The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1920-10-29


can President and Vice President on next
= Tuesday, than to choose a working Re-
publican majority in both branches of Congress.
The election of the Republican national ticket,
and along with it Congress Democratic in either
branch would be barren victory. 1t would
give to the new national administration respon-
sibility without authority. 1t would deadlock
national government at a time when cooperation
is essential to the performance of the great task
of national restoration and reconstruction with
which the next national administration will be
charged.
1t takes the two branches of government
executive and legislative, acting in harmony, to
accomplish any important governmental pur-
pose. Either branch is practically poweress
without the cooperation of the other. And that
is particularly true now, when the statute books
are burdened with laws which are the product of
seven and a half years of activity by the party
in power.
In the excitment of the presidential campaign,
the paramount Importance of electing Republi-
can House and Senate must not be lost sight of.
The election of Republican House is practic-
ally sure to accompany the election of the Re-
publican national ticket. But survey of the
sible to elect Harding and Coolidge and still lose
the Senate, or make Republican control of the
Senate ineffective because of the narrowness of
the party majority.
In number of states Democratic activity
and Republican factional trouble threatens the
election of Democratic senators in states that
ought to be Republican. 1t must be understood
that Republican loyalty, to be intelligent or eff
fective, must extend to the senatorial as well as
the presidential ticket. In fact hostility to the
Republican national ticket would be clearly in
dicated by failure to support the partys senator
ial nominee because to elect Harding President
and then fordoom his administration to failure
by sending hostile Senate to Washington,
would be an act unfrendly to the next Republi-
can President, as well as injurious to the inter-
ests of the country
The Republican party must hold every sena-
toral seat now Republican and displace some
Democrats with Republicans, in order to give to
the next Republican national administration the
legislative cooperation essential to the success
of the administration or the welfare of thA
country The mere fact that the national gov
ernment is given Republican head would mean
little or nothing, it, at the same time, the chief
of his party, or execute any purpose of his own,
through the opposition of Senate dominated by
a Democratic majority.
Now is a time when any man wishing to assist
in retiring the present administration from ma
tional control must in order to demonstrate his
sicerity in such a purpose, support-not merely
the presidential but the congressional tickets of
his party. 1t would be more intelligent and
more patriotic for any citizen to be against both
the national and congressional tickets, than to
be against either for support of the one might
give fictitious weight to opposition to the
other and might be accorded for that very
purpose.
To the campaign for Republican eontrorof the
Senate special attention should be given by
every Republican sincerely and intelgently in
terested in the success of the next Republican
national administration. With a Democratic
Senate, or Senate narrowly and doubtfully con
trolled by Republicans, Republican nationa