Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-05

For distinguished confederation of
what The Record has been saying
about Senator Hiram Johnson, the
Lancaster Herald's candidate for the
Republican nomination for president,
we would refer Editor Sherman to
the editorial from the New York
World which we print in another col
umn of this issue, and which quotes
the Republican New York Tribune in
support of the same opinions.-Bloom-
ington Record.
Propaganda, dear Bish, propaganda,
pure and simple. We are surprised at
your credulity. Read what your idol,
Mr. Bryan, said Thursday at Pitts
burg:
Delay may deluge the world in
blood and flood our own country with
woe he said. "The recent primaries
should be a warning. In Georgia less
than one-third of the democrats stood
for the treaty without reservations.
Two-thirds were divided about equal
ly between ratification with reserva-
tions and total rejection of the treaty
In Nebraska, Senator Hitchcock's vote
would not have been worth counting
had he been compelled to rely on those
who Endorsed his attitude on the
treaty.
MY fight was made on a platform
declaring for ratification with reser-
vations already agreed upon by a
large majority Of the senate. Senator
JOhnSOn's vote is largely a protest
against the treaty and against the
laundering of the senators who talk
for the treaty, but quarrel over reser-
VatiOnS.
"a campaign in favor of ratification
without reservations would result in
overwhelming defeat. but what is in
finitely worse it would prevent the
consideration of pressing domestic
problems and leave the whole world
to chaos. Our counsel and advice to-
day may contribute more to world
peace than an army of million men
would q year from now.
If our party refuses to aid ratifica-
tion now it must share, even if it does
not fully assume, responsibility for
what follows"
The idea that some solemn ass in
the seventeenth story of a New York
building can discern the motives and
interests of the American voters is
ridiculous. You, Bish, are much clos
er to the people than he
His opponents have really nothing
to say against Senator Johnson. His
record is clear. You hear not a word
against his record or his utterances
He may or may not have enlisted the
vote Of those opposed to the admins
tration and existing conditions but he
has never stood for anything but
Americanism.
Senator Johnson is courageous
man. He alone had courage to COM
bat the president last fall when the
nimbus of the late war hung over the
country and to oppose Wilson meant
the possibility of being accused of
treason. 1t was a great battle of in
tellectual giants They fought blow
for blow giving and taking buffets,
Wilson standing for a glorified Inter
nationalism and Johnson for Nation
alism-America first and forever.
Finally Wilson broke under the strain
OF this and other things. Johnson
went on his sturdy way toward the
presidency.
Because Johnson is courageous he
has caught and held the liking of red
blooded men. They see the need for
change in this country. They be-
lieve that the man who cannot see the
terrible situation to which we have
drifted is either fool or a hypocrite
Johnson's vote in Michigan, Illinois,
New Jersey and the West explains this
feeling
Johnson may or may not be the man
we are looking for. He is a common
man, man of the People, He is a
poor man. Unaided he fought and de-
feated the great railroad ring that
was choking and corrupting business
and political life on the Pacific coast
Big Business does not like Johnson 1t
fears him. Hence the propaganda so
readily believed by gullible people.
Whether Johnson can capture the
nomination is still in doubt If nomin-
ated his election is not so doubtful
but by no means certain. The East
does not want a Western president. |
Never has man gone from the region
west of the big river to the White |
House. The East fears the West, its
radicalism, its scorn of pretense its |
habit of Christening enthroned wealth |
and power.
Could Johnson, if elected, inaugur-
ate policies that would conserve De- |
mocracy, stiae Bolshevism and put
special privilege and the money power |
in its place? If so he would indeed |
be great man. Because there are
some who feel that he is the most |
likely of the various candidates to do
these necessary things they are for
him. Time will test him.
You and I, friend Bishop, are of the |
common people. Our hard effort, our
craving hair, our lifetime Of toll, our
petty profits, all these, are the story
of most of our kind. Combinations,
corners in products of every kind, |
robbing monopolies, steal everything
we can make. All we ask, all we
want is what is fair. We are willing
to pay any man an honest profit but
we are getting mighty tired of being !;
sucked dry. Aren't we?