Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1920 — DEMYCRAT GETS REAL FUSSY [ARTICLE]

DEMYCRAT GETS REAL FUSSY

OBJECTS TO REMARKS MADE OF SENATOR OWENS’ RECENT SPEECH HERE. > Rennsyleer, Indi'any, September 17, 1920 Mr. Louie H. Hamilton, Edyter of the Renssyleer Republican, Renssyleer, Indiany. Dear Sur:— In your paper of the 17th instent you have made a charge of historical ignorence agenst a grate and loyal party Demycrat that no self-respectin’ loyal Demycrat will permit to go unchallenged. That is why I am writin you this letter. On last Monday nite, the 13th instent, you city was graced by the presence of The Honourable United States Senator Robert J. Owen from the hertofore Demycratic State of Oklahomy, as well as with the pres* ence of other lesser lights of the same political faith, and in your comments upon the Honourable United States Senator’s great speech wherein he so admirably expounded the Demycratic faith to the satisfaction of all thinkin Demycrats, you charge him with making a error of historicle fact that he would hot have made if he had consulted the grade pupils of the Jasper county schools. As a loyal Demycrat we cannot but resent this charge of ignorance agenst our grate Senator from the grate Demycratic state of Oklohomy. And speakin of Oklohomy, Mr. Edyter, I cannot fail to recall to your recollection how admirably the loyal Demycrats of that grate state defended and prevented the League of Nations from attack, and that, too, from one of their own ranks, Senator Reed, the irreconsilable, from . Missouri. Recall, if you please, how nobly they defended the “Heart of the World ’ by spattering him with rotten eggs when be attempted to> speak at Densmore, and how they forced him to hike down the railroad to the next tbwn like an outcast. Ah, Mr. Edyter, that is noble party loyalty in a free people. And speaking of Oklahomy still, don’t forget the fate of the poor blind Senator in the primary in that same 1 grate state, Senator Gore, Mr. Owens own colleague in the Senate Of the United States, but he had no one .to blame but himself for he steadfastly and to the last refused <so much unlike Senator Owen) to set aside his own conscience and permit it to “trail after His.” (Now Mr. Edyter) where I have spelled that word “his” with a capital H, thus “H”, don’t think I am referring to the Deity, for I am not I am referring to the President of the United States, and my authority for this use of capitilizashun is no less than the former Demycratic chairman, Mr. Cummings, who, in his ' great keynote speech at San Francisco Convention referred to our grate President'with the words “He is immortal.” It means Woodrow Wilson, the man chosen to enforce the laws and constitution of the greatest representative government on earth, and the titular head of a grate political party that has used the campaign slogan, “Let the People Rule” And, Mr. Edyter, I think it entirely proper for me to suggest to you the propriety of seeing, in the future, that your pressmen in. your printing office, when using a personal pronoun that refers to the president we now have, use the capitalized letter thus H, and not the ordinary “h”, for, candidly, Mr. Edyter, I am unable to mentally differentiate the Immortal from the Divine. I had always thought, until I read that keynote speech, that a man must be dead before be became immortal, and what led me to that impression was the fact that Lincoln was not immortalized while he was still among us, and as an old Demycrat I recall our party platform in 1864 wherein we said that the Civil War was a failure, that Lincoln was estabhrtiing a despotism and was a tyrant. Well, I must admit that of late years I had begun to somewhat doubt the wisdom of our party s act at that time in putting those words in that platform, and when the World War broke out and a Demycrat president was in office-1 saw right away that we never could have stopped Germany if there had been forty-eight nations here now instead of one. Anyway, Mr. Edyter, wehther I am right about the use of the capital “H” when referring to our immortal president, 1 am sure it would be goad business —it would help hold your demyCrat readerß ’ _ A DEMYCRAT.