Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1920 — METHOD IN THEIR MADNESS [ARTICLE]

METHOD IN THEIR MADNESS

The acknowledged Republican ■state organ, the Indianapolis Star, with a candor most refreshing, admits that all this pow-wow of the Republican politicians about the dangers confronting the country by a continuation of the Democrats in power, the adoption of the league of nations and its condemnation of President Wilson is simply for effect by “an aggregation of politicians out of power.” In this connection the Star says: It can hardly Wave escaped the attention of persons born longer ago than the day before yesterday that the Republican nominees are consumed with an insatiable passion to get in. One means to that end they concedve to be a withering contempt for about everything the Democrats have started. It would be impossible for the most resourceful genius to contrive a mess of crimes and misdemeanors approaching in iniquity the most negligible undertaking of the Wilson administration. It will not do to indulge ourselves in too desperate alarm over this exhibit in misanthropy on the part of all faithful Republican statesmen because this is but part of their regular Job. At the hour of going to press none of them can think of a deadlier blight upon unborn generations than the league of nations. The more they contemplate it the worse it grows, and curiously it is given to taking on different and mutually exclusive aspects to contemporaneous observers, and even to the same observer at different times. To some ardent patriots It has appeared through the telescope the same evening In right ascension as a "horrifying super-state and also as the sum of all international impotence. Though this spectacle may cause the groundlings to laugh and the judicious to grieve, there is, alas, no help tof it. It is a perfectly awful thirty to think how demented men can become when their party is concerned, who are perfectly sane on every other subject In the world.