The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-10-25
WILSON PAPER LAM
BASIS FORD. WHY7

WasningCon-Ine republican Pub
licity Association, through its Pres
ident, Hon, Jonathan Bourne, .Jr., to-
day gave out the following statement
from its Washington Headquarters
"In one of the most caustic editorials
which has appeared in it's columns in
a decade the Washington Post Gan ad-
ministration paper) for October 7th,
condemning Henry Ford as "A Sena-
torial Misfit', proceeds to fiay the
Flivver King alive and hold him up to
the scorn of the Michigan electorate.
Realizing that peace must be discuss
ed in the not remote future, the Post
says: "The Senator to be elected
from Michigan will have vote in
ratifying that peace. The wrong kind
Of man might be able to prevent in
sistence by the Senate upon a peace
jim accordance with the aims of this
government so forcefully laid down
again and again by the President. For
that reason it is incumbent upon
them to look carefully into the acts
Of their candidate, upon which alone
can his future political conduct be pre-
dicted.' The Post then dubs the peace
ship incident as "the most asinine per-
Torrance ever conceived in the brain
of normal man" and closes its edi-
torial with the declaration that the
Senate is no place for any man who
ever uttered one word that breathed
of pacifism, the half brother of pro-
Germanism."
"In the body of this editorial the
Post says: The American voter elect
ed to office one of the greatest men
that ever sat in the White House, and
thousands of stand-pat Republicans
are glad that Woodrow Wilson was
chosen instead of Hughes If any
stand-pat Republicans voted for Mr..
Wilson in 1916 they did it because Of
the he kept us out Of war appeal, and
for no other reason, and they have
since been remarkably silent in their
gladness. But it is right here that
the Post, true as its characterization
Of Henry Ford unquestionably is, lays
itself open to the charge of inconsis-
tency. Mr.. Ford is the presidential
choice for Senator from Michigan
He was selected as the nominee by Mr..
Wilson, and urged to run on the Re-
publican ticket, a gratuitous insult to
the party which has best supported
the President in this war. Mr.. Wilson
knew all about him when he picked
him out. He knew things about him
at the moment he selected him which
have since become known to the pub
lie and which are decidedly deroga-
tory to the gentleman. IN fact, Geo.
Harvey intimates that through the
medium of the Hughes airplane re-
port, which has been in Mr.. Wilson's
hands for some time, he knows things
respecting Mr.. Ford which the public
little imagines. How then, can the
Post reconcile it's bitter denunciation
of Ford as a senatorial candidate with
its adulation of the man who com
manded' him to run for that office?
"Shrewd OWNERS in the political
arena at Washington, knowing how
close the Washington Post is to the
Administration, suggest that the
White House may have inspired this
editorial as means to indicate
change of mind with respect to Ford's
fitness for the United States Senate;
that while Mr.. Wilson does not wish
fagrantly to repudiate his selection, it
is estimated what political capital the
Michigan press will make of the Post
editorial and that this additional ig-
nominy heaped upon the jitney candi-
date will make what to the confident
Republicans would mean assurance
double sure Of Ford's defeat. And
Ford's defeat would relieve Mr.. Will
son of considerable future embarrass-
ment. But when the Washington
Post caps its editorial with the declar-
alton that "the Senate is no place or
any man who ever uttered one word
that breathes of pacifism' it is GER
tainly welding its fail in high places
according to the ideas of those who
opposed the peace-piping Democrats
in the election of 1916, and who still
derisively recall that pitifully paci-
fistic phrase TOO proud to fight"