The Cordova daily times., 1920-06-15
GOMPERS' REGULAR BIENNIAL
 PERFORMANCE

Samuel GOmpers, president of the American Federation of Labor, is a Democratic party leader of unques- toned loyalty and zeal in behalf of the party and the administration now in power He has been a powerful influence in the councils of the pres ent national administration, and is entitled to his share or whatever praise or blame may attach to the record of the party in power during the past seven and a half years, in particular he is the jealous champion of the un-Americanized covenant of the league of nations.
 MT. Gompers has been a benefi- ciary as we'll as a partisan of the ad ministration. His activity as a Dem ocrat during the past third of a cent ury has been recognized, for instance, by the appointment of his son to a lucrative federal position. MT. Com pers has represented the administra- tion in one official or semi-official capacity and another He cannot, of course, under these circumstances, be called a disinterested commentar- ian on the record of the admfnfstra- tion or the party in power. But he would be unappreciative of favors re- ceived, and forgetfu1 of the prompt -ings of a lifetime of fea1ty to the Democratic party, if he were not to demonstrate in his campaign, as he has in every other national campaign since time of ante-dating his natur- alization, that he is a good, loyal booster for the Democratic party al- ways ready to come to it's assIscance when occasion requires.
 In fact, MT. Gompers has been so good a Democrat that he has never even lifted his voice against fran chise laws and practices imposed by his fellow Democratic politicians on
 
 by fully four-fifths of the wage-earn- ing element of these states, which as we'll as black, has been denied the fundamental rights of citizenship.
 The general Democratic party war cry, as passed down from the White House and echoed by every deserving Democrat and near Democrat from one end of the country to the other is that Congress is a failure" MT. Gompers has issued another statement charging the present congress with having failed to solve the problem of the high cost of living and with failure, also, to complete the task of reconstruction. Of course there are of the fact that Mr Gompers' party came into power seven years ago last March pledged to solve the high living cost problem, and otherwise to make the nation over on the model of the New Jerusalem, so much indigna- tion ought not to be wasted on a Re- publican congress for it's failure to get done in a few months of partial re- sponsibility what MT. Gompers' party failed to accomplish in six years com plete control of both the legislative and executive branches of govern ment. MT. Gompers was never heard to denounce any of the three Demo cratic congresses, sitting from 1913 to 1919, which failed to bestow upon us the millennial situation we were so solemnly promised in 1912 and 1916 would be the certain aftermath of Democratic victory.
 Of course the present congress is failure in the eyes of MT. Gompers. No Republican congress could be any, thing else to so hardboi1ed a Demo crat as he The whole situation is that MT. Gompers always has been an undertaking Democrat and he al ways will be. No Republican congress ever pleased him; no Democratic con- gross ever peeved him; and in the | nature of things neither of these i things could possibly happen. Mir. Gompers, we should say, makes pret- ty good leader of organized labor |