Indiana daily times., 1922-03-10

OF sheer party loyalty, IL for no othel
or higher reason.
Party organizations are created for tn,
sole and exclusive purpose of managing
campaigns to elect party candidates who
have been nominated by party voters a
the ballot box. That is the only reason
for the existence of party organizations
and when they do that-when they obey
the law Of their being and confine theil
efforts to their legitimate work-party
organizations are Indispensable to party
well being and are public benefit They
help democracy to express itself.
BY the same token, when party organi
cations use their powers to nominate
party candidates they become a source
of party weakness and are public null
sance which ought to be abated. They
prevent democracy from expressing it
self. When party organizations nominate
party candidates, as we'll as manage the
campaign to elect those candidates, thu
party organization becomes the party II
practical effect.
If, as reported, the organization any
where is taking sides in this contest
which, l repeat. 1 refuse to believe, ther
the issue is forced, and is unavoidable
Does the party belong to the organza
tion, or does the Organization belong
to the party?
Everywhere such stupid, arrogant, anG
morally lawless action by official ,organi
cations of both parties, have brought
about more party dissension and dis
aster than all other causes put together
Misuse of it's power by the party or
ganization, is the height of party un
wisdom.
Neither party candidates, nor public
officials should have anything to do with
party organizations, except to work with
them for the general party welfare. ANY
public officials who attempts to con-
troll, and succeeds in using the party or
ganization for his personal advantage
wrongs his party, and, in the end, usual
ly works his own undoing.
If l am nominated and elected,
pledge all Republicans that I shall keep
hands off the organization of our party
and do nothing whatever in reference to
it except to aid and strengthen 1t for
the good Of the whole party.
Enlightened by experience and obser-
vation, 1 shall refrain frcm all organi-
cation activities in the sense Of trying
to use or influence it for personal ends
To make the party organization per-
sonal machine is as grave a personal
mistake as it Is a serious party blunder
Also, a Senator who attends to his du-
ties in Washington during the next few
years will not have a moment Of time
or an atom Of strength to devote to any
thing else.
REFERS TO NEUTRALITY
OF PRESIDENT HARDING.
1t has even been put out that the
, President would use his influence IN
this contest to force the nomination OF
one candidate because Of personal friend
ship. That is a silly falsehood, and
President Harding has himself denied
that puerile aspersion on hts party in.
tegrity. But so long and industrlously
has that canard been used as propa-
ganda, that the Presidents declaration
Of neutrality in this contest should be
published broadcast in every newspaper
and especially in every Republican news
paper in the State and then republished
until every voter knows the truth.
Never for a moment have I believed
that Misrepresentation OF President Har-
dings conception Of party good faith and
duty. Never for Z moment have ever
believed that he would thus depart Srom
Republican traditions. Never for a mo.
ment have I believed that Warren G
Harding would fail to follow in the patti
trodden by every Republican President
ent hour.
At his personal request took the
stump for President Harding, left In.
diana and went to the Pacific coast and
back, opening or closing the Republican
campaign In nine States. At the per
sonal request Of Charles Evans Hughes
did the same thing for him when he was
the Republican candidate for President
Four times I have made transcontinental
campaign trips for our party. and ever
more often l have made harder cam
paign Journeys over vast sections Of thC
Republic from Portland. Maine, to Los
Angeles, Cal from Seattle 10 Philadel
phia, from Oklahoma City to Chicago and
Detroit, and I expect to do as much IN
the future as l have done in the past
In view Of this party service, gladly
rendered, I resent and denounce this libel
on the chief Of our party. and the Presi-
( dent OF our country-the libel that he
would interfere In contest between two
members Of his party for party nomina-
tion or that he would knowingly commit
any public officer, appointed by him, tc
so maluse his official position, and sc
abuse his public trust.
"sTANDPATTERs AND
PROGRESsEYES."
Then again. a certain section Of Re
publican voters are told that they must
not support any man or woman who
stood by that glorious American, that
matchless soldier OF the common good
that unriyaled captain Of righteousness
Theodore Roosevelt. Is that wise party
counself Is that sound party poilcy7 Is
that even good party common sense?
From the nomination of Charles Evans
| Hughes to this moment. it has been the
boast OF both former grand divisions OF
our party that all differences were ad-
| justed, all antagonisms forgotten, anC
that the Republican party reunited and
reJuvenated, is a greater power than
ever for the upbuilding OF the nation and
for the Advancement Of the prosperity
and happiness of the American people.
Is that noble spirit to be now extin-
guished? Does that party reunion and
re1uvenation mean that State and ma
tional laws shall be made. and State
and national governments administered
only by public officials chosen e&clu-
| sively from members of one faction in an
| ancient and buried feud?
1t has not been so in national affairs.
As President Harding has declared, IT
is conceded by all that, had he lived,
Theodore Roosevelt himself would have
! been nominated by acclamation as the
! Republican candidate for President in
! 1920 and overwhelmingly elected, former
! standpatters supporting him as earnestly
\ as former progressives; yet, with TheO-
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