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>""'""eu 'TjHh iuHc Vne
sDotlessncss of the Hon. Mr.. F,elin-.
huysrn' 8 purity.
Th" New Jersey Democrats have
been NOR" careful. TO every suc. &.
gostion from the national Denocrnt. .
that they would like TO send some
speakers to aid Governor Edward. in
, his fight for the scnatorshiD the Now
Jersey Democrats have replied ~, .
no. no 1t is as hard to get a Demo.
cratic speaker into New Jersey rs il
is for foreign ship selling booze to
COVE into an American port,
Governor Edwards is Tie wcttcst of
! the vets AS Heywood Broun SAYS of
sonnet hing else: Day by day in every
way he grows wettcr and wctter and
wcttcr.' lie wants everybody TO know
r.. II" is unwilling to have anything
dry anywhere in his ncghhorhonf
The appearance of any one else on
the platform in his behalf would some.
how lower the hygromter test of Mr.
Edwards. which is now exactly 100,
y little dryness in Il speaker for Mr.
Edwards would soak up some of tho
campaign enthusiasm.
Fortunately not every State "a ca
severely logical and consistent as Now
Jersey. Otherwise how should This
campaign go on? Mr.. Weeks ia only
amused when he is told that the Re-.
publicans of New Jersey are concerned
lest he look like damp spot on Mr.
Frclinghuysen campaign. The ioy Of
making campaign speech is NOT so
great that Mr.. Weeks will be distressed
if he is denied. Besides, he may speak
elsewhere.
But where? In his speech IN which
Mr.. Weeks declared for light wines and
beer he pronounced the Congress at its
lowest point of efficiency in genera.
ton. And now Mr.. Weeks may 80 out
and urge cloquently the re- election of
Well, why not? Mr.. Weeks wos
speaking as a philosopher when he said
Congress has sunk low in the esteem
of thinking men and he will speak as n
politician when he urges the re- election
of its members,
Besides there is such n thing as .,
choice Of evils. And it might be saiI
for Mr.. Weeks that any rate Republi.
cans are better than Democrats.
Only in New Jersey does one look
for logic in politics. Listen to this
\ newspaper correspondent has Just
returned to Washington from con.
ference of editors in the West. Flo
tells me that all the editors present
agreed that President Harding had lost
prestige. He was regarded as weak
You hear many things like this inst
now.
Place beside this facts like tbsso
Senator Frelinghuysen is one hundred
per cent stronger than two months aeo
The prospects of n big Republican VIC.
tory In November grow daily.
Why? Everybody agrees that Can.
gress was weak and somewhat discreJ. |
tied. Secretary Weeks said about it
only what every one is thinking,
Then Congress, which is Republico,
is no great shakes. And the President
who is Republican. If you may believe
the editors is no greater shakes. And
the Republican in the old sense of ,ha
word is dead. Yet two Republican !
voters grow whore only one grew before
There is hole in this somewhat
through which even the Secretary nr |
War could crawl carrying his 3 nor m
cent with him; And it is harder TO t pet
. per cent through anything than If
used to be for camel to get throngb
the eye of n needle. '"sn