Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1920 — ATTACKS HARDING SPEECH [ARTICLE]

ATTACKS HARDING SPEECH

Congressman Frank E. Doremus, | chairman of the central western headquarters of the Democratic na- j tional committee, issued a statement • on Senator Harding’s speech at Minneapolis. “Senator Harding’s speech was an

adroit effqrt to placate farmers who remembered what he said when the bill for $2 wheat was on its passage,” Mr. Doremus said. "He said then that ‘dollar wheat makes a .very profitable occupation,’ and that ‘if the qualities of American patriotism are such that we must guarantee the American farmer a price for his wheat in the face of world famine, then there is not patriotism enough in this country to win the war.’ ' “If Senator Harding thought dollar wheat was profitable then and the demand for $2 wheat was greedy, he will have difficulty in explaining it away now to the hardheaded farmer of the wheat belt, however roseate the program he may lay out on paper.”

One of the most significant signs of the campaign is found in the letters newspapers print from the readers which show a general trend of independent sentiment toward Cox and Roosevelt, but no independent Democratic sentiment toward Harding and Coolidge. Every day the Democratic papers contain letters from readers announcing that they are Republicans but Intend to vote for Governor Cox and Mr. Roosevelt, and similar letters frequently appear in Republican newspapers, which probably receive many more of the kind than they print. Senator Harding has, at last said something that is bold, fearless, clear as a bell and which cannot be successfully disputed. Evidently without consultation with Chairman Hays, or Senator Penrose, or . the campaign committee, he comes right

out and in tones that carry conviction to the mind and a thrill to tho heart declares: “The history of civilization is a very interesting story." One of the finest tributes ever paid to the labor record of Governor Cox was that of a Pennsylvania miner, who In a strike escaped across the state line into Ohio and said: “Pennsylvania is Siberia; Ohio is America.” The governor of Ohio, then as now, was James M. Cox, who settled all Ohio strikes without calling out a soldier or firing a shot. Thanks to Tennessee, the women of Vermont and Connecticut can now express their opinions at the ballot box of the administrations that refused to allow the elected representatives of the people in their legislatures to vote upon suffrage. "Senator Harding is not a whirling dervish,” asserts Senator New. He certainly is not. Now, that that Is settled, what is he? * ” Every good~“Dembcrat should welcome the final victory of woman suffrage with open arms.