Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1920 — HEARST IS OUT FOR HARDING [ARTICLE]

HEARST IS OUT FOR HARDING

The W. R. Hearst papers are for Harding for president, which must be a bitter pill for most of the decent members of that party. Hearst was bitterly hostile to the allies before we went into the war, if not

actually pro-German. He did everything in his power to stir up dissension between this country and Great Britain, thus striking a blow directly at the alliance. During the war, after we went in, it was necessary for his papers to exercise a considerable degree of restraint, and their owner performed at least a lip-service to the American cause. If he had had his way we should have been so deeply involved in Mexico as to have made it impossible for us to put our full strength into the great war for freedom and civilization. Now he and his papers oppose the league of nations, and favor a separate peace with Germany, and they are supporting Senator* Harding because his views on this subject are also theirs. They tried to force Senator Johnson on the Republican party, and failed. Now they are out for Senator Harding, believing that he has been forced by Johnson into Hearst’s position of hostility to the league of nations. Jackson Morris surely failed to consult Will Hays and Candidate Harding before he made that pro'league argument at Winona in the debate with Senator Hitchcock. It’s dollars to doughnuts Harry New will not send that Kentuckian out again to interpret the old guard platform.

The standpat crowd has decided to make President Wilson the chief issue, according to an announcement from Marion. The Lodge “Hymn of Hate,” sung at Chicago and hummed for eight years by the senatorial cabal, will undoubtedly become their chief campaign song. * No wonder Governor Goodrich epngratulated the legislators at the close of the special session. They held inviolate his sacred tax law and placed him In control of the Indiana coal situation. Warren T. McCray’s connection with a Chicago bucketshop was an interesting disclosure to his Indiana friends. He must have neglected to mention that'vocation in his primary campaign. A good campaign text for Senator Watson, now that he has been dubbed “one of us” by Candidate Harding, would be to tell his fellow Hoosiers how he voted for Wood and worked for Harding at Chicago.