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Show 1 THE CITIZEN :of the virtues of communism, but long ago they became convinced of their devotion and loyalty to Russia. It is the sentiment of is th nationality which impels them to close their ranks and rally to the nlv ..support of Lenine and his fellow usurpers. Whatever is neces-oni- e ary in a military way the workers undertake to supply. All the rest nesti .is neglected. Agriculture, manufacturing, mining and commerce ahat.Jxcept insofar, as they support the military campaigns are slighted, Russia is only a shell a skeleton in armor, battling lina o the last. When Poland and the Ukraine are crushed and when the ictionary successors of Kolchak and Denikine are annihilated the ion (.Russian people will call Lenine and Trotzky to judgment. In that unn; Jay the dictators will have reason to be afraid and to tremble as Jpose i.fhey rattle around in the seats of the mighty. For the Russian people jvill begin to set their house in order once more. They have done s tk.ith czarism forever and they will have none of the proletarian . re-ibo- e. 1 le dictatorship. , kotin I TWO SONS OF OHIO Amid the din and turmoil of the political conventions the American people love to detect the heartbeat of humanity. Their candi-- e dates come closer to them and inspire more confidence when an aged father or mother says, Warren or Jim has been a good boy and j a: ao: vill make a good president. One of the cheering, and the same time touching, spectacles of the campaign is the vision of two old men meeting the reporters and telling them with pride and joy that Warren and Jim have been good boys. If the candidates do not make good senators, or out i governors, or presidents, it is not because they did not come of good it is not because they did not have the best of training in the wake of their youth. Sitting on the front porches of their homes, ledge years j patching the sun go down and waiting, as it were, for the last summons, the parents are exalted by the thought that their boys have dencf And the joy is not all that their sons have been named for president of the greatest republic in the tide of time; indeed, t is rather that their boys have made good. That two farm boys can rise by their own efforts to the highest pinnacle of civic success keeps alive in us the fires of faith in our Representative democracy. The path to the presidency, even in these imperial wealth, remains the same as in the days of Andrew $ays Jackson or of Lincoln. It is a tradition that does not pass away this confidence in the men of the soil who have wrung success from fiard conditions and placed themselves in the forefront of leader- - ntitlc TePaid them. The etrifo , hail . battl mplii pane1 ling to a; Brita; It is significant . that the changes wrought by the world-wid- e don us ar Cataclysm, changes which hurled down thrones in Europe and set the red dictator and executioner, have not altered the full, steady $urrcnt of American tradition. It means that in our hearts and brains are implanted deeply an ineradicable love and reverence for 9l'r institutions and for the type of men who have preserved those institutions. We still have faith in the ballot as the best remedy rover Up 1 gua ngeni: uld n if all our ills and we believe that in every emergency wc can find pf the men who will demonstrate the success of representative tible f tense-- rac?' L PLATFORM BOOMERANG W' un ga;. Some of our eastern contemporaries say the Democrats falsely ' 1 ri asserted, but wc believe that some one buncoed the Democratic c ' to Convention and made it extra ridiculous. We do The platform-framer- s arc the victims of a frame-ubot know who is responsible perhaps it is Mr. Bryan or some other p. . tald-heade- conspirator; The Democrats departed from the classic custom of platform j nvf tuaking when they inserted a quotation. That quotation purports oriiaj.0 ke from an articie by Senator Lodge published in the Forum of December, 1918, and represents him as declaring that a separate peace f ilh Germany would be a crime. stH j S1J. d, . . . J stair The fact is the article was published in June, 1918, not a month after the war terminated, but months before the armistice and; at a time when the allies had their backs to the wall and needed all the encouragement they could receive, especially from the one country upon which they relied upon for ultimate triumph. The platform's quotation is as follows: If we send our armies and young men abroad to be killed and wounded in northern France and Flanders wtih no result but this, our entrance into war with such an intention was a crime which nothing can justify. The intent of congress and the intent of the president was. that there could be no peace until we could create a situation where no such war as this could occur. We could not make peace except in company with our allies. It would brand us with everlasting dishonor and bring ruin to us also if we undertook to make a separate peace. It is incredible that the honest leaders of the Democratic party, acting under orders from Carter Glass, the soul of honor, a gentle-ma- n of Virginia. F. F. V.. would deliberately falsify the record. We prefer to believe that they were misled or tricked. The time of the articles publication is of paramount importance. The platform seeks to show that Senator Lodge, for party reawhen he voted for the Knox resolution of May 15, sons, about-face- d 1919, looking to peace with Germany, and it clinches its argument with a quotation intended to prove that Lodge, in December, 1918, had taken precisely the opposite view. It is patent that the time of the making of the quoted statement is of the very essence of the argument. If it was made in December, 1918,' it was made at a time when our relations with Germany were virtually the same as in May, 1919; but if it was made in June, 1918, the circumstances were so different as not to admit of comparison. The temptation to falsify the record would be strong with a politician to whom double-dealin- g is second-naturbut that men of honor would succumb to the temptation is unthinkable, and we are constrained to conclude that the framers of the platform allowed themselves to become the victims of an error. At the time Senator Lodge wrote it would have been the blackest dishonor to suggest a separate peace with Germany, for at that time Hindenburg and Ludendorff were crashing through the allied lines in a titanic offensive which threatened to end the war before the United States could throw its military power into the scale. The morale of the allies was at its lowest ebb. It was the duty of every man loyal to the cause of freedom to utter only such words as would hearten our allies and discourage their antagonists. But with victory achieved and the allies at peace with Germany, a separate peace, which seemed the only remaining method of preserving our nation from the perils of the Versailles treaty, appealed to American interest, honor and patriotism. beetle-browe- d e, NOWHERE TO GO What little room was left, after the Republican convention, for the occupancy of a third party, was further restricted by the action of the Democratic convention and by Senator Hiram Johnson's belated bundling into the band wagon. But one salient figure remains outside the trenches and any minute a flare is apt to reveal the portly proportions of William Jennings Thrice has Bryan crawling back to the Democratic lines. the party accorded to Colonel (Spanish war stuff) Bryan the highest honor in its gift and twice has it shamefully ignored him. Each time that contumely has been heaped upon him he has crept back into the lines and wielded his trench knife with slaughterous effect upon the backs of his betrayers. In this sense, lie has been a third party all by himself, but never has he formally identified himself with any organization other than the Democratic party. In fusion days in Nebraska he allowed the Populist party to identify itself with him. Thus wc have the third party, as Irvin Cobb might say, in the saddle and nowhere to go. Its calibre is vividly revealed when it ! |