Judge — July 31, 1920 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Dew Recwey P. Suercuer, President fy Weewas Pace I. Suescnen, Seeretar Persrros Maxwett, - ’ wes S. Meteatre, Conzr UDGE . Rowtaver, Treasurer Grast E. Hastutox, Art Editor eine Editor J. A. Watprox, Associate Editor ty of the inde ty UR duty is clear. Meaning t pendent If the nomination of Governor Cox means any thing beyond the hope of office, it means that the Democrats themselves have rebuked Wilsonian un-Americanism. Unfortunately his election would mean an endorsement of the present inefficiency at Washington and its continuance for at least another four years The nomination also means that the next President will come from Ohio but not by any means that his name will be Cox. The independent voter now not only against autocracy in our government but as well against er who puts patriotism above pa 1s his opportunity to register the substitution of theoretical experimenting for practical accomplishment cnator Harding may not realize the ideals of those am the independent voters who think our government should bx conducted as a sort of experimental station for every one who he wants tried out at American expense. To those has a the others who have returned to voting sanity, his election means at least a rest from the continuous putting of amateur vagaries into practice and a period of reconstruction which will give us all a chance to find out where we really arc Then, having regained our breath after our many complete revolutions in midair, it will be possible for us to consider a ' imber of things in a calmer mood. [' is entirely possible that, after a goodly number of the office, we Wilsonian incompetents have may even turn our attention to the building up of a league of nations which shall be founded on something other than one man theories and one-man amb nd not forced into prema ture being as a condition of a universally desired peace. Much stranger things have happened. In any case it will not be the Wilson league with America bound hand and foot and and delivered to the uses of European politicians. It will be more along the lines of that tribunal which had been thought out and was in partial existence when Mr. Wilson was still an ard-of pedagogue But out of evil often comes good. Mr. Wilson’s unprece dented assumption of power, and his international parading of the league idea as his own, have done much for it by way of advertisement. But he has claimed for it greater possibilities than were ever dreamed by its earlier advocates. Holding up to the credulous the assurance that his league would completely eliminate war, he has made it possible for saner leaders to gain hearing for a league which may at least minimize the number of wars and their attendant horrors. been swept out ¢ ions, Mr. Wilson’s methods of advertisement have not been admirable but they have been effective in bringing a certain nount of education to persons who without them might never have had any He will before long disappear into the perceptible oblivion that obscures our ex-Presidents. While he is still visible let us give him credit for the good he unintentionally plished ecom- UR newly-enfranchised sisters seem to have covercd them selves with considerable credit at the conventions. They even contended with the men in the new convention sport of tandard-snatching and only their physical limitations kept them from distinction in this field. In oratory they didn’t quite » heights of Brothers Bryan and Cockran but the testi- ny is fairly unanimous that when they spoke it was in good taste, effectively, and in greater moderation than was to have been expected from the more loquacious sex. In voting they seem to have shown at least as much perspicacity as the sterner delegates. It is far too carly to draw any conclusions but in this try-out there is no evidence the misfortunes that were to into politics reach t r befall us when women bre EGARDLESS of results, what are we to think of ourselves s a people when we look back at the way our two great political parties conducted their business at the recent national conventions. Leaving entirely aside their selections as being non-repre sentative of what the people in both parties really wanted, how can we have much respect for ourselves when our most impor tant duties are performed in the ballyhoo atmosphere that marked both gatherings? nuine bursts of excitement and enthusiasm can not be avoided in such great assemblages where personal feelings are so strong and human tension is so strained. That these will occur is well known in advance. Instead of measures being taken to hold them in check and give the conventions some sem blance of deliberative bodies brought together for serious pur poses, the convention authorities scem to arranged to make pos sible every circus conception and silly manifestation that could be suggested or organized by the most puerile persons in the halls. To measure a statesman’s value by the number of minutes the brazen lungs of his adherents can outlast the lungs of his opponent’s followers seems a test better fitted to darkest Africa than to civilized America. Compared with some of the other doings a sophomore-freshman cane rush is a manly and dignified proceeding. The number of plain and fancy fools who are pe comicbooks.com