Judge — July 10, 1920 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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y Heavy Pauw fous A. Serrcwer, President Reve P. Srercure, Secreta Pucitox Maxwett, Editor James S. Metearre, ( RITING between the adjournment of the Repub lican convention and the assembling of the Dem- ocratic brethren at San Francisco, there scems to be no real reason for the latter function The brethren will get all het up by th tinent and back in mid jong hot. dusty journey across the ¢ summer; the expense will be very considerable and every y much discomfort from over-crowding. Besides, ped Chinatow d other San Fran one will en since the fire which refor cisco features out of their picturesqueness, and since the advent ¢ is no longer the town it used to be Even the glori one dry. The Democratic convention has provably taken place by now, but it really hadn't as much excuse for happening of Prohibition, the pl. us climate is said to have as the flea on the dog. sions of the Harding nomination were chilling. IRST impre n pundits It seemed to most persons that the Republica assembled at Chicago had succumbed to the weaken’ of compromise and in their fear of dissension and bolts had settled on an unobjectionable and therefore weak and color. ug disease less nonentity Those same “most persons” who habitually read their vy and somewhat under asually, doubtfu ington news senator as a prominent recognize the O| anything spectacular or f by the Washingt est. did aracter. He had never de turesque and had never been played u lents. Further consideration, after reading the short biographies, extracts from his specches and, above all, the now famous interview with the Apostle of the League at the White House, lent, or as the result of correspon showed most persons that by acc unexpectediy wise guidance, the Republicans had selected not only the best man on’ their list but a candidate peculiarly or the big new job that awaits him. By blood, training brains, courase, personality and the views he has expressed on the big questions, Senator Harding seems to be made of that Presidential timber which a good many of us were be- ginning to think was an extinct American product. + fitted “HE Resublican party is certainly playing in ood luck this year. Judging by its many blunders in the near past, luck seems a more accurately descriptive word than wisdom, First off, it comes to bat this season with its opponent y discredited by Wilsonism. list there is no man who as party thoroug! On the Democratic Presi- A. EB. Rottaver, Trea ntributing Editor J. A. Watonox, Associate Editor dential possibility anywhere near measures up to the Repub lican choice Childish as were the repeated Borah-Johnson threats to take their playthings and go home from the Chicago party. they were suflicient to prevent the nomination of the spenders and thus sived the Republicans from the handeapping taint of having sold their favors Equally lucky was the elimination of Johnson and the con sequent discouragement of the reddish radicals in the party Parlor Bolsheviks, anarchists and socialists will please take notice The naming of Governor Coolidze completed the good work along the lines of law, order and undiluted Americanism Evidently there is no reason why any Republican should fail to support the Chicago ticket. What is far more important, t real Americans who are tired of seeing their government chasing butterilics, instead of attending to its business, should take advantage of the opportunity to bring their country back to 1 common-sense methods of making its peopie ere is every reason why all the old sane a y ifirms the statement that holding the Den prosperous and hat Ml of which ocratic convention at all was needless, supererogatory and wasteful effort. ae fear of most people that the Chicago choice was simply a compromise is not to be derided. As a people we are victims of the vice of compromise. From the ine it has reached the national spine and threatens becoming the individual sp to destroy it and the backbone, too. Most of our laws are made on a compromise basis. Our strikes are settled by compromise, which in most cases is 4 an cuphemism for submission to brute force. It is a poor criminal lawyer who cannot defeat the ends of justice by securing a compromise verdict or sentence for his client Compromise has extended its emasculating influence into almost every relation of American life. Often it is useful, but sometimes we would be better off for a display of the old-time fighting spirit. AVANA has developed a novelty. Its substitution of the bomb for milder forms of criticism might often times lead to an improvement in the quality of art. Here- after when Caruso sings in the Cuban capital he may find it y the old sign modified to read, “Please He is doing his best.” necessary to dis do not dynamite the tenor. , Grast E. Hasucroy, det Director