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Navy, Customs. Internal Revenue, Civic and
Insular in foreign possessions until a few days
ag<> a Bryan exploiter bragged that “AA r . J.
has got a man in every branch of the Govern
ment service.”
If. Al. Pindell, who was to be appointed
Ambassador t > Russia just to remain a year
and have a good time simply to put him at
the top rung of the social ladder, was a Bryan
supporter.
A on remember how the facts in the Pindell
case leaked out and Pindell refused the ap
pointment.
Air. Bryan is charged with being responsi
ble for the appointment of John Lind as
‘‘Confidential Commissioner and Adviser of
the State Department*' to untangle the Mexi
can situation.
We all remember that Mr. Lind had a six
month’s outing at our heavy expense, and ac
complished nothing,
Air. Bryan also secured the appointment of
George Fred Williams, of Massachusetts, as
Minister to Greece, and it is fresh in our
memory that Williams tried to prove himself
a bigger ass than is little Page, our Ambas
sador to Great Britain. You remember that
Williams had to be called back home because
he meddled in Albanian affairs and wanted to
become King of Albania.
But the most interesting of Mr. Bryan’s job
getting hinges around affairs here at home,
especially around political affairs in Ne
braska. Mr. Bryan's home State.
In 1912, Hon. Josephine Daniels, our Sec
retary of the Navy, selected R. L. Metcalf,
then editor of Mr. Bryan’s Commoner, to
edit the campaign book for the National
Democratic Campaign Committee, but Char
lie Bryan, brother of AV. J. objected and Mr.
Metcalf resigned from the Commoner, leav
ing a coolness of feeling between the Bryans
and Metcalf.
Soon after that happened brother Charlie
got the Gubernatorial bee buzzing in his bon
net, and Mr. Metcalf was a possible competi
tor. so Secretaries Bryan and Daniels got Met
calf on the Panama Canal Commission at a
salary of $14,500 per year, and when that job
gave out another on the Ceremonies Commit
tee at SIO,OOO per year.
But right here the little Goddess of Fate
played the Bryan brothers rather a mean
trick—Metcalf was holding the fat office to
which W. J. Bryan had helped have him ap
pointed out of Charlie Bryan’s way, but the
Metcalf influence in Nebraska did not go to
Panama with Metcalf, but remained at home
and defeated Charlie Bryan for the nomina
tion.
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Here are other appointments, which Air.
Bryan is charged with having secured.
AV. F. Kelly, of Lincoln, Neb., formerly
helpful to Air. Bryan in ward politics. Assist
ant Solicitor of the State Department, and
promoted to the Assistant Solicitorship be
cause he was so incompetent as clerk to the
Secretary to cause numerous complaints from
members of Congress.
John H. James, of Ohio, appointed. Chief
of the Division of Information in the State
Department because James accompanied him
on his speaking trips in his Presidential cam
paigns, wrote flattering articles about him for
the papers, and continues to sing his praises.
Tried to have Finlay Howard appointed
Auditor of the Treasury, but the appointment
was defeated only because of Howard’s ad
mitted unfitness for the position. Failing in
this, had him appointed to a job with the,
Panama Canal Zone Government.
Secured the appointment of Dr. Fitzsim
mons as Executive Secretary of the Philip
pine Commission, and Dr. Fitzsimmons is
said to be a poor secretary as well as a physi
cian who had little practice before his ap
pointment.
Just before going to his Florida home Mr.
TMEI JEFFERSONIAN
Bryan appointed his secretary counsel to a
commission whose only duty is to settle dis
putes between the United States and Canada
about the boundary lines. The commission
has nothing to do. and was created to take
care of the “faithful" when they lost out- —it
is a “lame duck’’ commission pure and sim
ple, and Air. Bryan’s former secretary, who
is no lawyer, will have nothing to do but
draw $5,000 per year from your pockets.
And his meddling in postoffice fights, which
appointments admittedly belong to the differ
ent Congressmen, caused factional fights
which elected Republicans, in the place of
Democrats, to the next Congress.
If Air. Bryan had not had Jerry Sullivan
made a member of the General Board of Ap
praisers, Louis Alurphy made Collector of In
ternal Revenue, and Anthony Von AVagenen
District Attorney, the split in the Democratic
ranks which gave a Senatorship to the Re
publicans in lowa would not have occurred.
This is only a small part of what Air. Bryan
has done in the way of getting jobs for Bryan
men—it being estimated that he has placed
between 300 and 400 in good paying positions
without regard to their fitness.
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Since the outbreak of the European war
one of our Ambassadors has shown marked
ability in looking after the affairs of his
office—so able in fact has been his adminis
tration that he has won the admiration and
gratitude of the French and English, and the
confidence of the American people.
. The gentleman is Hon. Alyron T. Herrick,
until a few days ago our Ambassador to
France.
He is now on his way back to this country,
a private citizen, and the post, which he so
ably filled during the trying times just after
the outbreak of hostilities, is left to an in
experienced man.
It is true that Air. Herrick is a Republican
—a staunch Republican holding over from
the Taft administration, but unless his suc
cessor is far above the other Diplomatic selec
tions of President AAulson, it would have been
far better to persuade Air. Herrick to con
tinue at his post.
AVhen Hon.| John Bassett Aloore was per
mitted to leave the State Department, the
brains of the Department left with him, and
our State Department has been an object of
ridicule and pity ever since.
In losing Air. Herrick we lose the only Am
bassador in the Diplomatic Corps, and the
post in France is not one at this time that
can be competently filled by just any
body.
Even if Aloore and Herrick did belong to
Republican regimes, they are worse needed
under the present Democratic Administration
than they were ever needed before.
Congress convenes this week, and Senator
Lodge and Representative Gardner will start
the ball rolling for the jingoes by a resolu
tion calling for an investigation of our readi
ness for war.
Already we are hearing that our defense
guns are inadequate, that we haven’t enough
ammunition to last them for one hour if they
had to be used to repulse an enemy, and they
are telling us that most of our battleships,
for which millions of dollars of your money
has been spent, are no better than so much
scrap iron.
But why should we go into hysterics about
war. when the only countries able to give us a
fight, are already engaged in a war that will
leave them so exhausted when it ends that
they will be glad to hear only peace for the
next quarter century ?
England, France, Russia, Germany, Aus
tria, and Japan, as England/s ally, arc spend
ing millions which will lx? a drain on their
resources for the next 25 years, and no one
of them will want war just for the fun of it
after what they are now going through.
Then again, they arc depending largely
upon us to supply them while their industries
are crippled, and it Will he impossible for
them to resume a normal business in manu
facture and agriculture as soon as the war
ends.
This war may also teach ns an important
lesson as to armament, etc., the guns which
were considered the best at the outbreak of
the war may prove practically worthless by
the end of the war—the type of battleship
considered irrcsistable last year, may prove
to be a burden when an important sea battle
is fought.
In fact, from what little sea lighting that
has been done, it looks very much like the
present opinion of the superiority of the
dreadnaught will be changed.
Suppose we go ahead and spend millions
for armament how, only to learn that it is
obsolete within the next twelve months?
Every dollar appropriated, for war pur
poses now, may prove that many dollars
thrown away.
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It will prove interesting to old soldiers of
the Confederacy to learn that the tactics used
by the English in this war are the tactics of
their leaders, Lee and Jackson, during the
Civil AA'ar, —it is the idea of Lee and Jack
son in the Sixties pitted against the Bismark
tactics of the Franco-Prussian war, and t’ns
Germans are getting worsted every time they
have a run-in with the English.
Almost fifty years since Lee's surrender at
Appomattox, but his and Jackson’s ideas of
how a campaign should be waged are being
followed by the English officers.
No higher tribute could be paid the late
Confederate leaders than is paid, them by the,
British army, and, when the history of the
present war is written, we will see what a
very important part the British have taken,
in crushing Germany.
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/ T A ACOMA, Wash.—Three hundred Indians rep
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Philip Howell, an educated red mm, severely con
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to “crime running rampant.”
“The struggle between capital and labor.”
“The 2 5,000 women following an immoral life,”
and the “sweatshop” and child labor conditions.
“If these be civilization give me back my
savagery,” he asserted.
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