South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-09-12
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put in the 18th amendment, requiring ratification
within six years; harmless Of course. as the thing
turned out. but still indicative Of his hope that the
states would be slow enough in raufying that the
amendment would fail beyond the Limitation.
Space forbids recitation OF all the wet" measures
that Sen. Harding voted for and dry measures
that he has voted against; 80 TO with the odds
favorable the vets" II you want look II up,
see Congressional Record Gan. l. 1917. to Oct ?s
1870. pages 1866 1908 1857 219O. 2191 21s4. 22ja
1886. 4751. 1850 1892 1861. 1868. 1864. $3.50 and
7s33-tne latter OF which was that crack at Press
Wilson over the Vostead law which he. himself
had lodged voting for the first instance.
And then anticipating that our clerical friend by
his quizz. hoped do a little campaigning for Nc
Harding particularly appealing to the women. the
senator's suffrage record may be Of interest. Ac-
cording his own words (June "a 1879, he was
utterly indifferent TO the question: and I took two
years, to Dec. TO- 1917, TO reach the conclusion that
believing "in political parties. and government
through political parties" he would wait until the
party which he belonged. should I'm its confer
ence make a declaration" He managed for four
years to hide behind the fact that Ohio had once
voted a state suffrage amendment and defeated
It. and said he would have to be guided by his
state action but by June 1919. when republican
bandwagon came alOng-having "in its conference
changed since their vote was cast" in Ohio.-anI
sprung this:
Il need not tell you OF my interest in the
contamination of suffrage / for It in
the senate and vote records a senator's purpose
quite faithfully anything he do"
Wonderfully for suffrage, all Of a sudden-party
expediency again demanding it-but If a senator's
vote records a senator's purpose" so faithfully as
to suffrage why not his votes the subject of pro-
Agbt.
politically irresponsible record anywhere chargeab'e
against Gov James NJ Cox He was leader for
suffrage in Ohio. urging it upon his Iarty and
people, and as a law enforcement governor he has
been the best that Ohio ever had. The Ohio Anti
Saloon league, in bedfellowship with liquor
tersts defeated him for reelection after his frs;
term; well simply because the Anti-Saloon league
everywhere is never anything but laid society
OF the republicans and. because the liquor men
didn't want law enforcement
The type of combination Of liquor interests
and church folk elected Frank Bartlette Willis gov
Of Ohio in 1914 as gave US our worthy Frank
lin r. Carson for mayor of South Bend, and along
with him superabundance of gambling hells
bawdy houses and bootlegging establishments Ohio
too tired of her Christian governors wnking at
law violations, and in 1916 Gov. Cox ushered
back into office with thud that was sickening to
spite the fact that ne was given a republican as
sembly-which might seem indicate that re-
publicans as we'll as democrats rather admire him
the Buckeye state.
But anyhow, liquor issue is not a presidential
issue in this campaign The oglarchy in
charge Of the 6. o. p. platform committeeman the
nominations-managed TO lose their alleged dry
plank somewhere between the Congress hotel and
the Coliseum.-and the democrats never pretended
one refusing TO walk into the Bryan re-
Iublican-set trap, and that much the less hypo
critically say the least. Accordingly neither
candidate has wet" dry" plank on. and
with Gov. Coxs record standing up fully as well
as Sen. Hardng's on that point no one save an
ignoramus of a regio- political demagogus will
attempt to raise the between them. II
can be raised for no other purpose than through
ignorance, attempt to throw up a smoke
screen" shield the real issues u the campaign
for instance. the League Nations issue. which
seems TO be our correspondents principal worry
Which would the writer prefer TO surrender; the
18th amendment the League of Nations? We
are not going surrender either. The American
people are not fools They are going to elect q
democratic president and a democratic congress
Besides we couldn't surrender the League II We
would 1t is a going concern. doing good work
despite American absence; functioning much better
than Prohibition is particularly in cities with repub
lican mayors such as the combination of church
and saloon gave in South Bend-and some
times wonder If It isn't pretty near as important
to preserve the peace OF the world and Danish the
scourge Of war it is to merely make it easy a.
possible for some men to remain sober who might
otherwise find it necessary TO climb up some
reform pedestal in order TO keep out Of a gutter.
Some chefs say 1t won't do to print menus in
English because there French culinary
terms for which there English equivalents
Any dishes that can't be EXPRESSED in plain United
States Americans get along very we'll without