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New-York tribune., 1920-11-04
The urnulty Regime
Why Sympathy for the President
Has Been Unexpressed
TO the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: In an editorial In Tho New
York Times of the 29th, under the
caption, "Republican Magnanimity,"
the absence of expressions of tympathy
on the part Of Republicans is criti-
clzcd. 1t seems to mo this criticism Is
not justified, as reports from the White
House by attending physicians, as we'll
as by Mr.. Tumulty, have uniformly
and persistently sought to minimize Mr.
Wilson's ailments, giving out from time
to time reports of great improvement
IN his condition and magnifying every
favorable SYMPTOM as if to give the
Impression chat his illness had been
oVerestimated or exaggerated, and thai
he would soon be restored to normal
condition.
1t appears that these misleading 1cp-
resentations-as they now seem to have
tcen-were made for the purpose Of
craving the attention of the nubli,
away from the fact that the President
was really inoapacitatcd for the DIS
charge Of his executive duties, and
quiet the demand Of the people tha he
turn over the duties of his office to TIE
Vice President, as provided by our
Constitution. 1t was long ago sus-
lected by many, notwithstanding the
misleading reports Of his physical con
dltion, that the state of the health Of
the President was such as was con-
tempated by the trainers of the Con
stlfution, but, as none but favored
few Intmatcs were permitted to enter
lis chamber. no certa in knowledge could
be obtained.
Every one must feel a degree of
sympathy for suffering in mind or
body OF d fellow being, but is it strange
that its quality should be strained
where the subject has brought on s1f-
fcring through deliberate disregard of
the rules Of health and obstinacy in
persisting in a course obviously WRONG
IN its inception and under the protest
of practically the entire body Of Amer
leans, Democrats as well as Rcpu5-
hcans'
1t now appenrs--if Mr.. Tumulty's
statement Of his condition be accented
1t its face value and il our Inference
from the editorial referred to be cor
rect-we have been living for several
years under government administered
by Tumulty. Republicans would like
to know what justification there is for
such state Of affairs as this.
D. W DIGGS,
A Veteran OF the Civil War.
New York, Nov. 1, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-04
Bipartisanship

hat Governor Smith has great
personal popularity will scarcely be
denied. The way he ran ahead of
his ticket sufficiently attests the fact.
Nor IN the cool Of after-election
thought is il questioned that he has
made about as good Governor as is
possible with man of Tammanv
nurture and obligations.
But not solely because of his per
sonal merits did the Governor come
close TO reelection. Seasoned as he IS
IN politics, he is aware to what ex-
tent he WAS the beneficiary of a BIZ
partisan coalition between Republi-
can and Democratic machinists.
There are noticeable indications that
something akin to an understanding
was reached. For an adequate con-
sideration there was little strenu-
osity in behalf Of Judge Miller. 1t is
spread on the judicial records of the
state that one conspicuous Republi-
can leader, being accused of biparti-
sanship, sued for libel and lost his
case.
AS man not lacking in intell-
gence Judge Miller will derive in
struction from study of the re-
turns. He will scarcely fail to dis
cover the bipartisanship is not a
New-York tribune., 1920-11-04

0, prophet wise in death the Tartar Vet
Repeats thy words: is the learnd West
less free?
Yes it shall come-the long-expected dav
When Freedom oversoars the height of
kings,
And thrones and emperors are swept avav
In the wide wake of her victorious wings .
When Italy has all her own again.
When heterogeneous Austria has gone
With the last fQments, Tyrant Of thy
brain;
When Hungary forwards the Slavonian war
When Victory leans upon Polish lance
When Russian serfdom dares allure the
Gear,
To share the peoples great deliverance;
When France her feet resandaning with
fame
Shakes off, indignant, the imperial dust.
And when Napoleon" is but name
A word TO mean abhorrence and disgust.
Forbid the oceans equal ebb and flow
Alter the orbit of the liberal sun!
Command strange comets how TO come and
And yet Gods VIII of Progress shall be
done
Brentwood. w. ]. LINTON.
Kendall Mercury Sept /, 1866.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-04
Indiana Elects

Ohio grows Presidents, but Indiana
elects them, and Will Hays this year
is her instrument. 1t is tradition
in the Republican fold that the best
politicians are bred along the
Wabash and come to mans estate
having forgotten more about politics
than any one else ever knew. Chair
man Hays has certainly lived up to
precedent.
But he has done more. He has in
troduced new standard Of political
management. There were many
jeers and groans from the oldtimers
when the Hays methods began to
operate. They were not only gentle,
they were positively pious-Y. M.
c. A. and Boy Scout combined, in the
view Of the practical souls familiar
with the old hot stuff by which votes
were WON generation ago. To
have platform representing the
rank and file Of the party was one
of Mr.. Hays's ideas. To have
campaign fund contributed by the
rank and file, with no large sums
ard therefore no large personal OBJ
legations, was another notion.
The latter scheme seemed espe-
cjally visionary to the political
workers. Yet it has worked admi-
rably. That is the peculiarity of the
Will Hays visions--they work. In
view of the Harding pluralities it is
not necessary to labor this point
The angle We would stress is that
tie Republican chairman succeeds
IN American politics because he is
himself Of the essence of America.
Shrewd, sentimental, brazenly prac-
tlcal and wise, yet full Of youthful
ideals, believing in the fundamental
decency of everybody and playing
politics as frankly and fairly as if
ne we're running Sunday school,
VIII Hays represents the best Of
Amcrlca--of day and Tomorrow
the best, at least, that will work;
and Of visions that have no relation
to life the less said the better after
the verdict of Tuesday.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-04
quake and eclipse and paint an ap-
palling picture of our deadly future.

quake and eclipse and paint an ap-
palling picture of our deadly future,
hog-ticd under Republican admin
istration, with malignant medioc-
rity taking his orders from Grim
inaliy-minded oligarchy. If things
had happened differently we are free
to confess that we might have
stretched little canvas ourselves
and dashed off a sketch Of Mr.. Cox
surrounded by Taggarts and Muir
phys. But we hope our contem-
poraries will not allow their chagrin
at missing the beneficent activities
of these statesmen to confirm them
in their present fear that the coun-
try is total loss with no insurance.
After all, if Mr.. Harding should go
into conference with Henry Cabot
Lodge, Elihu Root and William II.
Taft, it is conceivable that some
thing might emerge from the trans
action not altogether harmful to
the state.
The picture Of the next four years
which the Democratic oracles are
painting now, to be hung up in every
home, penny plain and tuppence
colored, may serve we'll enough as a
bogey with which to frighten the in
telligentsia; but it makes the rest Of
mankind laugh. It's no use pretend
ing that the huge Republican ma
jority is made up of doughheads and
that a lucid, intellectual Judgment
dwells only III the solid South. The
slogan of terrified Democracy
seems to be to-day Doom! Doom!
Doom!" We would suggest in it's
place "All is lost save humor."
New-York tribune., 1920-11-04

was never very openly avowed, yet
1t underlay the whole Wilson regime.
Bryan called the states east Of the
Mississippi "thc enemy's country"
Wilson, in the recesses of his mind,
according to his biographer's analy-
sis, considered the states north of
the Ohio and Mason and Dixon's line
"the cnemy's country"
This sectionalist spirit prevented
him from ever being more than a
minority leader and reformer. He
never captured the North's conf
dence. He never was truly nation
alistic In his views. It may not be
fanciful to assume that he called in
the internationalism Of the latter
half Of his second term in order TO
help to redress the sectional balance
in the United States.
The war aggravated the defects of
the Presidents leadership, for at a
time when an ardent spirit Of ma
tlonahsm was most needed he left
the country cold and divided. His
failures as war President are mat
ters of history, but have never been
adequately accounted for. Professor
Dodd's book is illuminating because
it sets wisconsin in new light and
assists in explaining why Woodrow
Wilson could never rise to the de-
mand made on him for 100 per cent
leadership.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-04
Mr.. Wilson's Underlying Ideas

Why MIR. Wilson was so little able
to Interpret the real America is gen
orally regarded as a mystery. But
one key to it may be found in the
story of his career, written by his
Il test biographer, Professor William
l.. Dodd. Professor Dodd sets forth
the conditions under which Woodrow
Wilson's character was formed.
Mr.. Wilson's father was born in
Ono, OF parents who came from
County Down, Ireland He was edu-
Gated at Jefferson College, Pennsyl-
Vania, and in the Allegheny City
and Princeton Theological semi
naries. Al his natural assoc;a-
tions were anti-slavery. But when
he went South as minister, first to
Staunton, Virginia, and then to
Augusta, Georgia, he became q pro-
nounced defender Of slavery. He
was more Southern than the South
erners. Many Southerners had seen
the seamy side of slavery, They de-
tended 1t on grounds Of necessity.
But Joseph r. Wilson defended it
theologically beause it was right
and just in Itself.
He was one Of the organizers of
the secession of the Southern Pres
byterian branch, and when, after the
war. his irreconcilable attitude led
TO friction with his congregation in
Augusta he shifted the scene Of his
lahors to Columbia, S. c., citadel
OF Southern extremism. In this in
tense atmosphere Of attachment to
the Lost Cause Woodrow Wilson
grew up. Professor Dodd SAYS of
him, as young man: Wilson was
Southerner, pure and simple. The
appeal Of the years of trial, the in
tiuence Of men around him, the pow
erty of that reconstruction South
which is only half known to history
and the gentle ways of the folk he
knew made him heart and soul one
Of the people who were later to make
HIM President"
There = nothing censurable in
that ,attfhment. But, as Professor
Dodd says, it was to have a lifelong
effect on Mr.. Wilson'S inner life. He
came North as a student, and a little
later as teacher. He lived most of
his adult life in the North. But the
old tibers held. He was broadened
intellectually, but In spirit and in
stincts he remained what he was.
AS developed in Professor Dodd's
volume, Mr.. Wilson's political philos-
ophy was unfriendly to the indus
trial system Of tho North and pre-
ferred the dominance of the non-in
dustrial states of the South and the
Southwest. 1t was agrarianism
against industrialisnl. This policy
New-York tribune., 1920-11-04
Bo[sheuist Terrorism
By Joseph Shaplen

A wireless dispatch from Moscow to
London denies the persistent reports of
continued uprisings in Russia against
the Bolshevist government. The Boil
shevist press agent In the Kremlin re-
sents the suggestion contained in these
reports that the Russian people are
not cnamored Of the. Bolshevist regime
and are showing their dissatisfaction
in the towns and villages. In fact, the
Bolsheviki would still have US to be-
lieve that the Russian people are en-
Enthusiastically behind their rule of
blood and iron and that stories of re-
volts by workers and peasants against
Lenine and Trotzky are so many in
ventions designed for purposes Of
counter-revolutionary propaganda.
The indignation of the press agent
in the Kren1lin, however, is stripped
considerably of its righteousness when
we peruse q little volume just made
public by the Boshevki. The book
was written by NJ. /. Latzis, one Of the
chief figures Of The Extraordinary Com
mission. and contains much significant
information in regard to the activities
OF this commission and the efforts of
The Bolsheyiki to suppress the oppos!-
ticn against their rule.
Latzis gives US detailed figures on the
number ofsinsurrcctions in Russia dur
ing the years 1918 and 1919, the num-
Der of alleged counter-revolutiona
organizations uncovered and suppressed
and the number 1of executions conse-
quent upon the fomenting of revolt
against the Soviet government. The
figures speak for themselves. The num-
Der Of instructions during the afore-
mentioned period, according to Latzis,
was 344. The number Of counter-revo-
lutonary organizations uncovered was
412. The number Of persons driven
into concentration camps for opposition
to the Bolshevist tyranny was 9,096.
Those imprisoned numbered 34,334. In.
addition the Bolsheviki took 1911
hostages. The total number of arrests
Was56 5d1
New-York tribune., 1920-11-04
Free Speaking
Right TO Oratory on Streets Neces
sarily Limited
To the Editor Of The Tribn,.

10 the Editor Of The Tribun.
Sir: The newspaper reports ~ -.
recent Mount Vernon case. a. usr
considerable editorial comment. A..
trate the popular misconception
garding the constitutional rights .,
free speech and public assembly viii,
it Is assumed, Justify the use OF stree
and places generally open to the nnh
lie for the holding OF meetings. H.,
it does not follow because uubI.
squares and highways are for the 49,
Of all tho people that they MAJ !.
used for all purposes. The publir -,
not an unqualified right 70 use strso.,
for meetings. If such right ex;sts :,
all, it Is very limited right, more j.,
the nature Of a privilege within 49,
discretionary powers of local author
ties.
Our constitutions guarantee tha,
every person may freely speak, wr;.e
and publish his sentiments or all sra.
Jects, being responsible for the sbuss
Of that right, and forbid the enactnen,
of laws abridging the liberty of susees
or of the press and the righ. Of the
people peaceably to assemble and ns.i.
ton the government. But they recog.
nize shat there may be other r,cots
equally important, which arc not to b.
denied through the e,ercis- II r.
guaranteed tight Of feee So sca T..
constitution nowhe4e guarantees ,hs
right to hold meetings on streets.
The people have the right TO ,bs
free. orderly and peaceful enioynen.
of streets and public places in ,be
pursuit of their lawful affairs. strss.s
are primarily means Of getting from,
place to place, not places TO hold meet
lngs. A street meeting is a concession
to be permitted, if at I'll, only when II
will not interfere with tbs primary use
of the street as a highway. II the locs.
authorities have reason to believe ,ha.
such interference may result, whetnsr
from violent and unrestra;ned speak.ue
or from the unjustified roughaess Of
hostile crowd, they are not only within
their rights in preventing s:-ees
meeting, but are under obligation TO
10 So
New-York tribune., 1920-11-04
Worse Than Sfolypin's NecAtie


or the 8,4l9 persons executed, accord
ing to Latzis, for counter r-revclutionary
activity, 3.o82 were put to death for n
surrection, 2,024 for "participa ting in
counter-revolutlonary organizations
and 455 for "inciting to insurrection."
These figures are for twenty provinces
only, and the correctness of the data is
attested to by the man whose career as
Bolshevist hangman and executoner
makes the bloody red of "Stolypins
necktie" look pale pink.
The Bolshevist press agent in the
Kremlin who wirelessed his denial Of
the reports of continued instructions
against the Soviet government and. or
mutinies in the Red army, is further
contradcted by supplementary data
published in the Izvestia, official organ
of the Boshevist government, of July
80, 1920 According to the Izvestia, for
the month beginning June % up to July
%, 1920, Bolshevist tribunals pro
nounced S2S death sentences. Among
these, 517 were for "mutiny in the army
and Psi for "deserton."
The foregoing figures, taken from all
highest, official Bolshevist sources, in
dicate clearly that in addition to fac
ing continued instructions on the part
of the Russian people and large mass
movement in opposition to their rule of
blood and iron, the Boisheviki are face
to face with process of disintegra.ion
in the army, the ultimate result Of
which it is not difficult to foresee
There is every reason to believe. judg-
ing by facts contained in Bolshevisu
publications and statements by leaders
OF The Soviet government, that the Boil
sheviki are now confronted by the most
serious crisis of their career and that
this winter will bring developments in
the economic life Of Russia so appalling
that even the wholesale executions and
lmprisonments resorted to by the Boil
sheviki to stem the tide of popular re-
volt will be of no avail to halt the
titanic, elemental sweep of insurrection
that will send the whole Bolshevlst rule
into oblivion.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-04
$40 Instructions

Great and just as was the opposition
to the old Czarist regime in Russia
there was never time when it had to
suppress 344 instructions within the
short period Of two years. These fig
ures, compiled and testified to by one
of.nhe arch hangmen of the Bolshevist
regime, speak cloQuently Of the real
nature of the Bolshevist order and the
popularity it enjoys among the Russian
people. They become particularly sip
niiicant when we analyze them IN the
light of the figures given by Latzis on
the number and character of the conn
ter-revolutionary organizations upcov-
cred by the Extraordinary Commission.
Among these organizations eighteen
were Menshevik, i. G., moderate Social
lst, 28 were Constitutional Democratic.
"a were Socialist Rcvolutionist of the
Right and SO Socialist Revolutionist Of
the Left, i. e., of the party which, until
the assassination Of Count Mirbach.
the German Ambassador to Moscow,
New-York tribune., 1920-11-04
Be Calm, BretIlren!

When man is nearly smothere5l
by landslide nobody blamcs him if
he splutters little as he comes up
for air. a certain peevishness in
such circumstances is forgivabie.
4 Accordingly we do not grudge few
querulous expressions to our local
porarios, who have suffered a
Jol5 III the recent proceedings. Still
we hope that they will soon realize
that their l!uiations after the poNti-
cal landslide are deplorably off the
key.
The Evening Post mournfully de-
scribes the American people as in
the backwash from mighty spirit
ual and physical war effort. at
was one of Wilson'S great mistakes
that he ovcrrated the capacity OF
the people for sustained vision and
purpose" Wherefore The Evening
Post must make the mistake of un-
derrating that same capacity. The
Tires also is in a terrible state
about what happened. 1t all hap
pened because "the Irish vote the
German vote, taking no thought
about the League of Nations, about
any American interest or concern.
prompted solely by solicitude for in
terests not American, went solidlv
over to the Republican candidate" j."
This is good enough, but The
World goes it one better in a gem
which must stand by itself:
The American people have dis
played the same kind of political
intelligence that the people of New
York displayed in 1917 when they
threw ont the Mitchell administration
and made John F. Hylan Mayor.
Those exploits in political prejudice
are always expensive, and four wears
from now the country will be in a
better position to estimate the cost
of this latest manifestation of it's
worst qualities.
Now, The World knows perfectly
we'll that this is bosh. Its readers.
we submit, need some restorative
tare these days; it isn't humane to
offer them a diet Of scorn on the
Cobb. 1t must be known in the Of
ilces Of The World and The Times
and The Evening Post that nobody
yet has successfully indicted a ma
ton, and in all this nonsense about
the worst qualities of the people of
the United States being manifested
in the conduct Of the millions who
on Tuesday voted the Republican
ticket there is to be recognized moth
ing more nor less than stupid
hysteria, the wild wailing of Cas-
sandras in pantaloons.
Brethren, be sad if you like, but
don't be silly. The Democratic partv
has been kicked downstairs before.
but the country has got over it. This
Is tough old world and it takes
good deal really to break its heart.
We can quite understand the emo.
tons of those editors who are ali
ready to dip the brush in cartN
New-York tribune., 1920-11-04
The Mildly Amused Electors

Perhaps Americans are too good
natured for their own good. But
there is much to be said for the sort
of good-humored patience and calm
ness that marked the huge and
peaceful transaction Of Tuesday.
Voters stood in line for hours
cracking jokes-new voters. fresh
from the kitchen stove and sup
posedly ignorant Of politics and i'm
patient of political machinery. Rival
district captains, of both sexes, ex-
changed greetings at the polls. Not
even the Socialists, ever on the alert
for infractions Of their so precious
rights under our SO damnable Con
stltutlon. could find much to kick
about. The whole process Of record
.Hg the supposedly emotional iudg-
ments of these many millions ran off
as smoothly and simply as if it were
The session Of we'll trained class at
school.
The record of the day ought to
make any public man, be he political
leader or editor, humble. The excite
ment, the frothings, the epithets and
the nonsense all seem to come from
these eminent gentlemen. 1t is as if
the American people were listening
patiently to some very much wrought
up individuals, all the while knowing
Just what they proposed to do, cheer
ing little to keep the speakers in
corntenance and mildly amused
throughout, but walking off to vote
IN entire calmness and good nature.
Democracy is still greater than its
leaders we suspect.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-04
The Democratic Camna;on
New York, Oct. 26, 1920.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Be- Sir: l believe that it was Horace
Greeley who was once accused OF say
ing that Every Democrat is a horse
thlef' HIS reply was II did not say
that every Democrat was a horse thief,
but that every horse thief was a Demo-
crat."
Such lying, slandering campo gn as
the Democratic party has conducted
this year would shame even a horse
thief, and I am sure that if I was a
horse thief in the Democratic party
/ would lose no time affiliating with
any other party that happened to exist
to save my reputation.
NJ. F. FERRIS.
Paterson, n. j., Nov. .. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-04

following the conclusion OF the Brest-
Litovsk peace, was an ally Of the Boil
sheviki and was represented in the
Soviet government.
There Is reason to believe that among
the ITS counter-revolutionary organiza-
tions suppressed and styled by Latzis as
indefinite" were elements who under
the Gar were prosecuted and jailed
for their devotion to the cause of Rus
sian freedom. Even the Socialist and
labor elements of western Europe and
America, who have been friendly to the
Bolsheviki and were inclined to excuse
their methods Of government on the
ground Of state necessity, but who are
now at last waking up to the fact that
they were imposed upon by Bolshevist
propagandists, realize that the term
Counter Revolutionary" as applied By
the Bolsheviki is extremely elastic and
covers a multitude of elements, includ-
ing all Socialist, liberal and democratic
forces in and out Of Russia who refuse
to accept the theories of violence and
class dictatorship preached and prac-
ticed by the Bolsheviki,