The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-11-04
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1926
THE PRICE OF VICTORY.

AIdIulIlS anu SOOlluSe are elected.
They have been swept into office by
an avalanche. No such plurality has
ever been given to a candidate for
President and a candidate for Vice
President.
On the surface this would seem to
mean that Harding and Coolidge carry
further with the people in respect
of prsonal popularity or in the ma
tionwide confidence reposed in them
than the candidates of any previous
national election.
Such a conclusion would not be
sound. Political avalanches that crush
everything before them spring from
quite another source. They do not
come at the call of personal popular
ity. They are the expression of an en-
Filtered people, the protest of an out
ragged nation.
Wilson autocracy, impudent, intol-
Grant, dictatorial, and Democratic in
efficiency, extravaganza, wastefulness,
are the source of the 1920 avalanche
The people of this democratic country
have had all they could stand or
would stand of Czarism. And the
people have had all they could stand
or would stand of the Democratic par
ty management of their affairs-a
management that has we'll nigh bank
rupted the Treasury in spite of the
fact that it is squeezing the life blood
out of the people in taxation.
Hence this election in its big bear
ings is a nationwide protest against a
continuance of Democratic rule. The
American people have had their fill of
it for many weary, dreary months
and have bided their time, chatting bit
terly meanwhile, till the day should
come for them to speak through the
ballot, and they have now spoken.
The lesson of the Wilson Admins
tration, rejected by the American peo-
pie in singing disgrace, because of
its intolerant indiyidualism and utter
business incapacity, is lesson to the
incoming Administration.
Not that Senator Harding needs
such admonition in the matter of in
dividualism. In this respect he is
the exact opposite of Mr.. Wilson. Sen
ator Harding is no Gar. The country
need have no fear of a repetition of
wisconsin with him in the White
House.
But where this admonition may
very properly be needed by the in
coming Administration is in the mat
ter of its general efficiency in the
handling of the nations affairs. Am
erica has grown to be a great nation,
in many respects the greatest in the
world. Its business is so vast, its in
ternal and foreign affairs are so COM
plex and so far reaching that only
the very best men of the country have
the capacity to man its manifold jobs
successfully.
The price of victory is good SER
vice
In no other way can a President of
these United States repay the people
of the nation for the confidence they
have in him in electing him to the first
Office of the land, in electing him to
one of the most exalted posts in all
the world.
Senator Harding's place in history
will rest with the men he calls to the
service of his Administration If they
have youth, clear heads, genius for
their jobs, honesty, loyalty and the
realization that the Government ex-
poets and demands of them the best
there is in them, his Administration
will handle the business of the Gov
eminent better than it has ever been
handled before.
Fortunately, Senator Harding comes
into the Presidency free man. His
Administration is not mortgaged to
politicians, to financiers or to aspir-
ants for official honors.
This national Government of ours
has no jobs for political hacks or po-
litical pensioners. This national Gov
eminent of ours has no jobs that may
be checked out as rewards for political
services. This national Government Of
ours recognizes no such obligation tc
any man or to any woman or to any
political party.
The President who checks out Gov
eminent jobs to pay personal obliga
lions isn't checking from his own banl
account.