The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-23

things democratic. Away, slight man," is the attitude of Harding and his advisors toward Governor Cox. They profess to care not what he says OK does. They have seen the i handwriting on the wall, and it sig nifies republican victory in Novem- Der.
 1 The republicans may be playing what they regard as clever politics, but the very prejudice of their lead CTS units them to judge of the true sentiment in America. President Wilson is not hated, except by the men who have tried to discredit him and wreck the League of Nations. The best element in the republican party gives him his just due. The attacks to which he was subjected and the campaign of villification which was carried on to deceive the people for while did apparently hurt his prestige, but the American people have had their eyes opened.
 They have Isifted the false from the true, they have discovered that most of the opposition to the League of Nations is thinly disguised anti Wilson propaganda. Matthew Arnold was a hard person to please. Mel Stone tells in his remins-. cences now being published in Golfers Weekly. that when Arnold died Robert Louis Stevenson, who was himself dying in the South Seas said, He won't like God"
 l A writer in Scrioner's says D'Annunzio | Is something of a mystery. That Is cer- Itainly no. the fault of one of the best little advertisers the world has ever pro- duced
 | A woman's party, as proposed by some of the mere militant suffragsts, would not be "a sewing society,"" because the domestic arts are cn the wane, but it would be a political fiasco # < #
 working press agent, Tickle Me- has been advertised from one end of the management.
 By placating civilians as he advances. Gen. 'Pete" Wrangel is paving the way for a comfortable retreat, if 1t should be necessary.
 # # # A contemporary speaks of Lenlne as "senile" He may not be the kind of per- son you'd like to have prominent in your home town, but Lenine is not senile. x # #
 The Philadelphia Public Ledger dis cusses sugars "clissade." This isn't something to eat. it is merely a Boston word for slide" Poland seems to think much of France just now as some of the little na- lions think of America when they are hoping to get "handout.' # x # | The recent cloudturst in Birmingham showed that there are times when even Henry car refuses to budge, not being amphibious.
 Federal officials talk as if Ponzi's all lleged dealing in international reply coupons were nothing more than mid summer nights dream < a. F In the movies, at any rate bolshevik troops step along as if they Were get ting three square meals a day and had nothing tc worry about | F # # l In irving to make Scotland dry the pro- Ihibitionists should not overlook the fact that the adjective most often applied to a Scot is "canny.'
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 No man in public life views republican ldepravity with moro concern than Frank Hin D. Roosevelt
 Although Locklear is gone. there are other exhibition flyers who have the same lcontemp. for their nechs 1 * # # person may eat ice cream with his lcantaloupe and still be perfectly normal III * <
 The heart of the world may have I!eaky valve, but it continues to function.
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 Like most rocking chair" candidates. Senator Harding is traveling in circie.
 FOR THE LEAGUE AND COX From the Evening Post.
 The paramount issue In the presi- 1 dential campaign is the treaty of o.,oa a,d tho League of Nations with