Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-05-14
BelittIes Edwards Race for
Presidency as Absurd and
Says Liquor Traffic Would
Nominate Ohio Governor.
CHAIRMAN CUMMINGS
ALSO ROUNDLY SCORED
Says Man Selected to Sound
Keynote Is Type Wanted by
Wall Street for Vice President
Explains Dinner Party.

Lincoln, Neb, May l3.--(Speciai)
w. ]. Bryan does not consider
Governor Cox OF Ohio available as
democratic candidate for presi-
dent. He believes that Cox is the
man whom the vets plan to center
on at the national convention and
that Edwards candidacy is Joke.
"A drunken man in the last stagea
Of delirium tremens would know
that Mr.. Edwards has no chance"
Mr.. Bryan said here today. Refer
riiog to Governor Cox. he said: "He
has traded his birthright for mess
of pottage."
Says Cox Disgraces State.
Governor Cox was elected in 1918
by a small majority, Mr.. Bryan said.
and the county i'll which Cincinnati
is Situated was responsible for the
electing vote. This vote, he said,
was III paymen, for keeping a pro-
hibition plank out of the democratic
platform Mr.. Bryan said Governor
Cox refused to aid in obtaining pro-
hibition and in 1919 did not oppose
the legislaturewhen they nullihed all
the previous legislature had done in
the dry cause.
And now after disgracing his
state. he aspires to position in
which he could disgrace nation"
Mr.. Bryan said in speaking OF 49,
Ohio governor. "For years the
engaged in the liquor business h
been the real anarchists of the cd
try, far more dangerous that tn,
professed anarchists. Governor Cox
has become their candidate.
Candidacy An Insult.
His nomination would make the
democratic patty a leader in the law
less element of the country and his
election, if such a thing were pos
slble, would turn the White House
over to, those who despise the govl
ernment and hold the law in con-
tempt. There is no likelihood of his
being nominated and no chance of
his election if nominated
| But why should any democrat be
willing to support a man whose
nomination would insult the con-
science OF the nation, fof the
triumph of prohibition is triumph
of the nations conscience: Why
should any democrat be willing to
make the party the champion of a
wicked traffic outlawed by 81 states
ON their own accounts and endorsed
by 45~states (including every demo-
cratic state) that Joined in ratifying
the national prohibition amend-
ment?
Governor Cox is not among the
availables this year"
Blames Wall Street Again.
National Chairman Cummings and
the fact that he has been chosen by
the party machine to make the key
note speech is also made the sub.
lect of a caustic comment.
"The selection of Chairman Cum.
mings to sound the keynote at the
democratic national convention is
worse than comedy. 1t is a trag-
edy. 1t is melancholy beginning
if the democrats have any intention
of making campaign this year. :
IF the democratic party is to bs
wrapped ma wet shroud, locked Us
in Wall street safe and buried at
sea, Cummins is just the person @
officiate.
But his selection is a serious
handicap if the party proposes 70
appeal to the progressive sentiment
|of the country. Mr.. Cummings Is
a wet. He halls from one OF tie
thre states that did not ratify the
prohibition amendment, and has noe
yet ratified the suffrage amendment.
Cummings a Reactionary.
His selection, will give eifensc
to every democrat state (for every
democratic state has ratified the pro-
hibition amendmnet) to the 3*>states
that are dry by their own aSt and
the As states that have ratified,
He is reactionary, Wall streets
choice for chairman and he is the
more unfit because he, was a pro-
gressiye and fell. He is just the
kind of man Wall street will want
Tor vice president if it can control
the convention. Mi
DO not the rank and file OF the
party understand now why he att
tended the Edwards coming out
dinner and, was then himself BAN
quoted by the Wall street demo-
Gratis? Will the progressive demo-
Gratis get busy or have they given
ZIP hope?'