The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-05-27
THE PRESIDENTS KALLYlNG
CALL.

To the Democracy of Oregon has
ocracy for the coming campaign
and that call is issued by Demo
cracy's great leader President Will
son.
Next month at San Francisco will
meet the convention which will de-
| termine the future. of the party. 1t
will enter the battle under an unfair
loyal hands. 1t will by such re-
spouse prove itself worthy a great
trust, fit to be the champion of the
noblest ideal that has been embodied
into a political principle in all the
centuries of human history. Whether,
then, it shall move forward to victory
or defeat, it will deserve victory. And
! if defeat be incurred it will only be
victory deferred, for the great princi-
! pie that is embodied in the covenant
of the league of nations is one that
was not born to die, but to live and
give enduring life to the best aspira-
tons and fondest hopes of human
kind.
However, if the great Democratic
party through either lack of courage
or devotion, reject this stirring call
supreme achievement of his admin
istration, it will richly merit the de-
feat that will be it's portion. There
can be no place in his years cam
paign for two republican parties.
The natural and proper place for
tsn WHOSE Se Tea are BLIND Paca to yhd the
minds reject the ideal of a league Of
nations to cooperate under inter
national law in amity and harmony,
who cling to the old and discredited
order Of ententes and alliances and
ornaments and international hatreds,
is with the party of Johnson and
Lodge, and to that party they will
Francisco.
The supreme opportunity and SUI
preme duty Of the democratic party
is now before it, and it is to provide
at once home and workshop for
those American citizens who believe
in the league of nations, who pray
for it's success, who are anxious that
might to make it q success and who
are not willing that the United
States should become an lshmaelite
nations, recreant to its trust,
forswearing its pledges, faithfuless
to it's associates in the war, and
ignobly fearing to strive in peace, as
it did not fear to fight in war, for
the establishment of democracy,
justice and law as the joint rulers
of civilization.
Woodrow Wilson summons his
country to continue in the service Of
humanity; to apply moral and Chris
tan principles to the problems of
tho world; to be the leader in the
defense of liberty and ordered peace;
TO redeem the promises with which !
it entered the war And since it is
only to the democratic party that |
the country can hope to turn for this |
service. he truly declares that "the
honor of the nation is in its hands"
A democratic party that rejected |
his inspiring call of a president it |
lad twice elected would be a party |
eft wandering discredited, without |
or guide or an excuse for !
living, in the political wilderness. |
Great crises call for high courage !
and unfaltering resolution. The party. |;
ike man. that can show neither. is |
it only for the limbo of discarded, |
Useless things.
A trust. priceless beyond compare |
20 sacred that with the profoundest |
reverence il may be said to have |
,ome from the plying, helping hands !
Of God himself, trust for the herit- /
ge of all humanity, has been placed |
N the hands of the democratic party. |
Its superb leader, whose vision and
moral courage no physical infirmity
can dim or shake. summons it to the
dischage Of its Obligation
"To your tents, @ Israel "'-St
Joe Observer.