The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-30
G. O.P. UNITY CALL
MADE BY PINCHOT
Bids Liberals Return to Party
to Defeat "Wilson and
Democrats"
HE OPPOSES HARDING
Says Republican Candidates
Must Be of Roosevelt
Type to Win.
HE OPPOSES HARDING
Special pespa,eh TO TEE Sur.

HARRrssuRa. Pa. July 29.-Gifford
Pinchot, advised liberal Republicans In
an address here to-day to get back into
the party ranks for the coming battle
against Wilson and the Democrats"
He sssailed the President as n keen, I'M
scrupulous master Of words and maker
of untitled promises remarking with
some humor. however. that the Presi-
dent always gets away wah It,"
Gov. Harding will not do as candi-
date. Mr.. Pinchot said. He is POM
pous, conventional politician" and his
running would be hike a duel between a
toy balloon and rapier.'
1--WE must beat Wilson and the Demo-
crafts" he said But you cannot beat
something with nothing. Mr.. Wilson lie
a dangerous opponent and we cannot
afford 10 forget Il. AS creator of
hopes he is without an equal The fat
absut him that must be Kept in mind is
this; What he says he will do has no
relation to what he actually will do. 1t
would be easy to give any number of ex-
amples,- but there is no need, for the
whole world has learned that II Is true.
1t is so true that the difficult thing is to
find a single promise he has carried out,
a single stand taken which he has not
reversed.
From the time Of his first election
on a platform which pledged him to a
single term to his reputation OF the
fourteen points in the peace treaty
which he has brought home Mr.. Wilson'S
history Is one long story of saying one
thing and doing another. and getting
away with It. II the past Is any in
dication of the future then Mr.. Wilson'S
declaration for n plan or a policy makes
only one thing sure-that what he does
In the end will be something different.
Never let 1t be forgotten that his prom
ises are breath and nothing more.
"If the greatest asset of the Demo-
Gratis to-day is Woodrow Wilson beyond
all question the second Is the Repub-
iican Old Guard. My own view is that
the Old Guard is not worth getting
thrashed for again. and that the best
Republican Is he who best serves his
country and his party by making his
party deserve to win and then support
ing 1t to victory"
Mr.. Pinchot predicted that the winning
Republican candidate must be n man of
the type of Roosevelt to stand against
the packers for the farmers, for the
workers against monopoly and the peo-
Pile against the bosses. The party must
have progressive platform to carry II
forward and must act quickly. he said.
to overcome the work of reactionaries
who are already evolving retrenchment.
II Is a new world and there can be no
backward step, he asserted.
THE mass OF American political
thought is liberal. which Is but natural
when the American people have Just won
the greatest war ever fought for the
rights of men," he said. Our boys died
by thousands to destroy privilege and
free the world from its oppression. VT
was not the old guard brand OF ostensible
democracy for which they died. 1t was
not the veneered democracy of Armour.
Morgan Gary, Rockefeller. Harding and
Penrose, for which they made the last
great sacrifice: but 1t was the true
democracy of Lincoln and Roosevelt. the
democracy of the plain people of Amer
ica" -
Mr.. Pinchot suggested calling a pre-
liminary convention of liberals to recon-
mend a plan of common action TO the
party. He advised holding endorsement
of candidate In allegiance. except to
oppose reactionaries,