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Show BRYAN AND HITCHCOCK I; Though the Nebraska primary elec-, ' tions. resulted in honoring both Senator ' Hitchcock and Mr. Bryan, the campaign which preceded them, exposed a bitter-' bitter-' "' ness toward each other that will be bound bound to find further venfcrat the convention, conven-tion, in San. rFancisco--v Senator Hitchcock Hitch-cock succeeded in securing' the Demorat-ic Demorat-ic presidential preference vdte, in spite of thesantagonism-of the) eloquent and poli-I- ticallyi experienced Mr. Bryan, and Mr. I Bryan won vhat he was striving for a 1 ! delegateship at large from his home state I J to the national convention dn the face of II Senator Hitchcock's charges of disloyalty I to the present Democratic administration E defeater of the peace treaty and all ar-I ar-I ound "party wrecker" I" ' But if Mr. Bryan is really guilty of all "5 the party perfidy attributed to him by . w Senator Hitchcock, or if. he were guity of It all the crimes of catalogue, President A Wilson might be willing to excuse them rc: as mere indiscretions before he could pos- V . . sibly forgive, the offensive remarks of IB Senator Hitchcock uttered at Omaha dur- n'; ing the closing thorn's., of the recent Hi- ' campaign. . .4 -i -, - IX & Although oseensiblypeaking in de- Ww fense of the President;.' Senator Hitch- 1 cock said: .. -os 4 a "Of course Woodrow cWison makes mistake. He made a mistake when he proceeded pro-ceeded to negotiate .- treaty of peace without taking arfew-leading members of I I the Senate into his confidence. He made J '' - a mistake when he hurt the feelings of I ' . proud senators by. ignoring. them until 21 after he had negotiated a treaty. If he had catered to and consulted with those B senators he would have had ran easy time I With ratification. He lacked t the tact and I forethought He knew that the consti- 'y , tution placed in his hands the negotia- s tion of treaties, and he unwisely assum-9 assum-9 " ed that if he performed his duty the sen-I sen-I ; . ate would do its duty and consent to rati-l rati-l fication." 9 The affront to the president lies in the M ;,, open admissions that he made mistakes, 8L- thatihe lacked tact and forethought and S that he was guilty of unwisdom-Senator unwisdom-Senator Hitchcock was the, leader of ,' , the administration forces in, the senate. Mil He was the confidential adviser and the w chief spokesman of the p'resident. Every ' wM : mistake, lack of judgment and foresight and unwisdonwith which he publicly arraigns ar-raigns the president he was ' himself a partyito,'arid a-vigbrouVexponeritof, and now when the President is, as he says, "broken in health, depressed in spirit and 'bitterly disappointed," it will be regarded regard-ed as the act of a false and faithless friend to have proclaimed rom the hustings his real opinion of the President's course- If Mr. Bryan doesn't use this unhappy confession con-fession to feed fat the ancient grudge he bears the Nebraska senator, then the liquid li-quid tongue of the erstwhileorator of the Platte will have cleaved Jo.the roof of his mouth and his fertile brain will have lost its cunning. Salt Lake Herald, mum Governor Cox of Ohio iri a speech at Marion, Ind., saiii.that thp prof iteers were trying toj'buy an underhold" an the coun-, try through the RepulJieiw' party Why should they buy an underholdfwhen Gov;-, ernor Cox's party has" beenso nic-i about giving them a stranglehold? .-.it h " '! The war department? wft a lit'Jeh.ortj, on aeroplanes and artillery, butfit'bought thirty-two million.Tirs.otshoes."As there? were only.four million spldietttfit wah evidently ev-idently in .mind (to, organize, a. centipede?! i division- 'h " l' Admiral Doc'GraysorQias vetoed" Woods Hole as siteof. summer presiden-i. presiden-i. tial rest and -will hunt a better 'ole. Perhaps Per-haps Woods Hole Js. too near salt water for a dry land admiral;. j The vote in the Democratic primaries indicates that there are hardly enough of 'em left for seed north of the Ohio. The New York World started in to support sup-port Herbert Hoover for President on any old ticket, but now that the gentleman has decided - to be a Republican the World's covenant is seen to contain a number of straight Democratic reserya-'i tions, of course. ' t ' n w isf - v The Michigan Democrats couldn't de- cide whether Palmer or McA'doo jis the administration candidate Wsl'iPriafjnt so they ran one of them third and the other fourth in their, primary, there being be-ing no fifth place. . . .' " 1. Ml, It doesnt seem tp be'afiiionism, but dis-unionism dis-unionism that is at s'take in the present railway strike. n k k No, not all the unrest in the country is due to labor. On the contrary much of the 'Unrest is due to the consciousless exactions ex-actions of the big and little influences which keep pushing prices higher and higher every month without regard to actual, costs or values in the effort to get while the getting is good. Every man who wants to be honest is willing to admit ad-mit that so called big business is not the ony big sinner in this matter. The trouble trou-ble is nearly everybody's doing it. t -1 fc Nobw Mexico faces a seclusion movement. move-ment. Life in the cactus republic is just one darned revolution after another. |