The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-16
SIZING THEM UP,


McClure's for November Prints the
following editorial written by it's edi-
tor, Herbert Kaufman. on the eandi-
dates and issues of the campaign:
The Republicans are convinced that
America is even more dissatisfied with
Mr.. Wilson than with the Democrat
party. In fact they insist the only
actual Democrat party observed here
abouts in recent years is Mr.. Wilson.
They accuse Mr.. Wilson of conduct
ing a monopoly infeonstraint of con-
gress. They imply that the members
OF his cabinet are mere T-erossers and
I-dotters. Their campaign orators are
making noises remarkably similar to
the criticisms leveled at one ]. Caesar,
celebrated In Rome and Shakespeare.
They call him an autocrat and offer
Mr., Harding as an antidote.
Mr.. HarRing is a product of pracu-
cal experience; Mr.. Wilson was hot
housed in a library.
Mr.. Harding is a mixer among men
Mr.. Wilson an observer in the dis
| lance.
business it was to learn what people
were thinking. Mr.. Wilson was pros
lessor whose trade it. was to tell men
what they should learn.
Mr.. Harding's training has shown
him the Importance of studying the
folks. Mr.. Wilson'S speciality was
lanalyzing outstanding events and in
dividuals.
Mr. Wilson travelled with the mem
tai blue-stoekingsi Mr.. Harding start,
ed as small town printer and stu
remembers how his former comrades
think and feel
Try as they will historians can't
keep their minds off the Importance
of history and its verdict.
Country editors on the other hand
Iare always hotheFing about today.s cir
rent news on immediate events.
Mr., Harding could succeed only by
lappreciating the Importance of aver
age citizens; Mr.. Wilson was at least
fifty years old before his interests or
aspirations neeessitated crowd con-
taots.
Mr., Harding is a producer and en-
ployer intimately familiar with the
| thousand and one little problems that
constantly beset the worker and the
boss Mr., Wilson has never operated
an enterprise in which his own money
was invested, and excepting brief at
tempt at the practice of law, has never
would directly familiarize him with
! the details of production and the prob
lens of fineqeing venture.
|. Mr.. Harding is the candidate OF a
party which regularly polls its heavi-
est vote where the greatest develop
ment has been attained, where the
| main assets of the country are located,
where the principal plants and mer-
camille establishments are found,
where the best and most newspapers
are published, where the best and
most schools and universities are stu
ated, where voters are face to race
with the worst aspects of alienism and
| its insoleHt Fadicalism, where the bulk
| of our taxes are earned and paid,
where child labor is restrained, where
! the average of health and intelligence
| is highest, where workers enjoy the
biggest incomes received anywhere on
earth, All of this testimony as to its
fitness to promote the welfare of the
entire nation is offered in behalf of
this party and the man whom it has
selected to head our government.
Mr.. Cox is presented by the Demo-
Gratis as the successful governor of a
powerful and affluent state, the man
agement of which he has directed
thru several administrations with
signal adFoitness and common sense.
Mr.. Cox like Mr.. Harding is self
made, is an editor, and has demon
strated his business fitness by amass-
young, dynamic and broadly expeF-
fenced. Mr.. Cox champions Mr.. Will
sons doctrines and is championed by
Mr.. Wilson's adherents. If elected he
must rely upon the strength of the
southern delegations in the house and
senate to execute his programs. In
return the south will naturally exact
propertionate attention to it's own in
terests.
Mr. Cox is for the League of Nations
MIR. Harding is not-and there we
are.