A Corporation Attorney

Some little surprise will doubtless be caused among the friends of William J. Bryan, candidate of the nondescript convention at Chicago, who do not already know of it, on learning tliat he :ias been for some time a paid employé of a very large and rich Corporation. This corporation is the Missouri Pacific railroad company. Mr. Bryan, in the intervals of his Populistic and free silver rhetoric, finds time to act as assistant attorney in the state of Nebraska, under General Attorney B. Waggener, of the Missouri Pacific. A representative of the legal department of the Missouri Pacific railroad company was peen by a Sun reporter yesterday and questioned as to the boy orator's connection with the company He said : "Mr. Bryan bas been n-our employ ot some time, just bow long I cannot teil you. His office of assistant state attorney is not an important one. In fact, I did not know until within a day or two, when my attention was called to it, tliat Mr. Bryan held an office in this company. Some of his utterances would seem to me incompatible with conseientious service in a raihvay corporation." "Has any word been received bere indicating an intention on his part to resign bis office? askfid the reporter. "Not tliat I am aware of," replied the lawyer, and I should probably have heard of bis resignation had it been sent in." It is not to mucli to say that the Missouri Pacific railroad company is not Populistic in its nature and trend. The president is Mr. George J. Gould. One of the heavy stockholders is Russell Sage. Many of Mr. Bryan's most ardent supporters have said harsh things about "inoney kings," "soulless corporations," ringing the changes on these phrases with no little ardor. No doubt it will grieve them to be forced to a realization of the fact that their candidate is an employé of these gentlemen: that, in fact, their clay idol's feet are gold. But tbey are not without a crumb of comfort. One of the vital principies of Populistic ethics is to get all that is possible out of the capitalist and the corporation. Mr. Bryan has been faithful to this principie. He has drawn bis salary