Evening journal., 1922-08-29
DROPPING FROM WILSON


IT has been that the Democratic
Il Senators such loud and continuous takers IS
due to the lung power they have developed over a
period OF years in running away from their record
Whether this explains the treless talking quail
ties of Hein Harrison. Caraway. AL IT Is fact that
the Democrats this already beginning to flee
from their and peerless leader OF 1920
No Democrat would have been bold 10 have de-
fed President Wilson and his League Of Nations two
years and survive None did.
Senator Reed, OF Missouri attempted 1t and as re-
suit denied a in the Democratic National Con-
venton a delegate his State. This year Reed
nomination against of Wilson'S pets will
Reed He wrote three letters to the
State demanding Reeds defeat AS a result Reed was
nominated.
In Mississippi Wilson orders in 1918 for Varda-
to be defeated the primaries and Pat Harrison
nominated The orders were carried out Now Varda-
man the primaries and is the leading candidate
despite the that Wilson insisted he be defeated
And thus that Democracy trying to forget the
issues of 1920 and the whip that the autocrat in the
White House at that time the shoulders of all
those who dared 10 differ from him.
But yesterday the word of Caesar might have
stood against the world;
Now, none poor to do him reverence"
The thing which prevents this exhibition of the
Democratic parys fleeing from its 1920 position from
being classified distressing that this is an
old stunt of the Democratic party. Forgetting in one
campaign what they advocated previous campaign
years has become biennial habit of the Democratic
party The memory of those living easily recall
EXAMPLES during the more years.
For example. there was the campaign it made upon
free unlimited coinage Of silver at the rates of
without waiting for the aid consent Of
any nation" the election the party leaders
Immediately began to cultivate lapse of memory and
to keep keen eye open for a paramount ISSUE By
NH
suits that election showed that as badly in
error as had been upon the subject of "sxteen-to
one"
The latest political hoax which it played upon the
country during the campaign of 1916 which it won
by the cry, He kept of war" while all the time
he" preparing TO rush us into By 1920 it
had so forgotten desire keep of that it
was trying to fasten upon the American people the
League of Nations which would have kept perpet-
Iay in
Having that campaign by an adverse majority Of
something like 100000 votes it looks around for
another has raised the cry do moth
ng Congress" thinking again befuddle and fool the
'oting public just 1t did with He kept out Of
var" and imperialism" and "sixteen-t one"
Proof that the party has leadership. is
lot founded upon any enduring principle is largely
ept together by cohesive power of macontent and
oes destination is the fact that in
wo campaigns in succession does it advocate the same
olicy to the people the same issue. It's
olicies campaign slogans "one night stands"
nd they billed for return engagement for
cry obvious
Not only have the Democratic leaders in this cam
aign attempted what they advocated and pre-
cted in 1920 but they attempting TO forget what
hey advocated and predicted in the discus
legislation which upon the statute books
example of this is their faulty memory relative TO
that they said would happen in event the farmers
arin enacted opposing it upon the ground that it
oud not bring aid to the farmer and would bring dis
ess TO the working man. They now engaged in n
rgetting what they then said because it did not come
-e trying make people forget what they
i'd by talking about something else II
Running away from their party records and cutvat-
bad political memories the two chief occupa- fl
,ns OF the average Democratic politician. They a.
g two things he does best. They the two things -
has most need OF doing. In