Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-21
Why Not BE Truthful?

7. - doubtful If our country ever Dc
fore Witnessed n national pollticM cam
rairn marked 10y such msrepresehta'ioi'
so much actual falschood, and so ilu'h
ignoring of real issucs-and graVeiy IN
,,,,tant issa,rs-as has attended the ne
n,bI,can partv's campaign this year. ohe
-, b,t wonder II the party managers
hold the great body of voters TO oe uei'Se
=, ,cporant and unable to know q taisehoou
when thew hear it or see IT m print
From the hcadhncrs to the small n.y. |
RenuhEcan orators are alike. Eilhu h''''
o,,, OF the trainers Of the Court OF lhper-
national Justice now in operation uiiu,i
tho League Of Nations, returns irohs ''i'
narticipation in this great work ana lo'i'
,be fat-beadcd Taft in assuring the people
that-thc way TO secure the League oi IA
,,o,s ,s 10 elect Harding President he.
Harding has "scrapped' the League "a
Nnt,ons in public speech and deeiaI'o nc
will have none Of it. Whcrcat nc / CIR
Enthusiastically supported by Johnson anu
Rorah both osnen enemies Of any knfu VI
;...,.t.o,,oI association for the Peace OF
the Norld.
Mr. Root also voices the falschood tha'
President Wilson insisted upon the
Treaty absolutely unchanged Mr.. WI
.,n did nothing Of the kind. lie decia,eo
his willingness to accept amendments tila'
,.,,,,d not operate TO kill it, and that l's
strangIing bv hostile amendments "aS
t,,e nurpcsc of Lodge and his followers ~
az Senate all the country knows. MI.
Root knows. also, that four OF hVe sue
restlous made by him were accepted oS
President Wilson and Incorporated IN 'Ie
Treaty
Mr. Harding also comes to the lore IN
this apparentlv prcarrangod scheme O. oe-
1ihcratc MISREPRESENTATION by declaring ~
a public speech: France has sent l'eA
Spokesman "a me, informally, asking
Americs. in its new realization q 'he
sitlat,on. 10 lead the way fer an assocla-
ton of nations Upon being made a"aie
~ the enorrnity Of the hlunder he had com
mittcd in thus holding up foreign govern
nent as officially interfering IN cur eie0'10i'
canraizn. he endeavored 70 make u aP-
rear that Il was not France that had ap-
nraaclcd him through spCkCsTen N llis
manner. but French people thus, ne ,
g,nltx a. either deliberate falsehood OF %
stiIDid insult in assuming that the peopie
of tins country arc So ignorant they WIN y
easily fooled by such a subteriuge Anu
one of his partisan apologists makes Inc
Ridiculous charge that the incident was 'iie
result Of Governor Cox endeavoHng %
..srt a trap for Mr. Harding. All tha'
need he said about tins Is that 4 Governor
Cox did set q trap which OF course lie
did pot-Senator Harding walked ngh'
INTO II
Coming down 70 local orators, We inc
the same splrlt of Misrepresentation '''
same deliberate purpose 70 ignore the re;-
ISSUE Of the campaign They misrepresen
and denounce the League q Nauon'
when they refer 10 it al all. but then ch!e
stock IN trade If 70 denounce the "lisoI
administration. They behttle or ignore
the great work done by our brave soidlei'
and sailors N the war, and see nothing ou
what thev insist was graft and extrava
g1DrF the cDulufl u tuc HeAAs
AS IN instance, We find Mr.. Leonard +
Wales quoted bv the Morning News a
having told meeting Of Polish Repup
bcans" that If the Democrats were con
tinucd IN power at the coming election
vouId mean more graft eXtravaganc
and waste :" More graft, " forsooth. Is l
poeslble MIR. Wales is ignorant of the lac
that partisan committee Of the Repubii
,an Coperess spent two millions Of dollar
IN investigating war expenditures and faIl
ed TO secure evidence of the slightest grait
Ifhe is then he should be ashamed Of sucl
ignorance.
And Mr Percy Warren Green, accord
ing 70 the Morning News told RepublI
can audience that Mr. Wilson. ID order T.
put over the League Of Nations, gave =
Eurotean fstlons territory all over Ia
world Senator Ball, 10 doubt, will lee
strooglv inclined to take Percy by the nee
and shake him roughly for this assertion
as Senator Ball Is making strong ap
peals to the Italians for Republican sup
port on the ground that MIR. Wilson Oh
exactly tic opposite, especially IN respec
of Italv.s claim on Fiume. But these VIII
engage in a campaign Of misrcpresenta
ton cannot be consistent.
And 30 II goes, day alter day, can
paign of falsehood, misrepresentation an
Ignoring of the real issues. Mr. Hardin
varies the situation, occasionally, by r'
vealug hls profound ignorance Of puDh
affairs
But is it possible q majority q ~
people viii be begIiled or deceived by sue
campaign methods? We DO not beiieV
they vii.