Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1920-02-12
PaImer's Corpse Story Like His
Meat Packers Statement
SAYS HE THEN MADE A DEAL
As for Bryan, He Says 'Tis Bets
ter to be Sounding Board
Than Sounding Brass
By Special Correspondent.

By Special Correspondent.
ment issued last night, Governor Edo
wards took occasion to take several
shots at both William Jennings
Bryan and A. Mitchell Palmer, es-
peciaily at the latter for his recent
criticism Of the Governor for bringing
fight He says Mr.. Palmer's declara-
tion that he is endeavoring to raise a
corpse is a no better statement than
his remarks about the meat packers
being ordinary criminals and would
be convicted, while at the same tirna
he was having the grand jury investi-
gate their high prices and then event-
ualiy was forced to make deaPs
with the packers to reduce the cost Of
living, which failed to materialize.
The governors complete statement
follows:
II notice that the Attorney General
of the United States has Joined the
persons who are attacking me for
bringing the prohibition issue to tho
national horizon. He words his attack
in some such fashion as this: That
by spiritualistic processes / am en-.
deavoring to resurrect the cadavers
This Is not the first time he has deals
with the occult. Those whose mem-
orieS are not too good will remember
that only short time ago he pro.
phesied that as the result of a deal
which he had made with the packers,
the prices of food would soon come
down. Those who look at the price OF
food now and the evident determine.
ton of articles of sustenance to dis
appear entirely from the sight of those
of normal purses will not take too
seriously the prophesying of the At
torney General, especially because his
prophecy was made after he had said
In public speech that the packers
were criminals and would be convict
ed and he said this while the Grand
Jury was investigating the cases. This
will indicate to what degree of sanity
and mental poise this high official had
attained when he first accuses untried
men of guilt and prophesies their con.
Viction. then abandons the prosecue
tion and makes some kind of q deal
with them and again INDUCES III pro-
phecy of the lowering Of the cost OF
living. So 1 don't think that we should
waste much time with his prophecy.
His high station of course, makes
what he says of some moment but
the fact that he is a candidate for
nomination also makes his words subs
| ject to more careful scrutiny. and ID
may be that he. like some other bird
like candidates sings very SWeetiy
until he sees the black snake of the
Anti Saloon League wriggling In his
vicinity when he emits these piercing
cries of the wickedness of the foes
of prohibition. He does not seem to
understand, although the highest adj
ministrative law officer of the Demo-
cratic present government, that there
is more involved in this question than
the mere ability to get drink. It
s the whole question of personal
liberty. If by guise of constitutional
amendment you can legiSlate foibleS
into the organic law of the land, the
entire function of the Legislature 10
dead and we shall have next the So
cialists incorporating an Amendments
into the constitution, because they ara
Just as numerous as the Anti-Saloon
League and if they We're as well or
ganized and as terrifying. they could
probably work in their theory of gov
ernment into the constitution"
ALSO Mr.. Bryan has again begun
pounding the political tomtoms anent
the dinner in New York at which r
was allowed to speak. Mr.. Bryan
says that Mr.. Homer Cummings is D
mere sounding board for the liquor
traffic. Denying the accuracy of this
statement, although l am sure Mr..
Cummings is able to take care OF
himself in any controversy with the
gentleman from Nebraska, yet in my
opinion 1t is much better to be q
sounding board than sounding brass:
! and although Mr.. Cummings did
nothing more than to allow me to
discuss the question of prohibition at
the dinner, or rather the gentlemen
who gave the dinner did, yet he is
made again the subject of assault by
Mr.. Bryan. Can 1t be that Mr..
Bryan's Mysteries about prohibition
is simply mask to cover an attack
n = q
Mr.. Cummings as chairman of the
N. tional Democratic Committee is a,
formidable obstacle TO the success OF
the designs which the Nebraskan one
may nave upon the national conYen-
ton either to capture the nominations
or to be the dominating figure there
in? Mr. Bryan says nothing more
than he has said in other attacks;
that I am the tool of the liquor traf-
fic. OF course this is not true and he
knows it is not true. AS I have said
very often, there is more in this
question than the mere ability to geo
q drink. The question at issue 10
whether the American people are SO
dead to the spirit Of the constitution
that they will allow their personal
liberty to be taken from them. anu
convinced, being q teetotler hyselI
and talking TO other men VINO aro
teetotlers. that the American mani
hood is Interested III llt4S dt's7N.S--
so much because they wish to drink
to satisfy selfish appetites OF theAr
own or are incommodel in ende&Not.
ing 10 minister to the bodily wants
thev have, but they are indignant ne-
cause fanatics have laid hands upon
tbe ark of the covenant, which is the
Constitution of the United States ana
without which and the spirit OK
which. our whole government pc
comes merely the interplay OF marrow
bmreaucrats and fanatics, and the
snirit which gave US life as country
Is sinking to extinction. As salo az
fbe dinner in New York, VIII take
this question before the national con-
vention and IL 1t be true that the re-
mote places and the wilderness are
able to send enough delegates to shss :
Convention, who either blindiy OF
stubbornly will eject from the con-
yentfon those who desire for each
state a doctrine of personal liberty,
then this is only another indlcalloh
of the path along which the Delno-
cratic party is to tread In the No-
yember elections.
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