The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-11-21
Re- Election of Coolidge
Is A Victory For Order

Governor Coolidge, Republican, of
Massachusetts,, was reelected by an
overwhelming majority Of the votes
cast by the people Of that enlightened
state.
Their overwhelming verdict gave
comfort and joy, not only to Massa-
chusetts, but to the nation. For by
as much as the people of Massachu-
sets indicated and supported Cool.
idge at home, by exactly as much, not
one whit less, they repudiated and
branded everywhere in the United
States the challenger of American
government. This means a Gompers
masking as moderate, who leads po-
lice to desert their posts of duty, as
well as Foster the steel strike Red,
who breaches incendiarism against
the whole institution of American
government.
Woodrow Wilson, President of the
United States, has sent to the victor
ious governor message of congratu-
lation which for the American people
is like breath of fresh air from the
mountain top.
Il congratulate you upon your cleo
ton as victory for law and order,
When that is the issue all Americans
stand together"
1t may be read with profit by the
Gompers type, the Foster type and all
the other types that assume they and
their committees and, deputies are
above the municipal law, the state
law, the federal law. 1t is for any
and every one Of them that demands
the withdrawal of an Injunction be.
cause it is against them; demands
that there shall be no process of law
II 1t is contrary to their orders; de.
mands that there shall be no enact.
ment Of legislation if it is not for
them only; demands that there shall
be no operation of government ex.
cept as it may operate at their sweet
will.
For any of them, in the colors of
Foster or in the colors of Gomers,
daring to defy government authority,
there will come sorry day if thew
40 not heed this message of Mr.. vii.
son and all the national will and DOW
er behind such message.
For Woodrow Wilson definitely and
finally puts this fundamental issue be.
fore the nation as Calvin Coolidge put
is before the state of. Massachusetts,.
The people of the United States want
| TO meet that issue for their nation as
the people of Massachusetts, met It
for their state. They will settle 1t as
Massachusetts settled it. They will
show self-appointed autocracy wheth.
er it can lay down the terms and con.
ditions on which it will obey court or.
ders. They will show organized CAPT.
tai who is behind the law and who ia
behind the government, who is the
law and who is the governmental
the American people.
Whenever anybody, whether his
name is Foster or Gompers, wants a
fight to the finish on that fundamental
issue he will have it in the United
States as he had it in Massachusetts,
What he got in Massachusetts, he will
get in the United States.
This is why, after the Coolidge YER.
dict for Massachusetts, and the vii.
son message for the nation, the Am.
erican people for the first time in
months draw a long, full breath Of
confidence and security. Business
and industry again feel that under
their feet is solid foundation, no,
quicksands. The man who works, the
man who makes sacrifices for his fam
lily, the man who saves against the
hazards Of old age, utters a praye,
OF thankfulness. American manhood
looks the world in the. face as of old
with clear, straight serene eye.-Nev