Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1920-07-22
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EAITCRACY AND DEMOCRACY

EAUCRACY AND DEMOCRACY
THE nomination of Cox tolls the
knell of wisconsin" declares Hon
Jonathan Bourne, Jr., in the follow
Ing statement just issued:
| ITO that extent the American
people will thank the star of their
! destiny. But the election of Cox
would record on the fair pages OF
cur history the triumph of Tammany
| ard Plagiarism over the sane and
| decent element which constitutes the
| great American majority That,
however lisa contingency which need
not be feared if every voter in the
| land attends the polls November I'd.
| The American people will not turn
| from Louis XIV now in power to a
Louis XIV now in expectancy. They
will not put an end to official servil-
ism by entrenching in power what
gives promise of being official cor
ruption. They will not strike the
paw of the lion from the capitol
dome to make place for the claws of
the tiger. They will shout The
King is dead; but they will not fol-
low it with long live the kingv
Despotism has had its day Consti-
tutionalism will be restored; and the
wiles of the demagogue, to be exhib-
tied in the approaching campaign,
must yield to the logic of the states
men.
"Yet it will not do for republicans
to fiout the ticket of the opposition
What Cox lacks in constructivism he
makes up in political cunning His
announcement that he will carry the
cause to the homes of service and
sacrifice we'll indicates the hysteri-
cal appeal which he proposes to
make to the people. He will seek
to distract public attention from
eight years of democratic misrule
by convincing the people that he has
the panacea for ills which are either
imaginary, or, where they exist at
all, are a result of the gross incapa-
cities of his own party. He will
know when to employ silk-hat argu-
ment, and when to hand out shirt
sleeve oratory. Cox is for votes first.
Let principles take care of them
selves. His will be the sort of
campaign which tickles the fancy Of
the thoughless, full Of pep and
ginger-and wind. But the people
have had a long time for bitter re-
| Election. They have had an allo-
pathic dose which has at least the
virtue Of restoring them to sound
thinking. They are fully aware
that the example of eight years of
dictatorship has not been lost on the
democratic nominee, who would fain
emulate Wilson as a ruler, not an
administrator.
Cooks record in the national
arena of politics is not one at
which to point with pride He
served something less than two
! terms as representative in congress
from the third Ohio district. Dur
| ing that period he introduced 931
| bills, of which 916 were for pen
sions, increases of pension, or to re-
move charges of desertion, three or
four were inconsequential measures,
several provided for public buildings
in his congressional district, and but
one, to make trade agreements with
| foreign nations, bore any trace OF
constructive thought. This record
Is so weak as to be impossible OF
comparison with the admirably con-
structive craftsmanship of Harding
in the United States senate. And
next to the need of return to con.
stitutional government, our greatest
cry is for constructive legislation
Cox's attitude on the league of ma
tions will be dictated by what he
discovers in the course of the cam.
paign to be expedient.
| "The democratic drums will roll
and the trumpets will blare, and
all the vast influence of the demo
cratic publicity bureaus, many OF
them operated at government ex-
pense, will be turned over to the
candidate. But the people will sit
tight and compare Cox's eloquence
and bureaucratic fustian with the
front porch deliberative statements
of Warren Harding. Then march
EN- masse on the polls in November
will result in the restoration of sane
clean and constitutional government
through a republican landslide -