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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
ARTHUR FRAME
For Road Commissioner—
GUST JOHNSON
MR. COX AND THE GERMAN
AMERICANS
If a man is proposed as a leader, it
is right that the people should exam
ine his record to ascertain his qual
ities of leadership. If he has shown
in the past that he has understood
them, he has one essential qualifica
tion for leadership. If he has shown,
however, that in the past he has not
understood issues until they have
come upon the people, in at least one
qualification for leadership, he is
lacking. James M. Cox is proposed
as the leader of the American peo
ple for the next four years. The peo
ple have been through one of the
greatest crises in the history of the
country. As that crisis approached
what was the attitude of Mr. Cox?
Did he understand that it was com
ing? Did he see its moral signifi
cance? If he had been in a position
of leadership then, would he have led
the people in the right direction or
in the wrong direction? It is ligiti
mate for the people whose leader he
aspires to be to ask this question.
Mr. Cox is owner and controller of
the Dayton “Daily News,” and has
been for twenty-two years. During
1915 and 1916 that newspaper in its
editorials repeatedly used arguments
favored by the hyphenated Ameri
cans. It denounced Mr. Roosevelt
for denouncing Germany for the in
vasion of Belgium, the sinking of the
Lusitania, and the submarine war
fare. This is shown by extracts from
<he “Daily News” which were first
discovered and published by the New
York “Sun and Herald” and by other
extracts which were reprinted later
by the New York “Tribune.” In the
course of an editorial on October 5,
1916, entitled “Our German Friends”
Mr. Cox’s paper said:
“Speaking in the interests of Jus
tice Hughes, Mr. Roosevelt accuses
the Germans of murdering men, wom
en, and children. Speaking in the
interests of Justice Hughes, he finds
fault with President Wilson for not
interfering when Germany entered
Belgium. Speaking in the interests of
Justice Hughes, Mr. Roosevelt con
demns the president for writing notes
to Germany when the Lusitania was
sunk. Can any German symphathizer
doubt where Mr. Roosevelt’s heart is
or where Justice Hughes would be
compelled to stand if Roosevelt were
back of him, as he will be if Hughes
is elected president?
“We do not believe that all of our
German friends or anything like a
majority of them, have so lost their
love for the Fatherland as to line up
on the side of those who find fault
because this government did not go
to war with Germany over the inva
sion of Belgium. We do not believe
that they are so disloyal to their
friends and relatives who are fight
ing for what they believe to be
light as to give aid and comfort to
the worst enemies of Germany in this
country—namely, the rabid Roosevelt
and his personal choice for presi
dent?”
This of course was a direct appeal
to the hyphenate. Repeatedly Mr.
Cox’s paper asked for the re-election
of President Wilson as a means of
aiding Germany. And in its appeal
for the favor of German-Americans
it went so far as to suggest the ad
vantage of a German victory. On
November 7, 1915, over a year after
the invasion of Belgium and six
month’s after the Lusitania massacre,
Mr. Cox’s paper said editorially.
“Nor is victory by Germany the
worst thing that can happen. If the
allies were to win and their winning
meant a great increase of Russian
aggressiveness on the one side and of
Japanese assertiveness upon the
other, America might live to be very
sorry that Germany had not won.”
This is familiar German-American
propaganda argument.
Less than six months before our
entry into the war, the murder of
Americans by German submarines
on the high seas was fresh in the
minds of their fellow-citizens, Mr.
Cox’s paper, on October 16, 1916, de
clared that the German U-boats had
“committed no crime againsCus.” Still
later on December 12, when nation
after nation had enlisted against
Germany, Mr. Cox’s newspaper prayed
that the next arm lifted to wield the
sword “so foolishly” in the war
(which it declared was without re
sult for either side) and “the crime
of all the ages” should be “paralyzed”
and that arm was destined to be
America’s.
In reply it is said on Mr. Cox’s be
half that these opinions were those,
not of Mr. Cox personally, but of his
editorial writer, George F. Burba.
Mr. Cox himself challenges anyone to
find any word of his own indicating
that he was not opposed to the Ger
man military oligarchy.
At some length Mr. Burba accepts
responsibility for these editorials,
j saying that he tried to be neutral,
| and that Governor Cox was not in the
| city much of the time and paid no at
tention to these enditorials.
Either Mr. Cox did not know what
was being said by his paper, or,
knowing, did not think the matter im
portant enough to warrant his inter
ference, or else he agreed with what
was written. In any case, is his act
ion or inaction consistent with qual
ifications for leadership at a time
when men who saw the moral issue
were enlisting in the armies of the
allies, giving or risking their lives,
and other men, Theodore Roosevelt
among them, were willing to pay any
cost if so they could help their coun
try to see the right? We doubt
whether Mr. Cox was ignorant of
these editorials,..for in an interview
printed in the New York Times Mr.
Cox speaks as follows:
“I like the newspaper game too.
I do not devote myself to any one
branch of the paper. I watch the
editorial column, the news, the cir
culation, and the advertising. I re
ceive reports daily no matter where
I am, from both of my papers, so
that I know exactly just what they
are doing.”
Though Mr. Cox himself has not
sought to escape responsibility for
these pro-German statements, he has
undertaken to offset them by point
ing to his war record as governor.
We cannot see that that has anything
to do with it. It is not Mr. Cox’s
loyalty or executive ability that is
put under suspicion as a result of his
newspaper’s utterances; it is rather
his capacity for understanding the
vital issues, his fitness for leader
ship, his moral and mental eligibility
for the presidency. Never in its his
tory has the American republic been
confronted with a greater issue than
that created by Germany’s con
scienceless crime against liberty and
law. According as a man saw that is
sue and met it he judged himself. By
his response to it he rendered for or
against himself his own verdict.
This is what happens in every crisis.
Of course at such a time there are
men who find themselves on the
wrong side, acknowledge their fault,
and set themselves right; but we do
not count such men leaders. The
men who were Tories in 1775 were
not selected as guides of the nation
for the creation of the constitution.
The men who were pro-slavery seces
sionists in 1860 were not taken as
guides of the nation in 1865 when
slavery was abolished and the union
re-established.
Now in 1820, when Germany is
beaten and the American nation, hav
ing shared in the victory, is charged
with the duty of fortifying the lib
erty and the law which Germany
sought to destroy, the men who were
justifying Germany in 1915 and 1916
may perhaps be excused, but they
are not fit to be leaders of the na
tion.
The question whether Mr. Cox is
to be counted among those men is
not a side issue; it is fundamental.
Tf the evidence that has been present
ed from Mr. Cox’s newspapers should
not be controverted, there ought to
be no doubt of his defeat. Americans
want no leader in 1921 who was in
1915 and 1916 misled.—^The Outlook.
INLAND TRANSPORTATION
Urging the commission administra
tion of governmental affairs in Alas
ka, the Chronicle suggested ffiat one
of the departments should be headed
inland transportation, covering roads
and railroads. To such a department
would devolve a very importa/nt duty,
and as it appears now it would be the
one department most difficult to sup
ply with a head sufficiently broad
in vision, firm in execution, and
equipped by training to handle the
work.
Thp g'nrprmiipn f nnwr o t-oil.
road in Alaska, which, when complet
ed, will be 500 miles long. The man
agement of this alone, which will be a
big undertaking, will require the ser
vices of a keen executive and engi
neer, and the building of new wagon
roads and trails throughout the en
tire territory will be enormous.
Today the resources of Alaska are
barely scratched, and for the most part
these scratches are within a few' miles
of navigable waters. Back from these
wraters will be found, undoubtedly,
mineral deposits which can never be
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operated unless better transportation
facilities are furnished.
In Alaska today we have several
road-building bodies, including the
Alaska road commission, under the
w'ar department; the forestry bureau
of roads, under the department of agri
culture; the territorial road commis
sion, under the governor, w^ho in turn
is under the department of the inter
ior. Three bureaus are expected to
wrork independently on the same pro
ject. Certainly a commission form of
administration could remedy this con
dition.
Great things have been done in
Alaska in the w^av of building roads
and trails under trying circumstances
and with almost unsurmountable ob
stacles, but not nearly as much w^as
done as could be, if all effort in this
line were under the direction of one
organization.
It is a certainty that if Alaska
should get its commission form of ad
ministration. with affairs centered
directly in the territory, there wrould
be eliminated three road-building or
ganizations and one substituted for
all. and that one more understanding
of the needs and conditions than are
the three now which must look to
Washington, for the most part, for in
structions.—Ketchikan Chronicle.
The territorial campaign is now on,
with Senator Dan Sutherland, Repub
lican, stumping to the wrestwrard and
Geo. B. Grigsby, Democrat, holding
meetings in Southeastern Alaska.
Both are candidates for delegate to
congress and will shortly visit Cor
dova in their swing around the ter
ritory.
Every person feels unusually im
portant on the day he gets a big
mail.
An ice bill is cold realism.
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. THINGS WE THINK
Things Others Think and What We
Think of the Things Others Think.
Abuse blackens both the giver and
receiver.
Lots of people get carried away on
a train of thought.
The girl with the marshmallow com
plexion thinks she is the candy kid.
A woman who appears charming in
the kitchen would grace any position.
Some men kick about married life
just like someone had forced them into
it.
You never impress anyone with your
smartness when you tell about it your
self.
Around about time for the assesor
to appear money doesn’t make much
noise.
Let the sunshine into your breast.
It will drive out hate, rancor and self
ishness.
We should think some self-made
men would try to blame it onto some
one else.
Everyone believes In home rule—it’s
on the question of rulers that the dis
agreement occurs.
Mexico is a republic but it is al
ways the president who is overthrown
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and not the government.
The greatest cry of hard times, if
you have happened to notice it, is
made by those above want.
There are lots of people who could
afford to own automobiles who feel
they couldn’t afford to run them.
The fellow looking for a $25 job
often overlook the fact that 25 cne
dollar jobs get the same result.
No matter how many figures there
are in the price of a dress, a woman is
not satisfied unless she has another.
A woman would never be satisfied
if her husband never did anything
she couldn’t complain to her mother
about.
The happy married people are not
as noticeable as the other kind be
cause they don’t make so much noise
about it.
The woman who likes housekeeping
may not get out in society as much as
her sister, but she is quite often the
best society.
The person never lied who was not
imposed upon. If he allowed no one
else to impose upon him, he imposed
upon himself.
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If there is anything that justifies a
man in getting exasperated, it is to
get up at 2 a. m. to answer the tele
phone and have central tell him she
rang the wrong number.
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