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Show EDITORIAL COMMENT The fact that tho Democratic campaign cam-paign mnimgers linvo booked Scerc-tnry Scerc-tnry Daniels for n speech In Malno seems to indicnte thnt they hnvo abandoned aban-doned nil hope of carrying tho Stnto nnd simply don't enre what happens to the ticket In tho September election. elec-tion. Scnntor .1. Ham Lowls. a spokesman spokes-man for the pdmlnlstratlon, In attempting at-tempting to npnloglzo for tho President's Presi-dent's mollycoddle expression that wo are "too proud to fight," explains thnt It Is nn old Latin quotntlon. But tlio people already know that It Is out of date and tho expression of a decadent nation. "We don't. wnnt to maintain a political po-litical almshouse." remarked Mr. Hughes to tho North Dnkota farmers, and a nntlon applauds him. Americans Ameri-cans nre beginning to sec n possibility In the nenr future of regaining their self-respeeL Tho administration seems to have sold everything It could, from tho nation's na-tion's honor down to tho smallest rural postmnstershlp. Secretary Daniels snys this Is no time for politics. And It's no time for Secretnry Daniels, cither. Senator Lewis, defending tho President Presi-dent on his "too proud to fight" expression, ex-pression, Intimates thnt It was due solely to tho Ignornnco of his audlcnco that tho popular Interpretation thnt hns been put upon It was evolved, nnd that anyway It didn't mean what It appeared to mean. Tho latter statement state-ment can be taken with somo degree of confidence, ns It Is quite a well-known well-known fact that most of-the things tho President says do not mean what they nre supposed to mean. Secretnry Redfleld has presented another of those living Illustrations of the old nriago that "fools rush In where angels fear to tread." with one Importnnt modification. The difference differ-ence In the Secretary's case Is thnt ho walked right In nnd turned uround nnd wns kicked right out again. The Democratic rontlncont In the Senate Is nil worked up ovnr the fm-t that the terms of hn treaty for the purchase of the Dullish West litilics "leaked out." 'I'IiIIp-" publicity " on underpin nil, has been consigned to the scrap heap with n large ussorlmcnt of various other Democratic policies nnd promises. Of Mr. Wilson It may be sold he meant well, hut he now flnd liluwlf hurled under the evidence of inefficiency ineffi-ciency that Mr. Hughes bus brought forth. Mr. Wilson has made no reply to the charge of Mr. Hughes. Is be still too proud to tight! |