The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-08-01

be given first Of all an opportunity to
prove its mettle. Only where there
has been outrageous failure Of duty
can minority dictatiop be justified
and as for Intrusion from Washington
the less we have Of 1t the better for
all concerned"
A more forceful presentation OF the
case could hardly be made. There is
no question of loyalty or of patriotism
except as to Ford himself. As the
World truly says, "Michigan's repub-
Acan majority Is normally large"-two
years ago 1t elected republican SEN
ator by 106.701 majority-"and the
senatorial candidates thus far suggest
ed by that party answer every test of
Americanism."
1t Is party politics, not pure and
simple, but impure and unpatriotic. 1t
Is no more nor less than an unworthy
attempt, on the part Of the president
Of the United States. to put into the
senate grossly unfit person whom he
| could rely upon to do his personal
bidding as accurately as rubber
stamp.
We have said that Mr.. Ford Is I'M
fit to be senator. in the words Of
the New York Times. which would If
1t could be favorably disposed to a
candidate of the president, che has
demonstrated conclusively on many
occasions not only his lack Of ac-
quaintance with basic international
and national affairs. but a certain
quality of mind which Vforbids the
hope that he will ever be able to over
come that lack Of equipment--an alto
gether too impressionable mind for
public Office" But he Is worse than
unfit. II he be judged by his record,
he Is not a true American; he Is an
''internationalist." a man without
country; a pacifist; a profiteer;
breaker Of pledges; q cheat and liar
Because Of reported and undenied as
sertions that loans sought by the up
holders Of civilization should be tied
to cans and dropped into the river, he
was driven out Of business In Can
ada and persons riding in Ford cars
In Paris were stoned With respect
to world affairs he is a vagarious WIS.,
ionary. After inducing many deluded
persons to embark upon his ridiculous
peace ship. he left them stranded to
whatever fate might await them.
He is making enormous sums out of
the war. In flat defiance Of the re-
peated warnings of his sponsor, the
president Of the United States. He
broke his solemn pledge to Olivet Col
lege. He cheated his fellow manu-
facturers when, according to Governor
Osborn. he used his great influence
with the administration or its repre-
sentatives) to secure disproportionate
and unfair allotments of coal" He
lied when he ostentatiously announced
that he was going to turn over his en-
tire fortune to the government for use
during the war without interest and
to give the use of his steam yacht
free Of charge neither of which he
has done.
Worst Of all. In the words of Gov
ernor Osburn, "up to the time the
United States proclaimed that state
OF war existed Mr.. Ford was not only
a pacifist, but, consciously or uncon-
sciously, a willing instrument of Ger
man propaganda" and he so enhance
ed the o-German influences that !
Colonel Roosevelt. by request Of thous-
ands Of loyal Americans in Detroit,
went there expressly to denounce him
and to help remove the disgrace he
was fetching upon the city-by de-
,laring, at least as reported and I'M
1enied, that the flag Of our country Is
only a rag to rally around and that
ne would not fly 1t except in response
% an emotional public sentiment.
Such is the person whom the presi-
lent seeks by political trickery to
place in the senate and at whose
earnest request" he consents to run,
md, II elected, as the Evening Post
ays, to do as told" And the ignoble
leaders Of Michigan gloat-
ngly acquiesce because Ford not only
las money to burn but is willing to
urn 1t as freely as he did in adver-
Using Mr.. Wilson's superlatiye attri-
utes two years ago. !
We wonder II the president realizes !
What will be thought Of his advocacy !
t Ford, the advertised no less than I
he advertiser, by our allies, or COM
AIDES or whatever else the Baker
reel outfit now call them, in Canada, :
'hich kicked him out. or in Paris, r
here they stoned his cars? {
Perhaps he does not care. In any :
ase. the newspapers report. "the ad- {
leaders in Washington {
re jubilant at this triumph in politi- 6
Il strategy" And 1t is a cunning =
'heme beyond a doubt. AS the World G
dictates, under the Michigan statutes,
no other democratic candidate ap- {
ears. half a dozen votes for Ford r
Ill nominate him and the great body c