The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-10-26
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Foreign Representatives
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Judge Not

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Judge not that We may not be
judged is an admonition little fol-
lowed but it is excellent advice in
most political exigencies.
1t turns out to be especially true in
this campaign, with regard to many
instances of political strategy. One
case where the Republicans sought to
call a Daniel to judgment is in point.
When ex-senator James Reed OF
Missouri, fiery political figure, was
selected to answer President Hoover
at Des Moines, the Republican cam
paign headquarters recalled what ter
rible things he had said against Pres
ident Wilson during the memorable
fight over the ratification of the
League of Nations covenant. The De-
mocrats and Roosevelt were assailed
for selecting Reed, whom President
Wilson in his best invective had class
ed as Wlllul
But time heals many political
wounds. Politicians who turn their
heads when they pass, can, a few
weeks before election, grasp hands in
a fervor of love and fraternalism.
Jim Reed now has both feet on the
Democratic reservation. He is no
longer political Ishmael There was
4 time when nearly every Democrat
was against Reed for his non-s support
Of President Wilson, but 1892 is not
1918 or 1920
Republicans thumbed the records to
dig up the political dirt about Reed
Now Democrats have delyed into the
record and Senator Norris, at Phila-
delphia recently. briefed some unkind
things certain Republican leaders
now in the front trenches III the
Hoover offensive once said about their
chief. These effectively answer Re-
publican solicitude concerning Mr..
Reeds or Al Smiths return to the
fold and indicate that politics ope-
rates about the same way in both
camps.
Representative Wood of Indiana,
who is now urging the election of
Hoover. Senator Norris points out
on Jan. Is, 1919, made an especially
vitriolic attack on the president.
Among other things he said:
Now then, gentlemen may diff
fer with me with reference to Mr..
Hoover I think he is the most
expensive luxury that was ever
fastened upon this country. I
think he will continue to be the
most expensive luxury with which
we have to do if we still continue
to give him unlimited power.
1T has been said that We ought
to congratulate ourselves because
of the fact that We have an Amer
lean at the head of this distribut-
ing committee. I deny that We
have an American at the head of
this distributing committee. He
is an expatriated former citizen
of the United States and he has
never found it necessary to be-
come repatriated. -"
Those are harsh words and prob.
ably more vitriolic than anything
Reed ever said about Wilson, or vii,
son ever uttered against Reed.
Then Senator James Watson of the
same state attacked Hoover during
the Kansas City convention. He made
speech while the convention was il
session in that city in which he sale
in part as reported in the New Yorl
Times:
Il want to know where my
friend Herbert Hoover stands on
the tariff"
And that reference seemed to
remind Senator Watson that Mr.
Hoover had lived for % years in
free-trade England, and he said
TN speaking again, as say,
with the greatest respect for him,
but I want to know If Hoover's
changed his mind on the tariff
since he's lived In free England.
If he has, he can talk, can't hep"
Again, in the same speech, Sem
ator Watson said:
And how was Hoover on the
League of Nations? The man
nominated next week must be so
constituted he must set his face
like flint against our entry into
Che League"
Further on. Senator Watson
said:
I'VE have come upon strange
times. We used to nominate men
because of what they stood for.
Now we are asked to name voice.
less candidates to lead u.s."
These are sarcastic words fror
"Marse Jim" who is now battling fc
Hoover's and his own political exis
tencc In the Hoosier state.
Senator Golf Of West Virginia,