The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-02
yGEsDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 1920.
wilson, Cox & Co. Did 1t.

This national election of 1920 was
not won for the Republican party
during the campaign. 1t was already
won definitely and finally long before
the national conventions of the two
great parties met in June and July
before anybody dreamed who would be
the candidates of either party, but
when everybody Of sound American
hearr and common American sense
knew what the issue was.
This national campaign of 1920 was
won, in truth, two years ago when
Mr.. WILSON called upon the country
to give him another Democratic Con-
gress to serve his own ends while he
u y led his own will upon the national
representatives of the American peo-
kple, but the voters of the United
States responded with a complete
overturn of the Democratic House of
Representative and a close capture
of the Senate.
If Mr.. WILSON himself had been a
candidate for reelection two years ago
when he lost his Congress and when
his party lost further claim to the
United States Government, he too,
we doubt not, would have gone down
10 defeat at the same time
Aa5p American politics there never had
been anything more deliberate and
selfish than his betrayal of n large
part of the American people into a
belief which he necessarily instilled
into them that he never would go to
war. There never had been anything
more cruel and dangerous than his re-
lfusal from the summer Of 1914 to the
spring of 1916 to let the Government
of the American people build a navy
to defend their shores when the world
was aflame with war, TO let It recruit
n army when we were threatened
more and more, to let it manufacture
cannon and rifles, gather ammunition
aud supplies-when. indeed, he would
permit this Government to make
scarcely pound of powder.
But after his reelection in 1916 had
~ won on that false issue, and
Ugh his indifference, neglect and
berversIty the country had been left
naked of military armor, mighty
llittlc time elapsed before he plunged
his into the war. Right then and there
he American people were done with
lfr. WILSON for good and all and with
Ihs party for many a day TO come.
|1Iis Administration, his Congress, his
Government, his party, already put to
the full test as to their business ca.
baoity, their practical training and
their American gumption, were found
opelessly wanting.
Nobody has put It more concisely
nd withal more comprehensively
han Mr.. OTTo III. KAHN did n few
Idays before electiorf when he said:
1.-THE people appear determined TO
administer a crushing rebuke 70 an
Administration and a party which.
having come into power by a fuke in
1912 and by deceitful election cry
In 1915. have established an unparal-
leled record for ineficiency, wasteful-
ness and general misgovernment at
home and for nischlevous meddlins
and fragrant bungling abroad"
After that November. 1918, wher
he American nation at the Congress:
ections showed the measure it had
taken of Mr.. WILSON. of his Admins
sfratlon and Of his party, nothing more
|was needed to damn them irredeem
abiy In the public eye. the public
art and the public brain. 1t Is true
IL many things inexpresdbly as
nnding and nationally humlliatinl
d happened since then. There hat
an the war squanders, with the i'm
easurable waste of army moneys
~ - Ineys--all public moneys
MI Npeen tho Incompatible
ionPic situations like