The Carlisle independent., 1920-11-11
NOT HIS sAY'

to resign: He assumed the American people have decisively declared against the league of nations as writ ten by the president. He would have MT. Wilson turn over the presidency to Mir Marshall, then he would have Mir Marshall appoint Mir. Harding secretary of state, then he would have Mir Marshall resign and have MT. Harding become president.
 CT. Bryan has lost his right to take part in any conference as to the Dem- ocratic procedure. He is not fit to make a suggestion to President Will son. MT. Bryan was not an Achilles sulking in his tent during the cam paign. When things got terribly hard for the Greeks, Achilles did come out, put on his armor and slew the godlike Hector. Neither is MT. Bryan the wise Nestor. He stands today a Thersites, and he was properly bela- bored, as was that individual by Agamemnon, when the Democrats who have been loyal and faithful ap- piled to him in this campaign the term Stacker"
 Mr. Bryan went to San Francisco and made fight against Cox. That was his privilege. Mr. Cox won. MT. Bryan said then, His heart was in the grave" As far as the Democratic party is concerned it might as well stay there.
 MT. Bryan was never democrat as were Gearge Walthat, Lamar, Ben Hill, Isham G. Harris, Beck of Ken lucky and Thurman of Ohio. His De- 1 o1x hxy rotten theory of popularism and op- portunism.
 MT. Bryan knows, as every other man knows that the Eighteenth Amendment is a fixture. He knows that MT. Cox was just as sincere on the liquor question as Mr. Harding. He never Tzised his voice during the campaign to help Cox. He never raised his voice to help Champ Clark and hundred other good democrats who went down in the wreck. He stood still and let the forces of reac- tion come into control and now he is cat-fishing around making sugges- tiOns.
 MT. Bryan has made his living out of the Democratic party. It has been his meal ticket for 30 years. He ora ted himself into the nomination for the presidency in 1896. As soon as he was beaten he wrote a book and took to the lecture platform. He has coined his reputation as a Democratic leader into box office asset.
 Wilson stood for a principle in this great fight that was beyond the tur- gidity of Mir. Bryan's mind. MT. Will sons programme was that of the loft fest statesmanship, backed by love of humanity. Mir. Bryan's program was that of a politician with an eye to the main chance.
 How cheap and banal is MT. Bryan's suggestion to President Wilson, com- pared to the ringing and manly state ment by Gov. Cox. Cox said:
 "In spirit, I am as proud as when the fight started I would dnot retrace step nor yield single jot in princi pie. It was a privilege to make the contest for the right in the face of overwhelming odds. There is dis tinct difference between defeat and surrender. The flag of Democracy still flies as the symbol of things more enduring than the passions and re- sentiment that come with the after math of war" =.
 Uttering such words as these MT. Cox, in defeat, is . bigger, broader and a more patriotic Democrat than MT. Bryan with his malevolent and shuffling suggestion that Woodrow Wilson be carted out of the White House before the expiration of term to which he was lawfully elected by the American people.-Commercial Appeal.
 We are glad indeed to note from the above that the Commercial Ap- peal has at last awakened to the fact that MT. Bryan is not the whole cheese MT. Bryan, as we have said many times before, never was dem- ocrat, however he has bilked the dem ocratic party time and again. Now that the election is over and true de mocracy has been defeated, this rot ten hireling of the prohibitionists comes forward with his slimy sugges- tions. His heart may be in the grave and if he had gone there with it there would have been no loss to the coun- | try or to the party he claims to affil- Hate with or the country at large. The Commercial Appeal has unheld him in much of his past record, but we are glad to see that this great south ern Metropolitan paper is saying just ab0ut the right thing about such a