The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1920-06-25
Convention and Donkeys
BY CHARLES ERskINE SEQ

BY CHARLES ERSkINE SCOTT WOOD.
Homer S. Cummings, the chairman National Commit
tee, has been photographed in hail. the
Auditorium Titania strokng the long, a live
donkey, emblem of Democracy.
When Mr. Cummings said Sin there will nominate the
next presiden the donkey brayed and when he sa
Democratic party is the living soul Of the people,
donkey soIed the pavement
In ancient days, the priests and augurs been
called to interpret these signs, but have got beyond
perstion that the gods speak through the animals
We have not however, shued off the idea that they speak
through the mouths of politicians.
Some newspaper said Cummings fit for his job
as they had him stand off the attack of thirty forty
newspaper all asking questions and he gave
swer that gave him away.
Senator Owen here with BeIIer, Shepherds
plaid and Dr. John w. Duke in miers gray his Ieuenan
They handed his creed which hand YOU good
creed, as political creeds 90.
is for repeal Of all repressive wartime measures
widest and cearest civil liberty against private ownership
railroads. for the rights Of labor Of legs
angle: Capital Labor and the Public. Nothing right
to srike the inference being this right
the rights of the public Must slavery be maintained rather
than disturb the public? And the gentle Duke
spoke OF Bsbee Matewan Everett Butte Centraa
If didn't believe in the right of corporations indi-
vduas to defend their property by force much
csed when said justified the w. WIS in the centraa case
and drew the distinction between corporation with hired pr;
vate army, hired maintain slavery, group of
men defending their own homes
Sara Bard Field sent them the chapn's pamphlet the
Centraa case, but think vinegar nitre and when
suggested that their candidate, good he might be-
chance in small southern state, the gentle doctor hastily in
formed me that Oklahoma "Souhern state, sab,
a western state, sah."
Part Of Senator OWENS creed is that he is opposed
ing reactonary officials palmer and BurIeson administer
Democratic policies. The parenthess is mine.
And then there is the "fgting' Quaker, Palmer hinse
whose polite and ingraang manager Major o. p Newman,
boiled his creed down to dropPamer opposed to the
advocacy Of violence So long advocates the ballot
and peaceabe methods his speech may entirely free This
for citizens. He thinks aliens have right of agitation at all
and they agtae for violence they should be deported.
The trouble is yet has human being been made pun
sable for spoken word distinguished from committed
ac but free speech disappeared That known to history
and Mr.. Pamer's creed convicts him.
He says "e make conspiracy to commit violence
punishable, though is only conspiracy Of speech and
act committed want to make the INDIVIDUAL punish
able in the way 1t is this very law against conspiracy
which has convict w. WIS and members of the
Communist Labor Party who have done nothing
y because they belonged to the organizations The old law
and still should be- there crime against government
by any speech whatever, only by act
Then there is E. H. Moore, National Committeeman froma
Ohio who ayors Governor Cox and thinks he will win Gov
Cox willing to stand his reeord-wich mighty few
politicians He helped get the Progressive constitu
tion OF Ohio during the recent steel strike he insisted tho
right free speech would have hired armes but kept
order the officers Of the state enforce this policy he
removed the Democratic mayor from large cty settled the
difference between the coal miners and the operators.
81 merely seek to give point to the necessity that the
over of unkng the of institutions devoted to
war and lastly three times elected Governor of Ohio running
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