Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-08
EMBOSSED REPUBLICAN
 CONVENTION OPENS TODAY IN UNCERTAINTY
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ever, who would make it the party of the few, some who would make it wholly subservient to power. Learn ing nothing from the lessons of the past, there are those who would dis regard the voices of the great ma jority of the rank and file of the par ty, and impress upon it their own ar- bitrary will. These individuals, abet- ted by kept press, affect to view with contempt the expressed prefer ence of the members of the party, and in disdain of the mass of the party, would substitute their desires and de- cisiions for those of the great major ] ity, these individuals are fortunately few, but sometimes they are in posi- tions of power.
 | "In their swollen arrogance, de- pending upon the kept press for their justification, they would read out of the republican party those who have written it's glorious history, the plain people of Lincoln. They fondly hug the delusion that they and their pup pets may act in defiance of the raank
 
 bers of the press acting with them are our real enemies. I deny their right to draw the line in the republican party against just common folks. I deny the right of any men to set at naught their expressed will All cry out against the attempt made by few today to dehumanize the republican party.
 Defends Radicalism.
 "Avoiding the pitfalls, victory is within our grasp. After eight years of high sounding phrases and actions, wholly at variance, the American people recognize the rescue and re- generation of their government. Un- der democratic leadership they have blindly groped in mental mystic maze.
 "This is no year for the anaemic politician. The first great problem, the high cost of living, cannot be cured by single remedy immediately The difficulty has not been with the breed the blatant ones, and who be- law, but with administration of the law.
 "When these laws shall be imparti- ally administered, when with like dil- igence their penalties shall be visited not only upon the little profiteer of the village, but the big and powerful profiteer of the city, then some meas ure of relief will be afforded"
 Charging that there were men who by their contempt of law "aroused the vindictive radicalism which we all abhor," Senator Johnson continued: "We would deal with this class just as we deal with the preacher of sedi- tion, and it is this construction or the part of those who represent then in politics and those who speaek fol them through the poison press tha1 brings us today new epithet-" d ical.' It is the new bogey with whicf to frighten the timid.
 "There are radicals in this country t There are few who preach th' and violence, and whom we would al
 make feel the heavy hand of law Every normal American would dea drastically with these. But there i another class of radicals, too, wh' , cause of their power and their influ ence, their cunning and their en
 trenched positions, are far more dana gerous. I would deal in like manne :. with both classes. > eff it be radical to demand 100 pc : cent service from public officials and to insist upon justice and decenc.
 and righteousness in government;
 it be radical to preach that humanit
 have equal consideration with prop
 erty; if it be radical not only to guar
 what man has acquired, but to brin i, wherever possible little of God
 sunlight into the lives of men, wome
 and children; if it be radical to pre- e serve this greaat nation from tn n wiles and pitfalls of European an s Asiatic sovereignty; if finally, it D h radical to be just American, l accer l. the challenge"