The Cordova daily times., 1920-12-03
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1920
THE CALL OF DUTY TO RE-
 PUBLICANISM

The best service it will be possible to render the Republican party dur ong the next four years, is the best public service it is possible for the Republican party to render the peo- pie and the government of the Unit ed States
 It is more than an ordinary re- sponsibility which now rests upon the leadership called to power. The election result reflects the bitter disappointmtnt of the people in the record made by the Democratic party, which under the leadership of President Wilson, assumed control of the national government under the most promising auspices, only to leave the people, at the end of eight years, disillusioped, disgusted and embittered.
 A similar failure by the Republi- can party would mean more than the destruction of Republicanism; it would endanger the stability of the nation. With no alternative the peo- pie could trust, after the experience of the past eight years, the Ameri- can electorate would cry: "A plague on both your houses" and the only feasible form of responsible gov ernment in republic,-governme through parties,-would be at. an end.
 Let there be an end, under Repub- lican control, of the narrow personal and political partisanship which has characterized the present adminis- tration, and let there be ushered in, instead, the nobler and broader par tisanship which seeks to build up a political organization only by mak- ing it an efficient instrumentality of public service.
 The national experience of the past few years proves that no party, and no leadership, can perpetuate itself merely by the increase and selfish use of public patronage, by the increase or selfish use of gov ernmental power, by thinking of pub lie questions only in terms of votes, by playing to clements rather than by keeping ill mind all the time the common. welfare of all elements Ill American citizenship, by seeking constantly to enlarge it's power rath- CT than to use what power it has for the public service; by depending upon deceptive publicity, rather than upon delivering the goods, for the conquest of public favor.,
 The party which has been given charge of national affairs will have thrust upon it for solution, vast, in tricate, difficult problems not of it's own making. It will find chaos in almost every department of public activity. Its first function will be that of wrecking crew; to clean up the debris, to put out the fires and avert the plaques that threaten. This alone will be job of vast propor- tions, and one which will bring re- lief and alleviation in it's train. No mere program of legislation VII set things right. The change in the at mosphere of government alone will accomplish wonders in national recu- peration. But if party leadership enters upon it's appointed task in the spirit of humility, devotion and consecration which has characterized the utterances of President-elect Harding from the day of his nomina- tion to the presidency until now, and meets it's responsibilities with cour- age and patriotism and common sense, Republicanism, which has for the second time saved the union by barring the entry of the nation into a er-government sacrificial of American rights, interests and ideals, will add new luster to it's annals and new glory to the history of the re-