The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-08-05
WE APPEAL FOR MERCY

Cne real effectiveness OF Cf1e constructive
suggestions which heed to sense of
duty prompts JUS to proffer to the present
administration. Indeed we may go so far
as to admit that it is this realization, sup
plementng a natural disinclinaton to in
tvite criticism by seeming presumptuous-
ness, that accounts for the restraint
which, judging from their communica-
tons, weighs heavily upon the minds of
many of our readers. 1t is with no little
lhesitancy, therefore, that we now take
| the liberty of directing the attention of
our happily returned and ensconced Chief
Magistrate to a circumstance of grave
Importance which might otherwise, in the
press Of accumulated tasks, escape his
undivided attention.
The circumstance to which-or, speak
ling more exactly, to whom-we allude is
the Hon. Gilbert NJ Hitchcock, senator Of
the United States from the sovereign
state of Nebraska. True it is and we
would not deny that in times past Mr..
Hitchcock has not been so invariably sub
|missive to duly assumed authority as to
merit kindly consideration. We cannot re-
|cal offhand whether he was one of the
Wilful Twelve but our recollection is dis
tinct that he voted, contrary to instruc-
tons, to place an embargo upon the ship
ment of munitions to the Allies and in
other instances, most notably when the
President called Senator Chamberlain
liar for speaking the truth he behaved in
such way as to give just cause of offense
Since those days of unhappy differenc-
es, however, he has never wavered in his
fidelity to ideals, however illusory, as be-
held his lord and master. During the
past few months in particular he has sub
ordinated self to degree never before
recorded of Nebraskan. He has spoken
in support of the sacred Covenant over,
and over again from platforms over
weighted to the point of danger by Mr..
Taft. His arguments or appeals or what
ever they might be called, lacked cogency
no doubt, but they were his and his alone
and were put forth with fervor worthy
of any man upholding cause which he
knows to be pernicious.
And that is not ALL AS the rankest
member of the committee on Foreign Re-
lations, Senator Hitchcock has tilted fire.
quently and disastrously to his reputa-
ton with his fellow pygmies and once he
trifled so transparently with the truth,
that even Senator John Sharp felt obliged
to call him to account. Day in and day
out he has hewed wood and drawn water
for the absent executive under the pains
taking direction of Mr.. Tumulty and in
all ways at all times has proved himself
a good and faithful servant.
Now he enters into his reward! That
is to say, his services being no longer es-
sential, he finds himself, conformably to
established usage, out in the cold, cold
world-a castaway, ostentatiously ignor-
ed and contemptuously put aside after
having been securely tied to the mast.
We could scarcely believe our eyes when
we read, first in the Herald that Senator
Hitchcock, who has borne the brunt of
battle, "has not yet been consulted by the
President nor has he received any word
from the White House nor was he among
those with whom Mr. Wilson conversed,"
after the great deliverance. 1t seemed
incredible. And yet on the following
morning the other correspondents con-
firmed the report and noted further that
when the reception committee called at
White House the President deliberately
turned his back on Mr.. Hitchcock" and
later conferred with Senator Swanson.
The immediate consequence was the
abrupt departure of the Nebraska pyg-
my, as he must now regretfully be des-
ignated, for the north shore of Massa-
chusetts, whose cooling breezes greatly
facilitate calm reflection upon the vissi-
tudes of inhuman existence.
For the pygmy himself we ask moth
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