| Show BRYAN AS A DEADBEAT he attacks the corporations and then asks and accepts favors front from them the more mr bryan tries to explain away his foraging expeditions on railroad passes the more be convicts himself of demagogy and willful deception when the san francisco papers made public the fact that bryan had solicited and accepted cepter favors from s southern pacific railroad in the shape of railroad passes bryans friends at first denied the charge they backed their denials by producing the requisition written by bryan in which he applies for the free ticket et over the southern ou pacific on account of the omaha world gierald upon inquiry at omaha it developed that bryan had bad severed his connection with the world herald a year previously and furthermore that the world beraldi herald had ahad no advertising contract with the southern pacific and was not entitled to any transportation for any advertising I 1 dune for that road to parry this exposure bryan retorted over his own name that he was still a stockholder in the world herald by this matters were not much mended for the reason that as it a stockholder in a newspaper he could have no claim upon any railroad for free rides and furthermore that under interstate the commerce law interstate railroads are forbidden from giving free f ree transportation except to railway employed emp loyes the southern pacific is not however the only railroad on which bryan has been foraging mr bryan traveled to st louis some ten days ago over the wabash and dead headed beaded his big way with an 1897 annual pass the pass is ostensibly i issued sued on account of the world herald gierald but bears on its face the flat contradict cont contradiction radic tion of the pretense that it is 1 a I business transaction railroads do not issue annual i passes in exchange for advertising in the nature of things they could not know how often they would be used for what distance and how bow much advertising value they would represent the discreditable part of bryans dead heading over the railroads arises not merely from the fact that he poses as the champion of the antimonopoly anti monopoly forces and denounces the railroads for discrimination in favor of influential non producers as against the common people who must pay their way but also because while amply able to pay his fare he is resorting to deception to cover up his acceptance of railroad gifts omaha bee |
