Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1920 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

It is a strange commentary that Chairman Will H. Hays makes on the present leadership of the Re-, publican party when he stipulates that competitors for the prize of SIO,OOO to be offered for the best suggestions for the next Republican national iplatform shall be “young men or young women under 25 years of age.” Has he no confidence in the ancients of his party? Does he, too, doubt the wisdom 'and ability of the men who have been managing the G. O. P. 10, these many years? Is it possible that he has come to believe —with

the rest of the country—that youths "under 25 years of age” are as capable of making a successful Republican platform as Senator Lodge or Majority Leader Mondell of the house of representatlTes, for example? Truman H. Newberry remains an active unit of the Republican m<aJority in the senate notwithstanding the charges of corruption, fraud and conspiracy made against him in a federal court in connection with his election as United States senator from Michigan. If MrNewberry followed the example of other senators who abstained, while under charges, from participation in the senate’s deliberations and voting, the Republican majority would be reduced to a margain of one or two. Mr. Newberry shows no delicacy about helping his party control the senate, and his party —including Republican senators — has no objection to accepting his assistance.