor received only Is cents.
*sa The retailers profit is by far
the largest, absorbing over one-third
the price, but it does not show so large
an increase as the packers and tan
ners' profits AS the largest tanneries
are Indirectly part of the big pack
| ers' varied interests, it can be said
without danger of contradiction that