Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1920 — Page 2

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DESPOTS AND DYNASTIES

The senators who controlled the Republican convention do not particularly object to despots and dynasties if only they are allowed to pick the despots and dynasts. The methods used at Chicago were those of men determined to control at any cost. Their idea is that, while the senate should be free from dictation at the hands of the president, the senate should be in a position to dictate to the president and to parties. By their action they have taken the vitality out of the issue that it was sought to make against the president as a usurper of power. Such a charge on the lips of men who rode roughshod over the people of their party, disregarded their expressed wishes, and gave them a candidate for whom few of them voted, and who . could not have been nominated in any state of the Union by a majority vote of the Republicans —such a charge coming from such a source affords one of the grotesque spectacles of our politics. No one can tell what sort ,of president a man will make, and it is quite possible that Mr. Harding,

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should he be elected, would bitterly disappoint the senatorial clique that nominated him. But there is no question as to what is expected. The senatorial bosses chose a colorless candidate, one who has never given any exhibition of independence, because they sought to strengthen the senate at the expense of the executive. That was their purpose, and is their expectation. They want for themselves and their colleagues something of the power that they wielded at the convention. All competent observers agree that never was boss power more boldly and arrogantly used than at Chicago—it was also used unscrupulously, as is beginning to appear. The welfare of the party was very far from being the first consideration. What was wanted was power, and assuming that success was certain with any candidate the cabal rode roughshod over the party. The people understand the situation pretty well, and they are not all of the opinion that senators should play such a decisive part in the nomination of a president, that one department of the government should be even in part the creator of another. —Indianapolis News (Rep.)

THE FATAL DIFFERENCE

The fatal difference between the league covenant accepted and signed by 28 nations and the association of nations promised by the Republicans at Chicago is that the one actually exists and will continue to exist, while the other can never be brought into being. “We pledge the coming Republican administra~ tion,” says the concluding paragraph of the treaty plank of the platform, “to such agreement with the other nations of the world as will meet the full duty of America to civilization.” The, hardihood of this undertaking is stupefying, as Mr. Stevenson said of the impudence of one of his personages. The Republicans have pledged themselves to persuade some twoscore of the nations of the earth to abandon the league of which they are now members and to accept at our hands another covenant drawn up by ourselves, to please ourselves. They undertake to negotiate a new treaty altogether—a transaction in which Germany would have a great deal to say. They would make the

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United States the real supergovernment of the world, dominating the globe and demanding submission to its views by all other nations. If the Republicans should come into power on the 4th of March next they will do nothing of the kind, attempt nothing of the kind. Mr. Root’s treaty plank was not drawn up with the view of any such colossal enterprise. He was asked to prepare a declaration that would effectively prevent a bolt by Johnson and Borah? He wrote his prescription with a view to accomplish that purpose and without regard to anything else whatever. It succeeded; it quieted Borah and Johnson. The last paragraph of the composition devours the first paragraph.

There is no promise of an association of nations, of protection for the peace of the world, or of any other desirable thing whatsoever in that plank. It gives shadow for substance. It is a nullity and must have been intended so to be, for otherwise it would never have appeased Borah and Johnson. It does this, however —it declares the hostility of the Republican party to the treaty of Versailles and to the covenant of the league of nations. It proclaims a policy of complete isolation for the United States, it puts the party on record as an unyielding foe to the noblest conception of an international policy of justice and assured peace that the mind of man has ever brought forth, a conception of higher worth than any Republican senator ever will present to the world. —New York Times.

THE GAME AND ITS PERILS

As the full details of the senatorial plot for the presidency are disclosed, the mind is staggered at the audacity of its conception, the magnitude and comprehensiveness of its scope and the almost inconceivable cunning and devotion with which it was ex9cuted. There has never been so bald-faced an attempt to arrogate supreme power in full view of public attention or one carried out with more open and spirited defiance of popular government. It was in the hope of stopping this sort of thing that the direct primary laws were passed; but this legislation, as well as the sound popular instinct that demanded it, has had no other effect upon the wouldbe masters of all power and executive as well as legislative functions than to gain for it the passing tribute of a sneer. The primaries may alm at government by the people, but the senate aristocrats have no thought of such surrender. The spontaneous movement for Leonard Wood appeared so formidable six months ago that steps were considered necessary to defeat that popular desire. The plan was to nominate Harding. To avow such a purpose, In face of the popularity of Wood, Lowden and Johnson, would be to invite failure. So the work must be done indirectly. Enough strength before the convention must be apportioned to these respective leaders to aid them to stop each other but not to win.

To i make a long story short, Wood was openly sacrificed, Lowden was

basely betrayed, and Johnson, after he had carried out his part in contesting with Wood in the Important primary states, was swindled out of hls t Irish plank and actually told fha! his inestimably effective service in launching the campaign fund inves-* tigation had smirched himself also. Men in Michigan nominally for Wood, men in Kentucky nominally for Lowden, sardonically awaited the time when they could crucify their leader in order to put over the Harding conspiracy. The three leaders were played against each other. Eminent statesmen, secretly sworn to the senatorial enterprise, openly wailed and gnashed their teeth in sympathy with Lowden in Indiana, Wood in Kansas, Johnson in New Jersey. Unfortunately, they were aided innocently and wretchedly by deluded persons and newspapers that supposed the war between Wood and Lowden was real, instead of a mock battle', staged to destroy them both. Some of these gangsters took money from both sides; some of them kept up the pitiful pretense of loyalty to Wood or Lowden or Johnson to the last; all of them were animated by the desire that the senate band should be the president, under the name and sign of some perfectly respectable and pliable gentleman who would execute the will of those who had given him the empty honor of the nomination, would supply the money for his subsequent campaign and tell him what to do in case he should be inducted into apparent power.

Then comes the question, what to do? First, what ought to be done? To this there can be, of course, only one answer; they should be shorn of the power they have so shamelessly abused. They might be dethroned individually, even if it becomes necessary to elect a Republiccan president. What we have is an oligarchy, calling upon us to rebuke the Woodrow Wilson autocracy. At least the president was battling for an ideal. At least he offered the country a specific and definite outline of principles and policies, while the sum and substance of the senatorial anabasis is simply supreme power in their own hands. Give them a free hand and they will offer such laws and make such appointments as they see fit. It is an effort to steal the government which menaces the perpetuity of our institutions and the confidence of mankind in the integrity of public men. We know too well what they count upon to deaden all ears to the stealthy step of oligarchy, .posing as the enemy of autocratic power. Bend to the yoke, they say, or continue the unspeakable Democratic party in power; bend to the yoke or suffer under the excess profits tax; bend to the yoke or see the unions enthroned; bend to the yoke or tolerate the dread Wilson dynasty. Some of them will be fighting again to save the Union from the southern confederacy, some to escape free silver and some to restore the McKinley tariff. These things they count upon to mollify in time the resentment of honest men at the most highhanded attest to seize the government our politics has ever seen. The other question is as to what can be done. We know what ought to be done, but can it be compassed? These men have already demonstrated skill and cunning almost beyond belief. Are they also correct in their convictioq. that there is no limit to the patience with which the people will grin and bear such contumely, such plain denial of the popular desire, such mockery of free institutions, such betrayal of leaders and causes? Perhaps they are right. Perhaps the American people, like others that have trodden the thronged ways of alternating liberty and tyranny, are ready to accept an oligarchy, if only it has the daring to conceive and the resolution to execute the expedition. Then we must not overlook the misconduct that has made the opportunity ready to their hands. If the president had earned and held the confidence of the people, this adventure might have been dreamed of, but it could not have been realized. Such are the miseries of today, that we are fain to fly to the inducements held out by the buccaneers. Such blandishments are always the part of wily aspirants for power which is not rightfully theirs. Encroachments of the rule of the people are made alluring by promises of relief from burdens and false lights of supposed freedom. And always they have respectability ready to lend the atmosphere of honesty and prosperity to their cause. “Shall we have a Cicero?” By all means, the senatorial conspirator of old Rome replied; “for his silver hairs will buy men’s voices to commend our deeds.” —Indianapolis Star (Republican state organ).

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vember elections was removed Tuesday, the house voting down, 67 to 44, the federal ratification resolution and then adopting In quick order, 60 to 39, a resolution flatly opposing federal suffrage. The federal ratification resolution failed In the senate last week. And now let the Democrats, make no mistake in either platform or candidate in their national convention at San Francisco, which meets June 28, and it’s all over but the shouting. The various Republican candidates and their financial backers have been quite busy since their national convention in calling each other harsh names. Go to It,

ISSUES A SIGNED STATEMENT

General Wood Says Butler Is a Liar and a Faker. Washington, D. C., June 16. —The statement of Nicholas Murray Butler that a “motley group of stock gamblers, oil and mining promoters, munition workers and other like persons” backed General Wood’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, brought a signed statement from the general last night in which he characterized Butler’s declaration as a “vicious and malicious falsehood.” General Wood said that he regretted to make the statement but that it was necessary to “brand a faker and to denounce a lie.” Declaring that the men who managed his campaign were of “extraordinary high character,” the general said that the attack on them “is infamous” and that Mr. Butler’s action was “an attempt to Ingratiate himself with certain elements which exercised a determining influence at the convention.” The statement follows: “I have just read the statement issued in New York by Nicholas Murray Butler to the effect that a motley group of stock gamblers and others tried to buy the presidential nomination for me and that the forces who were defeated in their insolent attempt to buy the nomination represent all that is worst in American business and political life.

“The statement is a vicious and malicious falsehood. I would ignore it if it were directed at me alone, but I can not remain silent when my loyal friends and supporters are vilified. “Colonel William Cooper Proctor, who was chairman of my campaign committee, is a man of extraordinary high character, known throughout the length and breadth of the land for his absolute Integrity and honesty. His associates were men of like character, most of whom responded to their country’s call during the war. They typify a group of progressive Americans. The attack upon them is infamous. “The forces which brought me before the convention with preponderant force were hundreds of thousands of patriotic men and women in every walk of life who have indorsed me at nation-wide state conventions, nation-wide state primaries and in a nation-wide poll of unprecedented size. “This action of Nicholas Murray Butler is an attempt to ingratiate himself with certain elements which exercised a determining Influence at the convention and possibly to explain his own political weakness. It is a self-seeking, cowardly attack, made under the cloak of an alleged public service, which was never intended or rendered. “I regret to make a state of this kind, but it is necessary in this .instance to dehounce a lie.”

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RENSSELAER TIME TABLE In effect March 30, 1919, NORTHBOUND. No. 36 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:24 a.m. No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 6 01a.m. No. 40 Lafayette to Chicago 7:30 a.m. No. 32 Indianap’s to Chicago 10:86 a.m. No. 38 Indianap’s to Chicago 2:61 p.m. No. 6 Louisville to Chicago 3:81p.m. No. 30 Cincinnati to Chicago 6:60 p.m. SOUTHBOUND. No. 35 Chicago to Cincinnati 2:27 a.m. No 5 Chicago to Louisville 1u:65 a.m. No. 37 Chicago to Indianap’s 11:18 a.m. No. 33 Chgo to Indpls and FL 1:57 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette 6:60 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Indianap’s 7:31p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville 11:10 p.m.

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