The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-06-30
HERE is THE RE-
PUBLICANS' APOLOGY


Big things come high, but there can
be nothing took good for the loyal de-
mocracy Of this section, therefore with
the help of the New York World, this
paper is pleased to announce that it
is able to lay before its readers the
principal portion of the text of the
apology which the Republican Nation
al Committee is now getting out in
| the shape Of its campaign text book
for the coming fall. 1t will be noted
that the explanations are unusually
! frank for a political manifesto. This
is due to the combined influence, we
are informed, of Senator Newberry
and Attorney General Daugherty,
both Of whom have passion for pub
licity.
The full text follows: =
"The Republican party is always the
party of Lincoln, Roosevelt and others.
The others are for the moment more
1 important. They consist of any or
ganized minority that controls votes
in state consistently loyal to the
Republican party or in state that is
doubtful. They consist also of those
individuals who may be expected to
donate large campaign contributions.
"Our motto is self-help now and al
ways, We live up to our motto, be-
lieving in deeds rather than words.
Therefore, we present to the voters, a
number Of exhibits to illustrate the
theory of self-help.
eve point to Truman H. Newberry
and defy any one to challenge our
claim that he helped himself to the
senatorship from Michigan.
eve point to Harry M. Daugherty
and defy any one to challenge our
claim that he helped himself by an
amazing display of legal acumen at 2
a. m. in the Blackstone hotel in the
great City of Chicago to nomination
which has made him the first lawyer
in the land. We assert that this more
than atones for any deficiency in self
help he may have displayed earlier in
his career, such as securing pardons
for clients who neglected to pay for
services rendered.
eve point with more than usual as
surance to our Legislative record. We
assert that our bonus is master
piece of self-help 1t helps the ex-ser-
vice men to imagine that they are to
receive money; it helps the taxpayer
to imagine he won't have to pay out
any money; it helps congressman and
senators coming up for election 4,
think they will be reelected.
eve assert that our ship subsidy
proposals are the essence of self-helI
\ but the matter is complicated and we
are willing. if necessary, not to press
the point. We merely state as self
evident fact that the merchant marine
supported by subsidy, is an exam
pie of how an interest properly organ.
lied can help itself out of the United
States treasury.
"But those are trifes. Mr.. New
berry is a trihe. Mr.. Daugherty is &
trifle. The bonus and the ship sub
sidy are trifes. The greatest achieve
ment of helf-help in our history is thu
Fordney -McCumber tariff We paus'
to explain it.
1 The loyal citienry of this countr!
must have noticed with some sur
prise that the Republican representa-
tives from the backbone states; tina
is from the farmer states, are votint
! It'll the Republican manufacturers
This is unusual, and we point wit
: pride to the way in which the tricl
,. was turned. 1t was turned by apply
:, ing the principle of self-help to tn
v farmers. We give them a duty whic
d will not do them. any good for tn
il things they sell, on condition tina
:, they pay cheerfully through the nos
j. for the duties on things which the
# buy.
: "Having accomplished that, we wer
n free to let the industrial lobbyists hel
themselves to their hearts content
e They have done so. We can assur
/ the voters that if once they under
!" stood this tariff law, which they d
,t not, and, be it said, which we ou1
l. selves do not wholly understand be
= cause we did not write all of the bi
ourselves, they would find that bod
who came to lobby needed very Ion
to pray. There is, therefore, scarce
ly product used by the America
Y people which we have not helped some
.e body who withhold their applaus
N must admire our thoroughness.
lie eve turn now to our vast achieve
le ments in the realm of foreign affair
r To a certain extent the same principl
ID of self-help runs through it like 81
N yer thread among the gold. Fir'
N and foremost, there is the Associatio
e. of Nations, which we proclaimed dul
n ing the campaign. That was sell
help, if ever there was such thin
le 1t helped Mr.. Hoover and Mr.. HughC
r and the other thirty-one eminent RI
4 nufalicans over a real moral difficult
,r And now that the dust has cleare
will any one challenge our assertic
a that the Harding Association Of M
~ lions is without single one of Il
" many faults of the Wilson League (
h Nations? No one will challenge
IS Our association is no superstate. o.
association is no surrender of sove
a. eighty. Our association is as faul
be less as an unborn babe.
it "We come now to the act which Il