Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-11-03
not have been used. If he used 1t
in reference to the Peripatetics auo
the Areopagites, l would not have

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in reference to the Peripatetics auo
the Areopagites, / would not have
taken issue with the expression
When ones lack of knowledge is
shown up on subject, the defeated
writer or debater should not try &c
smooth his feelings by invectives
and vituperations accusing the writ
er OF "spreading his feathers, :
displaying his knowledge). How
are we going to meet arguments, III
everything our opponents say, we
accuse them of trying to spread
their feathers" Why did you use
the expression and apply it to the
schoolmen of the middle ages, when
such title or expression was un-
| just? For, as you say in your re-
ply that "far be it from us to be-
, little the great minds of the middle
ages, you now admit that the
schoolmen Of that age had great
minds, therefore, they did not
"split hairs" which is an expression
foisted on the public, meaning q
period Of uselessness and monaco
complishment which crooked his
torians have succeeded in foisting
on people. The expression really
applies to the "Peripatetics" of the
Athenian age, but Mr. Matson evi-
IDENTITY got his lines crossed. Mr.
Matson says: "The gentleman as
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tor of a paper who sincerely adve-
Gates what he thinks is best for the
country" Now just why did / make
that statement? Let's see? / want
to show the reader some Republican
! strategy.
In 1929, the battle cry against
Alfred f. Smith raised by Repuh-
lican orators was that Smith was 4
product OF the sidewalks Of New
York. The Republican orators AMI
writer's. especially Senator Moses,
said that Herbert Hoover if elecS-
ed would represent the intellectual
element, the intelligentia, and not
.the sidewalks ," The inference was
stricken district of New York, that
he was from the common herd" rs
Mr.. Matson says. The poverty of
his boyhood, his birth from humble
hard working parents whose moth
er knew what it was to borrow a
cup of sugar. from her next door
neighbor, his common ancestry
all this was paraded before the
American people to put a premiums
on poverty for his defeat, and to Sc
lect Herbert Hoover who "came
from the better class" as Senator
Moses said What's the story to-
day? The Republican national com
mittee waves its magic wand"
and little "Herbie" is changed from
the representative of the intelii-
blacksmith, born in a humble home,
orphaned at eight years of age,
who worked on the farms, mowed
lawns, hoed gardens, played with
horseshoe nails instead of toys, and
so on and so on goes Mr.. Matsor's
genuinely Republican requiem
hatched UP at the national head
quarters and published in the Tulsa
Tribune, from which Mr.. Matson
copied his Lord Fauntleroy' story.
although he did not state where he
got 1t, In his article. This is all
second handed argument, canned
speeches, ready for use at a mo-
meat's notice. The Republicans used
povcrtN and common blood to defeat
All Smith in '28. Now, they use pow
erty as a bait to elect Herbert
Hoover And while Mr.. Matson
fays the "blue stocking millionaire,
Roosevelt with his French and
German governess, and his nice liz.
tie velvet suit, and prattles aDoas
all his wealth, who attended Groton
an exclusive private school, and
whose sons do NOT attend the pub
lie schools. F." etc, etc. He uses this
evidently as an argument against
the election of-Rooseyelt, and in the
same breath, he works for and If
dorses and writes editorials for
David S ingalls, for governor, who !
can buy and sell Franklin D. Roose- !
Welt thousand times, who is de-
scended from one of Americas most
wealthy families, titans of wealth. |
who had his "French or German" |
governess, and his nice little velvet |
suit and attended nice little private |