The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-03-27

place is bad enough, but to be beaten
by Hoover, who had not even declared
himself candidate, and who is a mem
Der of no party, comes not far from
ignominious defeat"
The Manchester Union (Rep), also
calls this "a black eye for Lowden,"
and thinks that whereas there has
been general disposition to regard
Lowden as Woods most serious OPP
poneHt the outcome in Mime
sofa discloses johnson as the more
likely contender whom Leonard Wood
must defeat to win the nomination"
BY way Of explaining the defeat,
number of important papers dwell on
the idea that Lowden has become too
closely identified with big business
Nean party There were several pro-
gressive candidates before the Mime
sofa voters, and one conservative
says the Columbus Dispatch Ind).
That was Gov. Lowden, who was
born in the state-a favorite son,
backed, naturally by the old guard
The combined progressive vote was
ten times that of the vote for Gov.
Lowden, thus showing that even the
Republican party in that part Of the
union t.ltl Is ten to one against the rreac-
tionaries of the old school," The Kan
sas City Times Qnd.), which is the
morning edition of the Rooseveltian
Star draws the same conclusion, and
adds: ... b.
Minnesota is a representative West
ern state It's voters are the sort the
republican party must have If it is
to win the next election. In the light
of the results Monday, what chance
would the Republicans Save if they APP
pealed to the prairie states with can
oidate from the old guard?"
The Chicago Journal (Dem) thinks
the governor has fairly earned This po-
sition as candidate of the interests.
| Under his regime, 1t says:
| Through the state tax commission
! wealthy private corporations have had
| their taxes to the state materially re-
| duced. Through the public utilities
| commission, the common people have
| mad millions of dollars In extra taxa
| ton piled on their backs, in the form
of excess car fares. 1t is not on rec
ord that Gov. Lowden has lifted fin
ger to protest, against this shameful
| discrimination"
The Emporia Gazette Ind }, however,
does not take these charges against
| the governor so seriously 1t thinks
| they spring mainly from the fact that
| he is "a SON in-law of the Pullman mil
| lions, which gives him a chance, the
Gazette facetiously suggests, to go
out and get the son-in- law vote, and
produce a landslip"
Bourbons Busy in Delaware.
How far the Bourbonistic mind still
| holds sway in the United States, not
| Wlthstanding our progress, may be es-
tlmated by the preparations for fill.
clustering in the Delaware legislature
| with the intention of preventing the
ratification of the Anthony suffrage
amendment With "a states already on
record as ratifiers, and one more GER
tain to be added within few days it
might be supposed the mere question
| OF public and political policy would
| guide the legislature of Delaware into
the right path. Yet the news indicates
| that the Bourbon mind in the goth CEN
| fury learns nothing exactly as it re-
fused to absorb political knowledge in
the 18th and 18th. Neither does the,
Bourbon of 1920 remember any better.
| Disasters to his school of thought are
nothing to him. Exactly like the Bour-
bons of any time, he thinks that what
| happened to others under certain cir
I cumstanceS, cannot oVertake him when
conditions are similar.
| Woman suffrage is bound to come
| to the United States. Already we are
trailing behind other progressive ma
| lions. Political privilege for women Is
as much fact as if it were in prac-
tcet Delaware politicians and men of
! their stamp in other states will have
a bitter lesson to learn when the wom-
en- citizens get to work. The records
| the politicians are leaving behind them
will speak for them in the future 1t
VII be sorry comment for Delaware.
| II the legislature finally ratifies the
Anthony resolution after a long delay,
and becomes the last state to do so.
| But if Delaware by any chance should
! refuse to ratify, the politicians of that
state have written their own political
death MISUNDERSTANDING Leader
, prog. Rep)