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Show I THE CITIZEN toL s PARTIES ,:MHREE M enter upon the present cam-Vtpaign with more at stake than ie stirring events of each day sug-B- t Beneath the surface of political mtroversy, which chatters along like Vj I s 111 tllc shallow summer stream, are deep sues whose voices are unheard. As oscce Conkling once remarked, The 10,1 tallows murmur when the deeps are ar munb. lcert'Th course the campaign has taken I reveals to us the and illuminating. It rofounder currents of American life lnia:iwe but keep our vision clear. There are three great movements Reintending for the mastery- - First of it is fitting to mention the personal c at- - Washington . autocracy enthroned llon'hich, in a few years, has changed our iirm of government out of all sem- and symmetrical di- 10 Jjiance to that fair of powers which the framers of c Cr ision i he constitution held up as their ideal f a successful government. The pres- nt occupant of the White House, rely- bis own intellectual endow- lth(i;ng-!his strength of will and a surmade himself taxing he president of a party rather than of i people, and then arrogated to himself ill the powers of the party. In the worlds greatest crisis he lought to abrogate the constitutional towers of the United States senate and 0 establish an international order of iffairs by his own ipse dixit. He mis-e- d Europe into the belief that he was 1 supreme ruler and that the 'peace ty which he dictated would be accepted as a matter of course by the lenate. n self-confidenc- t e, i But long before peace came to this pouiitry of ours, congress, under the guidance of the president, had put fetters on free speech, a free press and tree assembly. The war was wrenched j to strange uses here at home. Our an cient liberties vanished one by one and rej were amazed at the equanimity with which we accepted despotic law's tuid no less despotic administration. Wo told ourselves that this autocracy t ras only for the term of the war and hat when peace came wre wrould shake )ff the shackles of the new slavery and e once more free men. Little did we magine that there was to be no end- ng of the wrar under the autocrat in lower. While the other nations which lad engaged in the struggle were mak-n- g peace one with another, we renamed at war because the senate of Jiei United States refused to ratify a which amounted to a betrayal pf the country. And the president jwould permit no peace that was not based upon that treaty. Thus it befell that the tyrannical laws which had. been placed on the books in time of w'ar w'ere there in time of peace. And when- jever a crisis arose the president and aides invoked the despotic war- time legislation as a means of govern- ing the country. The nation possess- ping the freest institutions In all .the prorld has virtually been under martial jlaw ever since the president who kept ts u 1 By us out of war was For him war meant an opportunity to display his czarlike Qualities, to use the mailed fist because the arm of the civil law was too weak for his purposes. Fr P. Gallagher vored classes. In practice this;ideal is not always attained, but. if we., are, prone to exclaim against what we believe to be displays offavoritism and special privilege we have but to turn our' eyes toward Russsia to realize what class tyranny imports. All that . civilized men have, held .dear,. yhat-- . soever things are good, whatsoever whatsoever things are beautiful, things conduce to orderly and peaceful government, have been trampled upon in Russia. Russia. has become a. land of slaughter, rapine, social and economic anarchy, endless disorder, of famine and plague. re-electe- d. . - During the war our federal government became something wholly different from that which it had ever been before. We found ourselves the victims of strange coercions. We submitted to them because we were led to believe that only by clinging together with one mind and purpose could we attain the victory. In consequence the voice of criticism was stilled and all of us agreed to move forward as soldiers in the ranks until the ulitmate triumph should be attained and the world made safe for democracy. However it was in the old world, we discovered to our dismay that in our own coutnry everything had been made safe for autocracy. Under an autocratic president, who ruled by the force of martial laws, the greatest eral machine in history was built up. In this campaign the Republican party offers to the voters the. golden, mean between the twp extremes of autocracy between the dictatorship of a personal autocrat and the dictatorship of classes. And with that 'benign pur- pose in mind the party chose as its . standard bearer one who.is really a man of the people, one who represents good Americanism, the kind Where there had been but 259,000 ofthat spoke when Washington refused ficials and employees in the ' federal to be king, that fought with Grant at service before the war today there are Shiloh, the Wilderness and Appomatox, 757,000. And we have just witnessed that spoke for human liberty when a the spectacle of federal patronage foreign power tried to crush a sister which means hundreds of thousands government under the heels of tyranny, of paid servants of the government the kind that gave us Lincoln and the working together and billions in money Gettysburg address, the kind that lived back of them seeking to control the in the lives of Garrison, of. Wendell nomination at a party convention. That Phillips, of John Brown, of Cleveland, machine still exists; that power for of McKinley and of Roosevelt. evil has lost neither its purpose nor its capability of controlling any Democrat It is because we have faith in our who might be chosen to succeed Presigovernment, in the government of dent Wilson. Washington and Lincoln, that we It is this presence of an oppressive name such me.n as Warren G. Harding government which has stirred the for president. We feel that we can whole nation to discontent and to a detrust all the peaceful and orderly prosire for Republican administration. cesses of government to the one who, The people yearn for the good old days starting life in poverty and hardship, workand the president when congress is able to win his way under the prow'hen and ed in reasonable harmony tection of our institutions, to success. . a himself truly We feel that lie is the test and proof of every American felt freeman. our government. So long as men of adThis reaction against autocratic Hardings type can be nominated and On ministration has taken two forms. elected the republic is safe. And well the one hand we have the great Repubmay we see signs of danger when any conto lican party demanding a return great number otf men give voice to the stitutional government, to the reprethought that such disloyalists as La sentative government of the fathers. Follette and Debs are of the stuff of On the other hand we have rebellious which presidents are made. out against despotism spirits crying and demanding the even more intolerThe tenacity with which the presiclass of able despotism dictatorship. dent has clung to arbitrary rule is ilThe agitation for a third party w'as lustrated by his failure to sign the have measure repealing wartime powers. chiefly among those groups .that and little faith in any government Some sixty acts granting war powers should rule, lieve only the strong were included within the scope of this measure. On June 3 the house passed We must not lose sight of the fact the repeal bill by a vote of 443 to 3. that our government was founded on a In the senate the bill passed unaniprinciple directly contrary to that class mously. One would think that the rule. Our law's are invariably scruti-statut- e practical unanimity of this vote would nized by judges to see whether they have swayed the president and that he fend against the basic principle of our would have hastened to use his signature to blot from the statute books representative government the prin cipie that this is a government by all laws of which the country had grown peope aiui not government by weary. But the adjournment of conc.isses or factions. Our law's are supgress gave him the opportunity he poged tQ bft franie(1 ln tbe interest of sought and he retained his wartime an ie people and not so framed as to powers by withholding his signature. grant privileges and Immunities to fa- (Continued on. Page 18.) fed-..aerit- - s, old-fashion- ed , . be-pea- DRKSS UP, the old car. , : . . ty of-jke- pt , Make It look new, and be satisfied ' and . proud with Its appearance. Have It painted and varnished now. 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