The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-01
A DEMOCRATIC VICTORY.

A DEMOCRATIC VICTORY.
1t is somewhat amusing to see the
newspapers in the country, which have
been opposed to the administration,
getting all ready to make the best Of
it," in the event that the republican
party, to which they have been so
openly friendly. is defeated, and the
democratic administration once more
assumes control of this democratic gov
eminent.
The interests which have so steadily
set their faces against national progress
and which have so flagrantly attacked
democracy since a republican con-
gresS has been in power, are having
their fangs drawn at last, and that large
and bloated faction which has made the
name of this country by-word and a
kissing, will soon be incarcerated in a
dungeon of their own making, thrown
into that outer darkness, from which
let us pray. they shall never more re-
turn to hold this country in disgraceful
bondage to the moneyed power of this
country
For nearly a year this band Of bitter
partisans, led by such men as Lodge
and Knox and Reed have heaped con-
tumely on the head of this nation, and
have sought to gibbet him in the pres
ence of the populace, whose applause
they sought, with specious lies and Wit
operative eloquence.
But the tide turned with the first
stanza. of Lodges Song of Hate, in the
convention halls of the republicans in
Chicago. Lodge was not speaking there
to a handful of men of whom he had
and his confreres had been training in
their craven way for period of many
months. He was speaking to men of
this nation who had been sent to Chi
cago as representatives of this nation,
from all parts Of this United States.
And among these men were those who
were surfeited with hate. and sick
with the paens OF self-praise, OF which
the Lodge Knox Reed faction so nobly
delivered itself.
That wave of disapprobation that be-
gan in Chicago, has reached it's high
est crest at San Francisco, where the
administration leaders are in control.
II the republican party had gone into
convention to do its faithful part in
electing democratic president, 1T could
have been no more successful.
Finding nothing good to say Of itself
and the ends which 1t had sought, it
spent it's strength in attacks upon the
other party, and members Of the other
party, and with the last line Of its songs
of hate, went down in defeat, before
the iuggernaut OF its own cumbersome
machine
During the months when the presi-
dent of this nation lay on bed OF
pain, facing death daily, in the halls
Of congress of these United States, Of
which he is the official head, he met
with daily and hourly attack from
that band of eager partisans, seeking
to use his illness as means to their
own ends-an illness brought on
through service to this nation and to
the people of other nations, whom he
sought to free.
In the halls of congress these big
men of little minds" have had their
say. Now in convention in San Fran
cisco, the people of this nation are
having theirs. The sound Of their
voices was heard in Chicago. 1t has
risen in San Francisco to a storm of
protest against partisan pettiness and
chicanery, and has swelled until its
has reached across continent
to a man Of sorrows and acquainted
with grief"
The fact that Reed ana MS c0lledgueS
and the delegates from Georgia have
had a fight on their hands with the |
forces in San Francisco, is but what |
they deserve. They have made trouble |
for the democratic party for long |
time. Now it is but fair that they
should receive their deserts at the !,
hands of that party
When the voting takes place in the |
ha
former Reed man has come to his |
sense, and that many Georgia repub-
lican has gone back to the fold, and
became a good Georgia democrat.
The democratic victory in this coun-
try is going to be not only a victory for |
the administration but a real victory /
for all people who believe in govern
ment by and for the people.