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Show S THE CITIZEN 9 perhaps he will be able to see the present campaign in clearer per- - rpctive Thcn,- as - now,-- -- come-int- oi iaStfh disrepute thalt a Republican victory seemed inevitable. The of the White House had succeeded in transforming the pop- rity of his first term into an unpopularity such as had attached o$io president since the time of Johnson. the Democratic convention met in Chicago it was looking 3 3 When candidate and a new issue. Already silver had commended ,efoi a new it! ;1 as the issue, but the candidate was wanting until Bryan deliv-ijJe- ri d his Cross of Gold Speech. Then, as now, an unknown Candida e seemed to offer the Democrats a chance of victory. 4-- pant Bryan said that silver was the . that time he was proposing his famous peace without victory, which.would have meant complete disaster for the allies. But the kaiser, with a stupidity hardly equalled since the angels fell, forced the war while hypocritically pretending that the United States was trying to goad him into the conflict. Indubiatably he was quite proud of himself at that big moment. He would bring down his mailed fist with a shattering force and declare to quaking humanity that imperial Germanys kaiser had decided once for all that the world was to be conquered. In the lamentable light of failure the German people transfix their fallen ruler with shafts of scorn and fury. paramount issue, but he was strong. j' The chief issue then, as now, was the universal distrust of Demo- i STATE NEEDS SENATOR SMOOT i cratic administration. $ Governor Cox has failed to estimate the issue at its true value. Perhaps he would not call it an issue, but there is no need to quibble 'about words. Call it what we will, it is the dominant element in the I campaign. I The people have lost faith in Democratic administration. i We do not know how extensively the argument is being used that the United States senatorship should be passed around, but it is employed, as a matter of course, by Democrats in the forlorn hope that it may do at least some injury to the senior senator from Utah. The supporters of that veteran office-seekand office-holde- r, James H. Moyle, do not hesitate to juggle with the argument, heedless of the boomerang effect. There is sense in the argument that executive offices should be OF ALL SAD WORDS tf passed around. The fathers of the country, notably George WashPatriots of Germany, after reading the report of the investigat-- j ington, believed in a short term of office for the president of the to that office with no inj committee blaming the kaiser and the junkers for getting the United States and they regarded United States into the war, may well ponder that bit of poetic wisdom little concern. Washington could have been term after t embodied in the lines, term, but he declined a third term so that he might set a proper Of air sad words of tongue or pen, example of restraint to his countrymen. It was his fear that some The saddest of these are It might have been. day, the man and the opportunity meeting, a dictatorship and then r. And perhaps the words of Tennyson, A sorrows crown of sormonarchy might be established by the chief executive of the nation. The argument never was intended to apply to legislative posirows is remembering happier things, are quite as pertinent. Almost the war was won by Germany when her government tions. On the contrary, it always has been recognized that any decided for unrestricted submarine warfare. The allies did not know able and efficient legislator should be chosen again and again. From how near they were to defeat. Only the events of the following year the very beginning of our republic the states adopted the policy of would have revealed to them the overwhelming strength of Germany keeping in the senate those who had deserved well of their commonand their own weakness. As it was the allies held their own fairly wealth and the nation. It was maintained that an experienced senI i well in 1917 with the help of the ships, money and munitions of the ator of commanding abilities ought to represent his state as long as United States, but had the United States stood aside from the war possible. We are of the opinion that the Democratic argument will not .the Germans probably would have begun their offensive late in 1917 and prepared the way for an easy victory in March or April of 1918. prove convincing to many, but it is just as well to meet it at the for the Germans when they cast their outset and emphasize its absurdity. I It must be heart-breakiNever have ability, experience and a quite extraordinary power memories back on those two fateful years, and realize how close they came to victory and how they forfeited the prize by their own folly of industry and application deserved so well of a commonwealth as in the case of Senator Smoot. There have been many senators whose and madness. J In 1916 the American ambassador at Vienna proposed that, to conspicuous talents have won them election time after time, but avoid embarrassment, American ships going to England should not history does not record the case of a senator who worked so hard be torpedoed. Had that request been acceded to there would have and so untiringly for his nation, his state and his individual constibeen no war, for there would have been no precedent which would tuents as has Senator Smoot. It is not to be wondered at that have justified the United States in forcing a conflict. And, be it he has obtained a national reputation for his intensive power of applying himself to the work of his position. And it may be said, remembered, in the fall of that year President Wilson was on the pflea that he had kept us out of war. The lofty language he in passing, that the work of a senator has increased notably with used at a later date to convince us that we had gone to war for liberty, the growth of the nations business. A senator, arriving in Washt. In a ington, must make up his mind to be a toiler or an oratorical idler. democracy and humanity was the result of an sense it conveyed a true impression, because we had joined those If he is a toiler he obtains fame slowly. If he is an oratorical idler who were fighting to save the world from the triumph of Teutonic he makes a. prompt, but not a lasting impression. His glory soon militarism, but from the viewpoint of international law our only ex-- . fades and his constituents begin to ask themselves what he for his state. cuse for getting into the struggle was that Germany had committed It would require a much longer editorial than space admits of to Some act of war against us. It was at this crisis, when Germany was almost certain to be list even the most conspicuous of the senators achievements for his j .victorious if she kept the United States out of the war, that the state and for the nation. Fortunately, his work is so well known JHcrlin government committed the supreme folly of the furor Tcuton- - that it is not necessary to furnish such a list. It is like proving the correct answer to a mathematical problem. .icus. I When the American ambassadors proposal was called to the WHY THIRD PARTY FAILED attention of the emperor he expressed himself in the following marh !C-'- er 3 for . re-elect- ion v re-elect- ed d - . . , ng 4 re-elect- ed after-though- has-accomplishe- d . ginal note: be agree that it (the proposal) be declined. An end must made once and for all to negotiations with America. If Wilson wants war he can have it. President Wilson was proposing peace indeed, it was about I Enthusiasts with a coltish desire to join in a radical stampede are mystified by the failure of radicalism to produce a third party worthy of the name. At Chicago our distinguished fellow citizen, Parley P. Christian- - |