The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-28
DEMOCRATS DIG
OWN GRAVE
IS FEAR
Van Loon Says Sloppy Job
With Spade Has Often Been
Disastrous IN Past
BY HENDRIX VAN LOON,
Author of -The Story of the BIhas.'
copyright. 1884. By The christy
walsh avnAfcatnA

Copyright. 1884. by The christy
Walsh syndicats.)
NEW YORK. June Henry
Ford was right. .out Of the
trenches BY Christmas" he
preached. He did not get the boys
out Of the trenches by Christmas.
but It was q fine ideal. something
worth striving for. We shall hear
that slogan on the floor Of the
Garden before very long. These
delegates ana alternates are. after
all, only human beings. They love
their families. They have q prefer
ence for their own fireside, for the
stew mother used to make, for their
own slippers. They want to see
their pups before they have grown
into full-sized hounds
In short, they want to 90 homo
before the leaves have turned
brown and frost covers the ground.
And they know that at the present
rate Of speed we shall still be here
long after the Republicans have
voted Cal back into the White
House.
Yesterday tickets for the gallery
were sold for 500. A month from
now It win be necessary to Give
a man bonus Of $3.50 before he
can be persuaded to set al foot
across the threshold Of the Garden.
We have listened to such scathinG
announcements Of Republican crook,
edness that we are beginning to
feel sorry for group Of men sc
utterly abandoned, and fear that we
shall have to re-elect them that
they may be given the chance ia
redeem those regulations sold for q
mess of OIL.
But worst Of all there Ii another
terrible monster Of suspicion which
some way or other has managed tC
creep into the Garden (probably
with a badge Of assistant master Of
ceremonies) and which now sits pur
ring on the platform, licking Its
vast chops. That monster has 3
most convincing way. Listen
buddy" 1t says, II don't want to be
unreasonable, but Judge yourself
and listen to me. These men and
women claim that the country Il
going to the bow.wows and that 3
Democratic victory alone can save
our great and glorious land from
utter perdition."
Now that sounds well, gran,
you. But how in hades are they
going to run the whole country
when they can't even run thaM
selves?
81 g. cmfys,,o. ~yc,, - Ar.~, ~,r,,,
own Conclusions. They ask us Il
turn the rasca1s out and put tn.
angels In. But heaven itself couI,
not go on II divided against itself
| We now have one party ruling US
Not an ideal party. Not an idea
| party by any means. But 1t give
us service. Not the best service tina
was ever given, but service never
theless. The boss OF the presen'
show may not be the most brillian
man that ever lived, but after 1
fashion he is the boss. And hi
friends want him to be the bosi
again. Here there are forty llttl,
bosses and forty times forty plat
forms and no one knows what Il
what. Hadn't better take secont
kbest when we know what we mr.,
getting, rather than a problemati'
ideal which thus far has mani
tested itself only in complete lacI
Of unity and leadership.
These are unconfor table thoughts
But they are Unavoidable. TIL,
Democrats thus far have been dig
ging q deep and dark grave int,
which they hope to bury the re
mains of their wicked opponents
But there is danger Of cave-in.
sloppy job with q spade has beef
disastrous to many q man In. tn
past. It may be equally fatal ii
| the near future.
| Copyright, 1924. the Christy Walsl
| Syndicate)