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MONDAY, JULY 19, 1920
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REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President—
WARREN G. HARDING.
For Vice President—
CALVIN COOLIDGE.
For Delegate to Congress—
DAN SUTHERLAND.
For Attorney General—
JOHN RUSTGARD
For Senator—
E. E. CHAMBERLAIN.
For Representatives—
A. E. LATHROP
JOS. H. MURRAY
R. E. ELSNER
A. H. FRAME.
For Road Commissioner—
GUST JOHNSON
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"BELITTLE HARDING” IS NOW
THE DEMOCRATIC KEYNOTE
The administration press is now en
gaged in a concerted campaign of be
littlement of Senator Harding, coupled
with deliberate misrepresentation of
the circumstances connected with his
nomination. The convention which
Dominated Harding and Coolidge was
more clearly free from boss or ma
chine domination than any national
convention held in years,—yet, the
campaign liars from the New York
Times and World on down, are telling
us that Harding’s nomination repre
sented merely the acquiescence of ser
vile delegates to the dictation of a
few big bosses. This persistent men
dacity is not confined to the press
which openly wears the administra
tion collar—it extends to all the "un
fair Republican” press camouflaged
under the pretense of independence.
The same breed of publications in
dulged in the same sort of campaign
after the nomination of Harrison in
loos umi ui lvicxvimey m xono. iu
neither case did this representation
and belittlement serve to stop the
tide that ran toward Republican vic
tory. General Harrison was described
by these newspapers and magazines
as an “obscure Indiana lawyer,” and
he was pictured as the mere wearer of
“Grandfather’s hat,”—referring to the
fact that he was a grandson of Wil
liam Henry Harrison. Of course
everybody knows now that the first;
President Harrison was far from be- |
ing the equal of his distinguished de
scendant; that no stronger intellect
ual quantity ever filled the presi
dency than the second Harrison.
William McKinley was described by
this same type of publication as an
amiable mediocrity. A nationally
known college president declared be-!
fore a teacher’s convention that Me-j
Kinley had a ‘“chocolate eclaire j
backbone.” He was called a man of
one idea; a “country politician,” a
small town product too provincial to
be the President of the United States.
These shafts of malice and ignorance
fell harmless at McKinley’s feet, and ,
the world knew McKinley, before he j
died, as one of the strongest as well
as one of the gentlest figures in
American history.
It is true, that Senator Harding is
not, and does not claim to be a super
man. The people are sick of super
men, whom they now know to be
only men surrounded by supers. They
are weary of nationally advertised
miracle men. They are disgusted
with exalted egos, claiming to be
much bigger and better than other
men that they take no advice from
any quarter but from voices in the
air. They have seen what a mess
can be made of national and interna
tional affairs by public men who
place themselves on a pedestal and
demand that their disciples and
dupes fall down and worship them.
Actually the Republican party has
had the effrontery to nominate a real
human being for president. It has
named for the presidency a man not
better known nationally than Lincoln
was when, he, too, was nominated at
Chicago. It has taken another coun
try politician like Lincoln and Mc
Kinley for its leader at a time of
national emergency. It has nomi
nated a self-made man, who has
come up slowly along the road mill
lions of others have travelled in this
land of opportunuity toward the con
fidence and respect of his neighbors.
It has presented for the presidency a
modest man, who doesn’t think he
knows it all but supposses that the
job of running the United States gov
ernment is too big for any one man
to handle, and that he should call
about him other strong men for
counsel. All this is offensive to the
super-men; believers in the false pre
tense and the buncomb and rhetorical
flubdub and fake advertising of the
exaggerated egos who know it all and
can do it all without even having to
think while they do it.
Still, there are a lot of mere human
beings in the country, and it is going
to be up to them to elect the next
president. They have had a very
large and nauseating dose of this en
haloed and inspired brand of states
manship, and have found the medi
cine worse than any disease could be.
They have lost confidence in patent
nostrums and divine healers and ex
alted egos in politics and public life.
They long for a return to old-fash
ioned human common sense and old
tiiug. patriotism and devotion to the
country and the flag. All this the can
didacy of Warren G. Harding and Cal
vin Coolidge represents and the Dem
ocratic and near Demacratic press
and politicians may scream all they
like; sensible people will not fall for
their guff. The party in power has a
thumping coming to it on November
2nd, and, the day of miracles being
over, there is no escape from getting
it-____
No, Senator Harding is not a super
man. We have one of those in the
white house now. Enough said.
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Marion, O., is the site of the biggest |
steam-shovel plant. in the world, and ;
after the election our Democratic
friends may have to call on it to dig
them out.
Now that Herbert Hoover has come
out for Harding the New York World
might re-print a few of the editorials
in which it demonstrated that Mr.
Hoover knows better what the coun
try needs than any other man the
World can think of.
In the representative republic,
the citizen who says that he is not
interested in politics means that he
is not interested in the welfare of
his country, for politics is the pop
ular determination of public ques
tions in a government of public
opinion.
The Democratis St. Louis Post Dis
patch says that in the Republican
plank on the League of Nations,
“somebody is getting cheated,’’ and
from the disappointed way in which
the Democratic editors talk about it,
we believe they are the fellows that j
have been hornswoggled.
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Newspaper men known that a man
v ho can take an ohl down and out,
newspaper and turn it into a big,
thriving, prosperous, influential pub
lication, is just the fellow' to take hold
of a run-down government after i
eight ypars of Wilsonism, and make a
going concern of it.
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Emma Goldman has discovered that
in Russia socialism has “taken away
even the little freedom man has un
der individual capitalism and has
made him entirely subject to the
whims of a bureaucracy which ex
cuses its tyranny on the ground that
all is done for the welfare of the
workers.” The sure cure for radical
im in politics is radicalism in power,
but it’s expensive treatment.
Some of these days we will become
sensible enough to hold our national
conventions in a hall just big enough
to hold the delegates, the representa
tives of the press and the necessary
number of civilian employees. As we
will also become sensible enough to
return to the representative system
in party as well as in national govern
ment, eliminating all the hysteria, lost
motion and high cost of the plurality
primary system.
The Fort Liscum ball team and
soldiers are possesed of the proper
sporting blood and w'ere willing to
stake their all on the outcome of yes
terday’s game. They found many Cor
dovans who were equally confident
that the home team would win and
after the smoke of battle cleared the
visitors were found to be good losers.
SHORT-ARM
• JOLTS
The right road is often full of ruts.
Better even to be a joy rider than
a sorrow rider.
If music is the language of the soul,
jazz is profanity.
This year’s models in babies are
just as noisy as last year’s.
No man ever long felt better for an
argument even though he won it.
Even though you go down frown
ing, you can come up smiling.
Those who are willing to sacrifice
generally are given the privilege.
They’ll forgive you for being indis
creet but not for bragging about it.
Just remember that all the men
who could be killed by overwork, have
^een.
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A cheerless croaker may have many
friends—but they’ll all be cheerless
croakers.
Human beings are so much alike
that every one of them thinks he’s
different.
Nine times out of ten the things
you can’t afford are the things you
don’t need.
Be charitable to failures that they
may be charitable to you in the day of
their success.
A boy knows it isn’t possible to
have too much rain if he is' allowed to
get out in it.
If there is anything more nerve
racking than a whinning woman, it is
a whinning man.
The wrong man cannot remain long
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in the right place unless he can be
come the right man.
It is getting so now that a man who
has no automobile and never owned
one, brags about it.
Eighty per cent of all apologies are
not meant and the other twenty per
cent are not believed.
Let ’em knock you if they w^ant to.
Nobody has anything against a worm
but he’s afraid of a lion.
A rogue’s safety lies in companion
ship with other rogues, but an hon
est man is safe anywhere.
A boy always hates to be called a
‘“sissy,” but a girl often feels compli
mented when she’s called a tomboy.
What odds if the world should end
tomorrow? Doubtless there are plenty
other worlds and plenty of other to
morrows.
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A good organizer is one who can
get the maximum of work out of
others with the minimum of worry
out of himself.
Until somebody invents a kind of
love that pays grocery bills, house
bent and the clothier, it’s going to be
unsafe to marry for love alone.
Some women talk of wanting more
power, yet a prearranged straying curl
of one of them often is more power
ful that the argument of a president.
The trouble with most ‘“brilliar
conversationalists” is that nobody can
remember anything they’ve said after
they're through brilliantly conversing.
If the world seems to you to be get
ting better day by day or worse day
by day, it merely means that you are
becoming bettgr or worse day by day.
Some men shed ideas like an anvil
sheds sparks—they’re worth seeking;
others absorb your own mentality like
a cat licks up cream—they’re worth
avoiding.
If you’re not sure you’re right but
go ahead anyway, you’ll “get by” just
as often as when you think you’re
sure, and you’ll save yourself a lot of
worry besides.
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McBRIDE IS LIVE WIRE
J. C. McBride, the newly elected
member of the republican national
committee from Alaska, is proving to
be a live wire in the political game.
For many years the office of national
committeeman from Alaska has been
catered to for the sole purpose of
controlling patronage. Now comes
the newr committeeman declaring the
first efforts will be to elect the Alaska
territorial and divisional tickets, sup
port of the national ticket in the
Northwest and then, if the party is
successful, political patronage to
those who are active in party work.
If Committeeman McBride is suc
cessful in an effort to bring har
mony, as well as national prominence
to the Republican party in Alaska, he
will have accomplished something.
Heretofore the Republican party has
been scared with factional strife.
Elimination of factional strife for na
tional legislation for Alaska. It ap
pears this should be more important
than filling federal offices in Alaska.
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OHIO IS HOME OF
MANY PRESIDENTS
Five Presidents out of the twenty
eight were residents of Ohio when
elected, and six were born in Ohio.
Those who were residents of Ohio
when elected were:
William Henry Harrison, Whig,
1841; North Bend, Ohio.
Rutherford B. Hayes, Republican,
1877; Fremont, Ohio.
James A. Garfield, Republican,
1881; Mentor, Ohio.
William McKinley, Republican,
1897; Canton, Ohio.
William H. Taft, Republican, 1909;
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Those who were born in Ohio were:
Ulysses S. Grant, Point Pleasant,
Ohio.
Rutherford B. Hayes, Deleware,
Ohio.
James A. Garfield, Orange town
ship, Ohio.
William McKinley, Niles, Ohio.
William H. Taft, Cincinnati, Ohio.
And now comes Warren G. Hard
ing, Republican, born in Blooming
Grove, Ohio, and James M Cox, resi
dent of Dayton.
HOSPITAL FOR CAPE BARROW
Among the passengers aboard the
steamer Victoria which sailed from
Seattle for Nome recently, were Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Side tnd their three
children, bound for Cape Barrow,
where Mrs. Eide hopes to realize her
life’s greatest desire, that of found
ing a hospital for her own people, the
natives of that far-away land. The
hospital will be built and equipped
by the home mission board of the
Presbyterian church. Point Barrow is
800 miles beyond Nome and has a
population of 500, a government school
and a mission. A coal mine 90 miles
distant supplies the village with fuel;
supplies are brought from Nome once
a year, and mail every six months.
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