El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-07-12

Revfvifies the Party.
Henry Watterson hit the right idea
: when he wired. You ave revivified
the party" he says Jimmy" Cox
I has given new life TO what was TO all
I intents and purposes a corpse. 1t is
going TO be a job TO resuscitate the
Z party 20 such an extent that Cox can
romp home a winner, but i repeat
tthar Cox is the best man the party
I could have selected from .afnong those
/ who had q chance Ane II there Is any
} chance Of q victory, Cox is the man
who can win it. If he can't inspire
the voters with courage, he can
Z inspire them with a liking for him,
and that is something in politics.
Just how much strength Frank
lin Roosevelt can add 20 the party
is yet a question: but the name
Roosevelt is rs the man said who
nominated him, something to
eenJure Wifhn and in New York
IL will mean something more than
being the second man on the
Democratic ticket
If any two men in the Democratic
party could carry New York, Jimmy"
Cox ana Franklin Roosevelt can do It
Platform Impedes Race.
Roosevelt like Cox, is a young
man, ana he has a good speaking
voice and II he takes the Pullman
plattOrm-polticians don't take the
stump any mOre-he viii make
friends for the ticket too, He has
much Of Rooseveltian characteristic
speaker and impresses you with his
sincerity. He is not the same sort Of
a vote getter &c Cox. but a vote getter
just the same.
Too bnd-WritinE from n Demo
cratic standpoint n0W-thaf the
Two men have 10 drag that league
Of nations platform with them
With an anti-league OF nations
platform and slightly moist
plank In the structure such az
was first fOrecast-but what's the
use saying what might have beens
They haven't got il and they must
stand on a league Of nations plank
and they can only appeal for the
wet vote with that sly wink the
Cox men have said would be so ef-
From what 1 know Of the east. 1
unhesiratingly say a slightly wet
or even a sopping wet plank would
nave got either party a lot OF votes.
1t might have hurt Just as badly in
the south and west however. Just
what the Cox wink VIII DO, nobody
can say.
E, OF course, Cox can't wink an amend
ment onto the Volstead act, but he
can make the thirsty feel that he is
sympathetic and thirsty people like
sympathy il they cant get anything
more substantial
Hiram Johnson's Influence.
Old hiram Johnson has come back
into the Republican party and that
is going TO mean something in this
campaign II means that California
viii be Republican If Johnson is as
sincere as his statement leads one
speaking now from a Republican
standpOlnt-to hope
The way Johnson went over" in
1916 when he knitted Hughes so
in California and the way
he die IL again this year in the
primaries leaves no doubt Of what
he can 90 with the California vote IL
he is sincere And We all believe
johnson is sincere in saying that he
thinks the Republican party the only
choice as between the Democratic
pronouncement for the league Of ma
tons and the Republican pronounce
ment against it.
The California returns this fall will
clear up a lot Of things -Four years
ago the Republicans swore that John
son leagued himself with the Demo-
Gratis 70 elect himself and Wilson and
teach Mr.. Hughes that he dare not
come 70 California and not fraternize
with q sfaVorite SON.
Was There Double CrOssIagf
LAST Nav the Penn hlieang aga in