South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-09
OCTOBER Q 1920.
BULL MOOSE REPUBLICANS AND THEIR
IOHNSONIAN LEAGUE OF DAMNA-


TONS
rui1 r,oosers of the 1919 variety, who in 1870
follow the trail Of Sen. Warren Gamaliel Harding
are p,esdnr guilty TO the Indictment he found
against them in the former year; are proving that
thew arc exactly what the "old guard" has always
said Of them. They never were progressives but
only buu r,oosers bull moosing merely because the
"old guard" would not let them have their own
vvav but iks the animal from which they took
their name. me as kittens when once subdued
They were athf.st for power not principles, ana
unable to capture the power. suik submission and
fawn for the chance.
Understand This refers only TO bull moosers Of
1912 who are content follow Sen. Harding IN
1920: Harding and the "oId guard" whom they OPP
poseH with such pretentious sincerity at time
when the senator said of their leader.
I'm seeking prototype for Col Roosevelt
among the public men Of the country, one finds
the closest resemblance to Aaron Burr
and then added. speaking Of Roosevelts running
mate ri Johnson:
"FIe appears in close view to be both fakir
and a blackboard. 49,
now attempting to square himself not only 10
those leaders, but their followers. thuswise:
81 am going to square myself with YOU bull
moosers by stating that I have just heartily
appIauded Col. Roosevelt as you did l have
stood upon the platform and commended him
10 my fellow Americans. We owe him much for
awakening
just the I applauded Benedict Arnold at
Saratoga, and did not at Tarrytown some time
after"
And bull nnoosers. with whom such back-handed
apology can serve 70 square" a man, confess by
their acceptance. that they were just what Sen.
Hnrdips therein termed them: Benedict Arnold's at
their Tarrytcwn-by which he meant the cam
paign OF 1912.
All but" say some OF them, inflated with HI
Johnsonisni, we can't stand that League of Dam
nations. any better than we can stand Harding
just little loan from the same Johnson whom
Harding said "fakir and a blackguard." The
chances that they read the League of Ma
tons covenant; chances are that they dare not
it, through fear that they will discover that
what Sen. Harding said OF him true According
~ they taking the "fakir and backguards IS
word for what he wants them 70 think the League
is-a League OF annations"-aud bull moosins
themselves back the republican rarty. into the
service of the guard" like many sheep fol-
lowing bell-wether. just they bull moosed
themselves out
There isn't particle of difference between the
republican party of today and the republican party
of 1912. The same men are in control The same
resetionaries at the helm and they threat
cning the nation with return to everything
against which the so-cared progressives of 1912
pretended be lighting; things which the demo-
ratio party has since then given them
Sen. Harding proposes 70 Junk the tariff commits
bon and put the tariff back into ponucs-the tariff
commission inaugurated by the democratic party
nd for which the 1912 progressive platform CON
ended. He the service OF the old tariff barons
He proposes to junk the federal trade commits
lon. another thing inausurated by the Wilson ad-
Illustrations. fin keeTiuE with the 1912 progressive
atforn. He despises the democratic tax on child
]H Dor products
The senator nrrDoses v-~ccL-