The Washington times., 1920-10-29
Today
Republican Buck Fever.
One Happy Face.
Queer 100, 900, 900.
4 Ship in Danger.
ARTHUR BRISBANE
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SVoiuh pSiiSNS hao eySo, ~S
got TO shoot.
That is "buck fever" 1t af-
flicts some Republicans. They
seem not to know that they are
gazing now on the largest Repub-
lican national victory that will be
seen in this country for many a
year.
Buck fever, which comes when
you actually see the thing you
want, is not uncommon in politics.
Remember the famous case Of
Roosevelt in 1904. Face to face
with overwhelming victory, Roose-
welt became panicky. wired E. H.
Hartman for q contribution, and
got from Hartman two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars Ito help
carry New York State"
In . few days all Republicans
knew the panic was foolish.
A bigger victory than Roose-
velt's will come to Senator Hard
ing next Tuesday. He knows it,
but many of his Republican
friends don't. To warm their
"cold feet" let them 60 hunting
for q man willing to say he is go
ing to vote for Cox.
Mr.. Creel's always happy face
was 100 per cent happier than
usual when he left the White
House yesterday-so the reporters
thought. He pressed his right
arm against something in his in
side pocket, and the reporters
said, "Ha! He has the papers,"
Mr.. Creel, fresh from Mexico,
thinks this country should recog-
nizes Huerta. Watch for official
announcement that this Govern
ment HAS recognized Mexico.
The announcement might come to-
day-just in time to add a few
votes to the Harding landslide.
How interesting, if the United
States, on the eve Of election,
should recognize President De La
Huerta, who sits in the chair OF
his predecessor Carranza, an old
man, murdered in typical and
cowardly fashion to make room
for the present incumbent.
What q fine advertisement it
would be for the blessed League Of
Nations to recognize the principle
Of election BY mnfdSr.
How soon will a nation of a
hundred millions learn to take a
national election as earnestly as
tho average citizen. takes the Sc
lection Of his winter ovefcoat or
his spring hat? :. ..
The gigantic victory that awaits
Mr.. Harding is due to the fact
that, fortunately, the League Of
Nations nightmare has stood out
as conspicuous as a mountain on a
flat plain. ~.'
There are q hundred other rea-
sons why the kind of Government
now ruling at Washington shoold
be abolished. But these have
scarcely been noticed. People do
not realize what continuation
of this kind Of Government would
have meant in a year or two more.
The "Wiggle and Wobble" slo-
gan of the Republicans is a feeble
description of conditions that have
made it almost impossible to find
north of the Mason and Dixon line
a man that will tell you he intends
to vote to continue the present
kind Of Government.
Difficulties are ahead-the dan
ger of industrial depression, the
certainty Of devastating competi-
ton from Europe. And nothing is
planned.
The President is not to be
blamed, for he is a sick man. The
sympathy Of the whole nation is
with him. Everyone realizes that
his nervous strength was exhaust
ed in the unequal struggle Of one
man against the avaricious cum
ming Of European statesmen in
which the one man succumbed.
The country is drifting without
management. 1t is like a ship roll
ing in the sea, with masts broken
and rudder gone Old comparison,
but the only one that fits. Can
you mention any one policy or plan
of this Government?
No man with authority to speak
for the Government has anything
to say about the pressing prob
lems-hard times, lack of en-
ployment and financial panic, to
put matters plainly.
There is plenty of thought at
Washington about Mesopotamia,
many schemes for interfering
permanently with Russia's right
to govern herself, many prepos-
ferrous dreams of putting the
benevolent will of one American
invalid in place Of the passions,