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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1920
THE RESULT.
The election is over and there is that
that much less to talk abiut as affecting
the low price of cotton. The result
was a surprise to even the republicans,
we imagine, because while
they claimed and expected victory
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lur biimr party, as uiu vuiei wen informed
people, they did not claim
anything like the landslide which actually
occurred; that is, none of them
except Col. George Harvey claimfed
such an avalanche of votes for Harding
and Coolidge.
The result may be attributed to
several causes, three main causes, and
other minor ones. The democrats had
been in power for eight years and the
accustomed desire of Americans for
a change had its effect. The reaction
from the war had its effect too. The
party in power is always blamed for
all ills which happen during its tenure
of office, and the democrats were
blamed for the hard times. There
were other minor causes.
The predominant reasons for the
result however were Woodrow Wilson
and his League of Nations. Mr.
Wilson had suffered in popularity
during the war on account of the incompetence
of the men he had gathered
about him as his advisers. Perhaps
no other president in the history
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so many incompetents. The blunders
which they fnade, with the grafting
which was inevitable, but which was
so enormous as to be a tremendous
burden on the taxpayers of the
country, was all charged to the administration.
But Mr. Wilson had the
kind of men about him which he desired.
His autocratic disposition, his
inability to listen to the counsel of
other men equally as patriotic as
himself, and many of them at least
equally as well prepared to steer the
ship of state as he, made it impossible
for him to have in his cabinet men of
real experience and ability. Consequently
the country suffered during
the war period.
But all of t^iis might have been forgiven
the democratic party, if Mr.
Wilson had not taken it upon himself
to go to Paris and undertake for
this country as sole peace-maker the
entire job of peace-making. He ignored
the United States Senate without
which he knew no peace could be i
made, He ignored not only the re-1
publican party having in its membership
men free from partisanship and
of great ability and standing like
Taft, Root, Hughes and others, but
he ignored the big men of his own
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k,\, auu cvmcntcu inumurtMict*,
and even contempt for the counsels
ol' the men he took along with
him.
Xo th ughtful man, we take it,
doubts either the great ability or the;
puu'loti?m t f ii:e president. But a j
man may believe so much in himself
:.s to-be a dangerous man in the republic?and
his name is Wilson. The!
League of Nations which, at his im-j
pcriai dictation, was interwoven in<
the treaty of peace carried With it
obligations <,n the part of this eoun-J
try w'.ich none but partisans could j
accept, its provisions surrcr.:!'j;'_"!
rights 1;?r"!jjc concededto this country
by all the powers on earth, ami at the j
same time thes-.* provisions 'carried'
us away from the time-honored prin- j
ciples for which the country has al-j
ways stood. The people of the Unite'! j
States believed and will always he-1
lieve that th? per.pie of the country,;
at a given tim;>, may be trusted to
I
solve problems involving questions,
of right, justice and humanity when!
these questions come up, just as they!
were solved in the case of Cuba and,
in the World War. They believe none |
the less that it is not the part of this]
generation to obligate the peoples1
yet unborn to settle the boundary!
disputes and guarantee the political
independence of European countries. J
And it was a feeble defense of
Article X which was offered, that we
should accept by treaty the responsi-'
bility of guaranteeing the territorial
[ integrity and political independence
of other nations and then later let
, congress say whether we should do '
J what we had promised in advance. \
; The refusal of Mr. Wilson to accept'
j the Lodge, or similar, reservations to
I the League covenant which he had
, made was too much like the school|
master who will not take suggestions
| from his pupils. The League of Na
j tions as written by Mr. Wilson is unj
American in its provisions, and in the
minds of men like Elihu Root (the
I greatest lawyer in the world today
I and admittedly non-partisan in his
i views in these matters) entirely inadvisable
and unacceptable.
This League of Nations covenant,
against the advice of Bryan and other
leaders, Mr. Wilson insisted should
be submitted to the voters of the
country in a "great and solemn referendum"
as the one and paramount
issue of the campaign. It was so sub-!
njitted, and the people rendered the
verdict. The grounds upon which it
was rendered, and the reasons of the
decision are (1) Wilson and (2) the!
League of Nations.
The third reason for the result was
Cox and Roosevelt, the one a smart'
ward politician and the other a fool.!
Although the democratic platform
made the Iieague of Nations the issue
and although Mr. Cox accepted the
nomination to make the race on this
issue, he started out his campaign
with the ridiculous charge that the j
republicans were trying to buy the!
presidency and had raised fifteen mil-1
lions of dollars for the purpose. The
amount he later raised to thirty millions.
The mud-slinging campaign
continued fcr awhile, and then, hav-]
ing seen-Mr. Wilson and having let!
the announcement be made that they'
were "in accord" on the League of1
Nations covenant, he defended it for
awhile, and then squirmed and in the I
end was willing to sit down with !
Judge Taft, and Mr. Root, the Senate '
Oligarchy, (which he had roundly,
abused,) and reason the thing . out,
and to accept any reservations neces-.
sary to get the United States into
the League. On top of this came the
vicious attack on the ancestry of
Senator Harding. A college professor
in Ohio, selected, it is believed,
because he is libel proof, got up a
fake family tree of the Hardings, intended
\o show that the republican
nominee's grandmother was a negress.
Thousands of copies of this matter at
somebody's expense were printed in
circular form and scattered throughout
the country where it was believed
the race issue would cut a figure. The
matter was whispered about for awhile
at first. It is stated that even
j the White House was approached
j with regard to the advisability of1
making the charge public, and that]
Tumulty showed the ambassador the I
door. He would have none of it, and
neither would Woodrow Wilson, had I
the matter come to him. The New
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I of the country, the supporter df
I Woodrow Wilson, came out boldly
and charged that the whole statement
was false and that it was the dirtiest
piece of politics since the charge that
Abraham Lincoln was an illegitimate.
But Mr. Cox and his newspaper
could not follow the Times and Mr.
Tumulty. It is true that Cox denied)
having anything to do with circulat-1
i ing the statement, but he did not do I
the thing which a high-minded man j
I like Wood row Wilson would have)
done under the circumstances, and j
which any decent man would have ;
('one-expose the fallacy of the charge |
und denounce its perpetrators, a;
thing be it said to their credit mos;)
of the democratic popers of the country
did. A man who is willing to ac-;
cept the benefits of a vicious attack !
like that :s unworthy to hold any of- ;
.' ?o :v.n h less the highest executive
c flicc in the world. The people of the [
'piled States have so declared.
j
Mr. Roosevelt started out in the!
"it West with the statement that!
while Great Britain hat! six vo'.es in
'.he Assembly of the League of Na-j
ti ns, Anu-rica really had twelve, be-1
c; u. e we would vote all the South
American countries. He knew this was
o, he said, because he had written
the constitution of Ilayti, which he
pronounced a good one. He hadn't
finished the speech before he was
called back to headquarters and given
some sound advice. Though it was
nroved he made the statements bv the
Associated Press and many newspap vs
and their correspondents, he denied
it, not that he liked to tell an
untruth about what he said, but because
it was inevitable that he should
else the democratic party was in a
hole. It was hard, very hard, to keep'
the "Feather, Duster," as Colonel Harvey
aptly called him, from talking
too much the rest of the campaign.
He did talk enough ,as did Governor
Cox, to convince at least a tremendous
majority of the people they
were the sorriest pair of candidates
which any great party had ever offered
to the country seeking the suf
frages of the voters. 1
These, we believe, to be the gov- I
erning causes of the great republi- B
can landslide. Other people of different
opinions have as much right to
their opinions as we have to ours,
and their reasons, we take it, are a
great deal more satisfying?to them
?than ours are. But this is the way
we see it.
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RAILWAY ACCIDENTS
1 HAD FEWER FATALITIES
DURING PAST YEAR
Washington, Nov. '2.?Fewer persons
were killed on railroads during
1919 than in any year since 1898
and fewer were injured than in, anyj
year since 1910, said a statement is-j
sued today by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
1
During 1919 a total of 6,978 per-j
sons were killed and 149,053 injured!
compared with 6,859 killed in 1898 j
and 119,507 injured in 1910. Of the
killed during the year 273 were pas?
?' a ? jcc I
sengers and ol tne injured 1,100
were passengers. Employes (killed
during 1919 numbered 2,138 and
131,018 were injured.
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off)
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offering our cus- .
tomers the benefit j
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| late purchases.
See us before you
buy a single item j :i
for your winter j
wardrobe.
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G. A. NEUFFER, Pres
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COL. KERR TALKS. T
The wires announced last night at
) o'clock that Cox had giv?n out a
statement that he would have notl^
ng to say during the evening. On reviving
this news, Col. Kerr, of
Sreenville Street, proprietor of the
Emporium, and victim of the Dutch
Colone, immediately announced to
he waiting congregation at the Court
louse, that if Cox would not talk, he
vould. .
"These figures," he said, "are Dib'-?
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lies iijjurea. inc uuii^ana uujJ
laven't said that Harding is elected.
>ave they?" he asked. "Well, then,
ust wait! You remember how it was
n the days of Ben Tillman, don't
ou? These small towns rushed their
eturns in first and made it look like j
ien was defeated, but when the ru-j
al districts came in there was more!
alk. Just wait until you hear from!
,ong Cane and Kee-wee."
"My friend Debs made a fine race.:
Ie is running third. A lot more peo-j
l 11 I- I.!? K?f i
11'J wouill riavi1 vuteu iul iiiiu uuu mc.> ^
ikin't see how he could be president!
viiile in prison. They didn't consider!
hat he could pardon himself and geti
in."
"Hughes went to sleep four years j
go thinking lie was elected, but 1 i
ot Harding will sit up all night for |
ear lie will be surprised."
"No. 1 will not concede the election
"he New York Times anil the Press
ml Banner belong to the subsidized)
.ress, and I won't believe anything!
!n>y say. 1 am going to wait until I
voodrow Wilson (Presbyterian) or
jo Tu-mul-ty says so, before I bc-(
ieve Harding is elected."
And Lhc lights went out. 'g
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Wm. D. Wilson who sells fine dry I
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iriees too, thinks that his Presbyte-j
ian Elder Will Hays was very mod-j
rate in his claims for republican suc-j
OSS. "1 (IO :i(U sue wny lie uiuu <.
laim the whole earth and the Atlan-ij
ic Ocean," he told the Press and J
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