The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1921-03-18
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAR. is 1921
rnE REPuDLIcAN suRnENDER.

It's entertaining to see the Repnbli-
cans giving up one position after am
other which they have occupied for a
good while and moving over to the
ground occupied by the Democrats OF
course II il fraud on the voters who
were promised something very diff
ferent, something exactly opposite.
a}nt no one with the November cleo
tion returns before him can have
much sympathy with the voters.
About nothing did the Republicans
snake more noise Than the expenses OF
the Government Democrats were
wasteful and prodigal. and In all prob
ability they were grossly dishonest
AS soon as the Republicans got into
Office, expenses would be cut down and
taxes reduced We are Interested,
therefore. IN the following headlines
over Washington dispatch TO o Re-
publican contemporary: Hope foI
Cutting Expense vanishes Goods F.s-
tiInste Ia Fight OF Naval Budget Fails
TO Show Reduction Taxes May re
main Up Revision OF Revenue Laws
May Change Methods Of Haising Mon.
ely. but Not the Amount" One year
ago Secretary Houston showed the
Republicans how to change the meth
DDS aud they paid no attention TO him
because they intended 10 reduce the
amount when they changed the meth
DDS.
The dispatch rs worse than ttc
headlines II intimaies that the ez-
penses will be far greater IN the next
than in the current fiscal year apart
from the railroad settlement.
The Democrats naval program was
a constant subject OF attack by the re-
publicanB Mr. Harding did not wait
till he was inaugurated before he
knocked on the head the plan to cui
down the project for naval expansion
and Secretary DENLY had hardly taken
the oath Of Office when he demanded
The biggest navy in the world.
: The Republicans having killed m,
peace treaty, the only other thing t.
do was 10 pass the Knox resolution
for separate peace with Germany
but II was announced some time age
that Mir Hughes. who had been select
ed for Secretary of State, was opposed
20 the Knox resolution. The president
has followed ~ the appointment 0
Mr.. Hughes pg asking Mr. Root 70 ala
the Secretary Of State ia fixing ~
some sort OF settlement OF the Wal
with our enemies and oar associates
MIR Root, Il will be remembered. fay
ored the peace treaty and the l.eagu,
Of Nations, with some minor amend
ments 20 the covenant. which wer,
adopted Ills attitude toward the peac,
treaty was an embarrassment to hi
party during the Presidential cam
paign but now that that rs over an,
the Offices secured Mr. Root, who. will
Justice PhIlinore. had drawn mp "a,
project for the international Cour
called for by the peace treaty, IS sum
moned into service by the Republican
party.
: The Colombian treaty was The elfor
or Democratic Administration 60 d,
justice to a sister republic which hn,
been outraged by Theodore Rooae
velt's Panama performances. II wa
fought by the Republicans on tia
very ground; its ratification would b
an admission that the Roosevelt Ad
ministration did wrong But PYesldsn
Harding has taken the Democratic po
sition. Tile has sent the treaty 60 IN
Senate urging its ratification.
The fact that Mr.. Wilson was not
mere rubber stamp for Congress va
despntism unprecedented partisan
ship and a Notation Of The Constilu
tion according to the Republicans, w
observe in a Washington dispatch Z
"a Republican newspaper that "a send
ling the Colombian treaty TO the Ser
ate the President "made his FIRST def
Unite assertion OF party leadership ~
this issue he did not wait for ende Z
conferences and efforts al Cancellation
Having chosen bis course. he acted.
Of course Mr., Wilson violated the NIB
critics Of the country every time y
acted The dispatch reports some re
publican opposition To the treaty, bu
predicts that the opposition to ~
treaty probably will degenerate stead
fly under pressure from the Whit.
House"
Pressure from the White House
Why. the Republicans victory IN No
vember was expected 10 deliver ia
poor, timid shrinking Congress iron
that very thing -Philadelphia Record
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