Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-07-21
WILL AMERICANS STAND
FOB 1T?

WILL AMERICANS STAND
FOR 1T?
The Ford weekly, the Dearborn
Independent, in it issue of July
Il, will publish the following ed
itorlal
Disappointed by the utter alb
selice of public spirit and respon-
sibility in the national conven-
lions of the republican and dem
ocratic parties, the independent
American people have succumbed
to sense of deep disgust for par
tisan politics in general. This is
a most wholesome reaction and
it would promise well for the ma
tion, were there not danger of a
further reaction toward apathy.
The politicians count more con-
fidently than the people realize
on that interval of time which
stretches between the summer
election. If the election We're to
be held today, and il the law re-
quired half the number of votes
to be cast as were cast at the last
presidential election before a can
dictate could be chosen, there
would not be enough votes cast to-
day TO elect either OF the candi-
dates to the office for which the
parties have chosen them.
The republican convention was
openly and shamelessly dominat.
ed by the financial representa-
tives of the powers that pull gov
ernmental influence like strings.
The party's own methods were
clogged and soiled with shameless
money scandals. Phogerssivism
anG clean republicanism were
snubbed, insulted and crushed at
every turn. The delegates were
euchered, wearied, driven and de-
ceived, And the candidate who
emerged from this chaos was even
mere colorless than the RepGbli-
can Platform, if anything more
colorless can be conceived.
The democratic convention was,
If anything, a degree worse, be-
cause there was an attempt made
at San Francisco which had no
parallel at ChicagO-the conven-
tion was at least given a flaming
opportunity to declare its adher-
ence to the moral advance made
by the American people with re-
gard TO the liquor traffic. But
the hand of the degunct and dis.
graceful whisky business was
heavy upon the men who control
led that convention. Paid agents,
who were both public officials and
private retainers, were in evidence
everywhere. There was no ques-
ti0n; not even the League of Ma
tions which received the slavish
attention which booze received.
The whole convention resembled
mrre a "hang over" from the sa-
loon regime than a gathering OF
American citizens selected to for
mrlate policies for the solution of
the problems which harass the ma
tion and the world. And a can
Gidate, as unknown and as amen
able to control as the Republican
caI didate, was put forth for the
high office of president.
The defeat of McAdoo and the
defeat of the movement to insert
a wet plank in the platform were
the two strong actions of the DEM
Ocratic convention, but these were
ncutralized by the selection of
Cox. The McAdoo candidacy was
one Of the most cleyerly engineer
ed pieces Of political shrewdness
in the party annals Of the United
States. That it was heavily fl
naLced is a foregone conclusion,
but the utmost endeayors of skill
ed Investigators failed to reveal
its source. that is. with degree
OF certainty that would justify
public exposure Its source. how
ever. is generally known, and the
defeat Of McAdoo was more than
the defeat Of a man; it was lbe de-
feat OF a group whose exposure
anG the destruction OF whose
power is the most needed reform
in the United States and the world
today.
There Is now no choice whatever
between Republican and Demo
cratic candidates, between Repub-
lican and Democratic platforms,
or. fof that matter. between Re-
publican and Democratic parties.
The people have been treated like
children: their. highest hopes have
been fouted; their best beliefs
have been buried beneath noun
talns Of partisan slush and filth.