Arizona republican., 1919-06-26
A Party and a President


 "The wicked flee when no man pursuetho The impression which all must have received from the address of Chairman Homer s. Cummings of the National Democratic Committee, at the Y. NJ. C. A stadium on Tuesday night that the democratic party is the defensive along the whole line. We have right to entertain that impression for Mir. Cummings alone is the official spokesman of his party
 There has been indictment of democratic party by any body authorized to frame such a bill In certain speeches in congress members have laid accusations against the party whole, but these accusations do constitute an indictment on which MT. Cummings need go to trial.
 r There has been some very vigorous and pointed criticism of the president conduct of the war as well for his hesitation vacflation previous 10 entrance into the when it was generally recognized that inevitable But these ac- cisations were uttered plainly and more bir- terly by democrats themselves, notably by Senator Chamberlain of Oregon and Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska There has also been republican criticism of the sxtyffth congress but that cannot against democrats a party since that congress was repu- dated by the people the first opportunity afforded after got into the war
 Baker and Burleson are democrats and they have sbeen severely attacked by democrats well as by republicans Even Mr. Cummings himself has not offered a word defense in behalf of either Of them.
 Back of his apparent elf-mposed task of de- lending the party looms the real business of MT. Cummings, the defense the gorifcaton of the president. It is not what the democratic party has done or has not done that engages the attention of the chairman. It is the transcendent greatness and wisdom of the president who he informs us will Dc -beter understood fifty years hence than he is now In a half century there will be a truer perspective keener appreciation than we have There is in s1his statement of MT. Cummings admission that the president needs defense; that there is popu- lar impression, without reason of course that is cupable But the world will see more clearly in fifty which will be forty-nine years after the can. raign of 1920.
 One hardly free himself a suspicion that MT. Cummings is preparing the way the renom- nation of the president His visit to hitherto "terrae incognitae in national politics; localities which count less in general campaigns than they do in na- =tiona conventions, leads believe that he is not solidifying democratic party for November of 1920 but rather that he is attunng the democrats of he sparsely settled states of the to the third notion.
 His task, whether a difficult not, is an Embarrassing requiring a distortion of many s1acts and the ignoring many others must keep silence about Mexican policy, about vacilla- .tion there as well as three years of the world evar he must gloze over entire military unpre~ paredness which off set in unexpected man. ~ner by the genius of Crowder and the patriotism American men and women; of American labor and American capital and the equally unexpected de- .velopment of national resources. He threw the Swell the all but fatal bundering Baker and camouflaged fearful financial of the blund- ering.
 g Testifyng the rapidty with which we moved 5Nyhen we started MT Cummings said that at the tclose of the had nearly 9,OOOOoO in Europe. As a matter of fact had 2,OS0OOO and when the great German drive began nearly year lfter we were forced into the war we had less than 2 SoOOOO there.
 We had at that time few airpanes of our own e1hough we had been experimenting and wasting ts6OO,OOOOOO for nine months, and equipment it Lis the testimony of every returning artileryman hsve met after the training he had had in this country, he had undergo hurried. intensive train ~ing in France if there time, in the of the fFrench 75's, for the that American guns and eammunition not available. Frequently for lack of time this training had to be undergone at the front under the fire of the enemy. Yet Mir Cum things spoke of our hurried and admirable equipment That will not be impressive to the two million boys who there and saw. and will tell their neigh -bors what they saw
 They will further resent the transfer of all the glory of their achievements, and they glorious, ~to the president in whom MT. Cummings finally deposited that glory. Without his superhuman fore sight and wisdom the courage and sef-sacrfice of Our soldiers must have gone for nothing.
 W Lastly Mr. Cummings commits the democratic party to nternatonalism, because the president is an internationaist, because he has enlisted in the direction of all human affairs. America is to be made through the democratic party (by MT. Wison) sub seryient to humanity We do not think the demc-