The Washington times., 1932-01-04
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Who Will Be the
Next President?

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"Vho WU Be the Next PRESIDENT" qras the sub
iect of q radio address dehUered by WYiam Ran
doIfh Hearst Saturday night oUer the National net
qcork of the National ByoadcastIng Company. Mr..
Hearst spoke from Station KFI at Los angeles. His
address foIloqos:
OOME cynic has said that the only thing we
- learn from history is that we learn nothing
from history.
Still, history should be the great textbook of
the world Certainly we should learn something
from that formidable record of the successes and
failures of men, of governments, and of nations
Surely we can at least learn from the historical
record of our own times.
Let us try
In 1912 Champ Clark, a distinguished and
genuine Democrat came before the Democratic
convention at Baltimore with the support OF
popular majority, and the endorsement of States
Of the Union which represented a majority OF the
electoral college.
CHAMP CLARK was true Democrat, and
~ tried one.
He had been leader of his Democratic associates
in the House of Representatives for three terms
Under his SOUND and sincere Democratic leader
ship a Republican majority of fifty-seven IN the
House in 1907 had been transformed into Demo-
cratic majority of sixty-five in 1911.
The Democratic party throughout the nation
had taken it's character from Champ ClafKs lead-
ershp, and had grown stronger and stronger with
the public in almost every State of the Union.
The Democratic party had become the dominant
party of the nation, united under historic Demo-
cratic policies.
The Republican party, meanwhile, was rent with
dissensions and divided between stand-patters
who represented one policy, and progresslVes VINO
represented diametrically different policy
x>HAMP CLARK was the natural, and one might
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the Democratic party.
But great influences, which were in no sense
Democratic and which had no place in Democratic
councils, because they had no interest in Demo-
cratic success, stepped into the situation.
The object of these influences was to prevent
genuine Democrat from being nominated.
Their object was to secure the nomination of
someone who would either insure the election OF
the Republican candidate, or who would, If himself
elected not be unfriendly to the selfish purposes
of these powerful influences.
With the aid of the two-thirds rule and the
egotistic activities of Mr.. Bryan, Champ Clark
was cheated of the nomination, and woodrow Will
son nominated in his place.
No greater misfortune ever happened to the
United States, and surely no greater calamity ever
happened to the Democratic party.
MIR. WILSON was in no sense sound and sim
V1 cere Democrat like Mr.. Clark
Mr. Wilson was a theorist, visionary, with no
deep-seated convictions, certainly none that inter-
fered with his personal ambition and advance
ment; brilliant speaker, an unstable thinker and
an unreliable performer; an advocate at some time
or other of his career of both sides of almost every
public question; an opportunist in his support of
any principle at any time
Naturally such a leader led both the Democracy
and the nation into the morass of complication
and catastrophe.
But Mr.. Wilson did more than that.
He left the party and the nation chart of poll
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