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Show Dems Are Champion Wigglers Do All Kinds of Contortionistic Stunts to Get Out of Debating with G. 0. P. For Kcnulnc w Iggllng of tlie liealtliy (Ishlng worm variety, democracy is en. v titled to the cake. The democratic organ, necessarily presumed to represent the thought and feeling of democratic leaders, carries car-ries In bold headlines the charge that "A otc for the Republican ticket Is a votcagalnst the Agricultural College," and whether or uot this Is th? ical I $!&'' fee,lnl.'otdcmociatlc leaders and party VSp manipulators generally, the statement goes to the average voter as such until un-til the democratic organ's utterance Is repudiated. The republican executive committee, appreciating the havoc that might be wrought by a general acceptance of that idea, challenged the democratic party to sustain its position In a debate de-bate of the question as stated. It being generally considered that A. G Harber, democratic candidate for state senator, Is, by reason or Ills lecent term In the legislature, thoronghl familiar with thu icpubllcan attitude toward the college, was challenged to take the alllrmatlvc of the question against Mcrschcl liiillen Jr., icpubllcan icpubll-can candidate for the position to which Mr. Harber aspires. Mr Harber Har-ber is generally conceded tube one of ' the brainiest men In the democratic : party, and he Is regaidcd as a splendid ;, speaker, one who would boatnodis- ' advantage at any time when before Btho public. While many excellent things may be and are said for Mr. ; Bullen, no onp ever claimed for him any extraordinary ability as a public speaker, and none hud heaul him in debate. Hence no advantage was ;. taken in pioposlng that these two . aspirants for the same olllce, and rep- sentatlvc men of their parties, should Zl debate thN very vital question. ; This was meiely a case of one of the i strongest representatives of the Demo- cratlc paity being challenged to de- ; fend an issue presented by a Dcmocra- ' tic organ All that the challenged was 5 expected t'i do was to present any evi- ;. deuce it had to support its position. j and necessarily Mr (Sullen, as the de- : fender of his party Interest, would i have sought to combat the opposition f argument with whatever evidence lie had at hand. Such a debate could c mean no more than the presentation 5 of .the record of the republican patty ; inanupulators as viewed by Mr Bar- t ber, a Democrat, and Mr. Ilullen, a republican - each equally able to repre- sent his party. 5 Did the Democratic party leaders accept the challenge? NO, a hundred . tlmc, NO' Instead of accepting, it ' was proposed by them that the vari- ous candidates on both legislative J tickets should debate OTIIKR ques tions. Mr. ISaiber or his colleagues vvcro afiald to debate the statement thu Democratic organ Haunts at its 5 head, and they sought to evade tho j Issue by proclaiming their willingness to have their candidates do other L .- stunts. r T& Chapter Two. The republican oxecutlvo commit-' commit-' too vciy propeily refused to consider Democracy's icquests until Its dial- lenge, had been met fairly and square-j square-j ly In 0110 of three ways- either by debate, de-bate, a public ictractlon of the statement, state-ment, or a repudiation of tho Demo- cratlc organ, and tiik oitimN.u. ) CJIALI-K.NOi: WAS AIIAIN 1SSUK1). To this Demociacv makes no oillclal ' reply, but tho Democratic organ takes . I up a defense or tho Democratic party's I I refusal to permit Mr. Harber to meet .1 Mr. (Sullen In debate. Tnatdcfenso Is that "Mr. Harber can't see that ho I'H has to prove statements made bv this H (tho Journal) paper." 'I A Thorouflh BacKdown. ' If that Isn't wiggling, a fair and 1 1 bquaro backdown, a squawk from the I old rooster, then what Is ItV I Wtyy will democracy permit Its organ 'I to make an issue and then refuse to meet that issue liko men' 1 1 If that Issuq Is not uti Issue ropro- . sentivo of democratic feeling, why do ' not tho democratic leaders havo the WL manhood, tho nerve, to so state? i fT1f& If Mr- Harbor, tho challenged man, , R bolloves tho Journal's statement and ' Js not afraid to meet -Mr. iSullen, why I does he not coiuo out like a man and accept the challenge despite any clfort of the leaders to niuv.le him? If Mr. -Barber doesn't believe the Journal's boldly Haunted statement, and he has the nerve of a Jackrabbit, why does he not publicly repudiate this effort of the democratic organ to elect him by mlsieprcsentatlon and trlckcrj? If Mr. Harber is the man who has saved the college from destruction herctofoie. and Is such an all-iound political mid mental giant as to be able to convert an American and republican repub-lican leglslatuie to tho cause of the Agricultural College (as Intimated by the democratic organ), why does he not accept this opportunity to debate with such a pigmy as Mr. Uullen and literally smash him to smithereens-humiliate smithereens-humiliate him before his friends and the voters generally? Harber Is no wonder of any descilp-tlon descilp-tlon that's the reason ho doesnt debate. de-bate. The statement made by the Journal Is false, and the democratic leadeis know It that's the reason there Is no debate. After this extraordinary extra-ordinary exhibition of weakness the voters will hardly be ready to accept any democratic asset tlons during the remainder of the campaign. |