The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1920-07-02

gle out and Segregate and congratu
late ALONE the president and party
or merely the Congress. the legisla
tive branch of the government and
party. for the record of achievements
of the WHOLE party in enacting ben.
eficial legislation. Neither the Pres.
ident nor the Congress, taken SINGLY
and SEPARATELY, constitute the
WHOLE Democratic party. Neither
did or could either ALONE make the
i party's record. or enact into law this
/ legislation; and neither ALONE il
entitled to the credit for. or to be
/ congratulated UPON, its enactment.
| The President DID NOT; and under
our Constitution. COULD NOT. have
enacted it ALONE. He approved
and signed the bills which the Con-
gress. consisting of the Senate and
House, passed, and they thus be-
amelaws and constituted the record
of the Democratic party which en-
acted them into law.
The President is SIMPLY, MERELY
and ONLY ONE component PART of
the party. and the Congress is
simply. merely and only another
component part. each equal and CO.
ordinate and independent of each
other, neither having the consti-
tutional, legal or moral right to
dictate to or dominate or domineer
over the other: and both being sub
ordinate to. and the SERVANTS of.
the sovereign people, who elected
and created them, and not their
masters or dictators.
All of this is so basic and funda-
mental under our form of govern
ment that it has never been disputed
or questioned by or under any other
President. or until about the time
the United States entered this world
war. and can not be successfully
disputed or denied now.
So. that this resolution does not
single out ONLY ONE component
PART of the party : the EXECUTIVE
branch-only ONE INDIVIDUAL mem
Der of the party-Mr. Wilson-and
congratulate him alone (as if he was
the WHOLE party) upon all the
record of its achievements, but it
congratulates the WHOLE DemOc-
ratio party" upon its record of
achievement, notable among which
are the enactment into law of the
mentioned important and beneficial
bills, naming 26 of them. and ex-
bausting the alphabet in so doing
The Congressional Record shows
that, whenever there was any record
vote at all. that very large majority
practically allsthe Democrats IN the
House and Senate voted for these
bills and measures. but that large
majority of the Republicans voted
against them, although in some
instances, Senators Williams and
Harrison did vote against their
President, as we'll as their party, no.
tably on the Child's Labor Bill.
which affords protection to the youth
of their country.
However, on the whole. there was
but little difference of opinion
among the REAL 'true-blue. simon
pure" Democrats upon any of these
Why then, if the antis
REALLY AND SINCERELY desired las
we did and do), the success of the
Democratic party and Democratic |
were not more con
cerned about trying to down and
damn Senator Vardaman and vain
ly trying to hurt and humiliate their
Governor, whom the people had
elected by large majority, by VIC
lating a universal custom of the
party, in defeating him as a delegate
to the National Convention. Why
in the face of fight against
fee, the Republican party.
did they fail to mention and utterly
ignore these measures upon which
there was and is scarcely any differ
ence of opinion among members OF
the Democratic party, and upon
which the party could march In
solid phalanx against that foe; and
at the same time single out and
select for fulsome flattery and servile
adulation very Individual
(Mr. Wilson, and for unqualified
endorsement the very question (The
League of Nations) upon which
there was the very greatest and
sharpest honest difference of opinion
among Democrats. thus emphasizing
and accentuating and making most
the division and discord
existing among equally good and
honest Democrats upon what the
great Democratic Senator. Thomas.
of Colorado correctly says Is a
great International Covenant
which is to influence. not only the
present. but all future generations.
not only Americans. but the entire
human race, a document dealing
with all the political, social and
economic conditions OF the present
and future creating and reconstruct
ing nations, document which
marks an epoch IN the
vast professions of human affairs-a
question too big and broad to be
made a narrow partisan issue or the