Middletown transcript., 1920-02-21
DEL. FEBRUARY zlss, 1927
SOME PARTY PROBLEMS

SOME PARTY PROBLEMS
THE coming political campaign
! promises to be hot one, if not,
indeed q revolutionary one. Only Om-
niscience can certainly say just what
will be the outcome of this highly mix
ed political, social and economic condi-
ton Of our country at this moment.
where the awful stress of an unex-
ampled war has disturbed the mental
equipoise Of all the world, and more or
less shaken the foundations of all hu-
man institutions and governments.
Many things point to three parties in
the field, possibly four, or even five.
Thus, the Republican and Democratic,
a Labor party, an Independent ticket to
accommodate Mr.. Hoover's budding
ambitions, and Socialistic party which
will include l. w. WIS, anarchists, Boil
sheviki and the whole crazy riffraff,
chiefly foreigners, who fatten on dis
order and revolution.
To the evident dismay Of the Demo
cratic party the thrice walloped and
finally banished Bryan, has suddenly re-
turned from Elba, and already thrown
q monkey wrench into the Wilson ma
chine. It is plain enough that like the
Little Corporal landing in France, he
too hopes once more to arouse into en-
thusiasm the veterans of his three pre-
vious futile campaigns. He certainly
will win large number Of partisans as
madly attached to his political fortunes
as were the phrenzied thousands who
welcomed their defeated idol, Napoleon,
to bis one hundred days campaign that
ended las will Bryan's if he attempts
it) in q Waterloo
Then Bryan as the blatant apostle of
many isms will no doubt attract to his
standard medley of disgruntled polit ]
cal and social nondescripts, including
numbers of socialists and what not be-
sides, and may furthermore be able as
before to commit the Democratic party
to a lot of wild economic and govern
mental experiments, thereby again
leading it to defeat.
We have seen President Wilson spend
ing seven months in Europe away from
highly pressing home duties in vain
attempt to drag our country into sup
porting his ambitious though totally i'm
possible scheme Of League of Ma
tions," which would have been
not only utterly at variance with the
plain letter of the Constitution itself
but also with the uniform views and
practice of our most eminent statesmen
and presidents for over one hundred
years. and which was, moreover, in flat
violation of the solemn warning Of the
venerated Washington.
Happily for our Nation this periIous
folly has been averted thanks to the
wise and courageous opposition of the
Republicans in Congress led by such
statesmen as Lodge, Knox, Poindexter,
and assisted by a number of the ablest
Democrats like Senator Reed, Owen
and six others.
This crazy scheme Of the President
not only would rob our country Of its
own autonomy and make it obedient to
the dictates of monarchic Europe, but
would also require US to give the blood
of our youth and un:hinkable treasure
to settle the endless squabbles Of
European nations.
It was feared for time, when the
people not informed of the true nature
of this infamous scheme, but believing
it q wise measure to make impossible
another such awful war catyclysm,
were eager for its adoption. that this
patriotic course of these Republican
Senators, would cause split in the
party. But now that the people have
come to realize the dangerous nature Of
this folly, it is evident that they also
repudiate the League Of Nations"
without the Lodge reservations safe
guarding our rights, and that. there
fore they will stand unitedly beside him.
Wherefore it is safe to predict that
whatever may be the unknown outcome
of this political maze, the outlook at
the polls for the success of the Repub-
lican Party never was brighter.
+ Billions Of Pins and Needles.