The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-20
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Prepare For The Deluge
Now that the political season is at
hand, prepare for the deluge Of en-
comiunls and praise which politicians
heap upon their candidates. Private
ly they may regard Governor Whoosis.
Senator So-and-So or Congressman.
Bunkum as something OF flat
tire" but from the public platform
the welkin rings and the people are
offered salvation.
The practice is not limited to one
party or one group within party. If
the apportionment Of the pie depends
upon the election OF certain individ-
ual, he Immediately becomes as the
driven snow, at least for publicity
purposes. What matter II the gilt is
q little furnished or the civic virtue Is
frayed at the edges. These things
can be CLOSED over in the heat OF a
campaign.
Even newspapers get into the game
and call on their vocabularies for full
some adjectives and resounding ad-
verbs, and so we have something like
the following, written about Governor
Franklin D. Roosevelt, aspirant for
the Democratic presidential nomina-
ton:
Roosevelt possesses the culture
and political Sagacity OF Thomas
jefferson, the courage and virility
of Andrew jackson. the honesty
and firmness Of Grover Cleveland,
and the intellectually and firm
ness of woodrow Wilson :. His
conscience is clear, his hands are
clean, his aims are pure, and his
heart beats in unison with the
hearts of the great common peo-
e."-Corrollton News-Democrat,
Ky.
To put it briefly, this editor might
have said that he has all the other
greats Of the partys history dashed to
the mast and begging for help.
Such statements, OF course, are not
subject to analysis. jefferson had
imagination and political foresight
riyalled by few men in history. No
one on the present scene, Republican
or Democrat, appears to compare with
him. .-=
Take Charley Dawes out Of the po-
1itical picture and Andrew Jackson
stands without a competitor for po-
ltical virility and Dawes wouldn't be
more than a mouthful for doughty
"Old Hickory"
Presumably all of our presidents
are honest, but with Cleveland, public
honesty and courage to support 1t.
were outstanding. Few men have
dared more than he for what he be-
1ieved to be right. Few have seized
public questions with such boldness
and candor.
OF student and executive. OF all our
presidents he was, in some respects,
the most unusual. A great idealist.
he had the faculty Of turning phrases
which caught the public fancy. His
state papers are among the greatest
in American history.
But, we would be given to under
stand, the best qualities OF all
these outstanding men of history are
now rolled into one human being who
ts q candidate for the presidency.
Only few years ago, in Bis
marck theater, an ardent supporter OF
q certain candidate announced that
he was the greatest" official in that
particular office this state ever had
known. The man had just taken Of
flee. Tongues probably were put In
cheeks then, even by the party faith
full. II the remark were to be made
now 1t would be openly challenged by
many.
In 1928 We had Herbert Hoover pre-
sented as the embodiment Of all viz.
tues, the greatest genius the world
has ever produced. anywhere, and
without exception. This year OF grace
sees some OF the same persons whs
then euologized Hoover among hi
bitterest attackers.
Il Is all well enough to throw flow.
ers to the living, but the proof Of tn
pudding. political or otherwise, still
. In the eating. It would be refresh.
mr. to have candidates presented Il
u for just what they are. In the main
aspirants for high office are homes
men. but not startlingly 20. The!
have ability but not Incompatible ct
tainments ALI Of them have SOM
daring or they would not have ar
rived at high places. but not all Q
them are above the practices Of evad'
1ng Issues, Of mounting platitudes. o
dishing out the political soft soap.
one Of the really great ills o