New Britain herald., 1916-09-06
WANTED: AN ISSUE.

WANTED: AN ISSUE.
 @Someone, some day, may come for hrd with a new argument against Rmocracy, against the admins #tion of Woodrow Wilson. Some By, someone may produce a real is- @e for the Republican party in the &esent campaign. Senator Brande- Me might have done this last night his formal address as temporary @a1rman of the Republican state #nyentiOn, assembled at New Haven. M Senator Brandegee produced Either a new issue nor a new argu- @nt. Instead, he ambled along the &hten path made bare by the feet of #arles Evans Hughes, Theodore "a Sosevelt, Warren G. Harding, and # tt vast horde of Republican spell "a ders that has been sounding the Y rm throughout the country since M Republican National Convention #Chicago. The same old arguments Me been trotted out on every occa- #n until they have become worn and #eadbare. They are stereotyped in # tn power. Senator Brande- @'s delivery of them signals the N call for help. Unless some noble 8publican soul rushes to the front #h new set, the Grand Old Party #l suffocate from the strength of # own weakness. It begins to look NY as if the former Chief Justice
 bte the first draft of a speech that #destined to be re-haShed and re- #tten by every petty politician of
 party in this country. If for no Her reason, the American public #uld see that MT. Hughes is kept
 of harms way. His speeches and Il r echoes have no justifiable excuse
 existing.
 #he chefs recipe for one of these @ @lpaign documents, to be used by M Republicans upon any and all
 hsions, goes about like this:-"To 8y-f1ve minutes of Mexico, add a
 a of the Solid South, a little ridi-
 of the Army and Navy, a touch #Josephus Daniels, very sparingly
 he Foreign War, a gOodly portion |Tariff-for protection only, a few
 arks about weak and vacillating,' #beral quantity of Extravaganza,
 on tastefully with ridicule of Will #s literary attainments, cook well, "a serve." .7
 bnator Brandegee in serving his to the hungry, those who are
 ously surrounding the pie-counter,
 pwed the chefs instructions to the &8er. He nauseated his auditors
 forty-five minutes of Mexico; &recounted the story of sectional
 as exemplif1ed by the Solid South;
 told of the temporary prosperity RI country is enjoying because of the
 opean war; he showed how Wilson
 failed to up-build an Army left
 k by the Taft administration;
 # Josephus Daniels has crippled \ Navy; how the border patrol is
 #oke; how MT. Wilson himself is
 Iak and vacillating;" how the
 4nocrats are the most extravagant
 LII political parties; how the Rural
 #dits System is a net to catch the # ners' votes; how,-but what's the &#? He recited all those platitudes
 t have become bromides within M last two months, or since Sena &# Harding recounted the story first
 Thicago and the one hundred per &$. candidate elaborated upon the
 &inaI version later in New York. M country will soon know all these lh he speeches,-the same speech done Nr,-by heart It is also beginning H grow very, very weary of the HE Enge recital In the end, the Re- #AIicans will talk themselves into de- As What they need is an issue, 8N some real, new arguments.
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