The Washington times., 1920-07-22


the covenant OF great political
party. the activities of which are so
woven into the history OF this Re-
public, and a very sacred and Solemn
undertaking to utter the faith and
aspirations OF the many millions who
adhere TO that party. The party plat
form has charted the way. yet, some
how, we have come to expect that In
depreciation which voices the faith
of nominees who must assume specihc
tasks.
URGES PARTY GOVERNMENT.
Let me be understood clearly from |
the very beginning. i believe in
party sponsorship in government. l
believe in party government as dis
tinguished from personal government,
individual, dictatorial, autocratic, or
what not.
In a citizenship of more than a
hundred millions it is impossible to
reach agreement upon all questions.
Parties are formed by those who
reach a consensus of opinion. 1t
was the intent of the founding faith
ers to give to this Republic depend
able and enduring popular govern-
ment, representative in form, and 1T
was designed to make political par
ties not only the preserving sponsors,
through which hopes and aspirations
and convictions and conscience may
be translated into public perform-
ance. -.
INSPIRATION OF LIBERTY.
Popular government has been an
inspiration of liberty since the dawn
of civilization. Republics have risen
and fallen, and a transition from
party to personal government has
preceded every failure since the
world began. Under the Constitution
we have the charted way to security
and perpetuity. We know ii gave to
us the safe path to a developing emf
nence which no people in the world
ever rivaled.
1t has guaranteed the rule OF intel
ligent, deliberate public opinion ex-
pressed through parties. Under this
plan a masterful leadership becom-
ingly may manifest it's influence, but
a peoples will still remains the su-
preme authority.
No man is big enough to run this
great republic. There never has
been one. Such domination was never
intended. Tranquility, stability, de-
pendability-all are assured in party
sponsorship. and We mean to renew
the assurances which were rended in
the cataclysmal war.
ESTABLISHED AUToCRACY.
1t was not surprising that we went
far afield from safe and prescribed
paths amid the war anxieties. There
was the unfortunate tendency before;
there was the surrender of Congress-
to the growing assumption of the
Executive before the world war i'm
periled all the practices we had
learned to believe in; and in the war
emergency every safeguard was
swept away. In the name of democ-
racy we established nutocracy. We
are not complaining at this extraor-
binary bestowal or assumption in
war it seemed temporarily necessary;
our alarm IL over the failure to re-
store the constitutional methods when
the war emergency ended.
Our frst committal is the restora-
tion of representative popular gov
ernment, under the constitution,
through the agency of the Republi-
can party. Our vision includes more
than a chief executive, we believe in
a cabinet of highest capacity, equal
to the responsibilities which our
system contemplates, in whose coun-
ellis the Vice President, second Of
fetal Of the Republic, shall be asked
to participate.
FUNCTIONS OT SONenhsS.
The same vision includes a cordial
understanding and co-ordinated activ-
tiles with a house of congress, fresh
from the people. voicing the convic-
tions which members bring from d.
rect contact with the electorate. and
cordial cooperation along with the
restored functions OF the Senate, ft
to be the greatest deliberative body
of the world.
Its members are the designated
sentinels on the towers of constitu-
tional government. The resumption
of the Senate's authority saved to
this Republic it's independent ma
tionality, when autocracy misinter-
preted the dream of a world expert
ment to be the vision of a world ideal,
1t is not difficult. Chairman Lodge,
to make ourselves clear on the dues-
ton of international relationship.
We Republicans OF the Senate, con-
sclous of our solemn oaths and mind
full OF our constitutional obligations,
when we saw the structure OF y
world super-government taking Wis ,
ionary form, Joined in a becoming
warning OF our devotion to this re-
public.
IL tho torch OF constitutionalism
had not been dimmed, the delayed
peace OF the world and the tragedy
of disappointment and Europe's mis-
of America easily |
might have been avoided. The Re-
publicans of the Senate halted the |
barter of independent American emil |
nence and Influence, which II was
proposed to exchange for an obscure
and unequal place In the merged