The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-07
MIssoURps REFUSAL.

MISSOURPS REFUSAL.
| The Journal has consistently opposed
the tactics of the stubborn band of men
who have held up the United States
senate, to the scorn and contumely of the
world, and particularly that betrayer Of
democracy Senator James Reed, Of
Missouri, who has used the confidence
ivested in him by his constituents to
the undoing, and has justly been re-
| pudiated by those whom he has so be-
| trayed.
/. When the news was flashed to Flor
! ida of the intended visit Of Senator
Reed, The Journal was the first news
paper in the state to sound warn
ing note against his coming, and to
urge that. in the event he did visit
Florida, to make his famous attack
against the league of nations and Presi-
dent Wilson, that supporters of the
league of equal prominence be invited
to speak.
This, however, was not the policy Of
the foes OF the administration, who
sought only to discreet the president
and to present their side of a contro-
versy which has long held this govern
ment UP to the ridicule of the nations
of the earth, and which evidenced
bitter partisanship such as has never
before been known in this country.
The Ocala Banner, staunchly loyal to
the president, has fought valiantly for
the administration and for the preser-
walton of democratic principles and was
most active in its opposition to Sena-
tor Reed. on his visit to this state.
1t was not unnatural that Senator
Reed should have found an audience
In, Jcks Of xryI,i lob &c
largely made up of northern visitors,
but it's surprising that he should have
received the support Of two newspapers
in the state which are ardent support
ers of Senator Fletcher, whose views
are Numerically opposed to those
held by Senator Reed.
The Ocala Banner, in its last issue,
carries the following comment and an
excerpt from a recent dispatch by the
Associated Press:
Pursuing the same general ship as
Senator Hardwick in Georgia, and
Senator James Reed has been repu-
dated in his home district in Mis-
|souri.
He was defeated for delegate to the
San Francisco convention where he
was more than anxious to go to- pro-
woke trouble and if possible bring
odium upon the democratic administra-
ton at Washington.
When this gentleman, puffed up by
his own inordinate egoism, visited
Florida he was received with out
stretched arms by the enemies of the
administration who were anxious to
see it bombarded with harsh criticisms,
however unjust and unfounded.
BY one of our leading dailies this
man was actually ikened to Marshal
Ney, of France, who, for the glory of
winning an hundred hard fought battles
was brevetted by Napoleon as the
'bravest of the brave"
Hear what one of the members of
the democratic convention that repu-
dated this man is dubbed in Florida
as ''the bravest of the brave" has to
say about him:
We quote from the brief report Of the
convention by the Associated Press:
Mr.. Chrlee said from since the sink
ing of the Lusitania to the entrance of
the war. Mr.. Reed, seemed to oppose
every measure designed to win the
war;
while was in the United States
army" he said, Senator Reed was in
the senate opposing plans, upon the
SUCCESS Oh WHICH uSpeHucu lOI
He seems to have hate for humanity,
hate for everyone but the followers of
this august parsonage.
Today" he said in conclusion, "the
dispatches will carry to the far corners
of the world the fact that Missouri is
pure and patriotic and that her tyrant
has been dethroned."
Mrs. w. w. Martin, of Cape Girar-
deau, said 1--WE can't explain how we
can endorse the league and then send
to the national convention man who
is opposed to it. Women do not think
it logical You ask US to keep Missouri
in the democratic ranks this year. We
can do it if you don't embarrass us
with a handicap like Senator Reed"
When the war was in progress he did
things that gave aid and comfort to
the enemy, and when it was over he
did what he could to destroy the hope
of peace and in doing so wrapped him
self in the American flag to prove his
one hundred per cent Amercanism.
Thanks to the loyal democrats of
Missouri who has consigned him to an
obscurity from which he should never
have emerged.