Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-07-04

No new idea, with bright, mischiev-
Gus face, was presented. The mes
sage to the country is: The Old
Guard never surrenders and hates
to die. The grass rooters, who for
the most part turned out to be the
same people who turned the party
out on grass, departed singing: We
are leaving, Father Abraham, not
Post-Dispatch. (Ind. Dem.)
in his statement of the vital
principles Of the American Consti-
tuition before the grass roots meet
ings, Gov. Lowden spoke with deep
understanding and patriotic fervor
1t was so unanswerable by any one
who believes in the American ideal
of government that it is doubtful
whether his principles can be made
partisan issue. No one is taking
the other side. In this curious case.
the defenders of the Constitution
are insisting that the President
ought to have lost his head and
ought to be proposing to destroy the
Constitution. If they keep on they
will cause several voters to suspect
that they are looking for a political
issue. waiter Lippmann in New
York HeraldTribune. (RepD
"The Springfield platform draft
ers suggested no change of the
AAA farm policies. Instead, they
said: we hold that no economic ad-
vantage Of agriculture thus far at
oh
picture the grass rooters' further
embarrassment when they got home
and read that Secretary of Agricul-
ture Wallace approved their farm
plank as fine endorsement of the
Roosevelt farm policies. Wash
ington News. Qnd.)
Now that the delegates at
Springfield have scattered to their
homes, they probably realize that
the essential strength of opposition
is not to be derived from vehemence
of denunciation. Overdrawn indict-
ments of the administration can
only tend to dissipate the effect of
valid criticism. w Washington Post.
(Rep.)
"The Lowden speech indicates
that the confusion is not confined
to candidates but extends to issues.
A great party can scarcely march in
defense Of Constitution which the
other party does not assail.' =
Cleveland Plain Dealer. (Ind. Dem.)
"The main trouble with the grass
roots convention is that it isn't
grass roots. In resolution of Is
grievances indicting Roosevelt as
the Declaration of Independence in
dicted George III, not one count
even remotely suggests doing as
much for the farmer as AAA has
done. Not note is sounded to sug-
gest that it proposed for the Repub-
lican party anything better or any
thing different from the IL years
which led to ruin and the three
years of helpless apathy which al
most led to revolution. 1t is not
grass roots; it is not representative;
1t is long, long way from Abra-
ham Lincoln. ."-Milwaukee Journal.
Gnd.)
"The grass roots position was
predicted upon the theory that Mr..
Roosevelt plans an amendment to
give him rights and powers now
denied him, but there is moth
ing to indicate that he has any such
thought. Because of that fact, Re-
publicans should beware the danger
of maneuvering themselves into an
impossible position. Boston Tran
script. (Rep.)
"The Republican opportunity in
1886 will depend in considerable
measure upon the party's ability to
offer plans that invite acceptance.
1t would be going too far to say
that the gentlemen in Springfield
have shown how to meet this issue.'
Dayton Journal. (Rep.)
ut is hard to credit that the Re-
publican grass rooters could actual
ly believe so many contradictory
ideas. In their so-called platform,
sprung from the true heart of the
midwest as Chairman Spangler ex-
pressed it, they believe in 20 para
graphs what, upon closer scrutiny,
sums to mean nothing at all. New
York Times. Qnd.)
"Is it not bit amusing that the