The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-03-31
HENRY FORD,S CAMPAIGN
FOR THE PRESIDENCY

ambition TOR power, he has been pos
ing for the presidency for a number
of years. His candidacy in the Re-
publican convention of 1916, is well
remembered. 1t was looked upon as a
joke when announced, but Ford re-
ceived the primary endorsement for
president over outside candidates in
Michigan and was actually voted for
in the convention. When Ford ran for
senator in Michigan, first in both the
Republican and Democratic primaries,
and then in the election, as a Wilson
senatorial candidate, his candidacy
was intended as a curtain raiser for
a presidential candidacy in 1920, but
defeat at the polls headed off that
project for the time being.
Ford's effort to control the Repub-
lican primary through the use of the
Wilson federal office holders machine,
his W business organization and the
ownership or control of certain pow
erful newspapers in Michigan, was a
failure. Being defeated in that prim-
airy, and later by the voters of the
the state at the polls, the rejected
candidate sought revenge and cam
paign material through the persecu-
ton of his successful competitor.
Again the federal machinery was
used, this time an effort to disgrace
and imprison the man guilty of the
crime of preventing Ford from OBJ
tanning under false pretenses the NOM
nation of a political party he was
pledged to fight under his Wilson en-
dorsement and candidacy in the Demo-
cratic senatorial primaries.
Mr.. Ford's political advisers, with
whom thrift follows fawning, now
him his time to be president
is at hand. The first step forward the
White House was the launching of a
against the Jews. Finding
that this weapon was deadly at the
breeck as we'll as at the muzzle, it
has been discarded, with a confession,
through its abandonment, that it was
not based on conviction but on the be-
lief that there was something in it
politically. For this campaign has
been substituted a flat money crusade,
and through his weekly publication
Mr.. Ford's press agents are repeating
the arguments against the gold stand
ard made by Colonel Bryan and Coin
Harvey in the campaign of 1896.
Coincidentally Mr.. Ford has pro-
himself the saviour of the
and of the South through his
scheme to acquire the Muscle Shoals
project. His proposal is evidence that
native financial shrewdness does not
desert the auto millionaire ever in
the midst of campaign propaganda.
The proposed contract is a Jug
handled affair under which the gov
eminent gives away a great della and
gets very little, and the benefits of
the scheme to the nation and the peo-
pie are confined to the lurid pros
pectuses of the same press agents
who publicly pledged on MI. Ford's be-
half, that he would return the profits
Of his war contracts to the United
States Treasury,-something he has
been, up to this time, too busy to do.
An incident of the Ford presidential
candidacy is smAaeng an issue out of
the Newberry case" The Ford in
maintained an expensive lob
oy in Washington attempting to un-
seat the Senator the people of Michi-
gan had elected to fill the place after
primary charges made by the de-
feated candidate had been placed be-
fore them. The Senate refused to an
seat Newberry merely because the at
tempt to defeat the expressed will Of
the people of Michigan was found to
a mass of Misrepresentation, hypo-
,risy and false pretense. The leaders
in the attack or Newberry were sena-
5ors from states of the Solid South in
which elections are a farce and no
pretends that the majority rules.
The Senate and the country wisely
concluded that men who defend the
election conditions VIGOROUSLY exist
ing in the Solid South states, or are
in the face of the fragrant
habitually perpetrated there,
were not sincere in their outcry
against political conditions in a state
where five times as many people per
hundred of population vote as in the
states whence halls about all there is
left OF Democratic party leadership.
The attempt to make an issue out
II the Newberry case," which is not
gong nearly so well as expected, is a
part of the general scheme to push
Mr.. Ford forward as a presidential
candidate in 1924. Troubled with no
convictions, and being totally
gnorant and contemptuous of Ameri-
history, as he confessed in his
testimony in the Chicago Tribune
case, regarding patriotism as un-
worthy of a man of his wisdom and
demanding that the word murderer"
embroidered on the uniform of
very soldier while his W son was
'eleased from the draft by the admin
which backed him for SEN
'tor, advocate of race prejudice and
Wild cat money, with $135,000 1000 in
he bank and a corps of organizers
md press agents in proportion, Henry
ford is a presidential candidate not
o be sneezed at. Especially by the
party, which is lying on
is back looking around for a Moses
With an issue and a barrel.-National