The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-14
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

49,. by DAVID LA Az ltENCE.
Especial Despatch to The Reformer
Copyright 1920
BOSTON, Mass, Oct. 14.-Throat
trouble ha. been an unfortunate handi-
cap to many campaign speaker, but
none seems to have developed case ex-
actly like that OF Senator David Walsh
of Massachusetts, lie did not become
speeches., a. is generally the case, by
addressing open air meetings. No, he
grew inarticulate when he Tread that
Governor Cox of Ohio had embraced the
league of nations in the Wilsonian sense
after the memorable meeting at the White
/ House.
! The senator engineered the Massachu-
IsettS delegation at the Democratic national
convention and helped nominate Cox ;
shortly afterwards he went to Dayton ana
after a long talk with the nominee eX-
| pressed the view that the governor was
/ all right on the league issue.
But the visit to the White House, and
! the subsequent speeches by Governor Cox,
made ii difficult for Senator Walsh to
4 follow the Now standard bearer of the
party without jeOpardizing his position
in the Democracy of Massachusetts,
I which is nine tcnths of Irish birth or de-
scent and believes that the league of ma
tons is a British product and that even
IL article 10 were cut out it would still
be Of benefit to Great Britain. Indeed.
the basic objection of the Irish to the
league is that it associates the United
States with Eng and. and If the Irish had
their way there would not be any dealing
with Britain. diplomatic or otherwise
until the Irish republic were recognized
so Senator Walsh developed a case OF
! throat trouble and has not been heard
from in the national campaign since his
trip to Dayton, Ohio. And the Democratic
party in Massachusetts has gone over al
most wholly to the Republican campaign
and will vote for Senator Harding fOl
president. Naturally. there would be Z
! large Republican majority in this STATE
1 anyway, on account of Governor Cool
Z idge'S place on the national ticket, but tn,
acquisition of the Irish vote viii hell
Il swell the majority to something like
4 1JO 900.
The Democrats of Massachusetts still
have a state ticket, yet the recent stat
convention at Springfield wherein thu
Democratic national platform on thu
league of nations was endorsed had abOu
200 votes as contrasted with the 1000
/ normally represented. Net single lriSl
Democrat of prominence. with the eNcCp
ti0n of Michael OIeary-not even Sena
1 tor Walsh himSelf-attended the conven
4 tion. Mr.. OLeary had been nominated
Z for governor in the primaries, but with
II drew IN IuNOf OF Marcus I eollURe. Il lem
Z 0Crat, who was given 4 sort of Franklin
: | Roosevelt nomination, 50 as to deFiv
- some benefit from the name of Coolidge.
The Democrats named as electors wha
- the average worker in the party calls
"highbrow," men like Charles W. Elio
and Charles Francis Adams. but wh0eye
was in charge of the business of picsin
electors to go on the ticket slipped a cGG
by not consulting Mr.. Adams, who. b
the way, owns the famous yacht Res0lut'
and is descendant of John Adams II
has announced that he viii vote for Hard
ing, but that if he is elected he will abid
by the desire Of the other electors. Their
is no chance of his being elected. but
illustrates the awkwardneSS of the DemC
cratic position in this state this year.
As a matter of fact there are some Iris
who will vote the party ticket they hay
ALWAYS voted and will on election da
submerge their innermost Irish feelings
1t will not be a wholesale deSertiou.
The Republicans themselves are partl
responsible for this as Senator Hardin
has said publicly he didn't believ
. America should NEEDLE in the Irish ques
tion, and he remarked in Oklahoma til
other day that. he did not believe tn
American people would permit the Brit
I'D ish government to tell us to give the Phi
ippines their independence. Strang,
how times do. change. Just a few year
ago, somebody got up in the house of rel
resentatives in Washington and declare
that the Catholic church had fought til
grant Of independence and the sam
speech accused the Irish of being ineor
sistent in not supporting the mOvemeI
for a Philippine republic Whereupo
Representative Gallivan. Democrat.
Massachusetts, delivered himself of an il
vectiye against the aforesaid somebod
declaring there was no comparison b.
tween the people of the Philippines an
the great Irish race. Yet Senator Har,
ing did use a comparison of Irish an
Philippine independence and it hash