Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-09
Monday, October 9, 1922
DEMOCRATS AND REPU6ll'
CANS. Or?

Association. an address so good that
the bankers propose to have it print
I'd and issued to all the members.
lie commanded them for resisting
imitation.
1T called for fine courage to jam
on the brakes as you gentlemen jam
med them on at that time. We were
running Wild With wide-open throt-
tic: We were running straight Tor a
smash that would have paralyzed the
nation and stunned the world, when,
under he able leadership OF w. +. U.
HaldIng, Governor of our reserve
ank system, YOU warned the country
that il must Immediately begin SLOW
ing down. and you applied the remedy
that meant slowing down.
There was no other way to save
the situation. There was no otner
force. not oven the Government ltseir,
that could haze saved the situation.
He admitted that he did not under
sand why the rebound from dis
trcsslng conditions Of eight months
ago should have come on so FAST
Possibly tho address itself il care
fully studied may suggest the reason.
While 1t shows remarkable compre-
tcnsion of trade and industrial con-
dtions, of needs and prospects, of
the machinery or organization
organization and machinery are
words of which he frequently makes
use throughout his addres5-it is pos
slble that he has not fully estimated
the influence of Imagination, of hu-
man Availability, of the man behind
the machine, of factors neIer yet
run as machinery, or susceptible TO
all the limitations OF organization.
Never were there better prganiza-
ton and better machinery for taking
Paris than were possessed by the
Germans when they we're stopped at
III Marine. They were much sur
prised too. and even now looking
back the reader OF what happened
will naturally feel surprise. Being
wholly Absorb ed With organization
and machinery may exclude other
features entitled to consideration.
But on such intangible things an
address before banking association
might with dificulty he founded. Yet
ina Sination plays no inconsiderable
part in what he did say when he
proposed the abolition Of the Repub-
liCan and Democratic parties and the
formation of Radicals and Conserva-
tites. In favor of such an UNDER
taking he alludcs to the possibility
~ so securing cooperation be-
tween the conservative American
ideas held by very many of the
Democrats of the South and many of
tho Republicans of the North, voters
" ho nov under the party names to
which they feel bound so often fail
10 cooperate.
4 pleasing prospect he unfolded Of
voters who believe we have the best
government in the world, who would
Improve 1t. hut by regularly and duly
constituted methods. who believe our
Constitution to be the keystone OF the
arch and would Lave it respected and
not subjected TO the frothy whim of
the passing day, uniting in earnest
aad enthusiastic effort regardless of
former partisan predictions and
Democratic or Republican prejudices,
regardless OF Mason and Dixon line
and the out grown traditions OF Bit
ter DAYS. Pleasing. too, to have the
radicals. those who would have the
days decision CT the ma jority the
arbitor in place Of the Constitution.
who would have all things made COM
mon SO long as they might have
charge OF the regulating, those who
are too shifuess 10 hope to get to the
top but would pull out the ladder
from under those willing to climb,
10 have these all herdod in one party.
Very pleasing, but not likely to hap
Yea. whatever we may DO about IT.
II is noticeable TO not a few people
tAat there are those Who talk like
Communists but call themselves
Democrats. men like LaFollette CALI
iag themselves Republicans. Social
lists like Brookhart running on the
Republican ticket while many OF the
Republicans are consequently vowing
tu vote the Democratic ticket in his
state. All this. of course, shows the
difficulty that is icing experienced
in drawing party lines so that those
coming within them shall he a con-
genial lot of enthusiasts. But Who
ever heard OF lines so drawn and
maintained?
All over the world today the radi-
calls are disintegrating into little
groups Those equipped with the
kind OF mentality which makes for
radicalism. which gravitates to Wild
,yod ideas. must inevitably lack in
cohesion. Any attempt to corral
such ebullient natures into one in