The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-11
Will the American Form of
Government Be Main !
tanned the Issue
MILLIONS WILL VOTE
WITH REPUBLICANS
Fears Those Who Have Lost Faith in
Liberty and Opportunity Time Has
Come to be American or Half So
cialist, He Declares.


NEW YORK-June 1I-Dr! Nicholas
Murray Butler told the guests at the lun-
cheon Of the Womens Republican assoc
citation of the state of New York at the
Hotel Pennsylvania yesterday that there
would be as great a crisis, or more so,
at the election Of 1920 as there had been
in 1860. and said it was the duty of every
nan and woman to work for the educa-
ton of the people that they might know
what was at stake in going to the polls.
The American form OF government will
be at stake, he said. lie prophesied also
that at the election of 1920 a million and
half people who had never done so be-
fore in their lives would vote the Repub-
lican ticket, and would do it cheerfHlly.
| The women applauded enthusiastically as
| he said:
And they will do it not only in the.
East and III the West, but, believe me,
they will be found in the South.
Speaking of the days OF slavery and Sc
! ccssion in 1850, he said
I'VE -shudder to think what would have
| happened if Lincoln had not been elected
| The fundamental issue in 1920 is not go
ing to be whether the union will be pre-
served, but whether the American form
OF government will be maintained am
1 not concerned with those who propose
to overtum the American government by
| force. with bombs on the doorsteps I
don't know what the idea OF Victor Der
ger. who spoke at Madison Square gar
den was / am little concerned with him
! People of these classes are too much out
of touch with the American spirit. | am
more concerned with those who would
overturn the government because they do
not know and do not understand and have
no conception Of what is at stake.
These are the people who have lost
faith in liberty and opportunity, and do
not believe that the last 80 years have
been an achievement, but miserable fail
ure for which some new and awful ex
pertinent must be substituted Wien W.
find those who are anxious to bring about
al backward revolution we must basin
ourselves
"a free government in a democracy car
only be carried out With party system
: America was never better governed thar
with the Republican and Democrat parties
confronting each other in a contest a
fundamental principles Tn 1860 there were
| a SttAt iAtdnl 4ittifit WHO ittI tue it0l8G
crat party with their families and he
came Republicans continuing for the rest
Of their lives Then he predicted similar
conditions in 1920.
WHY" he asked Because they src
, patriotic and devoted Americans and the,
, know that. the time has come when tho
| Issue is SO clear that you must be either
an American or a half Socialist. 70,
ave got to choose, whether Won vii
have 4 party that will protect liberty
: opportunity, and the authority Of til,
| courts, or whether Won Vii prefer Is hay,
these give place to the opposite. This may
! be applied to each one Of the important
! issues which confronts the people OF to
, day, the issues OF capital and labor. con
troll Of railroads, telegranhs and telephon,
iii there is anything left to control whcr
: the government gets through with then
, and the issue Of international policy
, For each Of these issues there is an Amer
: Ecan mode Of treatment and an un-Amcri
can Between these the voters in 1872
must make their choice We want t,
make sure that there is an American solu
! ton by an outpouring of tho people whicl
! viii ensure that this particular kind 0
q un-Americanism shall never raise It's hen,
again We want the election Of 1872
: and the five years following to end tai
of international socialism"