The Washington times., 1920-06-14

100000 Hardings.
From Ohio No. 7.
Kept Us Out Of Beer. "
Sitting on Golden Eggs.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.
(CopyriRht. 1901

Five million pictures OF Sena-
tor Harding have been ordered by
the Republican committee, and the
party is on. without waiting for
the Democratic candidate to ar
rive.
Small editors throughout the
country would like to know how
the COMMITTEES manages to get
enough white paper to print five
million big Autographs.
|. The next interesting thing In
politics will be William Jennings
Bryan making the Democratic
convention in San Francisco jump
through the hoop. In his bedroom,
writing, as he appeared about 2
o'clock yesterday morning, Bryan
is q quiet, listening man, willing
to hear any argument. But in q
national convention he changes ss
completely as the sea lion when it
slips off a rock into the water.
In convention waters Bryan
rules, and all the little fish get
out of the way. II he had been on
Johnson's side in the convention
just ended, you would have seen
and heard something. Bryan,
writing for the Hearst papers,
says that all the Democrats need
for victory is the labor vote and
. strong prohibition plank.
Mr.. Bryan should practice for
that performance by putting a
canary bird and q strong cat in
the same cage. If he finds his
canary bird when he comes back
he may also find his labor vote
after he has left it for a while
locked up in q platform with a
strong prohibition plank.
The Democrats, undoubtedly,
will nominate McAdoo. Reaction
ary Democratic papers want a Mr..
Davis, who is now ambassador in
London, one of whom more than
ninety-nine million Americans
never heard.
If Democrats want to do any
thing more than be ridiculous at
this election, and they will be for
tunate if they succeed in doing
more than that, they will have to
choose somebody well known.
Millions of American workmen
know, speaking Of campaign funds.
that McAdoo added more than a
thousand millions a year to the
wages Of railroad men. That's q
fund worth talking about and well
spent. EsE
I Mr.. Bryan, because Of his indi-
vidual following, might be the
strongest Democratic candidate,
excepting McAdoo.
But while everybody respects
Mr.. Bryan's sincerity al to pro-
hibition, Democrats to win must
have workmen's votes, and HE
kept us out Of beer" is not slogan
to get workmen to vote. They
may not know what is good for
them, but they think they know.
Six Presidents of the United
States have come from Ohio
Grant, Hays, Garfield, Harrison,
Mckinley, and Taft. Democrats
may as well realize that unless
something unusual happens, sew
enth, Harding, is also going to
"come from Ohio" In this coun-
try elections are settled, not so
much by talking in favor Of your
own man as by talking against
the other man, and there does not
seem to be very much to say
against Harding and Coolidge ex.
cept "Please do me a favor and
beat them"
It is true that these two were
nominated because financial in
terests permitted and wanted it.
But that was true Of the other
six from Ohio except Grant and
Taft. It is also true that the
contemptuous rejection Of Hiram
johnson by the same big influences
said quite plainly to the average
little American, eve don't want
to be bothered with you," but then
the average little American "is
easily dealt with" or, as Lord
Northcliffe put it, very docile."
This Government Is deporting
"Reds" as though Lenin were at
the gate. There is worried talk
about "radicalism and unrest"
Allow this writer to tell you that
America is just beginning its ca
reer of ultra-conservatism. 1t isn't
what people would ask. perhaps.
II the American individual were
articulate. But he Is not articu-
late. However, it may be for q
awhile the best thing. The nations
are material problems,
feeding, clothing. and housing the
people, while building schools and
libraries to make the people in
dependent of benevolent capital by
teaching to think.
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