The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-10-28

Early in the spring campaign an
issue of the Appeal to Reason came
out in big scare-heads stating that
certain big interests in the east were
combining to crush socialism and 1t
was likely the truth, too, but there
is nothing in the fact to alarm or eX-
cite anyone.
Every voter in the land has it In
his or her mind and heart to go to the
polls and vote to put all political
parties but their own out OF action,
or at least to minimize their power to
carry out policies outlined in the var
ious platforms and letters of accept
ance. Since the last national cam
paign President Wilson has been Sc
verely criticized for asking that a
democratic congress might be re-
turned. From his standpoint the
events of the past two years proves
that he was exactly right, in making
that demand for he we'll knew that he
was going to carry out certain pur-
poses and that it must be done in the
house of his friends and not his enc
mics. But whether his policies were
for the best good of the nation or not,
is another very debatable question.
Sam Blythe, the greatest of all politi-
cal writer's, recently, said that we are
going to vote for Harding to oppose
the doctrine of Wilson. and will vote
for Cox to uphold these policies, and
Mr.. Wilson himself has asked the
people to express themselves on the
league of nations. ~ats.,
Great Britain is mistress OF the
seas and the world because she has al
WAYS held the life of British SUBJ
iect sacred in any and all parts OF the
world. But Uncle Sam is not so par
ticular about the rights of his sub
iects, because he has allowed an out
lawed nation to massacre hundreds OF
innocent American citizens on the
high-seas and as yet no accounting
has been made.
Men in this town have said that
Wilson is another Lincoln. Gentle
men, there is no comparison. l have
a very vivid recollection of those bit
ter campaigns in southern Ohio during
| '63 and '64 when it seemed that all
the powers of darkness were combin-
ing to rend our republic asunder. The
patient and gentle Lincoln not only
had incompetent generals at the head
of the armies from the Potomac to the
Rio Grande to contend with, but he
had the solid democratic party OF the
north arrayed against him. In speech,
platform, and editorial he was bitter
ly denounced as an incompetent, that
the war was failure. They demand
ed that hostilities should Immediately
cease and compromise be affected.
Can anyone imagine what such COM
| promise would mean to the nation to-
day with all the territory south of
the Mason & Dixon's line in the hands
of slave holders? But Lincoln won
the war in spite of the devil and DEM
ocratic opposition and today the mamie
of Lincoln more than any other per-
SON who has existed since the days of
our Saviour is in the minds Of every
nation, kindred and tongue who aspire
to greater political and religious lib
erty as the great emancipation while
his traducers and defamers are re-
posing in Inocuous Desuetude, or OBJ
livion.
I am proud of the record the repub-
lican party has made in the world war
as well as the Civil war. With few
exceptions like the type of two LaFol-
lettes, the republicans have held up
the hands of President Wilson in car
rying on the war. Had they shown
the same opposition to Wilson in his
war policies that the democrats did to
Lincoln, the war and the Wilson ad-
ministration would have proved a stu
pendous failure.
In the last days Of the present
campaign we find the parties divided
into three camps. The democratic
and republican parties oppose each
other on foreign and domestic poll
! cies that can be harmonized and the
adherents of these two parties all 10y
al. to a man to our country, to its in
stitutions and its flag. In the third
camp you will find all the "isms" un-
der the sun all giving performances
at the same time under the same tent.
1t is safe to say that nine out of ten
Rio Grande to sentend with, but he
| joice with an exultant and fiendish
glee if Germany was sole master of
the entire eastern hemisphere. The
literature they put out and is swal-
lowed by their masses prove that.
The Appeal to Reason and its prin-
cipal writer, Upton Sinclair, arraigns
the allies in general and the French
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