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Show ROOSEVELT S CLEAN CAM-: PAIGN Washington, Nor. '18.-"r-The Cox-oosevelt Cox-oosevelt Idea op'nsclcan campaign Is set forth by the Hepubllcan Publicity association through Its president Hon. Jonathan Bourne Jr., as follows: fol-lows: n- "On election day F. D. Roosevelt Dcmociatlc candidate for vice president, presi-dent, laid the flattering unction unto un-to his party's soul thnt it has conducted con-ducted n clean campaign. Ordinarily Ordinar-ily It Is not Important thnt tho victor vic-tor Bliould notice the pre-election statements of the vanquished, but young Roosevelt's statement Is one whlchdemands refutation. "It Is doubtful if a dirtier, yclr lower campaign was ever conducted In the history' of American politics than, .that which was sponsored In one way or another by tho Democratic Demo-cratic party from the day of Mr. Cox's acceptance speech up to the utter hout of hypocrsy of November Novem-ber 2nd. "There seemed to be no limit In lexicon or legerdemain which was not sought by the champions of Messrs Cox and P. D. Roosevelt In the campaign lecently closed. Slander Slan-der and vindication were exploited to their uttermost depths by these men. They called Warren Harding n brewer, a creature of the rapacious piofiteers, a weakling and a snob. They repeatedly Impugned his honesty. hon-esty. They at length descended to the lowest level of personal abuse by clrcunlting lying leaflets concerning his blood and his parentage. They called the senate leader of tho Republicans Re-publicans n bane conspirator and the most despised man In" America. They accused the Republican party with attempting to purchase the election, an Insult nllke to the Republicans nnd to the voters. They charged that party with conniving with Knl-ser Knl-ser Wllhelm to keep the United States out of tho league of nations, with a plot to debauch the U. S. Supiemo court In that Harding, If elected, would appoint Judges to that august body whose decisions would be hawked In tho market place, with appealing to tho hyphenated vote, and Ignoring the American vote; with planning the rule of tho bayonet bayo-net and the reign of the mailed fist. In their desperation tho Democrats dragged the vestments of religion from their channels and waved them In the faces of the people; they Invaded the churches with their un-American un-American crusade and they capitalized capital-ized the Illness of their leader In an appeal to tho eob vote, and they dragooned the state department to their purposes. In the choice language lang-uage of P D. Roosevelt, opponents of the Versailles treaty were 'league liars,' as they were 'contemptible quitters' In the intemperate language lang-uage o'f Mr. Wilson, whose uncon trollable fits of rage worked his destruction. If this was P. D. Roosevelt's Idea of a clean campaign what horrible metamorphosis had part association worked In him? What filth could bis party havo possibly handled to earn his disapproval? disap-proval? "And the aftermath blasts from tho Democratic party nre quite ub fetid. Tho editorial appearing In the New York World on the morning morn-ing following election displayed tho spirit of Lucifer cast out of Heaven. The truest sport In tho Democratic ranks, If wo are to Judge from after af-ter election language, was James W. Gerard of the Democratic national committee, whose tribute to Harding Hard-ing was llko a flower blooming In a fen. "The campaign waged by the Democratic party, was a disgrace to American politics., It showed as toothing tooth-ing could, Hie, composite pientajy of the proponents of International-lm, International-lm, pr)orTolhfVtin and Ibat sick- enlng syncophancy which grows out of worship of a klngl Its sharpest condemnation was to be found In the poise and dignity maintained by Harding and Coolldge, a condemnation condemna-tion which the peoplo overwhelmingly overwhelming-ly Indorsed. Never has hypocrisy received such a rebuke. The Democratic Demo-cratic party has four years In which to purge Itself, and It li to be hoped Its putrescence has not reached t,! tertiary stage. Meanwhile It la In order to swap the Democratic donkey don-key for a pole cat." |