Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1920-07-01
Is a leading Candidate for Presl-
dental Nomination Because
His Record Squares With the
Progressive Ideas and Ideals
! OF Democracy. II
ACTIONS AGAINST PR0FITEERS
A. Attorney General He Has Arrested
More Than 4 Thousand Food
Aoarders and Chargers Of Unfair
Prlces-lntorventio in Coal Crisis
Saved Nation From Suffering and
Industry From Collapse.

Washington, D. C.-The people are
responsible for everything that exists
- well as for the lack Of anything
which does not exist in democracy
like the United States.
This Is the contention of Attorney
General Mitchell Palmer, who, by rea-
son Of his activities against profiteers,
packers and Reds as well as from the
fact that he is leading candidate for
the Democratic presidential nominal
ton, Is becoming one of the most
talked Of men in America.
Iii government of the people, such
as ours" Palmer said recently, 1.-The
kind of government we have rests en-
tirely with the people themselves.
They must do their share of the work
of government Those in official sta
lions are representative of all the peo-
pie and should represent no particular
sect or section, not alone the political
party to which they belong, but an the
people of oil the country all the time.
Good citizens should not mix in public
affairs in any half-hearted, academic
or cloister-like fashion. Eternal vigi-
lance is the price Of good government"
The principles Palmer lays down he
has followed An his own career. He
fought for clean politics in Pennsyl-
vania his home state, and won.
In his own Congressional district,
home OF the giant Bethlehem steel
works he was elected to the House of
Representatives three times, with
Charles NJ. schwab, the Steel King
fighting hard to beat him.
He !'cleahed house" in the Pennsyl
Yatiia Democracy In 1912, with the re
suit that Wilson delegates we're sent
to the Baltimore convention. Without
those delegates the nomination would
have gone elsewhere.
Palmer has shown courage, without
which - man in public life is useles,
to the popular welfare, at every stage
of his career.
First it was when he was candi
date for Congress the first time IL
the Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania. This
Democratic district had a rule of 70
tatiOn In electing men to the House OF
Representatives. In twenty years II
had had ten different Representatives
"a new one every two years.
Palmer held that no man could get
squared away to do good work and
get the work done with one term.
Rotation is rot" he said. IF you
elect me this time will ask you t.
elect me again two years from now"
He won and, smashing the prece-
dent, was reelected twice.
"The Fighting Quaker" they call
him in the Twenty-sfxth. The sobrf.
quet, because 1t fits him so well, fol
lowed him into Congress, where he be-
came a party leader.
It took courage again to defy the
Penrese bipartisan gang in Pennsyl-
vania, but he has plenty Of it, and
when he and few others like him
tenants, masquerading as Democrats
In his party, those lieutenants found
themselves on the outside of the or.
ganizatiOn, with Palmer and the pro
gressive element Of the Keystone de
mOcracy in control.
His work as Alien Property CustO-
dian again showed the fearlessness
that is basic in his nature. Despite
the threats Of enemy agents to "get
him." he seized and devoted to the
use Of the United States in the prose
cution Of the war more than $500, O00,-
600 worth Of enemy-owned property
and eradicated the widespread espio-
mage system which under the guise Of
business enterprise" was doing the
Kaiser's work in America.
The Reds knew he was collecting
evidence against them" He received
many letters threatening his life. An
anarchist exploded bomb which was
intended to kill Palmer and his fam
lily. 1t wrecked the front of the house
but the Palmers were unframed, and
the Attorney General went right ahead
with his campaign to suppress the ad
vocatesiOf force and violence