The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1922-03-23
DR.. Aswell's SUGGESTION

Congressman Aswell of the Eighth
Louisiana district is coming to be re
garded at Washington as one of thu
real leaders of the party in the House
with what New York paper calls
fine vision.
A recent interview had with him by
Washington correspondent is widely
commented on. In it he not only pre-
diets return of the Democratic party
to power in the congressional elections
in the fall of this year. but the proba'
bility of a presidential victory in the
campaign two years hence. Utter
break of Republican pledges in Mr.
Aswell's opinion is responsible for the
widespread reaction to Republican
management of national affairs.
This interesting statement is credi-
ted to Mr.. Aswell:
THE Democratic party" said he,
lis entitled to win in 1924 on the
strength of eight years Of unparalleled
prosperity under President Wilson.
The Republicans have failed to keep
their campaign pledges and the voters
have weighed them in the balance and
found them wanting. In the next Pres
idential campaign the Democrats will
put forward no standard bearer who
represents any wing of the party or
who il identified with the political for
tunes of any individual aspiring to the
Presidency. Our candidate must rep
resent the party in its entirety and
stand upon platform that leaves dead
issues to the dead past. A forward
looking. progressive. patriotic. intel
lectual and experienced statesman is
the need of the party and luckily it he's
one in the person of the illustrious
Senator from Ohio, the Honorable At
lee Pomerene, Senator Pomerene is
Z candidate for reelection this year
and the people of his own state are 30
thoroughly appreciative of his extraor-
binary services and his entire record at
Washington that there seems little
doubt he will be given another term.
Granted this outcome and there will be |
no other man in the public eye as
Democratic candidate for President
three years hence. In eulogizing Sem |
at0r Pomerene. am INDUCING in no
flattery; my own opinion is but Z re- |
Election of the general estimation in |
which he is held by broad-minded and
liberal men of all parties and all Sec
tons.
In the light Of the enormous Repub-
lican victory of 1920. when Mr.. Hard |
ing was elected by majority of sever |
ri millions, it seems fantastic to sug |
gest the possibility Of Democratic re-
turn in four years.
But MIR. Aswell may not prove |
poor prophet. There never was time |
when there was more independence OF |
political thought III the country and it
is not impossible that millions this year
will vote against the Republican party |
who two years ago voted for it.
At least they ought to. Mr.. Hard |
ing's good faith is not to be disputed. |
But no administration has more COM |
plete expectations than that which |
came into power with him.
The Democratic party was beaten |
two years ago CHIEFLY because the peo-
ple wanted q change. MIR. Berhmam and
his New Orleans administration fell by |
the wayside for the same reason. A |
return Of nation. wide prosperity with |
in the next year and half might cave
the Republican party in the campaign |!
Of 1924. But if it doesn't come there
will be the same national impulse for |
change a. was manifested in the can't
paign in which Governor Cox was SO
overwhelmingly defeated.
States.