Arizona republican., 1920-10-26

for it never has been guilty of that.
 Plays Democratic Waste. Democratic economy and adminis- trative policies had brought this coun try to the danger of disaster before the outbreak of the war in Europe. The vast expansion of our export trade and demands upon our producing facili- l ties. which came with the war. saved l us from immediate precipitation of that disaster. But that phase has now passed and nothing but a return to those constructive and progressive policies which have always character | ized the Republican administration can save us from early realization of the danger that confronted us at the middle of 1914. From the beginning of the war in Europe the Democratic administra- tion stcadfastly refused to prepare for the national defense in case we should be involved. In 1916. when it was apparent to most people that our country was in imminent danger of being drawn into the struggle. the Democratic party made it's campaign on the boast that it had kept us out of war. and the promise to continue to keep us out. Thus when we found our selves at last in the struggle we were utterly unready for it. and our par ticipation cost fmmea surabely more than it should have cost
 An administration. that when all the world was in conf1agration. re- fused to realize the importance of pre- paredncss. of course could not be ex- Dected to realize while we were at war the necessity of preparing for peace. So we entered into peace quite as un- ready for 1t as we had been for war Our economies were disorganized. our debt enormous. our fortign commerce devoted largely to supplying the necessaries of war.
 "Ipstead of settling itself to remedy ing these conditions. the administra- ton has devoted itself from the day | of the armistice. to promoting a pro- | ject of world reorganization in which America would bear the largest re- responsibilities of guaranteeing a new scheme of things.
 America Denied Legal Peace
 Instead of making legal peace as soon as actual peace had been won, the American people, alone of all the warning nations, were denied by their government the privilege of a return to the legal status of peace and to the enjoyment of those rights which they had temporarily surrendered under the circumstances of war. So long as war was on. Republicans upheld the hands of the administration, forget ting party considerations, and gave
 
 far more generously than did their political opponents. Yet an auto cratic administration repaid this loy- alty with the demand, in the cam paign of 1918, that Republicans be removed from every position of in- fluence and power. That demand the country .reiected. lt was the first an administration had been defeated in the midst Of foreign war. That defeat would have been ample sdmoni- ton to any administration not en- tirely absorbed in its own peculiar political policies and purposes. But # apparently was unheeded by the powers at Washington Negleetino the acute domestic situation, the admin istration suddenly conceived an inter est in foreign affairs that eontrasted lFnpressively with it's lack of concern Tor them In the period before we were drawn into the war.
 "So. while immediate and practical concerns were being neglected, while reconstruction and reorganization of our own country were forgotten. the administration was devoting itself to the chimera of a world reorganization The Republican congress that had beer elected in the autumn of 1918. at- tempted to and did initiate measures to set us on the right track once more It devised a budget system in the hope of putting an end to the treasury defi. cit and bringing economy and systen Into our national finances. But tn, l president vetoed that measure. Tn, ( administration went right on spendin, Q vast sums in excess of our revenues b offering no constructive inspiration o t leadership; apparently forgetting ou q domestic difficulties in it's engross h ment with the chimera of world re , construction. This in a word is tn |. record of the administration. nov about to retire from power, whic seeks to have it's policies perpetuatec \ The country will decline to give it confidence and its mandate to tha party or those policies. It remem bers that the Republican party tough the Civil war and afterward restore and unified the nation. It believes tha the Republican party is capable of re beating that service and because it s believes, it is going to return the Re publican party to power.
 Autocraey Must Go
 The nation Is determined to be don
 with autocracy under the mere guis
 of Democratic forms: 1t is determine
 that there shau be no return to tn
 old order. The plain people who, O
 the whole, have been raised to a ne
 and higher lever, are not only con
 vinced that they are entitled to re
 main on this new plane. but that the
 must rely upon the constructive abil
 ties of the Republican party to kee
 them there. It is our purpose to aC
 complish exactly this. While we wi
 oppose every suggestion of revolution
 problems of the last few years. Onei