Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-06-08
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DcsSy, IVohiuS IdCtS always In the race
ana determined to do their best-never
promising what they cannot perform
ana never yielding to the facile tempta-
uons OF momentary success.
Responsible for Conditions.
One of our great political parties
has failed to meet-nay. is in a con-
siderable measure responsible for
the perilous conditions of the hour.
The only other organized political
force strong enough to grapple with
the encircling dangers is the repub-
1ican party. If that, too, fails and
breaks down. the Russian descent
into barbarism will begin to draw
near. Such an end is uncomfortable
with the American people. but they
back into the darkness whence 1t
comes. We. keepers of the repub-
lican faith, must therefore succeed
We must not know defeat when the
great responsibility comes to our
hands. To the service of 1860 we
must add like service in 1920. No
larger victory at any time could be
won by any political party. We must
both earn and deserve 1t. We did
not fail in the civil war. We shall
not. must not. fail now.
In order to render to our country
the service which we desire to render
and which We can accomplish in
large measure, at least, If We under
take it with all our ability and in
disinterested public spirit. We must
have the opportunity for service.
That opportunity can only come
through our being intrusted by the
people with both the legislative and
the executive authority. To this end
Mr.. Wilson and his dynasty. his heirs
and assigns, or anybody that is his.
anybody who with bent knee has
served his purposes. must be driven
from all control. from all influence
upon the government of the United
States. They must be driven from
office and power. not because they
' are democrats. but because Mr.. Will
son stands fog theory of admin
tstration and government which is
not American. His methods. his con-
slant IL indirect assaults upon the
Constitution and upon all the ira
ditions of free government. strike at
the very life of the American princi-
Piles upon which our government has
always rested. The return of the
democrats to power. with Mr.. Wilson
or one of his disciples still the lead
er and master of. a great party. which
ditions and principles, would be a
long step in the direction of the
autocracy for which Mr.. Wilson
yearns and heavy blow to the con-
ftnuance of free representative gov
eminent as we have always con-
dnseparable from Mr.. Wilson and his
system goes far beyond all party d.
visions, for 1t involves the funda-
mental question of whether the gov
eminent of the United States shall be
a government of laws and not of
men, whether it shall be a free rep
resentative government or that of a
dictatorship resting on a plebiscite
carried by repellent methods.
Mr.. Wilson and the autocracy he rep
oil goI
believe in his doctrines and share his
spirit represent. must be put aside and
conclusively excluded from any future
control Bear this well in mind
throughout the campaign, for 1t Is the
first condition of our ability to enter
upon the path which will carry us for
ward to true progress and to wiser
laws. 1t is the path Of Washington,
of Lincoln and of Roosevelt from
which Mr.. Wilson has sought to drag
us. We can only regain 1t by once
and for all condemning the man and
his associates who have thus endeav-
ored to turn us from the right road
into the dark and devious ways which
with all nations lead to destruction.
We therefore make our appeal for
support to all who love America. to
all, whatever party name they hap
pen to bear, who are true to the faith
Of the fathers, to join with US in this
great work of redemption. The de-
feat OF the present administration and
all 1t means transcends in importance
every other question and all immedi- |
ate and dominant issues are bound
up with it. Without that defeat every
chance of the right settlement of the
mighty questions before us. so sorely
needed now and not later. will de-
part.
Our First Duty n Americans.
The ground thus cleared. it is our
first duty as Americans to re-estab-
lish certain essential principles which
shaken by the shock Of war. in
vaded by those who had their own
selfish purposes to serve even in the
hour OF the country's danger.
The earliest beliefs of men reveal
the trust of mankind in order. as the
divine conqueror of chaos and eter-'
nal night. A famous poet tells US
that order is Heavens first law"
and history repeats the same injunc-
ton. All the civilization ever built
up and treasured by mankind has
rested upon the establishment of law
and order. Law and order. the sup
ports of true liberty. the firm founda-
lions of prosperity and progress. have
always ruled in the United States and
have been very dear to the hearts of
the American people. They must never
be weakened or impaired unless we
are ready to see all that we have
carefully built up go down in ruin
and men forced once more into the
struggle against chaos, followed by
the slow and toilsome climb out OF
the darkness of anarchy to the height
of freedom and accomplishment. To
maintain law and order and stable
government where justice rules and
the rights of all men. high and low,
rich and poor, shall be protected, we
must have government OF the people
duly chosen by the people and never
must there be permitted any govern
ment by a single man or by group of
men or by an organized minority
Tyranny turks in them all and true
freedom withers when they ascend
the throne. There must be but one
law in this country and that is the
law framed by the men chosen by the
people themselves to make the laws.
The chief magistrate must under
stand that it is his duty not only to
enforce but to abide by the laws, the
laws made by the representatives OF
the people, and when those laws are
once made they must be obeyed until
the people see fit to change them.
The will of the people, expressed in
lawful manner through the govern
ment Of the United States, must be
supreme. for the government of the
United States can neither suffer re-
volt nor submit to any question of its
authority on the part of any man or
any group of men or any minority of
the people. When free government
fails, autocracy and revolution and
the downfall of civilization as we
have known 1T are at hand. Progress
will cease and the decline to lower
stages of development will have be-
gun. True progress must rest upon
and proceed from the sound princi-
pies which sustain all free govern
ment and to such progress the re-
publican party always has been COM
mitted. Loyalty to the United States
and obedience to the peoples laws are
the corner-stones of the republic and
should be sustained and upheld by