The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1920-02-06
HOOVER CHOSEN BY
new YORK WORLD
FOR PRESIDENCY
We Quote Literally From the
Worlds Leading Editorial
One "Best Man" to Succeed
President Wilson.
IT CAREFULLY ANALYSES
PRESENT WORLD STATUS
(New York World)

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dent of the United States is Herbert
G. Hoover.
We should be glad to support Mr..
Hoover as the Democratic candidate
for President on platform that
represented the historical principles
of the Democratic party. We should
be glad to support him as an indie
pendent candidate on a platform of
progressive liberalism. We should not
hesitate to support him as the Repub-
ican candidate on a platform repre-
senting the kind of government
which Mr.. Hoover has emplified in
his public career.
Among the Democratic politicians
the chief objection to Mr.. Hoover is
that he has been successfully a Re-
publican and Progressive, but has
never affiliated with the Democratic
organization, although he was ap-
pointed to Office by President Wilson
and was the most distinguished of all
the Presidents lieutenants during
the war.
Among Republican politicians the
chief objection to Mr.. Hoover is that
he never was an organizationRepubli-
can and that in the fall of 1912 he
had the independence and courage to
urge the election Of Congress that
would work harmoniously with Pres
ident Wilson. If the country had fol-
lowed Mr.. Hoover's wise and practical
adive it would not today be the vic
tim Of a deadlocked governmentwhich
10 virtually unable to function.
The partisan objections to Mr..
Hoover are arguments in his favor.
The American people are tired of pro-
fessional politicians and disguised
with party politics. The old party
lines have broken down SO far as the
rank and file Of voters are concerned,
and in respect to principles both par
ties are bankrupt. N
Mr.. Taft was Mr.. Wilson's oppo-
nent for the Presidency in 1912; yet
in SO far as fundamental questions of
government are concerned it would be
difficult To- detect any important diff
ferences between Mr.. Taft and Mr..
Wilson. Mr.. Hughes was Mr.. Will
sons opponent in 1915 and it would
be equally difficult to detect any i'm
portant differences between Mr..
Hughes and Mr.. Wilson. They might
disagree about this or that policy;
but in SO far as their public utterances
of the last three years are an index
to their political principles, these diff
ferences would be personal rather
than partisan in any true sense.
And if one wished to carry parallel
further he might we'll ask what there
is to distinguish Democrat like
Attorney General Palmer from Re-
publican like Speaker Sweet Of the
New York Assembly. Both of them
have set forth to establish a new doc
trine of Prussianism which is veri-
table crucifixion of the spirit of
American institutions. ...
Abraham Lincoln declared in his
First Inaugural that
This country, with it's institi-
tutions, belongs to the people who
inhabit it.
The Palmers and the Sweets are
seeking to set up a wholly opposite
theory, which is that the Government
no longer belongs to the people, but
that the people belong to the Govern
ment.
1t is needless to say that when
Democrats and Republicans can unite
in the advocacy OF such construc-
tion of the powers of government un-
der fre institutions, when Democrats
and Republicans can unite in resist
ing such an invasion OF American
traditions, party lines have become
artificial and party adherence has de-
generated into mere matter of
prejudice, habit, self-interest and
cynicism.
This is not year for partisan
candidates in any sense in which that
term has previously been employed in
politics. Party labels there must be,
because the party label has been es-
tablished by law; but when the Re-
publican National Committee is forced
to offer a prize for platform, it is
ridiculous to pretend that there is
anything which resembles a genuine
cleavage of public opinion along prty
lines on the questions that confront
the country. What is going on is
merely the manouvering of ambitious
politicians who are waiting to see
which issues are expedient and which
are not
Although the two parties are des-
titute of principle, they still retain
some of their former characteristics,
and Mr.. Hoover combines the best Of
these characteristics in both parties.
The Republicans boast, and not with
out reason, (if the record of the Six
ty-sixth Congress can be ignored for
the time being), that they represent
efficiency in the administration of
government. Mr.. Hoover has proved
himself one of the greatest admins
traitors of all time. His achieve
nnents are among the miracles of the
war, and when Europe speaks Of
efficiency IT no longer speaks Of it in