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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor. JAMES P. CASEYBusiness Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: In United 8tates, Canada and Mexico $2.50 per year, the Including postage six months. for $1.50 Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. Single copies 10 cents. Payment should be made by Cheek, Money Order or Registered Letter, pay able to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postofflce at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409. 8alt Lake City, Utah. 311-12-- 13 GREATEST VICTORY SINCE YORKTOWN It was a famous victory. It did not make the world safe for Democracy. It made the country safe for the old constitution. It was the greatest victory since Yorktown. Watching over the American people were the spirits of Wash-- j ington, Jefferson, Hamilton and Lincoln, aye, and of Lafayette, the hero of France, who was able to help in founding this great republic because France was unfettered by any Article X. The Democrats made the Wilson covenant the paramount issue of the campaign and the battle was fought out along the lines fixed bv President Wilson and Mr. Cox, but it would be far from the ' truth to say that there were not other issues of almost equal j j i I I j importance. j j The American people were weary of Wilsonism in all its phases. They were weary not only of the sacred covenant; they were weary of inefficiency in administration, of the autocratic encroachment of the executive upon the legislative branch, weary of waste, high taxes and nagging taxes, of high prices and the pitting of class against class in the disputes of industry. They were weary of destruction and demanded construction. Throughout the campaign Warren G. Harding spoke in constructive terms. While his opponent gabbled about- - slush funds, suppression of free speech because a heckler was mistaken for a (listurber in a Baltimore meeting, about hidden conspiracies, about every petty incident that arose in the course of the campaign, Senator Harding was outlining constructive policies for our domestic and international relationships. He discussed the merchant marine, agriculture, commerce, irrigation, the tariff and many other vital problems of domestic government and defined what the Republican admin-- J istration hoped to do to solve each of these problems. The appeals of Mr. Cox were mostly to passion and prejudice. He even went so far in the closing hours of the campaign as to talk wildly about an race equality issue, as if we "ere living in the days' of before the civil war. The mass of the American people made up their minds early In the campaign. The ground swell which the Democratic seismographs registered evidently was somewhere in the vicinity of the island of Yap. The watchers on the towers saw dimly what they reported to be a drift toward the Democratic candidate, but if there was an increased drift in the last weeks of the struggle it "ns a drift toward Harding and Coolidgc. The votes of the women were an illuminating surprise to the Afro-Americ- an who fancied that a resort to sentimentalities, an appeal to the mothers tenderest emotions, to the love of sister for brother and wife for husband, would obscure in the minds of women the military nature of the alliance embodied in the Wilson covenant. They were no more to be deceived than were the men. They saw through the hideous sham and repudiated it. Chairman White remarks with almost laughable piteousness that the people voted for separate peace with Germany. And what if they did? Our allies, long ago, separately from the United States, made peace with Germany. Technically we remained at war and laws, internally the present administration clung to the war-tim- e not knowing how to return to constitutional government in the unparalleled crisis. It will be a part of the Republican program to revert to the ordinary processes of civil government and to meet our domestic crisis in a constitutional way. Neither the people nor the government is afraid of the constitution, and it was the very madness of autocracy to believe that the exigencies created by the war required a government long after hostilities had ceased. The American people have decided to avoid both autocracy and Bolshevism and to give the government of the fathers a chance once more. The twaddle about reaction had no effect upon the' voters because they saw through its insincerity. It is not reaction to refuse to scrap the constitutional machinery of our government. By that machinery we shall be best able to progress. The argument of the Democrats was much as if one argued that Christianity could make no progress unless it scrapped the moral law. And Utah was as solid as the nation against Wilsonian administration and the Wilson league. Four years ago it gave Wilson a majority of nearly 30,000. This year it wipes out that majority and gives larding a plurality of more than 20,000. In Utah, as elsewhere, the Democrats sought to misrepresent the views of the people and of the peoples guides regarding the covenant, and they met with a smashing rebuke. The people of Utah have special reason for felicitation in the friendship that exists between Senator Harding and Senator Smoot. For years they have been very close to each other politically; they have advised with each other on all great questions of government, and it may be said with comparative accuracy that Senator Smoot At all events he was foremost was the original Harding man. among the statesmen of the country who, long before candidates began to be talked of. proposed Senator Harding for president. Need- - pro-league- rs semi-milita- ry 1 |