South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-13

party IN the face-from leaders
% first voters.-to place their
finger on a single instance CT
Woodrow Wilson's sOcalled one
man-rule" being exercised without
the delegation OF power either by
the constitution or by congress.
Autocracy Is an assumption OF
power, not the exercise OF dele
gated powers--and the assumption
need not. OF necessity, be by
force either.
The trick worked by the senate
upon the republican national con-
vention. seeking TO nominate for
president, someone who will crawl
90 the senate's call. tends toward
assumption OF authority. just as
truly as though II were pursued
with "A battle-axe-
YOU'RE "A pickpocket just the
same whether you pick a mans
pocket with one hand or his
throat, or whether you do II more
pilferously while some coconspir
atOr detracts his attention in some
other direction. And mark this!
OF all the bad governments that
have cursed the earth, OF kings
that have been cruel, or OF re-
publics that have become hotbeds
Of vice and corruptiOn.-take the
supreme case OF Rome. nesting
there amid the seven hills. the fall
OF which still thunders down the
years.
Rome fell, not because OF her
Caesars. but because Of her SEN
ate. The Romans could watch
OF him at a time,-but the gigan-
tic conspiracy that involved the
Roman senate into an aristocratic
bureaucracy. multiplied the tyr
ants beyond popular conception.
making OF the Caesar its Caesar
rather than the Caesar OF the peo-
pie. Herein lay the foundation OF
that corrupting power. prOfligacy.
awlessness and lawlessness. that
shook the eternal hill down
upon their guilty heads
II would have been necessary
TO be noseless TO have been in
Chicago the past week, edging
ones way here, there and yOnder,
without smelling the cancerous
growth-the American replica OF
the ancient Roman article. Take
the Washington press correspond
ents. as a criterion: whether con-
sciously or unconsciously the
prOpagandists Of senatorial pow
er.
They are not opposing ii either. .
One might accuse them Of being
party to II, so anxious are they
10 point out 10 you how the sem
ate is already 1T" with all the
strings In the country in their
claws, wherefore the best thing TO
do is not 10 oppose, but get in the
swim and grab off what you can;
then to go lay down and die.
Sproul for president, "a his
dark horse" boom was launched.
is reputed one of the best illustra-
lions of the workings Of the sena-
torial machinery, and the manner
after which it's strings were pulled
in this case to get rid of John
son. and make Johnson like it,
Sproul was sprung by Sen. Pen
rose because SprOul would be
acceptable TO Sen. Knox II case
Sen. Harding could not be put
over: was satisfactory to Sen.
Johnson, in preference TO any
one else on the board, save Hard
ing. If Johnson himself could not
be nominated.
Sproul then. of course, would
be easily subject TO dictation from
Penrose and Knox. and Johnson
could expect an occasional lookin,
which is better than no look
in at all, and there you have it,
7 OWDEN could easily have had
1.-The nomination, so far as con-
cerned senatorial anxiety, had IL
not been for the Johnson BOrah
threats Of boiling should the NOM
nation go TO either Lowden or
Wood. He was satisfactory TO the
senate, but regardless of the Bor-
Atkinson threatenings. there
was a question If enough votes
could be shifted TO Harding. in
the face OF the primary contests.
to make his nomination possible.
SprOul then. was in reality TO
be Harding's dark horse" rather
than that of the convention-the
senate all the while holding in
reserve that array OF "favorite
sons" like POindexter. COolige.
Butler. Du Point. Sutherland.
ready to throw their support at
the proper time. where IL would
serve the senatorial purpose best.
When II came 10 the final show
down, and delegates were wanted
from here. there and yOnder, TO
put over the nominee that the
senate had decided 10 take. it was
so planned that the senator from
each state, If a republican and
present. was 10 give the signal
and the delegations moved ac-
Cordingly.
Indiana. for instance. deserted
Wood. Lowden and Johnson. and
rallied about the Ohioan as ODE
diently as good children should
when il was advised" BY Sens.
Watson and New.
Michigan. instructed for John
son. and slightly split after a
while. with few honors for
Wood and Lowden, went TO Hard
/ ing with a bang when the direc-
tons came from Sen. Truman II.
I Newberry. the convict. Endorsed
| 10y Sen. Charles Emory Town
send. his apologist.
The break came when the SEN
ate considered that the cat had
PLAYED with the mouse long
enough-and the delegates were
( sufficiently benumbed by the
/ heat. and wearied OF their indi-
vidual hopes, to be ready cor the
/ sprawl.
Sen. Frelinghuysen OF New
/ Jersey. IL was. who moved that
Sen. Harding's nomination be
/ r,,ada vmOuS-iuSt another