Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-30
The Frightening Assurance Of
a Great Democratic V;ctoru

T f there be Democrats who have not yet
caught the enthusiasm of their party's
advancing battle stride and sensed the
dispirited air of the enemy's camp, we can
only say to them in the words Of Shake
speares sturdy courier, ''To horse to horse
urge doubts to them that fear" For it's
own part The Journal is more than ever con-
fdent that the next President of the United
States will be John W. Davis. Nor is our
assurance of the wish fathering the
thought Cool study of all factors In the
campaign will discover that Republican vic
tory in the electoral college is but remotely
possible even if the cheerfulest augurs of
that party be conceded their every major
claim, including New York, New Jersey,
PENNSYLVANIA, Massachusetts,, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois. To those who may be interest
ed In the figures we commend the mastery
analysis given in our news columns today,
showing that with two hundred and sixty
six electoral votes needful to elect Mr.. Cool
idge- now has margin of only thirteen
when every questionable instance is counted
in his favor, and that as a matter of strong
ESQ probability that fimsy margin will be
swept away by a flood of Western ballots.
Still more significant is the sinking morale
Of Republican leaders. Entering the cam
paign under the heaviest handicap of party
disrerute ever known in national politics,
with the possible exception of their prede-
cessors of 1876 and 1880, they have found
the burden increasing. Twist as they will.
they cannot get quit of Newberry, nor of
Fall, nor of Forbes nor of Daugherty. The
spots of graft and corruption, of disregard
of public trusts and disloyalty to American
principles will not out, for all their rubbing.
The issue, inescapably drawn by John w.
Davis, of honest against dishonest govern
merit will not down, for all their attempts
to ignore and evade it. Republican councils
know that this record stands condemned by
the people They know, moreover, that Mr.
Coolidge, irreproachable as he personally is,
oence in the administration. Far from de-
ciaring war upon the Iooters of the public
domain and the robbers of disabled ex-service
men, he has given them no further rebuke
shan the usages of cold legalism demanded.
No wonder that the conscience of America
is ringing with John Davis words: "Such
crimes are too gross to be forgotten or for
given. l do not believe that the millions of
sincere and patriotic men who have COM
posed the rank and file of the Republican
party are more ready to condone these and
similar offenses or to pardon the offenders
than are those of other political faiths. In
deed their indignation has perhaps a sharper
edge, for it is coupled with the chagrin
that must follow from the knowledge that
under authority issued in their name corrupt
men have crept to places of power and then
betrayed the trust that placed them there"
But, 'N"hat shall be said when a statement
comes from one who of all men should have
been most deeply stirred that the wonder is
not that so many have fallen. but that so
few have been shown untrue?" From such
apathy in tho chief seat, such dearth Of