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THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1920
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. MURPHY
R. E. ELSNER
A. H. FRAME.
For Road Commissioner—
GUST JOHNSON
OHIO’S PLACE IN POLIT
ICAL HISTORY
In our political history, three state
loom up with an impressiveness tha
has lured many a student. Virginii
for a long time was indeed the 01<
Dominion. The first President, h
■who saw the government take a loca
habitation and a name came from he
soil. So did the third president, Jei
ferson, under whose administratio:
the strip along the Atlantic becam
a continent-wide power. Madison, wh
had written, some of the best page
cf the Federalist, was Jefferson’s sue
cessor; Monroe, who warned the 01
World to keep away from the shore
of the New, came after Madison. Fo
a generation our Chief Justice wa
John Marshall, whose decisions hel
in check great Democratic majoritie
—John Marshal, Washington’s follow
er, Hamilton’s friend, the living en
bodiment of the strongest thought c
Federalism. To this day the bes
Democratc arguments rest on Jeffei
son, and the most powerful reasonin
fer a government of broad construe
tion goes back to Marshal, hence w
may say that the spell of Yirginia ha
never been broken.
From the exit of Buchanan to th
restoration of his party to power th
Democrats hailed New York as a vei
itable empire state. General McCle
lan was not born in New ..York, bn
it was his strength there which ii
su-reci ms nomination. Four years la
er came Horatio Seymour, who, let hi
opponents say what they will, was
strong executive. The next contes
found the Democracy shouting fc
their ancient foe, Horace Greeley, b<
cause he, whatever his eccentricitie:
was a city leader writer and an agr
cultural editor at the same time. Afte
Greeley came Samuel J. Tilden, wh
had begun in the school of countr
politics, had wrestled with the ma:
ters of corporation law, had learne
the ins and outs of Wall street, an
had drawn the attention of every po
itician in the land to Albany. Hi
successor in candidacy was Genen
Hancock, whose headquarters wer
on Governor’s Island. Thrice wa
Grover Cleveland the nominee of hi
party and since his day Judge Pari
er has been its candidate. Among R<
publicans, Morgan and Fenton, Coni
ling and Depew have been among th
possible nominees, while Theodor
Roosevelt smashed precedents an
stormed conventions.
Ohio’s share in the life of the R<
publican party is of fascinating inte
est, nor can it be understood withor
a glance at the commonwealth’s his
tory. When early in the last cei
tury she entered the family of state
many of her citizens remembered tha
Virginia and Connecticut, had lai
claims to her soil. These men ha
, heard patriarchs tell of the day whe
France and England strove for th
territory. All that was most charac
teristic of New* England, all that was
most typical of Virginia, came to
Ohio. James A. Garfield, wras a pro
duct of her northern area. Allen G.
Thurman was the outgrowth of her
southern fringe. So late as the civil
wTar every boy, even if he did not
know of the leather-stocking type,
had listened to Indian stories as
thrilling as Washington’s experience
at Fort Duquesne. The tomahawk
had menaced the frontier cabin years
i after Fulton had gone up the Hudson.
Almost as soon as the old wrar wdioop
died away in the distance town lots
w’ere laid out and school houses built.
The rivalries of the last half cen
tury have blotted out the memory of
the struggle between Chase and
Wade. Had they been united Chase
might have been the first Republi
can president. As it is his restless
ambition longed for the Republican
nominations of 1860 and 1864; for the
Democratic leadership of 1868, and for
the Liberal Republican candidacy of
1872. Of course no man could have
had all these, yet it w:as a man with
few equals w^ho could desire them all.
j From Ohio came the silent Grant, the
! quiet Hayes, the brilliant Garfield, the
: tactful McKinley, the unconquerable
Taft, and from that state comes War
i rer. G. Harding, to wrhom a great peo
ple may well say, “Come up higher.”
On Ohio soil Benjamin Harrison was
born. It w'as the Buckeye Sherman <
w ho marched from Atlanta to the sea,
and the Buckeye Sheridan wrho gained
the day at Winchester. John Sher
man’s part in the resumption* of specie
payments will be a part of our history
after his political disappointments,
like an unsubstantial pageant, faded,
leave not a wmack behind. Joseph
B. Foraker’s recollections included
the post-colonial Buckeye, who had
fought with Perry on Lake Erie, and
the Germans who came here to al
most defy Fremont.
A commonwealth of farms and fac
tories of widely varying industries, I
of a great river traffic, of composite j
population, Ohio was long considered :
a Western state with New England j
tendencies, a Northern state with a j
powerful Southern element. In foreign
lands where little is known of our
politics astronomers recall that. Cin
cinnati’s observatory was a stimulus j
alimulus all over the land to the!
watchers of the skies. Though great
er telescopes have come, though new
discoveries have been made, though
t
noble books have been written ,and
1 graphic lectures delivered, the name!
1 of Ormsby M. Mitchell keeps its
" place high on the roll of honor. :
1 “Planetary and Stellar Worlds” has
r been read by students who do not'
know whether “Old Bill Allen” was
1 a brother of Tom Allen the pugilist
5 or whether he was a scout of Tecum
3 seh’s day.
Perhaps no one ever wrote a paper
' j on Sir Walter Scott without re
*; fleeting that in boyhood Scott saw
3 j the Caledonian seacoast alarmed by
r Paul Jones, that he shared in the re
3 lief felt after Nelson’s great victory,
* that he lived until Napoleon Bona
3 j parte was only a nightmare of the
past. Is it not to Americans of equal
* i interest that John Sherman grew up
A j m an Ohio that had fought for its
t life against the savage, that ere his
prime he saw the country made over
= by railroads, and that in his old age
he met congressmen who could not
e remember the civil war?
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“Politics with a jimmy is never to
e be recommended,” says the Charlotte,
e N. C., News-Observer, Democratic
organ. Why, then, does the Democra
ts tic press of North Carolina stand for
t the state’s election laws and practices
i- constructed and operated as an offi
> cial machine for committing gi*and
s . larceny?
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SPLENDID CANDIDATES
Senator Harding possesses just
those vital qualities of mind and
heart necessary today and in the time
just ahead. His poise of mind, his
soundness of judgment, his held on
fundamentals, his appreciation of the
needs of today and of tomorrow, his
love of the people from whom he
came and of whom he is ofte, and his
faith in them; his magnificent grasp
of large affairs, his great native abil
ity and his training in statesmanship,
his regard for the opinion of others,
his experience and success in the
handling of men, his proper apprecia
tion of his country’s position as a
responsible factor in the world’s fu
ture, but with the fullest realization
of the absolute importance of our
own supreme nationalism, his ster
ling Americanism, his righteous shar
acter and manhood, and withal his
thorough humanness, all qualify him
in the most exceptional degree for
the tremendous responsibilities which
will soon be his. He will make a
splendid candidate and a great presi
dent. The country will love him,
honor him, trust him and follow him,
just as all who know him love and
trust him, and the world will honor
him.
Too, in Governor Coolidge we have
a candidate for vice-president that
measures up to every requirement of
a presidentitial candidate. Fortunate
indeed is the country.
WHAT CENSUS REVEALS
The 1920 census totals for Alaska
constitute an indictment of this great
republic.
Here is a vast domain, immensely
rich in Natural resources, capable cf
supporting a large population, that has
stood still for a decade.
Its timber remains uncut; its coal
lands untouched; its oil resources
barely tapped, and its agricultural
riches unutilized.
Every foot of this land—timber,
coal, oil and agricultural—is under the
Stars and Stripes.
The American pioneer, having
reached the Pacific and settled up all
the country to the east, can go no
where save to Alaska.
He would go there, to duplicate in
the great Northland the conquest of
the wilderness that made this great
republic great, populous and rich, if
he could better his condition.
That he is convinced of his inabil
ity to better his condition in Alaska
is evidenced by his refusal t$ treh
Northward.
Will congress make Alaska suffi
ciently inviting for men and for capi
tal to induce both to go north as they
once went west?
Whenever congress and the federal
government assume that attitude and
adopt that policy, Alaska will take its
place among the spots most favored
by American enterprise and American
initiative.
And there will be no such depress
ing, deplorable conditions of under
development as are revealed by the
1920 census totals!—Seattle Times.
It’s a little queer that the adminis
tration organs which are so greatly
excited over the expenditure of money
by candidates for the Republican
presidential nomination in the primar
ies, find nothing to condemn in the
use which has been made by the ad
ministration of federal patronage to
boost along the Democratic party
cause and the personal ambitions of
President Wilson; but perhaps what
they really object to is that the" Re
publican leaders foot their own cam
paign bills instead of drawing on the
federal treasury for the purpose.
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And speaking of birthdays and cele
brations, that of the Fourth of July
ought to be a humdinger next year
when it is considered that the next
vice president of the republic was
born on the anniversary of American
independence.
Everybody knows that Abraham
Lincoln would not have been the nom
inee of his party for the presidency
in popular primaries in 1860, yet his
tory records that he made a success
ful candidate and the greatest presi
dent since Washington.
HARDING’S THE MAN
(By James Ball Naylor)
Harding’s the man! Disprove it who
can!
Old Mother Nature determined a plan
To fashion a fellow of infinite worth,
From the esence of truth and the
salt of the earth;
And she tempered him out in the heat
of the strife
Of the school of hard knocks and the
battle of life,
And laureled his brow with the sweat
and the tan
Of honest work. And Harding’s
the man!
Harding’s the boy! Comrades, ahoy!
He’s the genuine chink—with suffi
cient alloy
To stiffen the stuff of his soul, and to
tell
The world that he’s human, and bound
to wear well;
And his wits are as keen as a cutlass
—and gosh!—
His heart is as big as a premium
squash;
While the smiles that he smiles—they
are ripples of joy
That splash and run over. Say! Hard
ing’s the boy.
Harding’s the lad! He’s good and he's
bad!
Sometimes he’s happy—and some
times he’s sad;
Mortal, of course, and yet fully di
vine—
Just a brother of yours and a brother
of mine;
: And he does what he says, and he
works for the good
Of the nation and state—as a citizen
should;
And, victor or vanquished, he never
gets mad—
But goes on with the fight. Oh! Hard
ing’s the lad.
Harding’s the man! And right in the
van!
Look at his features—then doubht, if
vou can!
Never a chap with a forehead like
that.
But is favored with brains neath the
crown of his hat;
Never such face, but it mirrows a
mind
Tha<- is willing to work for the good
of mankind
So herald it wide from Beersheba to
Dan—
Harding’s the man! Harding’s the
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