South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-02-05
FEBRUARY :. 1920.
HERBERT HOOVER FOR PRESIDENT.

Having expressed ourselves more or less unre-
ssrvedy with reference to the controversy between
Col w ]. Bryan, and that tool Of the liquor
interests Gov Edwards of New Jersey incident to
the latters candidacy for the Tresidency-and the
insstence OF the former that the democratic party
maintain moral CONTAMINATION about Herbert
Hoover? That our comment concerning the Bryan
Edwards controversy need lead anyone as
that confirmed trail bearers of the Ne
braskan, permit to take issue with Col
Bryan, least semi-so. incident his attitude
toward the war food administrator. of whom he
seems afraid because ne CHoover) once recommend
ed the lifting OF the war prohibition ban
Herbert Hoover is the best bet in the limeight
OF the democratic party. or of any other party
presidential timber today. If Col. Bryan can find
nothing lay at the door Hoover
thar that passing attitude of his toward war pro-
hibitiOn. he had better dig up his fne-tooth comb
and try again There other questions before the
country well prohbiuon-or it's preservation.
He spoke well in his denunciaton of Gov. Edwards
that point since the New Jersey executive seems
to know Of nothing else and to have nothing else
his mind. It is possible we hope, for a man like
Mr. Hoover to have mind on other subjects of
vital importance to the nation, and the world. and
still have that sense of respect for the popular
voice thar will enable him to preserve prohibition
at the time that ne is attending TO other
things.
Frankly. Herbert Hoover is quite enough Of a man
executive that political parties
dragging the country through the mire Of a presi-
dental campaign, such promised for next fall
case OF a contest both parties should nominate
him. do away with the mud-slinging make it
unanimous. and get down to the countrys business.
That might be very satisfactory to the poll
tcians particularly since first of ALL he is no poll
tician. but it would make enormous hit with the
American people, and they might reap some re-
wards in public service. Placing politics and gar
tisanship above all else. is thing of which this
country has quite enough during the past
months. in the attitude the majority of the Unit
cd States toward the Paris treaty League
OF Nations.
The democratic party can elect Herbert Hoover
alone. II the politicians Hoover himself will let
it-this whether the republicans willing to join
and make it unanimous or not Perhaps democracy
has other men capable of being put over. but none
of them easily Hoover He would weather a
campaign better than any OF the others at least SO
far as concerns any Of those proposed up to the
present. lie progressive in 1912. so saith the
chronoogists Inclined TO label him a progressive
republican now but he seems to have been Wlsor
democrat in 1916, following Col Roosevelts deser-
OF his Bun Moose followers. same as Vance
Mccormick, and thousands OF others became VII
democrats. A Wilson democrat means today
about all that there is worth while TO the demo-
cratic party; this too even though it result in the
elimination OF lot of the pro-Hun. -Dago and
pro-Snn Fein.
II is interesting 10 watch the Hoover agitation
with republican and democratic press everywhere
supporting him almost equally, this of course re-
gardless OF his partsanshp. The press in this re
spect bespeaks the temper of the country with re-
sard to the "al for party and for atti-
tudes, that have become almost menace to our in
situations. scarcely less than the bolsheviki Tt
IS this "Tartisanship first business that has fer
tilted the soil In which boshevsm has taken root
If IL has taken all Hoover is the best
presidential timber in sight regardless OF party.
first of all because he is man an executive and a
man with the nerve 10 dare and do-the very things
that the country needs during the four years,
and let the parties be hanged