Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-05-26

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-la Dor employers in the
East. A circular letter was issued by
Manager Blanton, describing Con.
gresham BlantOn as Every poor
man." and saying that II am of the
impression that you would deem it a
privilege to contribute to his cam
paign, and l am writing this letter
only to 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
Plan league, the 1913 locals of federal
employees, the 1. w. WIS and other or
CARNATIONS" will spend 100000, it
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 a
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
a year for printing and addressing
speeches alone.
What about Bryan and McAdoo 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 workmanlike faying which the
Governor administered to Governor
Cox in that connection. The wise old
leader from the Platte is just CON-
mencing the quadrennial houseclean-
ing, with the slogan: mo 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 second survey
gives one the suspicion that Bryan
has looked over the field, found Me-
AdoO the only candidate with any
large following among the delegates,
and has decided to put the presidents
son-lu-)aw to the test. For, after all.
McAdoo is a mere newcomer in polit-
1cal crusading, compared with Bryan
and his ideas are virtually unknown,
Bryan would like to know, there
fore. whether McAdoo, if nominated,
intends to appoint a 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 Me-
Draskan knows, far better than Me-
Adoo ever will know, how nearly uni
versal is the resentment of the people
toward Woodrow Wilson for his keen
ing Palmer and Burleson in the cab
met. These two agents of the Wilson
administration personify, to the Bryan
following the "embezzlement of DOW
err for which Bryan says a prison
sentence is the just reward.
McAdoo is trying, apparently, to
evade the direct issue, but at everv
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 irving
to estimate is the probable amount of
Democratic revolt that would follow a
steam-rolling of Bryan and Bryanism
at San Francisco
w. Jett Lauck, consulting econo-
mist for the railroad brotherhoods
and unions, has filed a 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.
= 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 a part of the big pack
ers' varied interests, it can be said
without danger of contradiction that
their profiteering is very largely re-
sponsible for the high prices of
Shoes