The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1920-10-21
AN APPEAL TO RE-
PUBLICAN VOTERS

q been called upon for any special activi
ty so far during this campaign; thing
y have been movingsalong quietly.in tn,
j right direction, and this, one of tn,
I most important elections since tn,
4 close of the Civil War, seems assured
i to our party so far as the presidency il
at issue. In looking over the situation
as 1t seems to US we are, however,
\ little anxious lest the country may bt
I robbed of the full result of a Republ
can victory, by failure to give tht
new administration full working power
through a Republican majority in botl
branches of congress. We are Repub
licans because we believe the country
IS safest and most prosperous wher
managed upon the principals of oui
party This belief is justified by what
has been the history of the natior
since our party was first given control
in 1861. Its success has been sc
marked that since the election OF
James Buchanan in 1856 but two men
have been elected by any party other
than ours, and no other one will be be.
fore 1924. at least.
Ours has become the dominant party
because our kind of voters Republican
voters with Republican minds and Re
publican morals-have associated them
selves together in such numbers as to
make 1t the greatest aggregation of
voters of the land, an aggregation of
the kind of voters that you and we are.
By morals as we use the word we do
not mean simply the code governing
individual personal action, but rather
that character, habit and principle that
put men on one side or the other in
| questions involving public morals,
public justice, honest administration,
redemption of pledges and the promo
tion of what is right and best. If the
! judgment of the American voters has
been right on such questions, then our
party has been right. If the opposing
party has been right then the people
have been wrong. In every clean cut
moral issue upon which parties have
divided, our position has been right, and
upon every such issue upon question
of governmental policy we have been
right.
The men we have placed in power
have so stood the test and been ap-
proved by the people that no Demo
cratic candidate today boasts of being
like any living or dead Democrat, but
rather wants to be looked upon as the
follower of a Lincoln, Mckinley or a
Roosevelt. Governor Cox in his west
ern tour sought votes not because he is
like any other Democrat but because
he claims to be the follower of an hon
ored Republican who is now dead, but
whom no Democrat honored or fol-
lowed while living.
There is a natural reason why the
American voters have centered their
interest upon the presidency so strong
ly as to make it certain beyond any
doubt that Senator Harding will be
the next president of the United
States; that is. seven years of Wilson
dictation, with a party in congress
willing to submit to such dictation, has
made the presidency seem unduly inn
portant, while forgetting that no Re- |
publican president ever has or ever
will assume such power, and that no
Republican congress has or ever will |
submit to such dictation. 1t is partly |
because of a rebellion against one man
that the tide is setting in |
cur favor so strongly, but when we |
have destroyed the one man govern |
ment and restored the government to
its constitutional coordinate branches, |
we shall need the right kind of CO.
ordinate branch to help carry on the
government upon the lines of our poll
cies and principles. The elephant and /
the donkey don't make a we'll matched
team; they don't work we'll together
either abreast or in tandem. The ele-
phant will pull and the donkey will Il
are built that way. The
elephant pulled over the budget bill H
and the donkey kicked it back.
While our party has no monopoly of Il
political virtue. yet the decision of the
American voters almost without excep-
tion, and always under ordinary politi-
aal conditions is that we have been
right. That is a vote of confidence. a
verdict for our kind of men with our
sind of minds and our kind of political
morals. Let us enter judgment on that
verdict while we remember that Rob-
ert Stanfield is Republican and
ieorge Chamberlain is a Democrat.
Why are we Republicans if we do |
Tot believe in Republican policies and
Republican men? Are we Republicans
t we do not believe in them? Mr.. II
'tantield believes our party is right, /
md will be loyal to it. Mr.. Chamber II
ain believes his party is right and will H
e loyal to it. We believe our party is
light. Shall we be loyal to it? We
1ust answer at the polls. We shall
ote to give Mr.. StanfeldSa chance to
ote what we want voted or to give !,
lr. Chamberlain a chance to vote
THAT we do not want voted.
Southern Democrats are often Demo-
ratio because of environment, but III
Iorthern Democrats are Democrats II
they believe their party right II
n issue. Mr.. Chamberlain is a Demo. II
rat because he believes that way. II
'e admire him for many sterling II
lalities, one Of them is his loyalty to II
hat he believes, but if he belives II
rong. by so much more certainty will II
vote wrong. ii
True patriotism requires every voter, II
very one of US. to register our vote III
II what is believed to be right and III
EST. Letsus vote as we believe for HI
epublican men and Republican prin- III