Milford chronicle., 1935-07-26
REPUBLICAN OPPORTUNITY
By Delmer Hubbell

Republican opportunity today i
the opportunity of courage and char
acter as opposed to that adroit ant
insincere manipulation of purpose
which goes by the name of oppor
tunism, skill or dishonesty.
Republican opportunity today
calls for the Party to be itself, sim
ply and courageOusly Republican,
spurning those degenerating conces-
sions to the Radicals within the Par
ty dictated by mere fear of losing a
little weak support.
A political party is not piece of
political machinery designed to get
and hold jobs for its leaders. 1t is,
on the contrary, designed to organ
ize men and women with similar pO-
litical and social convictions so that
they may convert their convictions
into action.
If we have no confidence in man
who tries to carry water on both
shoulders, who is utterly without
character, convictions or integrity
OF purpose, how can the people have
confidence in political party which
is so lacking in character that it
will convert its declaration of prin-
ciples into a hodgepodge of mean
ingless generalizations in order to
please everyone. A party, like wo-
man that is all things to all men,
receives no respect from anyone.
This country is threatened by a
highly simplified and definite attack
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to have been made by set of adroit,
determined and utterly unscruplu-
lous men. It puts the question up to
us, will this nation continue to de-
velop and meet its emergencies and
overcome its difficulties by means of
q republican form of government
supported by free people. or will
It deliver itself into the hands of an
intellectual oligarchy that will in
evitably lead our government into a
dictatorship?
II is the conviction of this writer
that the people of this nation who /
answer an emphatic no to the sec
ond part of that question will rally
to a Republican Party with the
character to stand up and fight for
its convictions.
It is equally his conviction that if
the Republican Party presents itself
as a political courtesan with a mot
ley crowd of crack-pots, renegades
and neo-RoCseveltian ideas in tow, {
it will go down to defeat.
If that happens, the chief loser
will be the nation.
Never before has this country been I
faced with so many vital problems 3
in economic and monetary affairs,
the solutions of which are offered by
politicians in accordance with their
rabble-rousing and vote catching !.
possibilities.
A nation which tries that method h
IS precisely like an individual who
.ries to solve his individual econo- r
mic problems by system of book V
keeping hocus pocus combined with 8
his creditors. He may s.
get by for a time but inevitably he il
will collapse. So must a nation
which will permit its political ser "
1ants to sell it economic and none j
ary goldbricks and feed it economic
acts coated in sugar. v
AS of today. neither the Demo-
ratio nor the Republican Parties IT
lave the courage and backbone to -,
tand up and fight for their convic- -,
ions without lot of dishonest and h,
smirking toward crowd in
# assorted radicals who wOuld-and n,
aye-knifed either party whenever OF
hey saw a chance of political ad- m
antage to themselves. tb
Let the economic quacks, the vio- i'm
ent spenders, the quick cure advo-
ates, the parlor pinks and the hired OF
len of self-ccntered minerities all as
,in with Roosevelt. They belong -
18th him. Let the people with pub te
C ownership complexes, the dis til
piles of Lenin, Hitler and Profess de
,r Tugwell, the bright young men tn
no couldn't make a peanut-stand &c
ay, but who have blueprints to
low how everything should be tn
1ne-let them all go with Roose- tn
lit. They belong with him and will es
; with him sooner or later. If any ta
. them call themselves Republi- pc
ms, turn them out. Their presence m'
i'll ALLEVIATE loyal supporters. On
They can no more be loyal to the
INFECTIONS and principles upon IA
hich the Republican Party must tol
and or fall than can avowed Com th'
unists. And If the Party falls, it or
III be because these elements un- ~ ~
rmine its character, defect its ef- 70 20
rts, and dilute its convictions. ~ ~,