New-York tribune., 1920-09-27
William Howard Taft
The Two Candidates

who. while insisting that the farmers
themselves by voluntary cooperation
can do much, and without promising
that government and legislation can
do everything, will exert himself to
do all that can be done by one re-
sponsible also to consumers and car
riers as we'll.
Railroad Policy Praised
His speech to the railroad wage
earners on the Esch- h-Cummins bill and
his explanation Of the advantage to
them in the arbitration features Of that
act is admirable. 1t is not demagogic.
1t does not seek to stir them against
their employers. Uttered with a sense
Of responsibility to the country at
large and to all those in interest, it is
a strong answer to Mr.. Gompers's un-
measured condemnation of this really
useful measure.
One might take up other addresses
of Mr. Harding of the same character,
but these two we'll illustrate the ad-
vantage of the opportunity the front
porch campaign gives to deal calmly.
candidlv, fairly and strongly with the
electorate. The absence of appeals to
class feeling and demagogic emphasis
Of impossible achievement of reforms
is noteworthy.
On the other hand, Mr.. Harding is
not full Of bitter attacks upon his op-
ponents.. OF course, he discusses the
Wilson Administrator because the ap-
proval or disapproval of that is the
real issue of the campaign, but the
dignity Of his language and the alb
sence Of acrimony and of charges OF
corruption must impress all with the
difference between his method of
speech and that of his opponent. Every
thing he says aims at constructive sug-
gestion, as if he were facing the real
demands of the office he will surely fill.
Governor Cox has taken a very diff
ferent course. Having called to his
support idealists of constantly Demo-
cratic tendency and few Republicans
by his declarations for the league with
Article X, in spite of it's impossibility,
he then gave his whole attention to
the creation Of an issue which should
screen him from the fixed and general
feeling against the Wilson Administra-
ton. focus attention on the wickedness
of the Republican management Of the
campaign and enable him to reason
from that the assurance of an abhor
rent course by Mr.. Harding if Presi-
dent.
Much Cry and Little Wool
III Iuc HlSIOAy VI <A1ASIlSdH POAlliNS
there never has been so much cry and
so little wool produced by the candi
date of a great party as in the charge
by Governor Cox in regard to Repub-
lican campaign contributions. BY the
production of printed circulars Issued
by professional money collector en-
ploycd by the committee and seeking
to arouse the Republican sympathizers
to adequate contributions to pay the
large legitimate expenses of a cam
paign with thirty million voters, he
has sought to treat the exaggerated
quotas assigned in the circulars as
money in hand, and. assuming the COL
lection of them all, he has had the
unbelievable audacity to charge, with
out the slightest evidence, that the
money is being collected from large
business interests who purpose ''to
buy the Presidency" and make Harding
"use bayonets" to force workingmcn
to accept terms of employment the
business interests desire BY constant
repetition Of these gratuitous and pre-