The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-11-09
DEMOCRACY TRIUMPHs!

ed the trend or NatlOnal pOltlcS since
the incumbency of the Harding adj
ministration the result of Tuesdays
general election will not come in the
nature of surprise.
Indeed, it is not to be wondered at
that the American people have risen
in their sovereign might electorate
the Republican party; it would rather
be surprise if the great electorate
of the nation had sat supinely down
and given its endorsement to the
most wobbling government that has
ever been inflicted upon the Ameri-
can people.
Unfortunately for the Republican
party the American people have not
forgotten how to remember; in their
minds eye on Tuesday they saw Sena-
tor Harding of two short years ago
promising prosperity, a quick read
justment from a condition brought
about by the world war and foreign
policy of such stability that would
make America the most popular gov
eminent in all of the concord of ma
tons of the earth!
We also saw dignified United
States Senators of the Republican
party preaching the falsest doctrine
that ever fell fromo~ human lips, a
doctrine of hatred, OF cruelty, of
baseness against the greatest presi-
dent of the United States since Lin
coin, campaign so bitter that it
even nauseated, made the decent ele-
ment in the Republican party.
What has been the results of that
campaign?
The American people are
easily impressionable, they were
suffering at that time from
the ravages of war, economics
were out of adjustment, hearts were
heavy, for be it remembered that
$1,000 American boys sleep in the
popped fields of Flanders, they were
heart sore and like the mariner in the
tempest they sought any port for
shelter and the ship of state sailed
into the cold and icy embraces of the
Harding administration.
What did it bring us?
1t brought us Daugherty; it
brought us Goldstein and Newberry
it brought us the most iniquitious
tariff ever written in the laws of this
nation, a tariff SO cruel, so intent on
filling the flesh pots of the moneyed
barnil5 that cd Payne-A;fr;ch tariff
was in the nature of a dispensation
from Providence when compared to
this one. 1t brought us into disrepute
with every decent government on
Gods Almighty's earth; it placed us
beside Turkey and Germany outside
of the League of Nations, the only
real movement for peace in this
world since the Garden of Gethse,
name!
1t also brought US the greatest pan,
ic since Roosevelt in 1907; it brought
us the most distressing strikes ever
inflicted on the American people IL
which the president displayed a poll
cy SO weak that even his best ad
visers held up their hands in holy
horror; it brought us congress
which has been sitting continually
and which failed to grasp the stu
alton and legislate for the best in
terest of the people.
So, is there any reason to wonder
why the American people have risen
and have spoken in laundering tones
against condition which if continued
would mean disaster, wreck ard ruin
not only to the government, but tc
the people of the republic.
1t is a warning SO emphatic that il
cannot be disregarded, and translat
ed into plain English it means tina,
two years hence the Democratic
party of Cleveland and Wilson an6
Jefferson will once again take the
helm and pilot the nation out of the
storm and into the port of .transquil
ity and peace and prosperity!