Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-08-14
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
 MADE BY POLITICS

That this country is to be assailed, assaulted and threatened by one or the other of the forty or fifty socalled political parties during the next few months and that we have to bear the brunt of a bearish feeling in the mar kets is one of the many burdens that 1 a citizen of these United States has to bear. In one section it is the non partisan league, in another it is the Debs and his red gang, the 4Sers are laying down the law and spouting red lava over all because their creed has not been assimilated by the ignor- ant as we'll as the college bred; the sovieters and the socialists are hov- ering around on the edge of the polit- ical cauldron and may either fall off or in and make up another brew that will not in any way change the taste of the product. In the northwest the non-partisan leaguers and the 48ers are threatening dire things against the republicans and in the southwest the non-partisan leaguers are doing the same stunts with the democratic party. Even in Wisconsin the non partisan fellows are putting a full ticket in the field because the courts held that their candidate used a bible argument against MT. Volstead to de- feat that gentleman for renomination at the primaries. He accused MT. Volstead of not being a christian, and in this his position will be considered well taken by large portion of the thirsty population of the United States. But the court said that the ministerial gentleman who said it, had used a greater argument than money could buy and therefore MT. Volstead was entitled to the nomina- tion. Now MT. Volstead stands good show of being beaten out of the game by wet exponent. And not only did the action of MT. Volstead's opponent bring about desire for his defeat, but it also created so much enthusiasm in the rank and file of the pro-German element in Wisconsin that has charge of the operation of the non-partisan league that a full state ticket will be put on and fight for all the offices made. In that country the non-partisan league is op- posed to the. unionism of labor, but laboring under the delusion that the non-partisian league is favorable to union labor workingmen in Arizona have entered the arena under that name and are making demands on the old party candidates and infusing into the democratic primary candidates of their choosing. How far this will get the men behind this political subter- fuge we cannot say, but if we are to take past efforts as criterion we do not believe they will get far into the political horizon. It is all right for the leaders of labor organizations to keep their thumb on the pulse of the people, whether political or otherwise so far as political or other action re- flected upon the status of the work ingman, but when that workingman enters the political field he will be treated as political rival and can not command the influence and re- spect that would be accorded him were he to stand aloof. Even in Mo
 have county, where an effort was made to coalesce the sentiment of the workers on certain candidates, we un- derstand that the leaders have found the men bucking over the traces. And we say again, as we have said so