The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-11-19
, wa. lie COUNTRY
WENT REPUBLICAN
Review Of Conditions Pro-
ducing Political Re-
versals.
(Pathfinder.)


son, have rendered solemn verdict
This verdict closes one chapter in the
worlds history and opens a new one
Let the dead bury their dead.
1t is an awe-inspiring spectacle in
deed when 25 million citizens go tc
the polls and register their judgment
1t may not always be true that 'tht
voice of the people is the voice OF
Cod" but under our form of govern
ment the majority will is entitled to
rule, and when the people speak thun-
.derously as they have now spoken, 1t
means command that must be obey
ed. Here is democracy, if it exists
at all.
The election outcome involves so
mony elements that it cannot be ex-
pressed in general terms. But for the
purposes of history it is instructive
70 sketch some OF the determining
factors.
First of course the result is re-
Dndiation of wisconsin.
President Wilson never represented
a majority of the American people.
lie won power by a fluke. But in
stead of modestly realizing that he
represented only a minority he not
only assumed that he represented ian
overwhelming majority" but he went
further and took to himself powers
that were almost despotic.
We give him credit for being fired
10y high ideals, but events have shown
that he exceeded the bounds of rea-
son He put the control of the gov
eminent largely into the hands of ra-
ideals, Missionaries, pacifists and near
socialists. He chose a pacifist for
secretary of war. an editor-politician
Gor secretary of the navy, labor I'M
ionist for secretary of labor and a
dangerous radical for his assistant,
a high-brow college professor for
secretary of agriculture, and so on.
And yet he trusted none of his chos-
Gn helpers, but insisted on taking
eoersonal charge of everything and
railing them, as well as congress, as a
.sschoolmaster of the old type ruled
his school.
When Germany broke the peace of
The world and made scraps of paper"
Of her sacred treaties, President Will
son might we'll have exerted his tre-
mendous power and prevented the
war conflagration from extending
But he took the characteristic pacifist
attitude, made no move for prepared
mess and merely ''watchfully waited"
while the fire spread. He told our
people to be neutral in thought and
action" he told the world that we
were too proud to fight" and that
the outcome of the war must be
@'peace without victory"
He kept us out of the war just |
long enough to be elected for a Sec
ond term on that false issue-after |
having been elected on a platform
which pledged him solemnly to sim
gle term; and then he got us into
war. The war was fought by the en-
tire nation, moving as one vast ir-
repressible mass-but the laws were
rcunningly framed and enforced so as
to make certain sections and classes
bear the brunt of the conflict, in men
and taxes, while other sections and
classes were favored. After prom
Using that no-one should make any
money out of the war, he allowed
many thousands of millionaires to be
created out of outrageous 'cost-plus"
war contracts and profiteering.
The war was won-but as the price
for the decisive aid given by the Unit
ed States. he insisted that it should
he in fact "peace without victory"
Marshal Foch was grief-strcken
when he found that, after the splen-
did victory that had been won by the
allies in the field, it could not be
clinched because of this stubborn
stand taken by President Wilson,
who, as comander-in-chief of the
whole American forces, was the die
tator of the situation.
A quick military peace should have
been laid down for Germany and the
other Central powers, and then both
they and the other nations could have
started to rebuild But Wilson gave
the ultimatum; his league plan must I
DE so interviewer into the peace 4
treaty that, as he himself boosted, ]
me Two could never be dissected apart /
but Would have to stand or fall to- I
gether c
And he would rather they would
FAN than that any jot or little of what !
be had dictated should be changed.
The clearest diagnosis of Woodrow !
Wilson is that he is like a spoiled {