Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-16
To Seek Nomination
CONTINUED from Pace One

ed for direct presidential preference
primaries in all the states, said the
need today for "revitalized Repub-
lican party" which should be an in
strument neither of static reaction
nor destructive radicalism" and ex-
pressed opposition to the League Of
Nations "and all its subsidiaries"
Preferential Urinary
His announcement follows:
Theoretically, under our system,
the people themselves eelect their
president. Those states with presi-
Dental preference primaries not only
recognize this theory but put 1t in
practice. They preserve the spirit
as well as the letter of American
institution. 1t is an Americans
oirthright to submit himself and his
political tenets to the decision of his
fellow citizens. He is entitled to their
decision and they are entitled to
make 1t. / recognize no prescriptive
right to office; and 1 deny that any
number of men may disregard the
popular will, and in defiance of it
dictate our candidates. Peculiarly
should this be so at the present time.
Party Threatened
"There is discomfort abroad In the
land; there is threatened disintegra-
ton of the Republican party. The
discomfort and party difficulties arise
not because Of popular government
but from the lack of it. Two war
ring PHILOSOPHERS of government in
the nation, just as in the state from
which l come, struggle for mastery
Designate them as you will, the con-
test between them is age-old. The
one ultra conservative, materialiStic,
stolidly and stubbornly resisting any
claims and vigorously contesting ev-
cry human advance, invites an ultra
radicalism. The other, mindful of
existing rights, but recognizes condi-
tons and mankind's gradual prog
ress, is idealistic and forward look
inf. 1t avoids alike ultra conserva-
tism and ultra radiaclism. It's the
old, old struggle beginning in the
early days of mans first achieve
ments and never ending since.
Fight on for Progress
Reaction and progress must fight
it out again in the Republican party
in the coming presidential primaries.
1 question not men now, but their
philosophy of government. That
such obtains at Washington does not
fit present day needs. Ultra-conser-
vatism there rules; progressivism
challenges it. And the ensuing con-
test will determine whether the Re-
publican party shall be the perma-
nent instrument of reaction or
whether it shall respond to present
day conditions and aspirations. We
would have a rcvitalized Republican
party, party representing alone its
no V1lY nd tho N OF oifhnr
of static reaction or destructive radi-
calsm. Only such a party with the
broad understanding vision and hu-
man sympathy of progressivism can
solve our pressing domestic problems
Against League
Not only is there the fundamental
and irreconcilable difference in our
domestic politics, but a like diver
gence perhaps even of greater i'm
portance, in relation to our foreign
affairs. A foreign policy once enter
ed upon may with difficulty be
changed. One false move may do
what years cannot undo.
1.-The whole future of national ex-
istance may be endangered by the
ill-considered act of a day. | am
against the League of Nations and
all its subsidiaries, membership in
which would tend to participation,
directly or indirectly, in the league.
TO take us into the league court or
to involve us in the political strug-
giles abroad, inevitably will drag us
into the European maelstrom from
which we fondly imagined the cleo
ton of 1920 had delivered us.
"Of course, we would always pro-
mote peace and endeavor to prevent
MO would holm ENnrnna
rational way. We would continue to
alleviate suffering, cloth the naked,
feed the hungry. but we would ever
be the sole judge of our own actions,
the arbiter of our own destiny. Our
country. the greatest on earth.
should have it's own foreign policy,
thoroughly understood by our peo-
pie, frankly proclaimed.
Let People Decide
preserving our country as 1t is,
we preserve the worlds greatest as
set, civilizations highest promise.
Our timid. vaccilating and contradic
tory positions demand that Ameri-
cas- foreign policy again be decided
by the whole people who must them
selves. at whatever cost, maintain it.
This time the decision should be so
clear. so definite and certain. that no
CaSulSlry, no SpeclOuS pea, no HUI
rection can diStort ii.
Upon these as fundamentals. am
plfying and expressing details here
after. to the men and women who
constitute Americas free citizenship.
I will make my appeal. In every
state the contest will be waged. In
those states where the voters may
express Their preference the issue can
be definitely decided; and, ! hope, all
candidates will participate in the
presidential preference primaries. in
Guiding California. and cheerfully
acquiesce in the result.
mo man who aspires to the high
est office in the gift of the American
people should shrink from a verdict
by those he seeks to serve; and.
equally, none is entitled to the presi-
dency. whom the people do not
want"
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