The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-10-16
PRESIDENTIAL sEpATivE.


orai,aTy IN. views OF a vice president on the pub
lie lsss 4 OF the day are consequence His Is an
official position OF little Importance save IN one re-
specl and tho public after tho campaign Is cloS'u
and the administration assumes tho direction oI inc
government speedily ignores the vice president IN"
exception referred is that which makes the vice
or..ldent potential president at all times and cen
ter. attention on him when tho condition OF the pf's'
dent becomes such to point to the possibility o' 'h'
constitutional provision covering executive succession
being invoked.
Happly ths nation has had few such experiences
so few that the possibility OF another arising at any
moment is not given the prudent consideration 1t shouu
receive at the time conventions are flling he sec
o,a rlaee on the ticket The possibility, IL not proba-
bllity Of another such experience being at h'nu'
has focused attention for the first time ON VcePrea-
dent Marshall and, many people beginning TO study
his public utterancos for sign OF his mental pro
cesses and political philosophy.
Again bappI,y there was at hand very recent speech
delivered by Mr. Marshall to the manufacturers gain
cred at Atlantic City This speech, or very conSid-
arabic part Of IT, The World was privileged to present
TO It's readers few days ago. 1t is some extracts from
this speech that we desro to comment pn and invite
close attention TO- In these anmadversions Concern
ing the popular fetsh OF curing social Ills whether
real OF Imagined, by legisaton'
There Is nobody earth who has less fanh y
4Ss n Siy S So eqn n@ys people S@
in fact that a noisy. vocferous, asd ,persBtent
%@Sr,S @s.a %Sd lsSSsSy STSS P'1 oSia"ns
great majority Of the American poopN care not.,-
fairs and when public opinion demands remedial
legislation 1t is granted nnd there Ia pu',g "pmvVn pv
oplhion by remedial legislation and nine times
out of ten fail TO do it
Now there isn't the temotest possibility OF starting
a debate on anything said In that paragraph II IS
true and every man or woman who has followed Amer
icnn public affairs will study the history OF Amer
lean public affairs, knows It Is true,
And as n sort OF passing indictment OF tendency
that appeared to be growing into national danger
for a time, tho speaker said:
Now for about thirty days after the closed
I thought that mankind had become angelic In 'lS
character, but the days go by | observe mar we
thai we we're before the war In this particular
that American citizens we are not going to sana
back here on tho western continent and let the
ma sissI u tho trade Of the world Now / do not
want that done. / willing 10 20 long way
In lending helping hand 10 all the needy ana
oppressed, but am not willing for the AmcrIc,n
business to sit down and let the trade Of the
world be stolen from him, As tar as
am concerned am unalternhy opposed 70 the gov
ernment ownership OF anything that me govern
ment does not have TO own. we uNed TO ave "a
thing he observed and observed evcrythlng Ne took
notice Of / have been doing that Is Washington.
q and in ~ far ns have had AN opportunity 1" SEQ
things there this is the real weaknrss ot me r"l-
to cuss melody 10 sue and nobody to reward
have never known very much good 10 come TO lhr
rnS,pSp. raS pSps. Aubaprp wag trained thcorci-
cally as a tariff -for-royruuc democrat which YOU
know was only clwoufHge for free trade. and ale
though / believe now iu that theory of govern
money. 20 speak of tho loss ot fr. Go hc'p rhc
allies win this war. ana sp hope that tho ur'u
commission vi, see ma, ,ho American manu-,
the world for the supremacy of tho world
There are polished phrases in this. no idealisr,
no head tho-clouds business In fact this homcy
old fashioned practical political philosophy Indicate