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FRIDAY, JULY 30, 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. MURRAY
R. E. ELSNER
A. H. FRAME.
For Road Commissioner—
GUST JOHNSON
PERSONALITIES HAVE NO PLACE
IN POLITICS
Governor Cox, the Democratic pres
idential nominee, has for ten years
been prominent, as a candidate, in
the politics of his state, making re
peated races for governor. It re
mained for members of his own party,
in a nominating contest within tha1
party, to dig up and exploit certain
early domestic difficulties of the
Ohio governor as a weapon to be
used for his destruction. It was
brought out that an agent of the de
partment of justice had been in Ohic
investigating Governor Cox’s- personal
record.
It ought to be pretty clear to prac
tical politicians by this time that at
tacks upon the personal character of
candidates never pays. This is true
even in cases where facts justify
criticism. Probably the airing of Gov
ernor Cox’s domestic difficulties at
San Francisco created sympathy for
him and assisted in bringing him the
nomination.
Politics is not personal. Issues are
not personal. Personal villification
and abuse have no part in a campaign
where .public questions are up for de
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has dealt and never will deal in scan
dal. It has never attacked a man be
cause of his political beliefs. It talks
as plainly as it knows how about those
acts and words of men in politics
which seem to be erroneous or injur
ious to the public interests. It does
not deal gently with the demagogue
or the mere doctrinaire, and has no
use for pussv-footing or mollycoddle
ism in politics. But it does not be
lieve, and the Republican party does
not believe in personal detraction or
defamation as a legitimate campaign
weapon.
Facts and arguments, cannot be too
forcefully presented in a national
campaign. But true Americans can
disagree politically with their neigh
bors or with strangers, on politics,
and still treat the other fellow like a
gentleman. Nothing in politics is
gained by getting “sore,” or by abuse,
defamation or persecution of those
who do not agree with us. When an
election is over, with tfce true spirit
of sportsmanship, Americans accept
the result good naturedly. This is
what differentiates the American peo
ple from the “politicos” of some of
our sister republics, and that is why
we have government by law and not
by revolution.
The man who objects to partisan
ship objects to that which has made
militant and vital every movement
for human betterment that has come
to anything. Any man who believes
strongly in any cause is a partisan of
that cause, and only those who
strongly believe, largely achieve in be
half of any idea or ideal. The strong
est of all partisans is the soldier who
fights for his country, and who takes
no pride in moderate loyalty or scat
tering his shots. The only man who
is worth much to any cause is a par
ti^an of that cause. But partisan
ship does not mean with men worth
while unfairness, intolerance,- or the
resort to unfair, ungentlemanly or
dishonest methods in politics or in
any other field where battle is waged
for a cause.
Ellimination of mere personalities
in politics, of course, does not ex
clude from consideration those char
acteristics of any candidate for a post
of high public responsibility, which
may have a bearing upon his course
as an official. Whether are not a
candidate for the presidency, for in
stance, is lacking in the particular
qualities which are essential to the
wise, courageous, unselfish, balanced
executive is a question of the highest
importance to the American people
and one upon wrhich they have a
right to be fully informed. Whether
or not the official record of any can
didate for president demonstrates
traits of weakness or of strength
as a legislator or an executive, is a
legitimate and a necessary theme for
investigation and discussion. The
office of president is one of such im
portance in our form of government,
that the personal qualifications of any
candidate for their proper discharge
becomes a matter of the most vital
! concern. Everv citizen who wishes
to vote intelligently ''wants to know
the mental “slant” of any candidate
for the presidency, wants to know
the fundamentals of his real attitude
toward men and measures and the
government itself. If the people
were to be fooled as to the real tem
per and fiber and motives of any can
didate for the highest office in Chris
tendom, the calamity is one the mag
nitude of which they are able fully
to appreciate at this time. In that
broad sense, of course, personalities
have a place in politics but in the
narrow sense of mere personal criti
cism, or misrepresentation, or the lug
ging in of private matters having
nothing legitimate to do with public
affairs, they are beyond the pale with
those who look upon politics as the
forum in which great public issues
are discussed and determined, rather
■ than the arena in which personal
combats are staged for glory or for
spoils.
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PROTECTION WANTED
So far as can be learned, the bloody
affray occuring at Anadyr in January
was not an organized effort on the
part of accredited representatives of
the de facto Siberian Bolsheviki gov
ernment to institute Bolshevist rule
in that section. Rather it appears to
have been the work of an irrespon
sible band of desperadoes acting with
out authority and disguising their pre
datory aims and activities under the
cloak of Bolsheviki doctrine.
Among the men who recently ar
rived from the Siberian coast, all who i
are willing to talk of the Anadyr af- j
fair, assert that none of those engaged
in the killing of the accredited Kol
chak governor or the seizure of the
Swensen-Hibbard store were able to
produce the slightest proof of auth
ority for their acts. Furthmore it is
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who seized the town is a vicious char- !
ter, and a proven criminal.
The Nugget is, of course, unable to
vouch for the truth of these state-j
ments. Tt may be that they are
based upon nothing more substantia]
than misinformation or prejudice. The
men implicated may have acted in ac
cordance with instructions from con
stituted authorities despite the appar
ent absence of credentials. Siberia
is virtually in a state of civil war at
present and war pays no great dif
ference to niceities. Under such con
ditions the sword is the chief warrant
of authority.
The fact remains, however, that the
allegations may be true and if so we
find therein much cause for concern,
for the reason that, in case they are
true, it means that outlaws are oper
ating on the Siberian coast at a point
scarcely more than two days journey
from Nome and are prepared to bring
rapine and murder to bear in satis
faction of their desires and inclina
tions. Realizations of the possibilities
of such a situation brings the immed
iate thought that it would be a very
easy matter for an armed band of
these desperate characters to cross
Bering sea and transfer their depre
dations to this coast. Nome would be
a rich prize for conquest in the eyes
of a nervy gang of ruffians on pillage
bent.
The Nugget has no desire to create
undue alarm over this possibility but
facts are facts, regardless of their
portent, and should not be disre
garded because they happen to be un
favorable. So long as- there is an
absence of law and authority on the
upper Siberian coast, there is no dis
puting the fact that Nome is to some
extent* in danger of predatory attack
if vicious elements there gather suf
ficient strength and courage t.o at
tempt it. Were the district under
fully established Soviet control, we
would anticipate no trouble in this
respect, for, whatever they may do at
home, it seems fairly well established
that the Bolshevik are little given to
aggression outside of their own do
main.
But outlaws are a different matter.
They owe no allegiance and are
amendable only to force. In this we
are very much lacking since the gov
ernment saw fit to abandone Fort
Davis and remove the troops to St.
Michael, Avhere they are about as
useless for defensive purposes in
case of an attack by raiders on Nome
as a body of troops in the Philip
dines. Tn case of such an attack we
would be absolutely dependent on our
own resources. The troops tucked
safely away in the comnolent environs
of St. Michael, where they serve no
purpose whatever, could not be got
into motion quickly enough to give
us the slightest assistance against a
raiding band from the farther coast.
Facing a prospect of this character,
and that it is indeed a very grave
prospect appears assured by the
stories from Anadyr, it seems to us
that Nome is fully justified in again '
raising a strident voice for troop pro
tection even though there is small
hope that it will be heard in Wash
ington.—Nome Nugget.
“The simple truth is,” says the
Democratic national platform, “that
the only remedy for the high cost of
living is increased production.” Well,
that beats blaming it on the robber
tariff, anyway.
It wasn’t necessary to deny that
Mr. Gompers had criticized the Dem
ocratic national platform as merely a
complete statement of what the Dem
ocratic party never has done and
never will do.
Maybe the reason the Democrats
praise the management of the Federal
Reserve board so highly is that it
has made a reality what the Demo
crats promised the people in 1896,—
the forty-cent dollar.
The New York World says: “Mr.
Wilson has injected a new principle
of life into the falsely deemed selero
tic Democratic arteries, and the Re
publican vision of easy triumph looks
more and more Alnascharian.” Have j
pot time to look it up but “Alnas
charian” must be Arabic for “cinch.”
A man who criticized one of the
recent “big drives” for which he
could not see the excuse, says h.e was
chided with the charge that he could
not catch the vision. The trouble
with a lot of people who can’t tell
the difference between big words and
realities is that they have so much
more vision than eye-sight.
PORTLAND BOXERS WILL
REST UNTIL SEPTEMBER
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PORTLAND, Ore., July 30 (by As
sociated Press).—Summer vacation
time has come for Portland boxing,
and as a result there will be no more
bouts until early in September, ac
cording to the Portland boxing com
mission.
George Moore, manager of the arena
at Milwaukee, near here, where many
bouts have been held recently, has an
nounced that the arena will remain
dark until Labor day.
Matchmakers are trying to induce
Boy McCormick, English heavyweight,
to appear here in the fall. McCormick
was here several months ago, but at
present is in England.
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EVEN MOONLIGHT IS
INCLUDED IN H. C. L.
LOS ANGELES, July 30 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Moonlight, too, has ad
vanced in price here. Recently the
park commission recommended to the
city council that moonlight twosomes
in rowboats and canoes on the lakes
in Westlake, Echo, Lincoln and Hollen
beck parks here be increased from 25
to 35 cents an hour.
CALIFORNIA HAS GOOD
FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
LOS ANGELES, July 30 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The University of
Southern California this year has foot
ball- games scheduled with Standford,
Oregon, the University of Wyoming
and other western schools. The sche
dule follows: October 9, California In
stitute of Technology at U. S. C.; Oc
tober 16, Stanford university at U. S.
C.; October 23, Occidental college at^
U. S. C.; October 30, Pomona college
at U. S. C.; November 6, University
af California freshmen at U. S. C.;
November 20, College of the Pacific at
U. S. C.; November 25, University of
Dregon at Pasadena.
THINGS WE THINK
Things Others Think and What We
Think of the Things Others Think.
Virtue is a fault with some people.
The man who never gives up will
some day have money out at interest.
Give some people a bite of an apple
and there’ll be no core.
Repentance comes readily when you
see what your sin has cost you.
A woman often finds herself well
fixed financially after having failed
in marriage.
A woman gets suspicious when a
man shaves off his moustache while
she is away on a visit.
You never realize how manyHjnen
there are out of work until you start
to do some outdoor job that is a little
difficult of performance.
When you hear a woman has edu
cated her husband, it may merely be
meant that she has been giving him
“pieces of her mind” at various in
tervals.
James Hamilton Lewis says men
should not shave. J. Ham should re
member that if it were not for this
custom of the ordinary man his whis
kers wouldn’t have had a chance to
have made him famous.
A young man in Wyoming drove
two miles alone before he discovered
that his sweethear had fallen out
of the buggy. Love-making in that
state must lack some of the ardor
that characterizes it around here.
Eastern profs, are getting it figured
out so that by following a well laid
out plan a person can live on 25 cents
a day. Some of them will figure Jt
out pretty soon so a man can read
over a bill of fare and satisfy his
stomach Uy swallowing his words.
The automobile industry is doing
much for labor. It gives direct em
ployment to about two million peo
ple. besides doing considerable in the
way of lessening the number of peo
ple wanting jobs.
WRESTLING CHAMPS TO
VISIT UNITED STATES
HONOLULU, July 30 (by Associated
Press).—Forty-three “sumo” or wrest
ling champions of Osaka, Japan, are
en route from the Orient to the United
States, where they will give exhibi
tions, accordirfg to Tokio advices to a
Japanese language newspaper here.
The Japanese plan to appear in San
Francisco, Los Amgeles, Vaucouver, B.
C., and other coast cities.
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