South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-07-26

recosnizng to settle such ques-
uon for itself" We would like to ask how much Of
thought lin national terms" there is that? It is
only example. The platform is full Of references
10 growing popularities settled by the states
We do pretend that the democratic platform
tains references state rights. but
it is Of principle while the repub
leans It a evasion OF lodging the issue.
Flatfootedly the democratic platform says:
We recommend the extension Of the fran
chise to the OF the country. by the
states upon the terms 10 men
which recognizing the right state
settle the question" IL actually recommends that
the settle it. and settle by the
franchise.
Such a recommendation is sound. While would
favor equal suffrage for Indiana in the absence
few more suffrage leaders making consummate fools
and frauds Of themseves-we do favor Mich
gan. ohio Illinois Kentucky. etc unless these other
states want it. 1t is the difference between democracy
and autocracy between government the people. by
the people and for the people" and centralized arbi
trary get the drift. The republicans do
threaten any exercise Of such autocrac power by the
nation either reference the particular subject
with reference any other subject that they want
dodge, but when comes stand pat prOpo
sition or "reactonary" measure that they would
establish then "arstocracy of intellect and char
acter,' VIII Hays p. state chairman calls it,
they think lin national terms that simply Won
derfuI.
No question but men like Woodrow Wilson, and
Grover Cleveland any party. You bet
your bottom dollar that the republicans would be
ticked death-or rather back Hfe,-if they had
Woodrow to lead their party today. The
Gratis quite tickled, but the of the repub
hcans make appear that he is the only asset the
democratic party sophistry sUperinduced by that
still lingering republican egotsm which assumes that
republicans have the faculty govern
the kind of egosm that eventually evolved Theodore
Roosevelt into political vampire and Albert ]. 8ev
eridge conceited ass; without saving any
compliments the -patters" whom their self
assurance once encouraged them quit, and whom
they reembrace the road rehabilitation.
They have given jolt enough in the last three
years realize that there is for them in COM
petition with party led by men Of the Woodrow Will
son school and that TO retrace their steps and join
shoulders with commonplace like Hughes, Barnes.
Penrose. Crane Smoot and. Root is their only hope
on, yes, guess democracy thinks fairly well lin
national terms" 1t thought fairly we'll in the passage
of the federal bank the passage of the
Clayton antitrust amendments in the passage of the
rural credits BILL even the passage of the Under
wood tariff law and so we might go on. and it has had
lot Of thinking do in international terms
while this has been going The republican party in
no three years oil history much think
ing and acting in national terms, the democratic
party the last three and it has never thought
more wisely. Include in this the preparedness meas
ures as a single example comparison with what the
republicans did in 10 years and put it to yourself
Republican pretense that party alone has the
capacity govern is all the admission needs that
it nothing before the people with;
nothing offer that push into the forefront
merely greedy get itself up the piecounter.
the offices and the opportunity to govern the
United States. rather than to understand and
serve Its policy is rule, 1t thinks
i'm national terms yes but mainly when it is thinking
dollars for the fat contributors 10 its cam
paign funds and then it makes it easier for
the contributors get their the entire coun
try. when the republican party is in power, than it
might be grasp the states individually, with some Of
them in the local clutches of democracy.
Thinking national terms" huh,