Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1920 — HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN [ARTICLE]

HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN

Looey Now Eats Crow Regularly and Saya He Likes It. Readers of the Rensselaer Republican will no doubt recall that our egotistical friend Looey was a very enthusiastic advocate and supporter of the league fit nation'S some little time ago and used to publish with great gusto overseas letters from “Col. Healy,” who was also strong lor the league. But when Johnson and Borah put the new “cracker” on the party whip at the Chicago convention and the rubber stamp candidate for president came out with his speech of acceptance and the senatorial cabal begun whipping the recalcitrants into line, Looey, was among the first to fall, to renounce his personal views ahd those of his “Col. Healy” and denounce the league as an instrument ot the devil which was only destined to send our boys to war overseas instead of being a pact to end wars for all time. It certainly must be humiliating for an editor to have to eat crow so frequently as Looey. Only a few years ago he refused to do this, and with thousands of others in his party he clambered onto the progressive band wagon and bade defiance to the Jim Watsons, the Boise Penroses and their ilk. But the lure of the loaves and fishes was too much for one who had for years been engaged in the Coal business, and Looey again became limp and submissive to~ the cabal which rules his party It is Indeed pathetic to see a once' great and master mind become so pliable to the of the political machine which it once renounced and denounced as unworthy of the support of all honest men.