Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-04
THE GREATEST OF AMERICAS POLITICAL STRUGGLES

HE GREATEST OF AMERICAS POLITICAL STRUGGLE
The American people have passed through many far
reaching presidential campa0n but comparable to that
Coolidge Other national contests have been dominated by
national and domestic issues The presidential
issues but for the fact that nternatonas projected itself
into the contest and demanded mandate great refer
An enthusiastic Burlington Democrat said to the writer
at @ to s back s
M IN naa another week to CO. Cox would win on the is
against the untanted blood of Warren G. HARDING In the
ght OF the results of the uncoverng Of that despcabe
peal to latent race prejudice is safe say that the
presidential campaign had another week would
which stands at least for fair play
.vs n most Of Leading and Democratic Journals
dissemination Of this SANDER by their party or
Eanizao Only the New York Evening Post the organ of
nation and the American army and navy underwre their
loans to the European found the heart
Harding but also on the mothers in his family:
mere is only one rule concerning the roorback let
loose in the last minutes of political campaign pay at
There is every indication that the sentiment of
ocratc with reference to this filthy and malicious propaganda
when it declared The campasn methods resorted to by
nendo and propaganda have sought to do him injury
f S ter Of are properly described
A Inc reckless and frenzied charges made in wholesale
ots n COX have convinced large proportion the
american public that with that political jumping jack
White House. the United States would have had verabe
government by hysteria and real nightmare of frightfu
ness for four with melted against class and con-
slant appeals the basest and gnobe poca passions
and continuous menaces of war with the Old World
. IN no other way account for the tremendous
Republican landslide which swept over the country on Novem
spects the campaign Of 1920 rsembed the famous sound
money struggle in 1896 The returns show that this
pagn also resembles that in its striking and farreachng
BGston served excellent index for the whole
Hcan national ticket large plurality The extent of the
sweep toward Amercansm of the Republican type is ind
Gated by the fact that these the only record
OF the HUB giving majority of its votes to the Republican
Missouri, Montana Nebraska Nevada South Dakota Utah.
solid for Reubcans Mckinley KIM and sd
Republican maorities, which swollen by
vermont's plurality for Mckinley 4os45. Pennsy
van N reached the then total of ao
dated Organism by 142,eoo and Wisconsin by 1o2eo7
Jerseys Republican plurality 1882 Even Maine re-
giving the Republican ticket plurality Of 1851 Ne''y
All the territory north of the Mason and Dixon line and
east of the Mississippi solid for Mckinley and sound
o Mckinley Sa also carried MARYLAND by 200 Ken
py the Proportonae increase being the in
ned hy plurality of over votes for Harding and
Illinois 100000 in Michigan 100000 in Ohio 800 in Iowa.
100000 in MASSACHUSETTS, 100000 Indiana 100000
sas 100000 in New jersey and recordbreang maortes
in various other States
In 1915 Walter Welman the famous political writer
declared that nothing like the casting total of O0O
900 votes single day had before been in the
history OF the world He showed that if 100000
were placed in single file five feet apart they would make
line 1928 miles in LENGTH considerably more than one
half way round the world Such procession marching at
the rate of three miles hour would require
days and nights to pass a given point.
If multiply the Wellman figures by two we shall have
about the approximate total vote for the presidency in
192O, other numbers the ratio
to 3o0oo0oo votes cast throughout America in
single day. The of voters represented would more
than reach round the EARTH and would require probably
two months for them to single point except for the
fact that Of them would be riding in automobiles
which were unknown in the sound campaign Of
The significance of the national election in 1920 tran.
sends that of 1896 in comprhensveness and Importance
Then sound the cry appeal was
of materalsm To-day also seeking sound
economic conditions including deation and genuine pros
perity for both labor and capital invested.
Material considerations Overshadowed at this time
by great issues of genuine humanity enduring peace on
basis of appeal to and to human brotherhood rather
than to appeals to force and marsm 1t is safe say
that America will Join with other nations to pre-
vent future but will be through the maintaining