New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1920-06-16
OLD PARTIES DISCREDITED.

What was generally foreshadowed in
the press dispatches for the past several
weeks, came to pass at Chicago Taste
Saturday when dark horse was pi cked
as the standard bearer of the Republican
party. Not until the tenth ballot was
this result obtained. To break the dead
lock 1T was necessary to sacrifice the three
leading candidates, Wood, Lowden and
Johnson ....
AS soon as it became public thru the
investigations of the Senate Committee,
that between one and two million dollars
. had been spent on behalf of the Wood
candidacy and that Governor Lowden
had spent approximately half million
dollars for the purpose of securing the
nomination, of which amount $3S,OOO
was practically used for the purpose of
buying outright the Missouri delegation.
1t was quite apparent that neither of
these gentlemen would ever be able to
muster enough votes to carry the nomi-
nation. Johnson was too radical or the
reactlonary element in the party and
therefore never had look-in.
After considerable pickering and bar
terlng, the leaders in the party agreed
to unite their strength upon Senator
Harding OF Ohio, because he comes from
a pivotal state and has done very little
to arouse any particular animosity any
where. Besides that he is safe for big
business. In speaking of Harding, Ma
ron Reedy says: Senator Harding of
OHIO IS stodgily respectable enough. At
least he didn't go far in the money
spending contest with Wood and Low
den; lie IS conservative and favors some
KIND, any kind, Of League of Nations
put WILSON'S. He is in favor of show
ing labor the place to get off at, or as
70 ne puts 1t, he is against ''class DONNA
ZION unless 1t IS the domination of the
interests that want protection and cor
n mr. and enlargement of privilege
That's good Republican doctrine. More
over ne IS from doubtful state with a
big vote in the electoral college, And
ne would be fully as acceptable to the
Eastern money powers as Wood or
Lowden. If those powers have to take
MIN. he has no magnetism but he's
SAFE. He's match-safe upon which
the matches of the Big Business bunch
Will strike every time they need light"
According to the Pioneer Press the
party compromised on their candidate
for President, compromised on the labor
plank and also on the League of Nations
covenant. Labor does not look with a
friendly mien upon the labor plank and
Samuel Gompers, Pres dent of the
American Federation of Labor, has al
ready come out ffatfooted against the
Republican party. The selection of
Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts as
the running mate Of Harding will hardly
prove soothing to labor On the con-
trary his selection will be construed by
many laboring men as another slap
against labor a4
From all of which it appears that there
are breakers ahead for the Republican
party, breakers strong enough to, wreck
it in the November election ,Itlis not
+ to exceed six weeks ago that it was
generally conceded by almost everybody
that knew anything about 9he political
! game that the Republicans would win
theSfall election, hands down. The sue
cess of the party is not !quite so certain
now. If the disclosures of the profigate
spending of money do not fill with dis
gust the hearts of large number of our
best citizens who have always voted with
the Republican party, we miss our guess.
Then there is the opposition of labor
and a few other matters that do not
make for harmony within the ranks of
the party.