Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1947-08-01
Ready to Reek for Republication
By Aware c. Shoemaker

we are glad beyond measure that this column feels
sense of moral obligation to pick the head craftsman for
the Republican Party next year. Somehow such task
would to similar assignment to go through
packing house and decide which part thereof gave off the
least offensive smell.
This thought be taken as charge or even a sug
geson that all of the announced and suspected candidates
to head the Republican ticket next year afflicted with
habua 3D. but that the party they hope to lead is and
to synchronize their papitaons with those of the boss
they're riding they'll have to be able to give off stink.
For some of the candidates. this kinship with Mr..
Mephltls mephltls would naturalSort of family
trait, tradition which will any than that
damned spot which Lady Macbeth went trying to
purge from her hand Anyhow, she had conscience
though it did show up bit late Senator Bob Taft has
been caught at the washbowl trying to expunge the
ndebe his less lustrious than elephantne sire
srneared the COP scutcleon while he dunked him.
self in the bathtub he caused be installed the
White House.
Then there is Kewpe Dewey That you-know you
ter when fguratvey in his presence his fault is
neither eracutaneous emulation of unresoved
egg his vest 1t rubbed off him by the company he
keeps He is sweet spring morning and personabe
He's little too short for Hollywood His teeth too widely
spaced get him in the roasting belt and he'd be
flop in the spaghetti league He looks like matre de
parfumere maybe Powellstreet florist Yet he snks
Fatulent frankie Vandenberg gives off nothing Of
fensve than the stale smell of cabbage
patch Yet the 3D. is there carefully contained behind
large scented hank He's ready to reek for Repubicanism
foregoing may to be flppant, disrespectul,
treatment of subject which ought to be of
great importance everybody and to be dismissed with
whimscaities smaraleck But we believe the
matter of Republican leadership next when that party
has least good gamblers chance of winning the presi
dency ought to be tackled in which will get
attention than political augmentation and that
bareknucke realism is warranted in the circumstances
Millions of citizens have reached voting age since 1882
These either not living they not politically
conscious during the times preceding that year when the
Republican Party in full flower full power, and prime
odor year 1869 when u S. Grant naugurated
the shameful administrations to afct the
o until 1882 the American people had had respite from
Republican misrule Cleveands and Wilson's admin
strations
During this long almost uninterrupted ascendancy of the
COP the countrys political morals had reached such
of decay that the people themselves had become
dgged and seemingly helpless the noxous effects
of crooked politics. graspng corporations and vena law
makers They revived by breath of fresh air when
Roosevelt became president upon the death of
the William Mckinley at the beginning of the century
Teddy worked noby bring the Republican Party abreast
peoples growing progressveness but he had
than left White House when the old gang took
der William H. Taft Another breathing spell under Wood
row Wlson-then the unspeakabe Harding the ineffable
Coolidge, and the incredible Hoover.
Now millions of kids have grown into voters who never
had to gasp the stencil of Republican rule Unless in
these younger citizens be made to feel
the tragedy of living under party leadership which, to
their big money masters willing to make laws
economy which kept so cent of the people
unreleved grinding hopeless poverty economl.
slavery and soudestroying uncertainty they will many of