Sioux County pioneer., 1922-11-02

We have for the past three years,
since tho ireficiency, misconduct and
corruption that marked mis- administra-
tion became known, listened to the
apologies made for Mr.. Frazier by his
friends until it has become humiliat-
ing to realize that we have had Gov
ernor, though re-called-and are now
threatened with United States Sen
ator-whose record as a public servant
cannot be defended or justified except
by saying, "he did the best he could +"
or by the further apology that he was
in the hands Of dishonest men who ad-
vised him corruptly for dishonest and
selfish purposes and whose advice he
implicitly followed. This apology may
exhonerate him from the moral stand
point but it is scarcely compliment
to his intelligence OF his administrative
ability. Tho people Of our country do
not wish to risk the affairs Of the Ma
tion in the hands Of people who have
not been able or willing in other posi-
tions to prevent grating and misman-
agement Of public affairs.
With such a record Of hostility TO-
wards the Republican party. and with
such record as public servant, nom
mated on the Republican ticket but re-.
pudiated by OUT own state, he would be
liability to the Republican party as
United statesI Senator and a detriment
to the state and nation. I cannot sup.
port him, he is not Republican. It has
been demonstrated in our own state
during the past i've or six years that a
man may by accident win tho nomina-
tion upon the Republican ticket al
though he never embraced any Of the
principles Of tho Republican party and
never before even openly professed to
adhere to its principles.
RAD1cAL1sM VS.. CONSTITUTION
ALIsM
Sometimes issues arise that transcend
mere partisan consideration. They are
beyond self interest, beyond mere par
ty interest. as that is specifically in-
terpreted, and reach the very funda-
mentals of citizenship and of constitu-
tional government. On these issues oil
good citizens stand together. We rise
from the lower levels of personal and
selfish strife, ascend to a plane on
which we stand together upon these
great fundamentals. There is going on
in the United States today a struggle
that involves the existence Of the fun
damental principles Of the constitution
and of the Republican form Of Govern
ment. The forces Of radicalism are
massed against the forces of constitu-
tionalism. The one or the other must
go down. We have fought the fight in
our state for five years and are fighting
it today. We won the first battle when
the infamous HOUSE Bill No. "A, which
sought to eliminate any reference to
patriotism and morality from the con-
stitution, was defeated, notwithstand-
ing the support given it by Mr.. Frazier
and Mr.. Lemke.
When Mr.. Frazier's Republicanism is
questioned, he responds that he is a
Lincoln Republican. He evidently feels
that he is safe, and that his Republi-
canism cannot successfully be chal-
lenged when he goes back that far.
Just so he does not commit himself in
approval of any Republican policies,
traditions or leaders Of the last half
century. But even when he goes back
that far he is not safe. # you COM
pare the statements made by Mr.. Fraz.
Ter on fundamentals Of Republcanim
with the statement made by the i'm
mortal Lincoln on tho same subject,
you will find that Mr.. Frazier is as
badly out Of harmony with Lincoln Re-
as he is with Republican
ism today. The great founder Of the
Republican party, Abraham Lincoln,
gave expression to the fundamental
principle of the supremacy Of the law
and the constitution in immortal words.
1t will not be forgotten that Abraham
Lincoln gave his life that the Union
and the constitution might be saved.
that he was stricken down by the hand
of man who did not believe in &C.
cepting. the verdicts Of the ballot, but
who, when the verdict was contrary to
his own prejudices and his own pas.
sions, resorted to violence and assassin
alton, Mr.. Lincoln said:
''Let every American, every lover Of