"
Vjv.
,'.,r .'
9,
f
to.
V
' "T
tflfa
Ti& Ti
mUJ6&4
UNFAIR TACTICS
.' k
CHARGED BY COX
Pm&crattc Nominee losues An
other Statement Criticizing
I ' Saturday Evening roafc
' -r-l - '
(TALKS OF PARTISANSHIP
nytan, 0., Oct.. 28. Another state--.
eliBrting the Sntimlny Evening
ggt and Us editor, Oeorge Horace
tTflmer, with unfair pnrtlntishlp, was
SUr by Governor pox.
1 "The Inslduous purpose of the
fl.lurdav Evening Post, cloaked under
;Klin methods for the last decade
Jndmore, haAilnally been brought to
ESt " Governor Cox declared, statin
Sfti It hnd made misstatements orily
tour days before election, when It was
Jmtirtnlble to correct them.
Wb. Curtis PubllshlnB Co had
Wattami guilty, by Jho Federal Trade
rammlwlon of vlolfttlng the amU-tnist
SS by "nfalr prn!tlces In distributing
U periodical. wM bf Governor
St. deelarlng that "big business' was
nosed to htm "became he would give
ffawunro deal and nothlng-morc,'"
Text of Cox'i Statement
The governor statement, follows:
"When early In the week I called
.Mention to the guerrilla tactics of the
Siturday Evening Post-on the basis of
Its last'mlnutc attack on me. the re
nonte of Mr. Lorlmcr. Its editor, was
that my action was unethical.
"i am perfectly willing to leave t,he
j.At.inn nn ethics to ithc voters of
America, many of whom hove been life
ttae readers at the, Baturdar .Evening
Post and who from the time of Its origin
t.ve looked upon It as a household
Journal, to which they tendered devo
tion because It took no part in partisan
campaigns.
"The question or ethics would seem
to He in what America has learned to
look upon as n square deal, and when a
nonpartisan journal becomes partisan
In Its very last Issue, four days before
n election, fit a time when It Is Im
possible for misstatements to be cor
rected or deceit to be met. It would
teem to Indicate a very deep-seated
selfish Interest based upon some pur
Dwe which could scarcely be called
itrtlght forward and honest. No man
who represents a Just cause has any ob
jection to presenting both sides of the
cue. 4
Aslts Two Questions 'J
"In my statement I charged ulterior
Interests. Since Mr. Lorlmer has seen
fit to reply simply in a wny that raises
the question of ethics, I would like to
direct to him the plain question :
" 'Is his interest in this election
which brings the unusual act of partisan
ittpport from his paper based upon the
desire for a return to normalcy, under
which his publl6atlon sought to prosper
It unfair methods? Is ft becauso the
rttrtk Pnhllshlna Co. was fctind guilty
of the use of unfair and .Illegal methods
of competition nnd of violation of tlio
anti-trust law prohibiting use of certain
tjlng-ond contracts and or violation oi
the Federal Trade Commission ruling?'
"Thi comnlttint In each case was
lucd upon the fact that the Curtis
PnhHihlnir do. made contracts with
wholesale distributors which prevented
them from handling other publications
vlthout tiermtaslon from the Curtis Pub
lishing Co., and which prohibited the
Mle ot all competing puDiicauons.
"Tho nlan of thu Curtis Publishing
Co. was with tho Intont nnd hnd tne
effect of largely increasing circulation
of Curtis publications nnd unfairly de
creasing -circulation of competing pub
lication to the end that the Curtis
Publishing Co. would derive large ad
vertising rates by reason of tremendous
circulation.
Charges Unfair Practices
"These unfair practices prevented
competing publishers from obtaining
distribution of their publication through
the ordinary distributing channels and
forced them to distribute through chan
nels which did not have ony facilities
for a wide distribution. Proof of these
unlawful practices was found by the
Federal Tradp Commission after ex
tensive hearings on Julv 21, 1010, and
the Curtis Publishing Co. was forced
to cease and desist.
"Here Is the harm of the reactionary
desire for return to normalcy. The
protection of the anti-trust net is In
sufficient: but the Federal Trade Com
mission has authority to Investigate the
facts and to Issuo rulings therefrom.
Krerv unfair business in America Is.
therefore, against me because ,1 do not
stand for the return to the old order
under which the strong prospered at the
expense of the wenk and under which
big businesses grew bigger while small
Duslnpbsps were forced out of existence.
"The insidious purpose of the Satur
day Evening Post, cloaked under non
partisan methods for the nnst decade
and more, has finally been brought to
light. It has erown to such site and
jalned such prosperity as to bn embold
ened beyond all discretion and has ex
pressed what in my mind Is tho thing
which Is causing all big business to
upport the reactionary candidate,
namely, that thev know that from me
they may expect n snunre deal and
joining more. It is the difference be
tween a square deal and that which big
business wants which constitutes the
return to normalcy.','
Harding Condemns
Harvey Cartoon
eoUnom from Tmte Oni.
n"1 w.h,c'' invoked blasphemy nnd sac
Ji!e In the Interest of the Republican
ticket. Ills apology does not, however,
recite the true chronology or all the
"As I wrote you on October 23 tho
iecratlon of tho Christian religion
"fined a prominent feature of Harvey's
Weekly Inst week. This Journal Is, a
Purchased organ of the Republican Na
A . .' Committee. As I wrote you on
October 25, Reld. the cartoonist who
Jfw it was and still is the official
Mrtoonlst of the Republican National
J-ommltteo. I have since learned that
e committee not only sent out this
rtoon In Its free press service, but
wat it was printed In tho October 0
ue of the National Republican, nlso
v.Si '?ljed organ of the Republican
Rational Committee. The Postofflce De
partment reports show that this organ
"owned by Mr. Hays. Mr. Weeks, Mr.
other''' Adaras Mi McKlnley and
'Thus, this shameful cartoon ran a
7 pantlet of official Republican ap
PJOTal, ending at lost with the encomium
J him whom Senator Harding declares
if. I on.eo' America's great minds; who
lms that Senator Hording wns nom-
'Q In his room and through his
iute planning j who Is a frequent nnd
welcome guest In Senator Harding's
jouje. and who will continue to be his
"nfldant and adviser If be U elected
'resident. 1 refer to George Harvey,
11 rfcen"5r BS Tuesday evening the
wnfldentlal dinner companion of Mr.
BTs himself.
von uesi express my opinion ot tne
Jd faith of Mr. Hays and the decency
".'"Publican subsidised Journalism by
FAMILY OF 4 MUTES
SEEKS, CURE BY FAITH
i i i
Parents With Twin Babes
Found by Detectlvo Search
ing for Father Hathaway
0. S. WORLD'S ONLY
HOPEfSAYSHARDING
The fame pt the Rev. Father Harry
St. CUIrHathaway, of St. John's Hpls
opal Church, Norrlstownlt who recently
conducted.il faith-healing mission at St.
John's Episcopal Church, Germantqwn,
nas round its way Into tho Dlue Ridge
mountains. Proof ot that was fur
nished yesterday when Alpha Barker,
his wife Elizabeth and their fourteen
months-old twins were found seeking
b at Twenty-first nnd Arch streets.
The family, all deaf mutes, was dis
covered by Detective Joseph Shay wan
dering aimlessly and helpless through
their Inability to mnkp themselves under
stood. It was with difficulty that Shay,
who Is the head of the Missing Persons
Iturtaii, learned from the woman that
they had come from Cairo, W. Vn., to
be- cured by prayer and the laying on of
hands,
When told that Father Hathawny's
mission hau closed for the time being
at least, the parents of the twins were
plainly disappointed.
CHRIST CHURCH RECTOR
FOR COX AND ROOSEVELT
The Rev. Louis C. Washburn flays
Idealism Is Paramount Issue
The Rev. LouIb C. Wrfrhburn, rector
of old Christ Church, has sent a letter
to the Pro-League Independents, In
which ho announces he will sunnort
Oovernor Cox for President nnd Mnjor
John A. Farrell, Democratic candidate
for United tBatca senator, against Sen
ator Penrose.
Mr. Washburn has always been an
tmlenenricnt.
"As a citizen bound to strive for the
purification of politics, and therefore,
repudiating the dictation of the bosses,
I take my stand with the patriots who
vote for principles Irrespective of party
regularity," tho clergyman said In his
communication.
"There should be an unprecedented
Increase in this group from the- millions
of new and untrammeled voters this
year. There are moral issues In the
present campaign that should be made
so clear and compelling as to draw
right-minded men and women of all
sorts and Conditions one way in such a'
national crisis.
"The three outstanding questions to
be settled by our suffrage are: First,
shall Idoallsm nbdlcnte to materialism?
Second, shall character assassins suc
ceed with, their conspiracy? Third, shall
the United States keep faith with the
world?
"The approaching referendum will
test the ethical discernment nnd cour
agc of the entire electorate. Personally,
my vote shall be cast for the candidates
who, In my Judgment, can be best
trusted wlh tho Issues at stake Cox,
Roosevelt and Farrell.
Mrs. Carroll Miller, of Pittsburgh,
who created such a favorable Impression
at the meeting held last Thursday bv
Democratic women at the Academy of
Mnsic, win speaK again in l'liuadelphla
tomorrow.
She will address meetings at noon
on the postofflce plaza. In front of the
Franklin btatue; nt the Acorn Club,
1018 Walnut street, nt 11 o'clock: at
the City Club in the afternoon, and at
a Democratic rally in the evening at
4147 Alain street, aianayunx.
Senator Soes America Sum
moned to Point Way to Uni
versal Harmony
PRACTICAL IDEALISM URGED
Cleveland, Oct. 28. Senator Hard
ing onened his finsl rnmnnltrn
swing last night with four speeches to
Cleveland audiences. Ho spent part, of
today quietly At a hotel here, resting
ana coniernng wun licpubiican lenders.
An putomoblle ride and n luncheon
at the Cleveland Country Club were the
only engagement of the nominee's pro
gram before his departure Oils after
noon for Akron, O., where he Is to speak
tonight.
Despite the demands mado on him nt
lost night's meetings, Mr. Hurdlng's
voice was In good condition today, nnd
the cold which had threatened to han
dicap htm In his public speaking had
almost disappeared, It was said, how
ever, that he probably would make few
rear-platform speeches during the re
mainder ot his trip throtigh Ohio, con
serving his voice for the larger audi
ences. The apparent sense of responsibility,
the obvious solemnity of Senator Hard
ing, which became so marked a week
tgo at Rochester nnd Buffalo', was with
him In Cleveland, Of the hub-bub and
hurlr-bdrlv. which both political nar-
ties hove made of the final Ohio strug
gle nnd promise to Intensify It befdro
the weeR is done, tho Republican nom
inee seemed untouched. The conviction
that he will be the next President of
the United States was tmnermost in his
mind, and ho gave expression i'o the
mougnt in n tall-end speech at Shelby,
v., yesterday, wnen tie said:
"I am glad to know you all; I want
you nil to know mo. because I think I
nm going to be your President after
March 4."
Throngs Welcome Nominee
Not In twelve years has n Repub
lican presidential candidate been ro
celved In Cleveland and Cuyahoga county
as Senator Harding was received last
TO VOTE FOR DEAD SENATOR
Election of Uate H. L. Haldeman In
Seventeenth District Forecast
Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 28. The name
of State Henntor Horace It. Haldeman,
Republican candidate for re-election,
will be submitted to the electors of the
Seventeenth Senatorial district, embrac
ing Lebanon county nid' the northern
section of Ijancaater county, next Tues
day, despite the fact that he died last
night.
"The time Is too short for the se
lection of a new nominee," Republican
leaders announced here today. "We
will allow the name of Senntnr Ilnlde
mnn to be voted upon, and In case of
his election, which Is certain, the lieu
tenant governor will declare a vacancy
and proclaim a special election. Every
phase of the law governing such con
tingencies has been Investigated and we
are entirely within our rights. Wo will
show Senator Haldeman honor even in
death."
Study History of Parties
The history of American political
parties from the beginning wns traced
yesterday afternoon for the benefit of
the members of the Alumnae Associa
tion of the Girls' High and Normal
Schools. Dr. Margaret Kollack, the
speaker, is the teacher of history in
the West Philadelphia High School for
ntrU This Is the first of a series of
elx "Cltlienshlp Talks" which will be
given lu tue aiumnuc rooms, iv.
Wlthcrspoon Building.
M. .. : . . .. . .v
nignt. inc tnrongs. which lined the
street from the railroad station; the
20,000 torch lighters, who marched In
parade, and tho crowd that listened to
his address in Grey's Armorv bore evi
dence of the soundness of the Repub
lican prediction that Senator Hardlnz
will carry what has been Democratic
uieveiand by n comfortable majority.
Perhaps the most Interesting devel
opment of Senator Harding's invasion
of Cleveland was tho manner in which
he insisted upon appealing to his au
dience, for he made two speeches, one
in the open air after reviewing the
parade nnd the other in the armory.
Adhering carefully to his manuscript,
he (.poke as if he were the chief magis
trate of the United States delivering a
metodgc to the people, nnd from his set
nddrcss, In eulogy of Roosevelt nnd
praise of McKlnley, he deviated only to
restate his views on the League of Na
tions and promise a return to constitu
tional government nnd nn end of what
be termed "wnsonism.'
World In Anguish Call to America
"It wastunder the leadership of Mc
Klnley," said Senator Harding, "that
n material prosperity awaited the spir
itual awakening of Theodore Roosevelt,
but now the-world In anguish calls to
America for a new contribution. It
calls for that understanding among
peoples and nations which shall draw
all together Into harmony nnd unity;
which allay contentions nnd conflict;
which shnll remove ignorance nnd prej
udice. Oh, my fellow Americans, surely
you can see, as I see, that our. next
opportunity will be in tho service of
this Ideal. I want my chance to lend
In making America a land where men
and women place the welfare of Amer
ica above their own eolflsh Interests;
where no class contentions can arise
because men's minds understand other
men's hearts and aspirations,; where
the strong serve nil of us to the end
that nil of us may serve the weak.
"I want In years to come to dedicate
myself to bringing all American men
and women Into a brotherhood of un
derstanding, so that we may act to
gether, free from destroying conten
tions ; so that we may be a great fabric
In which each individual is a vltsl
thread. I want to bring about the
greatest service that America can give
to the world the sorvlce of nn example
of a great representative democracy
undivided. I want to preserve nnd
foster our united America.
"That Is my ambition. That Is my
opportunity for service to America as
I conceive It."
Pleads for Practical Idealism
For n second time durlnir the cam.
olgn Senator Hording emphasized his
Idealism." with Americans rolnr for
ward shoulder to shoulder. He said
be wanted to create the realization that
"no civilization is great unless it is
strong as well sb kind."
"I want men and women to realize,"
he continued, "thai tho only Idealism
that Is worth while must be an Idealism
which is practical, nnd not only capable
of being expressed In protestation, but
Mtiabla of being. turned Into terms of
'actual achievement -and deeds."
Return to nn om-iasnioned America
where success cannot bo hod without
effort and Where no man envies success
also was urged by Senator Harding.
"I want," he asserted, "an America
where success is not a crime. I want
an America whero success cannot be
had without earning It, and where no
man envies success, but where every
man or woman honors bucccss because
It calls to him or to her to be a better
man and woman, nnd better fitted to
attain success.
"I want America to have a .govern
ment which understands. We shall
never becomd a nation of peoplo ex
nnnHnff something for notnlner. We
shall never allow ourselves to forget
the Itooseveic wno empnasizea mat our
obligations were lounaations oi our
rights. Rut wc must have a government
mnrn nfflclent. more responsive to the
people, never subject to the claims of
special privilege, whether that special
privilege be accorded to an autocracy
of wenlth or the autocracy ot a minority
group of discontents.
Father to Aid Son
in Drewes Murder
to Brines In June was the pistol found
In the car, the police are reticent on
this point, nnd say that no record was
kept at the pawnshop of the number of
the automatic. .
Suspect Quarrel Over Money
It became known today that the po
lice now nro working on the theory
that Rrinen shot Drcwcs In a quarrel
over money.
Christian Drewes and his wife,
parent of tho slain Dartmouth student,
were rccogniacd yesterday as thev en
tnn the West End Trust nulldlng,
nnd were seen to get off the elevator nt
the tenth floor, where Major Samuel i).
Wvntic. head of tho county detectives.
has his office. Tho Drewes have been
working with the police, nnd have given
them leads considered vniunoic.
Te. was from the Drewes that tho po
lice learned Brines owed Elmer Drewes
J300. The present police theory Is thnt
Drewes was anxious to buy a motorcar
thnt would make a good appearance,
and had not sufficient money. Brines,
though owing Drewes $300, had been
able to get an automobile of his own.
Tho police think that on Saturday
evening n week ago. when Drewes went
out with Brines, they consumed what
remained of some liquor which the po
lice believe was purchased cither from
or through the bellboys in a ccntrnl
hotel. Thero was n quarrel, according
to this lntcst pollco theory, over the
WOULD SEPARATE
BALLOTSOF SEXES
Anti-Suffraglsts Still Hopeful
Amendment Will Bo De
clared Invalid
URGE ATTORNEYS GENERAL
AnvgmHKMKTor.
AfaTyJtTIBKMTKTrr
ABTMBTMiargrtT
f.
91
The Issue Before the Voters
An Editorial in The Chicago Daily News
An Independent Newspaper
Published October 25, 1920
I
Washington, Oct. 28. The nttor
neys general of thirty-two stntes were
requested yesterday by the National
Association Opposed to Womnn Suf
frage to stparnto the ballots of women
from those of men on election day to
mitigate the "approaching chaos,"
which the association forecasts due to
the questioned validity of the ratifica
tion nf the suffrago amendment.
"The Imnendlne disaster of n con
tested .election, possibly slmllnr to the
iinyos-Tiuien contest, due to tno proc
lamation of an alleged federnl suffrage
amendment, the ratifications and valid
ity of which nre being questioned In
the United States Supreme Court, has
urgently moved the Nntlonal Association
Opposed to Woman Suffrage to suggest
to the attorney generals of the thirty
two states whose constitutions deny the
suffrngc to women that the only prac
ticable preventive of political chaos In
many states is to provlds means of
separating the ballots cast bv men and
women," says Miss Kilhreth'it letter.
"For six years, tho state of Illinois,
under its presidential suffrage act, has
separated tho votes of men nnd women
and followed the practice at the recent
primaries, despite the proclamation of
the federal Hiiffrnge nmendment. In
Missouri the Legislature provided dif
ferent colored ballots for women. In
other stntes. It has been found prac
ticable to divide registrants by sex. so
that separation on the ballots, either
through a distinctive ballot, or by tho
use of separate boxes, is quite feasible,
and should arouse the opposition of
nobodr excent those who mar be nolttl-
cally Interested in promoting confusion
of the elections."
Ousted City Clerk Regains Poet
Wlldwood, N. J., Oct. 28. Alfred
Wlnterburn, a city clerk, who was
ousted from office on October 0 by the
majority commissioners, F. E. Smith
and Oliver Bright, has won his case
before it reached the supreme court.
The commissioners have passed n
resolution declaring the city will mako
no defense at the certiorari hearing In
DEMONSTRATION
"QUICKER YET'
Electric nnd Hand Power
Wnshcr
money owed Drewes by Brines, nnd In November. This automatically gives the
the quarrel Drewes was shot fatally. clerk his position again.
Tlnnul Arnoldson Fold today ho was
sure his elder brother had not been
with Brines Saturday night.
"Carlos went to n fraternity dance
that night," said the younger boy. "I
believe he wns nt tho Bellevue-Strat-ford
with Brines Friday evening or some
evening earlier In the week.
"We hnd planned to go to New York
to visit my father over this week-end.
My father is a Swede by birth, but took
up his residence in i;uon many years
ago and murrled n Cuban. That Is
where we get the name 'Serpa, it being
customary to use both the mother's
and the father's names. He Is the con
sul general In Cuba for the Netherlands
Government, and hnB been In the United
States on business. My brother and I
both were born In Cuba.
"We knew Brines pretty well, but
not better than other members of my
brother's class. The other Cuban boys
living nt the Lorraine knew him also
and thought he was n good fellow. We
wqre not intimate with him, however,
and never entertained him In our apart
ments. He used to come to the Lor
raine for lunch a couple of times- a
week."
Walnut Street Merchants Meet
The first fall meeting of tho Wnlnut
Street Business Association was held lu
the Bellcvuc-Stratford laBt night. Plans
for the coming winter were outlined.
Edgar S. Gardner, who presided, gavo
a short alk on "Good Citizenship."
1
Easiest running machine on tho
market. Come to our store nnd
lei us provo this on
Friday and Saturday
October 29th and 30th
Falls Hardware Company
Ridge and Midvale Ave.
Ul'KX KVKNINC1H
-'
palgn uenator iiarumg empnasizea Ills
belief that the only Idoallsm compatible
with American life was "practical
The Store of Personal Servipe
1310 Chestnut Street
Elegant Tailleurs
A Sale for Friday
Only at
Values 100.00 to
139.50
Both Fur-trimmed
and Tailor-made
styles
Fifty only of these fine
Sulto.
Peach Bloom, Veldyn,
Duret Superior, Tricotine
and Velours de Lalne ore
the stylish materials in
cluded. Zanzibar Brown, Drlad,
Pino Needle, Nankin Blue,
NavT and Black are the ap
pealing colors.
Tho Fur Trimmings in
clude Natural Squirrel, Nu
tria and Australian opossum.
All Sales Final No MM Ordtra None C. O. D.
THE BLUM STORE
A New Orirantoation With an Old Nanu
ackaches
and other external
pains quickly soothed
THAT dragging, wearying backache,
that so many women suffer from, is
quickly eased by an application of Sloan's
Liniment. Just spread it over the aching
part it warms and stirs the blood to
action no rubbing, mussiness or skin stains.
Use Sloan's freely. It's good for all the family.
An excellent counter-irritant for rheumatism, neu
ralgia, pains and aches that follow weather
exposure, sprains and strains. Buy the largest
size bottle, it's more economical, you get 6 times as
much as the smaller size.
Sloa
TfrifrtraM-; . :
.WAXXAAJ.AV, xxv rams
&wjfirti venemyj
drugguta have Sloan a. 35 c 70c, $1.40
HBMMMBL VMMmmumb i
In peoples as in individuals self-reliance
is strength, dependence is weakness, and
to be weak Ib to be at once unworthy and
ineffective. These elementary truths long
have pervaded the very souls of the Amer
ican people, serving to guide them in great
crises. Righteousness exalteth a nation.
Freedom to act at the appropriate moment
for righteous purposes is more than half
the battle. If we Americans have faith in
our own idealism as that excellent at
tribute has been demonstrated consistently
in the many years that have passed since
this'nation's rebirth in the agony of civil
war" we should guard most zealously the
springs of action fed by that idealism,
since they have produced a flood of honor
able achievement.
Ours is a forceful, a sinewy democracy.
It has had to toil continually with brain
and arm to erect, Stone by stone, the im
mense structure that has become the most
powerful nation on earth. If at the building
there frequently arose a babel of voices,
at least there was at all times a great in
spiration to sweeten the labor, and there
were leaders strong with the strength of
an honest, a self-sacrificing purpose. And
the work was truly co-operative, repre
sentative, vital with popular impulse. Even
flaws in plan or in workmanship were so
much the people's own that these were
taken to heart and made of permanent
value thereafter as examples of demon
strated error. Of late years, however, our
tugging, sweating, hard muscled democ
racy has been subjected to occult inspira
tional treatment In these years it has
tugged and sweated on faith. For it has
been continually admonished to get its de
cisions ready made from the White House,
to substitute for the sum of countless in
dividual judgments a specially fabricated
judgment guarded from analysis or revi
sion by mystic "faith in the President."
But this, manifestly, was patriarchism, not
democracy; patriarchism that merged
into autocracy, since it was applied
through the driving force of the national
administration.
The patriarchal manner has a compell
ing emotional appeal when well put on. It
carried the President through the war
period with extraordinary facility in spite
of such appalling developments as national
unpreparedness for war, unpreparedness
projected through many long and anxious
months of imminent peril of war; mon
strously burdensome war taxation devised
and imposed by the party of which the
President was in full control, and colossal
waste of war funds by the war-making
branches of the President's administra
tion. Patriarchism failed him, Jiowever,
when two years ago the President called
upon the American people to elect a Demo
cratic Congress in order that the executive
might go on working his will in legislative
as in administrative affairs. Fortunately
for the nation, his autocratic rule was not
permitted by the voters to continue that
enormous spread of power over the
nation's destinies.
In spite of the adverse verdict returned
by Americans at the polls in November,
1918, the President a few weeks later made
himself the sole authority in negotiating
peace for the nation, the sole authority in
deciding for the nation the terms on which
it should agree to join with other powers
in guaranteeing world peace. Having made
in Paris, on his individual judgment, de
cisions for the whole American people
bearing upon innumerable grave ques
tions ; having done there everything in his
power to commit the American nation ir
revocably to tremendous obligations in
volving both foreign and domestic policy,
he returned to Washington to insist that
the Senate ratify his decisions without
modification.
The Daily News has held throughout the
long controversy over the covenant of the
League of Nations that it would be a
calamity to bind the United States to the
unqualified terms of that formidable in
strument. It has held that the interests of
the nation and the world must be safe
guarded by a considerable numbe: of care
fully framed reservations modifying the
terms of the covenant. The reservations
that it deems essential are included in the
so-called Lodge program. In view, how
ever, of the unbending attitude of tho Pres
ident, which he has succeeded in forcing
upon his party and his party's candidate
for President, Mr. Cox, The Daily News
believes that Mr. Harding, while renewing
his advocacy of "an association of nations
for the promotion of international peace,"
is well advised in demanding a complete
restudy and restatement of the subject of
American participation in a world league
to maintain world peace with justice. The
conviction that there oxists a better basis
for peaceful penetration of tho foreign
strongholds of hatred and revenge than
that provided by the treaty of Versailles,
and the league covenant as it now stands
has grown steadily in the passing mpntha
deepening also in intensity as the study ojfr
world conditions and world needs nas pron
ceeded. ff?
Developments here and abroad indicate
that the President's demand that the,
American peorjle subscribe to a stereo
typed covenant of Euroean workmanship1,
with arabesque Wilsonian trimmings is an
unwise and impossible demand. It will no'fc
suffice to point to the long array of na
tions that have subscribed to the covenant
and ask why they accepted it if it be not'
altogether desirable. They had their own!'
reasons for so doing, and as yet they have
not succeeded in making it march. Wo
Americans will accept it, or will not, for;
reasons of our own, reason deemed suflw
cient by us. If we reject the present cove5-"
nant that action will not be due to selfish
ness, as the President asserts, but to the.-,
promptings of true American idealism.
71
The Democratic party, responding witft'
notable docility to the coercive guidance of
President Wilson, demands in its national v
platform the acceptance of the covenanjj
without material change. So does Mr?
Cox, its nominee. Its most authoritativu
spokesman, President Wilson, charge'
critics of the covenant with "gross ignore
ance and impudent audacity." It is a'1
shameful charge. It is leveled atverij?(
many sincere Americans. It smacks of in
tolerance. It is refuted by the reasoning of.
able minds here and abroad. It is an un!-;
pleasant backwash of the free-flowing tide
of self-sufficiency that carried the Presh,
dent, surrounded by his personally selected
satellites, to the Paris Peace Conference
there to exchange the specific pledges o,
his fourteen points for a League of Nations;
so devised as to require the American poo
pie to guarantee the permanence of manjJ
glaring injustices embalmed in a harsh
peace. Bitter words, now spoken against
his opponents by the executive who ha
failed to force his will upon the nation ari
mere uncouth debris from a crumbliqjjj!
dictatorship. v
That dictatorship is, after all, the domt '
nant issue of the present national cam;
paign. It has been acclaimed by the Demog
cratic party and by Mr. Cox. Its shadoC
rests upon Mr. Cox's candidacy with th4,
ponderable quality of a solid substance ana
it also saturates that candidacy with flufd
thoroughness. Indeed, the movement to,(
make Mr. Cox President upon an issue dic !
tated by Mr. Wilson has come to mean, ifj '
not an attempted prolongation of the
Wilson regime, at least an effort to win anj
impressive popular vindication of itsj
harmful policies and practices. Four years'
ago, in advocating the election of MrJ(
Hughes to the presidency, The Daily News,'
said: "President Wilson not only ha3J
tamed, but he has drugged the Democratic
leaders of the present Congress." It saia
also of those and other Democratic party
leaders: "They have now so regulated
their own little mentalities that these,
minor mechanisms keep time in completaj
obedience with the thinking machine in thdr;
White House. This synchronism is beautijr
fully harmonious, but it plays the mischief
with representative government." That
characterization still stands as applicable
to the present situation. For the sake of
sound democratic principles the Wilsonia
legend of infallibility should be rejected by
the voters on November 2.
Not merely, nor even chiefly, that there ,
may be a redrafting from the American '
point of view of world peace formulas ',
though that is exceedingly important, as; J
Mr. Harding so earnestly insists bul (
mainly because the American people ovfa!
it to themselves and to their cherished sys-j!
tern of democratic government to repudi-
ate the heresy of one-man rule, with itsj
inevitable swarms of grave errors aria"
costly deficiencies, its confusions and fatc
ities, its putting of petty men in high
places to be seen and not heard, The Daily
News advises voters of independent minds,
to oppose the candidacy of Mr. Cox. '
n
It has been the good fortune of Mr!
Harding in the present campaign to stand
as the advocate of the nation's return t)
true representative government. Hi.,
avowed preference is for an administraJ1
tion resting upon the joint wisdom of thfc
President and men in executive office
under his supervision, all consulting freely
with other representatives of the people
He lays no claim to wisdom surpassing'
that of his fellow countrymen. He promi
ises to lead by harmonizing differences, t
mako decisions in the light of public;
opinion and with the assistance of com;
petent advisers. It is a policy not onlr
simple and rational but truly democratic,'
The Daily News advises voters of'' inde
pendent minds to work and vote? for thf
election of Mr. Harding. . J
ii
ii
hi
Mi
4
fr
i
m;
J.'?!
. t
i
iMWiiM
v&saW".
A