South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-20

IYeUerent g. o. p Seeks to CansOutLage Candidate
HardingS Weaknesses by Running Mckinley Again
on Slogan Back to Good old Days" of Mark Hama

OF his bosses-yielding courteous: courtly
even wearing livery TO the manner born"
A Harding administration would be as colorless
and meaningless to anyone save the senate-and the
republican machne-as the administrations OF Fill
more. Pierce and Hayes were meaningless. Why not
say Harding looks like Hayes would have looked
his whiskers gone Anything avert calamity
Detailing the good name OF the martyred Mckinley:
for Mckinley a progressive in his day. some
thing Of radical in his time-at least to the extent
that he looking forward. instead OF backward.
and talked rather OF the good days come. than OF
strategic retreats unto tho days behind. Tho
trouble with the republican party today, and with
Mr.. Harding Is that they standing pat exact
ly where Mckinley Hanna, Mcmillan Addicks Plat
and Quay led them up 1t a popularity OF hui
man nature. and OF political parties politicians
that having accomplished something worth while
for once. they stop there and hold It down.
and forever fight against further progress i'm
Irovement stand patti" becomes their war-cry
They seem to think that every step forward dis
credits the work already done; hence the chronic
hatred in republican machine ranks OF Roosevelt
who. he passed from administrator of IIcKinley's
political estate administration OF his own saw
chance OF improvement still Hence too the failure
OF the Taft administration. which like the promised
administration Of Sen Harding, took back to the
good old days for its slogan-and retreated as far
as IT could. Mr.. Harding will have a long WAYS 10
go back 20 McKinley-and doubt II the American
people will care to follow him Times have changed
aspirations have changed, conditions have changed:
the wants and needs OF higher civilized better
educated. and more spirituazed humanity have ad-
vanced.
Please get our attitude toward Mr.. Harding in this
connection 1t IS purely political From what we
learn OF him he has many traits with which any
normal person may sympathize. He IS a newspaper
man, for instance and they always deserve SYM
Iathy. While not angel neither is he a perfect
devil in personal way. Maybe, were we to search
deep enough. we might find things that we could
say, as insulting, and without being false rs are
the base presentations that the republicans have
spread broadcast TO blacken the personal life of
Prest Wilson-but hope will be forced
to condescend TO such depths OF political gutter
snipery. We prefer think OF Mr. Harding IN
personal way OF integrity in the ordinary
affairs OF life, beloved Of his neghbors and whose
home life is much could be desired We would
like 10 regard him even as a prohbitionist favor
able to the 18th amendment and the volstead act
had not the Ohio Anti-saloon league sidetracked us
that But still have it established that he goes
clothes
The question at issue Is had Mai Gen. Wood been
nominated, would he have looked like Grant; or
had Lowden been nominated would he have looked
like Lincoln. and. Johnson been nominated
would he still have looked Hke-WIlhelm the Hohen.
zollern canon De Valera. as said of him by
the Harding Wood -Lowden henchmen during the
primary and convention7