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SEPTEMBER 2, 1920 Groxce B. Riciaxosox, Le Rov Minter, Treasur Groxce b'Urassy, Secretary ¢-President THERE are plenty of Republicans who are going to vote the Repub- lican ticket, but no one connected with this paper has yet reported meeting one who rejoiced at the prospect. So far as they have come under actual observation hereabouts, Re- publicans don't like their candidate, or rather, his control. Johnson Republicans here and not very many Lodge Republicans, and Republicans in New York, who belong neither to John- son nor Lodge, look forward to the polls next November as the scene of a painful duty. Some of them will do it, but not with joy. But the There are not many Democrats are much more cheerful. They seem to like their can- didates. Mr. Franklin Roosevelt, who has been popular since the lightning first struck him, did himself great credit in his speech of acceptance. He ranks as high as Governor Coolidge as a candidate for the vice-presidency, and that is much to say. He is a good writer, a good speaker, and is fortunate in being able to speak from his heart without running counter either to the platform of his party or to the sentiments of its candidate for Presi- dent. And Governor Cox enjoys the same great advantage. He gives the impres- sion in his discourse of a man saying what he wants to say; of a man blurting out what is really in him. His talk at the great Democratic meeting at Co- lumbus was first rate. He has a good cause, a good mind, excellent facilities of communication, and a good record. He does not bluster; he does not whoop; but he puts the ball over the plate accurately and with good speed. When he says that Senator Harding is for a separate peace London Offices, Rolls House, Bre: “While there is Life there’s Hope” Published by. LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY Cuartes Daxa Grason, President 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York Bldgs., London, E with Germany, and that Governor Cox is not, and tells you why he is not, there is no trouble at all cither in believing him or understanding him. When he reminded the Ohio brethren what his record was in remedial and industrial legislation in Ohio, he talked to people who knew what he was talking about, and who knew whether or not what he said was true. He is an excellent man to discuss the Republican candidate, for he knows him and knows all about him. He likes him as a man and disapproves of him very heartily as a reactionary politician. Mr. Harding has already come out for more tariff and for a complete change in the foreign policy of the United States. We know what he means by more tariff, and possibly Mr. Lodge knows what he means by a complete change in our for- eign policy. The rest of us don’t. The notion that the country is dissatisfied and displeased with the foreign policy of Mr. Wilson is an illusion of the Republican politicians that is very dangerous to them- selves. There is nothing the matter with Mr. Wilson's foreign policy, except that Mr. Lodge has been able to block it. As a whole, it was the best that could be con- trived, In details it may have been faulty doubtless it was; but in its beginnings gave hope to the world, and to that hope still clings a larger part of the world than the Republican leaders suspect. The thing to be done with Mr. Wilson’s foreign policy is hy no means to edie but to do everything possible to put it through in so far as changed conditions in the world allow. Before the armistice it was the policy of the Allies and of almost everyone, including Mr. Lodge, who had a foreign policy that he dared to divulge. After the armistice, when most of the parties to the war relapsed back into the principles of the “good old rule,” Mr. Wilson stuck to the new doctrine of live VOL. 76, No. 1974 Epwaxo S. Matix, Editor Tuomas L. Masson, Managing Editor c F. De Sates Casey, Art Editor and let live, and got as much of it as he could into the Treaty of Versailles. It is to that that Johnson and Borah object, and have been able to develop in Mr. Lodge an attitude of open opposition. It must be that which Mr, Harding plans to abandon when he says, responsive to his political mentors, that Republica will mean a complete chat eign policy. an victory in our for- R. WILSON’S idea of self-deter- mination for new nations and small nations is very troublesome, very difficult to carry out even in part, but it is one of the great ideas that are coming down the road in these times, and for which it will be good policy to turn out. The latest news at this writing is that the Poles have managed to stand off the Bolshevists from Warsaw, and that is mighty good news, and let us hope it will last. Mr. Wilson seems to be planting our country as much as is possible behind the self-determination of the Poles. He will help all he can with his brains and influence, and that is liable to be a very efficient form of aid. Mr. Wilson is very far from being a dead duck in world politics. He cannot go on the stump, but he can sit in a chair and think, and can say what he thinks ina fashion that helps matters. of Marshal Foch when Franklin Roo velt went to sce him at the height of the campaign activities of 1918 when he was in supreme command of the Allied forces. The story goes that Mr. Roosevelt found him sitting in a chair in a quiet room in a quiet chateau, reading a book. The Marshal said to Mr. Roosevelt, in effect, “My job is to think, and I have estab- lished myself in a place favorable to that. He reminds one more or less comicbooks.