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Show A. VI. MGCUNE OF PERI), SOUTH AMERICA, LEAVES DEMOCRATIC PARI! BECAUSE OF JilGHTAXES OH MINES FAILURE TO BUY SENATORSHIP OR GOVERNORSHIP AND IN ABILITY ABIL-ITY OF A MILLIONAIRE TO PAY TAXES ON PROPERTY ARE AMONG REASON'S. ' ' G. O.Ps. Take No Account of Marshal Stimson, Walsh and Ryan Who Have Deserfed Their Cause For Very Good Reasons. Spread like a blanket over the erstwhile Democratic Editor's Republican Repub-lican paper last week was the letter from A. W. McCune of Peru, S. A. stating that he had quit the Democratic party for good. But he does not give the main reasons, which are:- 1st, the mining tax, passed injustice to the schools and institutions of the state by the Democrats'. Mr. McCune cannot afford to pay the tax, so he kicks over the traces. 2nd, his failure to land most evidently by purchase, either the senatorship or governorship at the hands of the Democrats, whose campaign methods are too clean for such dickering, and 3rd, to capture the good will of Charley Nibley and Senator Sen-ator Smoot and the church, incidentally donating his beautiful home to the latter, likely for what's in sight for next election four years hence. Against Again-st McCune the Democrats-put first. The Case of Marshal Stimson. Marshal Stimson of Los Angles, formerly campaign manager for Hiram Johnson, delegate to the Republican National convention in 1912, and Presidential Pres-idential elector, and in this year of grace, member of the "Republican State Committee of California, and a very prominent and influential Republican in every respect, comes over for some of the best reasons ever advanced, which are as follows: "As a progressive Republican I had hoped to vote for the Republican Repub-lican candidate for president. While neither the platform adopted nor the candidate chosen were satisfactory to me, I intended to vote the ticket and work for better party conditions four years later. The position taken by Senator Harding in his Des Moines speech makes it possible for me to support sup-port him' any longer. After long continued wiggling and wobbling forced by the threats of the'bitter enders,'he declares himself against the league of nations and the treaty, and preforce for a separate peace with Germany. Such a course means breaking faith with our allies, and an abandonment of our war aims. I have been a Republican, except when I supported Roosevelt, all my life, and like Hoover, I believe in a system of two-party government rather than non-partisan or group party government, and that.generally speaking, ia man can work most effectively in his own party. However, I go farther, ifor I maintain that to prevent expolitation of party by unsupported partisans partis-ans there must be in such party a considerable number of men and women, who, when policies too corrupt or shameful are imposed upon their party are not afraid to put their country's welfare ahead of that of their party, and cross the party lines of supporting men on measures they believe in "Senator Harding is either sincere or he is not sincere when he says that Senator Johnson's Los Angles speech shows that Johnson is In accord with the Republican platform and the Republican candidate. If sincere, then Mr. Harding wishes to drop the league and make a separate peace with Germany, a foolish and shameful policy that I cannot indorse. Of course, If he is not sincere on a great issue like this, I could not deam him fit for president. In either event, I am brought to the point where a decent self-respect self-respect will no longer allow me to continue 'my support of Senator Harding Hard-ing and the most effective protest I can make is to vote for the Democratic .nominee, Governor Cox, who has wisdom enough to take the side of the right and courage to be positive in expressing his views." 80,000 California Women Out For League Neither do the Republicans take note of the 30,000 California Women who have deserted Harding and come over for Governor Cox because of the League of Nations. But such are the facts. David I. Walsh Is Over. The Hon. David I Walsh of Massachuetts, a League Republican, is about to, or rather has taken the stump for Governor Cox. Edward A. Ryan For Cox. Edward A. Ryan, the prominent Washington lawyer who was forcibly iput out of the hall for asking Senator Harding a question, has come over to the Democrats and is on the stump for Governor Cox and the League. Who Wants $25,000? Democratic headquarters have announced that a cash prize of $25,-000 $25,-000 is offered by the pro-league Independents, who are campaigning for Governor Cox, to any person in the United States who could first prove that .the League of Nations would "abridge the soverlgnity of America" and this offer even allows for a Republican jury of twelve men if desired. There will no one try for the prize, because it is humanly impossible to prove such a thing. All the weight of the foremost legal and moral opinion of the Christian world is on the side of the League's constitutionality, and the consensus of the opinion competent to judge says that it in no way abridges ab-ridges the sovereignty of America, and their lies to the contrary notwithstanding. |
