The Cordova daily times., 1920-05-07
FRIDAY, MAY z, 1920
WHY DOES BRYAN HAVE THE
 GALL TO TALK?

Yes, the campaign of 1920 is on. William J. Bryan is again busily en- gagged in demagoging about the rail- roads. He is rolling the old familiar phrases about the 'plutocrats" and the special interests" and the giant cor porations" which, he says, "controI' congress and the press, and grind down" the people.
 Perhaps the cO3one1 doesn't know that since he last made the welkin ring with his invectives against the "p1utocrats" and railroad barons" his own political party has been in power for six years, pledged to eliminate all the "plutes" and tame all the "mo- nopolies," and presumably, in all that long period of complete control of the government, has cured all the evils he has made himself rich railing against. Possibly Colonel Bryan is unfamiliar with the fact that the people have even had dose of government ownership of railroads, which he used to say would reduce freight and passenger rates to figure little more than noth- ing and support the national govern ment out of the profits. Maybe he doesn't know that the real result of the experiment of political railroading, carried on by his own party, was an increase of transportation costs to the people of something like a billion dol lars year and an annual loss of a 1 few hundred millions that have had to be paid out of the public treasury. Moreover, the railroad systems of the country have been so nearly wrecked by the political management Colonel Bryan promised would produce transportation millennium that the country has grown far beyond their capacity, and the end in increased transportation charges and losses in operation is not yet.
  William J. Bryan to come forward with his old outcry against plutocracy All this hullaballoo of his was directed to the point that if the people would turn the management of things over to Bryan's party there would be a new deal whereby the plutocrat and the  prOfteer would be exterminated. And in seven years of the sort of adminis- tratino Bryan and his fellow dema- egogues and dOctrinaires helped shove over on the people twice as many mil honaires, according to the income tax entire century and a third of na- tional history preceding.
 What Colonel Bryan ought to be en- gagged in doing is uttering apologies for the record and confessing that he was "four-fushing" in all that dema- gogical gab about what he and his fellow-politicians were going to do to the 'plutes." The possibility that Bryan himself may now be numbered among these millionaires, even if he did start on the job of millionaire bait ing while drawing a salary of $30 a week, is scarcely excuse enough for what he and his fellow-Democrats have done along this line in violation of all their promises and in repudia- ton of all their professions.
 The claim that the present congress is "corporation-control comes with poor grace from man who in 1912 and 1916 helped push over on the peo- ple an administration which has given the plutocrat and the profteer of the cid Bryan orations the grandest and most glorious picnic ever experienced by such elements in all human his tory. It is true that it has been pri- marily the prosperity of the specula- tor and adventurer and profiteer rather than of the legitimate producer, bat the knowledge that this is true does not make the people feel any better about it.
 Judged by his campaign utterances,