BEGBMBER, 1920
The Commoner
Political- Earthquake
The expected has happened. "Wil
sonism and the English-made league
of. nations are buried under an aval
anche of adverse votes. Not a north
ern or a western state has voted for
the virtual nullification of the Amer
can Leclaratlon of Independence.
Even the solidarity of the south
ern states has been broken by Ten
nessee voting to save America from
the insidious danger which lurked in
the proposed international arrange
ment for substituting for national
sovereignty a species of super-government
which, in certain eventual
ities, would be vested with power to
order the United States to place its
resource military, naval and fi
nancial at the disposition of for
eign governments to wage warsjn
which American interests would. not
be at stake-J-a power the constitu
tion of the United States in express
terms, confers upon the American
congress.
An invitation to commit national
suicide would be a fitting description
of the Issue the Wilsonized Demo
cratic party placed before the 'Ameri
can people. The man responsible for
issuing this invitation affronted the
Intelligence and the patriotism of his
countrymen by labelling it "a solemn
referendum.
The chief fugleman for ,the con
spiracy to make the Republic stand
sponsor for the perpetuation of the
British Empire received his answer
jorlty of over cno million to President-elect
Harding. New York City
gave him some throe hundred thou
sand majority; Boston City, ordin
arily a Democratic, stronghold, gave
him a majority of thirty-two thou
sand. The anti-league candidates for
both Houses of TJongress were equally
successful at the polls.. The result
is that the United States Senate and
thtj national house of representatives
are overwhelmingly Republican.
The verdict of the electorate is
most emphatic. Tho part voters ot
Irish blood took in shaping that ver
dict is unmistakable. Years ago The
Irish "World, in advocating tho exer
cise of political Independence by
Irish-Americans, made the assertion
that the Democratic party without
their aid could not carry a single
state north ortho Mason and Dixon
Line. The result of the voting on
Tuesday of last week confirms this
statement. This assertion is corro
borated partially by our pro-British
contemporary, the New York Times.
In 4s leading editorial the day after
the political earthquake it said: "But
now, strange and enormous reinforce
ments came to them (Republicans)
without virtue or effort on their part
and these account for the staggering
overplus of the Harding figure. Lot
us see whence came these enormous
reinforcements to the Republican
party. We quote once more from our
British contemporary: "The proof
of it is seen in the figures of the
Republican vote and of the Republi
can majorities is such Democratic
strongholds as New York City and
ok the second day of November, Boston. The Irish vote and tho Go!
even he, panoplied as he is with su
preme egotism, cannot mistake the
meaning of that answer. The coun
try," heeding the warning of George
Washingtonr has refused in the most'
emphatic manner to join in a part
nership with England and her Euro
pean allies to help safeguard the.if.
territorial loot.
A political tidal wave, unpreced
ented in the "history of the United
States, has swept the land. A great
hoBt of voters who never before cast
their ballots for - Republican presi
dential candidate deserted en masse
the Democratic ranks to show their
disapproval of the substitution -of
Wilsonism for Jeffersonian. principles.
Dempcratic strongholds which form
erly w?re impregnable were carried
one after another by Senator Hard
ing. Majorities Republican leaders
never even drearae"d of were rolled up
in states like Ohio, Indiana and New
York. The mpire state, gave a ma-
n
Corn; Wheat, Alfalfa
Hogs, Sheep, Dairying
UftTc "have for salo two aplentlid,
well-Improved farms near Lin
coln, Nebraska, in the rcrain belt.
One Is located near the surburb
of College View southeast of Lin
coln, and Is splendidly improved
for raisins: thoroughbred cattle
-and hogs Sheep or dairying. 160
acres, j
Tho other farm' Is located near
"he Stafff Hospital southwest of
"Lincoln, and Is an exceptionally
&ood grain farm of 160 acres,
r These farms a.re near to -the i pave
ments And streetcars of Lincoln.
Both of these farms are-In fine
locations for farm homes, and
will, be. sold right by tho owner.
Jvlio la retiring. If Interested, address
- The Cwnaoaer Realty C.$
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o HEAVEN ANf HEIJL
.. . lC unl tuvatfi X Jk I i na J a
man vote went oiiaiy over
to the Republican candidate, And this
happonod all over the country."
The value of the New York Times
testimony lies h. its asserting a fact
acknowledged by the whole country.
An army of Democrats of Irish blood
who hitherto had matched to the
polls under the Democratic banner
went over to the Republican camp as
a protest against the Wilson proposal
to male the United States a species
of an annex of Europe dominated by
England. The men and women of
our race who with their ballots
helped defeat that proposed treason
to the Republic are deserving of all
honor. They not" only did their part
saving their country from a. very
grave peril but they inaugurated an
era of political independence for
Irish-Americans which holds out the
promise of "vastly increasing our in
fluence In the administration of the
affairs of the nation, ,, ,
.. No longer will the Irish-American
vote be accounted the assured asset
of one political party. No longer will
either of the two great political par
ties be tempted to ignore the wishes
of those casting it, In a word, this
year's Presidential .election has wit
nessed the initiation of the develop
ment of one of those potentialities
long dormant, which will enableus
to combat successfully England's in
trigues in this country. Tho Irish
World.
one splendid orator for tho cause of
Crooked Business. Ho took many
oratorical fights, but on one occasion
ho flow higher than any one had
dared to fly before, and when ho
came down to earth again he had
made tho promise that if tho conven
tion would come out squaroly in au
endorsement of the Wilson adminis
tration well, in that ovont, New
York vymld give a half million ma
jority for tho Democratic nominee.
Speaking for Tom Taggart's Indiana
machine, an eloquent Indianian prom
ised that if tho convention would
nominate Cox on a Wilson platform
why, if tho convention would do
that, only that, Indiaua would give
the Democratic ticket such a majority
tnat tno state would send a solid
Democratic delegation to congress.
Promises very liko these were mado
by tho gangsters from Ohio, and a
fedoral salary-drawer from Missouri
promised that If tho convention would
repudiate Jim Reed his state would
glvo a hundred thousand Democratic
majority. If I were a Wilson Demo
crat it would make mo sick to com
pare tho election returns with tho
promises mado by the Wilson leaders
at San Francisco. That half million
Democratic majority promised in Now
York was turned into a million ma
jority against tho Democrats. Ohio
went almost a million for Harding,
and Indiana, tho homo of Tom Tag-
gart, tljo b6ss gambler of tho Demo
cratic machine, didn't elect one single
Democratic member ot congress.
Some day there will be another
Democratic national convention. Four
years will flit by in a hurry It will
profit all fr-eo Democrats to paste the
promises made at San Francisco in
parallel columns with tho election re
turns from those states which tho
agents of Crooked Business wero sup
posed to control.
However, tho next Democratic na
tional convention will bo controlled
by the free Democras of the south and
the west. In that convention the
voice of a New York, New Jersey or
Indiana Democrat will be about as
loud as the voice of canary bird in a
convention of turkey gobblors.--Ed-gar
Howard, in Columbus Telegram.
SOME PROMISES
Frequently during tho sessions of
the unhappy San Francisco Democrat
ic national convention the Crooked
Business,Controllers of the convention
would put up some speaker to make a
nrnmine as to what the big states lin
ker the thumbs of Murphy, Nugent,
Brennan and Taggart woum uo ror
"ho Ttemocratlc nominee, if only the
.rmvontinn would make the right
kind of a platform and nominate the
right sort of a candidate.
X heard so many of those prom
ises, so oft repeated at San Francisco,
that sometimes 1 half way believed
Wv -mvaelf. But now I am looking
over the election returns, and com
paring them with tne promises nmue
J. UlBHUVyS.ijr ibKI
BRYAN
There was one man in tho United
States who had tho vision to scent
the overwhelming disaster for the
Democratic candidate for president
and tho party and that man was
Bryan. The neWs had no sooner
beeu flashed over tho country of the
Republican landslide than Bryan is
sued a statement in which he scored
Wilson for his dictatorial methods
for trying to make tho party sub
servient to his personal leadership
and thatjais course along with his
rejection of the peace treaty with res
vations as favored by Senator Hard
ing and thirty-five other senators was
what invited and made inevitable the
disaster that came to Cox and the
party. The staggering defeat for the
Democratic party makes it plain that
of all Democrats in the country. Bry
an could look far enough ahead to
see it coming and it also, to a strik
ing degree, brings to the forefront the
fact that Mr. Bryan was the big wise
man at the San Francisco convention
whose advice and leadership should
not have been turned down,
Wilson, a physical wreck, If he
lives until the fourth of next March,
will retire from the presidency un
der conditions that in many respects
may be characterized as pathetic, hut
at tho same time there will be the
public consciousness that by his usur
pation of executive power ho occasion
ed the most humiliating political
disaster In the history of the nation.
Out of It all Mr. Bryan looms fin
tho political horjzon a greater leader
and a greater Democrat 'than ever.
Hastings, Neb., Democrat.
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