The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-06-25
4 PUPpET CANDIDATE

ial (and one which speaks for itself |
appeared in the New York World the
day following the nomination Of Sen
tor Harding for president by the re-
publicans, as follows:
a more respectable figurehead
than Warren G. Harding has never
leen nominated for president Of the
United States By either party.
Nor has either party, since the
democratic national convention of 1856
named James Buchanan, selected a
candidate so little qualified to grapple
with the nations problems
Senator Harding is the perfect
flower of Old Guard politics. He is an
Ohio country politician with the mind
Of an Ohio country politician, and he
sees the world through the eyes Of an
Ohio country politician. Being weak
and colorless and mediocre, he appeal
ed to the managing politicians who
control the republican organization,
most Of whom are senators them
selves. They know Harding, and they
know that he will be a faithful agent
of the organization. They have work
ed with him, and they can prove that
he never had an original idea or en-
tertained thought that was outside
the routine of well-trained and we'll
disciplined servant.
The republican platform adopted at
Chicago is perhaps the best index to
the Harding mind. Whoever is curious
to know the mental processes of the
republican candidate has only to read
that platform. Those are the very
terms and phrases in which Senator
Harding thinks and in which he ex-
presses himself.
The senator's friends are fond of
comparing him with Mckinley, but
if Harding is a Mckinley he is a
Mckinley without McKinley's person
al charm, a Mckinley without McKin-
ley's extraordinary skill ia managing
men, a Mckinley without McKinley's
vide experience in public affairs.
The republican candidate has been
a member of the United States senate
for more than five years, but his name
is not identified with any important
act Of legislation or with any public
service Of consequence. He has voted
as Penrose and Lodge would have him
vote, and he has never displayed any
thing that could be regarded by the
most liberal Interpretation as inde-
pendence or courage. His conscience
and his convictions are simply the rou-
tine conscience and convictions Of a
professional Ohio politician
of all the candidates whose names
We're presented to the Chicago con
vention or who We're within the range
of the conventions choice, Harding,
with the exception of Johnson and
Poindexter, fell the furthest short Of
measuring up 10 the requirements Of
president in this critical time Low
Cen and Wood were eliminated BY their
campaign-fund scandals, but with
Hoover and Hughes and Taft and
Knox and even Coolidge and sproul
and Butler to select from, what more
ritiful choice could have been made,
in view Of the colossal questions which
the next president Of the United
States must deal?
Senator Harding was nominated
because the old Guard republicans
want president to whom they can
give orders president who will take
orders. Accordingly they present
their puppet candidate in the person
Of Warren g Harding of Ohio
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CITY EMPLOYEES INCREASE
City council has before it another
one Of those problems that is keeping
some Of its members awake at night.
The mathematical monstrosity facing
the city dads is how to grant an in
crease to some Of the city's employees
with not enough money to meet the
expenses of the city as they exist to-
day. On the other hand, the employees
seeking higher wages say that they
are receiving less money than is paid
their craft elsewhere, and that they
can barely make both ends meet with
the money they are receiving at pres
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