Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-08-31

that condition of governing through a
self-annoipted, special class has been
done away with. 1t was too much like
the oligarchy of the kainer's junkers to
suit the American people. We still have
some of them with us, and we believe
that further efforts must be made to
eliminate them completely. We still be-
lieve that further steps are necessary
against those who still maintain virtual
mon0polies of the necessities of life.
But these people whom have talked
with can not for some curious reason
get out of their heads that the principal
supporters of the republican nominee are
the same men who were personally and
politically identified with the govern
ment by the privileged few in those dear
old days so happily past. They can not
forget that those who have q grip on
the republican machine are the men who
used to be behind the old political tariffs
which gave millions in profits to their
select friends and cost millions to the
pockets of the average citizens; that
they are the men who tried In 1910 and
1911 and 1912 to put through a national
currency act under the leadership Of
Aldrich which, If it had passed, would
have fastened the control of a handful of
private banking interests upon our ma
tional finances.
1t Is natural to ask what would hap
zen If the little clique in the senate were
to control this nation for the next four
deney itself. 1t is reasonable to wonder
if the federal reserve act would be
amended so as to conform with the old
Aldrich bill 1t Is proper to ask whether
the rural credits system is to be re-
lpealed and the farmers required to go
back to usurious rates for raising money
to make their improvements. 1t Is sen
sible to question the intent in regard
to restoring a tariff to serve the advan-
tage of a favored few.
h - II Afh nF
words, wants to be shown, just what
Senator Harding proposes in the way of
tinkering with prosperity-just how he
proposes to change existing laws which
have without doubt been of great good to
the nation. More and more the voters
change merely for the sake Of change,
Especially are they anxious not to
change back to methods now thoroughly
discreGited. They remember the days of
financial panics, and the calling Of farm
mortgages. They are now prosperous,
aking Ii by and large, and they want
men and measures to round out that
prosperity along national lines. not to re-
peal the basis CT 1t for political reasons.
Finally the west is asking why the re-
publican candidates are not going out
to visit them. There are vivid memories
of Mr.. Hughes disastrous campaign TO
the Pacific coast. That failure was a fail
ure because Mr.. Hughes one great argu-
ment was that nothing any democrat
had ever done was other than horrible
catastrophe. He cast a gloom over the
buoyant west. He was pesslmist about
the nation. He was ungenerous-he was
a knOcker and not booster.
Today the feeling Is very much the
same. The west is rapidly getting the
idea that the present managers of the
republican campaign are pursuing the
same tactics. but that they are afraid TO
let their candidates go west of the Missis-
sippi. 1t is agreed that they fear repi-
tition of 1916.
There will be a repetition of 1916. only
on a bigger scale. One can see 1t COM
Ing more strongly as the days go by.
In every place In every state | have Wis
tied the trend lis visible to Il school
child--repubhean mayors of cities, re-
publican delegates 20 stale conventions
out in the open wearing Cox buttons.
They. too, have been thinking. and their
ranks are growing daily.
It is America which appeals 20 these
men and women--America above mere
partisanshlp-and they hold that Amer
lea must advance. They know. too. the
candidate who stands for progress aud
who has a record Of achievement They
know the candidate who has trained with
the old guard and who ia this campaign
has put forward normally" as his
watchword
That Is why the great west Is golny
10 vote for james NJ Cox