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i PAGE SIX THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25. 1920 I , I" i r : THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN ; rnoKNix. akizona TiiM'hed V.vrry Mnrnlnsr rr tha ; ARIZONA Fi nUSHlVQ COMPANY Enured at the Foatofflce. at Phoanlx, Arlaona. at Ma Matter of tha Sacond Claaa rtAldsnt and Publisher Dwtcht P. H'r CJiral Manager Charts A. Stauffar Hnflnam Managar W. W. Knorpp Eduor j W. Bpeaf Naja Editor E. A. Young SUBSCRIPTION RATF.S IN ADVANCES . Daily anil SunJay OUTSIDE 8TATE OP ARIZONA On year 113.00: Unit.. IH.78: mosH $3X0; 1 mo.. $1.25. If ARIZONA BT MAIL. OK CARRIER Ona year. $1.00j mo., $4.00; 3 mo., $2.00; 1 mo, 75c SUNDAY EDITION by mail only $:.00 per year. Pt, fOJl Private Branch Eacnange llOne 4004 Connecting All Department Cam-mi Aivrtnin Rrrntatlva: Robert E. Ward. -Prunxwlrk Hide. New Torlc. Mailers Rldf.. Chleaao; W. K. Harmnaar. KTamlnr Htdgv n Francisco. Pout IntelllK-ncor Itldg.. beattia. Title lnaurance lildg.. Los AngHea. ' MEMBERS OP TTTT! ASSOCIATED FRFS Ttacivln Full Nlsht Report, by Um'd Wlra Tn Associated Pra In exclusively entitled to tha uaa lot re-publletlor of all newa dmpatcliea credited to " or not otherwlna cradlud In Uila papar and also .local news published hereto. AH rights of re-publlcatlon of apeclal dispatches bereia aluo reserved. ; MONDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 25. 1920 In these days of peace let us real ize that we have set free influence tfcat are to liberalize the world, that industrial democracy is coming and tbat we might as well adjust our selves to it, and so go forward to make democracy politically 'and in dustrially the crowning glory of a ffee world. : S. J. Duncan-Clark. J Ths Truth From Democrat Z Our Democratic friends have been seriously hand cstS'ed in their appeal to the farmers, especially those whe need money for the financing of their operations an.j 'cannot get It, from the usual sources though three was never before so much money In the country. A farmer laboring tinder such a disadvantage can not! easily be made Interested In the League of Na ttoiM. Democratic speakers and newapaera have stu4usly avoided the grievance of the farmers but some of the smaller and more foolish have professed to discover a plot of rich Republicans to hold up the money until after the election. These apologists either do not know or else they think that the farm ers do"not know, that It Is the grip of the Democratic Federal Reserve board that Voids the money. Through the Arizona Egyptian Cotton Growers' Association we have received a copy of the New Orleans Times-IMcayune of October 18, a rock ribbed Democratic newspaper. We find It Interesting In that It explains why the farmers cannot get money, and from a typographical standpoint. Itj "make up" la Interesting. The left hand "ear- of the first page reads: "Turning to Cox." Leading O. O. P. anil Moose are turning to the Democratic candidate. Read the atory In the Tlmes Flcayune, the South's Greatest Newspaper. Our attention was diverted from the "story" of the "Turning to Cox" by a two-column article directly under this "ear, relating to the woes of the cotton grower. This article pens with this statement: "With the markets of the world trembling from the developments In the British Empire, Instead of a word of reassurance, the Federal Reserve Hoard ha reiterated Us determina tion to crucify the American farmer." The article, la an account of an address by Colonel William Bess Thompson of New Orleans, a prominent Democrat and president of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. In the course of the address directed to J. S. Wanamaker, president of the American Cotton Exchange, Colonel Thompson says: "1 earnestly urge you to withdraw all committees from Washington and summarily terminate all rep resentations to the financial administration of -the United states government. Experience has demon atrated that the administration in question is de termined to exploit the farmers of tho United States at this time regardless of the ultimate consequences. Moreover, every application for the relief of the agri cultural producers Is twisted from Us true signifi cance and worked Into the administration's propa ganda of destructive deflation, and used as an ex ruse for a renewed assault upon the value Of agri cultural products." Colonel Thompson charges the Federal Reserve board with having flagrantly violated the fundamen tal Intent of the "federal reserve law. lie continues: "The department of the treasury and the Federal Reserve board on the one hand and the vultures of speculation on the other, are working together for the same result. Of course, there Is no deliberate concert of action between the two, but the activities of the latter follow the actions of the former as In evitably as night follows the- day. While the financial administration of tho government is holding up the American farmer in furtherance of a stupid economic, plan, or else for an Imaginary party political advan tage, the bear speculator Is going through the victim's pockets for real and very substantial personal profit." Colonel Thompson, hopeless of any relief from the administration, calls upon the farmers and those de pendent upon the farmer, to help themselves: "Organize the bankers, the merchants, the farmers and all our citizens Into a grim ahd righteous movement to withhold cotton from . the maelstrom of destruction, miscalled a market, in spite of Hell, Houston and Harding." Now, against whom is Colonel Thompson urging this defiance? Houston is Mr. Wllson'a' democratic secretary of the treasury. "Harding" is not Senator W. O. Harding, the Republican candidate for presi dent, nor yet Governor Harding Of Iowa but W. P. G. Harding. small Democratic banker of Alabama, whom Mr. Wilson appointed to the Federal Reserve board of which he is now the governor. What "Hell" ColorJcl Thompson would organize against we leave to Demicratlo conjecture. ' Kess than two weeks ago both Governor Harding and Scretary Houston rebuked the southern cotton growers for their Impatience and especially cen sured a movement to withhold their cotton from the tumbjlng market. Rut within the last three days, the Democratic Federal Reserve board, doubtless alarmed at the prospect of a southern revolt a week from next Tuesday consentI to release money for the re lief of the southern planters. Iftit that relief dors not extend to the long staple cottotl growers of tho Salt River Valley, anil other growers in Arizona, and California, nor to the ngrl 'Ultual producers of sny other section than the solid smith A Man for the Job Vi 1) n e before culled the attention of th voters to ths personality of the Republican candidates who will presented to the people of Arizona a week from tomorrow. .Nothing in axkrd for them because ih ir RepuMieai-.tsm. hut hei -;iuo of their superior iiualifu'iltioii for tlie offinw for v hi. li they ,u nominated. .Vow. here is Frank II. I'nrKer, who hns been named for the state tax commission which, under our constitution is Hot a partisan orflce. It's non-partisan character, like the offices of our Judges, i recognized In the fact that the candidates may not appear on the official ballot under party designa tions. Mr. Tarker has been a resident of Arizona for more than a generation. He has never held a political office, but in ail that time he has been foremost in every movement intended to contribute to the pros perity of the state. Not the greatest, though a con spicuous achievement of Mr. Parker was in tho posi tion of member of the Capitol commission, in which he acfUely assisted in the suerintending of the erec tion of the Capitol building which has been said by competent experts to be the best public building ever erected In the United States for the money, its cost being in the neighborhood of $130,000 a sum consider ably less than the smaller and less skillfully con structed wing of the building lately finished. Mr. Parker was on the Job throughout the erection of the building. His associates were good men, but their time was occupied in a great measure by their private affairs so that they deferred to the Judgment of Mr. Parker and depended upon his untiring vigi lance. So the Capitol stands as a monument to the capability of Mr. Tarker. Mr. Parker was one of the pioneers and most active figures in the movement leading to the con struction of the Roosevelt Dam and he has since been foremost in every movement for the development of the project which has extended far beyond the original plans. In agricultural industry, Mr. Parker has been a leader and for some years he has been engaged In a plan for the stabilizing of the long staple cotton In dustry and for securing better and more intelligent cooperation among growers. But coming to the peculiar fitness of Mr. Parker for the office oft tax commissioner, there is no better Judge than he, of real estate and tock values. He is the kind of man the taxpayers want for this position, the basis alike of the state's economical government and Its prosperity. Another Gomper'a Folly Mr. Samuel Gompers is a bad strategist. Other wise he would not have introduced the subject of the Boston policemen's strike, in an attack by hlm last Friday on Governor Coolidge. That affair was long ago settled to the great advantage of Governor Coolidge. But for the part he played in that there would have been nothing to lift him out of the ruck of American governors; nothing to distinguish him from the other forty-seven governors. But the emergency' arose; he met It so courageously that he was at once recognized as a man of national size, was seriously considered as a candidate for the pres idency, and he is the Republican candidate for vice president.', President Wilson, himself, was among the first to congratulate Governor Coolidge on the alertness with which he moved in defense of law and order. The governor's prompt action infused courage into the hearts of many timid governors and scores of mayors of cities where situations were developing similar to the Boston revolt and which if it hajd succeeded, would have been- followed by many othess, probably in every large city in the country. Governor Coolidge did not temporize and he re fused to compromise with or recognize the striking policemen. He laid down the doctrine that the first duty of one in public employment waa to the public and not to any organization. He made that doctrine If that revolt had occurred in any city outside of Massachusetts, the result would have been doubt ful, for so many governors are cowardly and fearful of great private organizations. Mr. Gompers had encouraged the Boston outrage and after it was put down, he and others like him appealed to organize labor and to the voters of Massachusetts to punish Governor Coolidge. Yet, at the election that fall, the governor was reelected by a largely increased majority. We supposed that even . Mr. Gompers might learn something from that elec tion and refrain from bringing to the attention of the people again the very thing that made Governor Coolidge unbeatable. Mr. Gompers is a very old man, too old, we fear, to serve with capacity, in the position he has so long held the dictatorship of organized labor. John G. Montgomery Four residents of Maricopa county out of five are so sure of the reelection of Johnnie 'Montgomery as sheriff that they are not talking about that event at all, but are confining their discussions to disputa tious subjects. Mr. Montgomery was elected two years ago by a crushing majority, a part of which may have been attributed to a disagreement among the Demo crats, but the greater part of which represented pop ular confidence in him and that popularity which came of his long residence in the county. His conduct of the office in the last two years s has Justified the confidence the people placed in him in 1918, so that his election has been regarded as one of the surest of things that have not yet happened. FORTY YEARS AGO TODAY. From the Phoenix Herald, which was absorbed by The Arizona Re publican in 1899, and for a time was published as an evening edition Monday, October 25, 1ES0 HIS EXCELLENCY R. B. Hayes, President of the United. States and Mrs. Hayes And the Distinguished Party that Ac- corn paniod them . Returning Homeward Through Arizona The chief magistrate of the nation and his amiable wife and the distin guished party that accompanied them on their visit to the pacific cons- passed through Arizona yesterday, Sunday, October 24 from west to east. on tneir way home uashmgton (it is true that Washington lies a little to the eastward of Arizona), where they will arrive on October 31. This is the first visit of a president of the United States to this part of the land over which he presides. The train reached Maricopa at exactly half past nine and after a stop of 40 minutes started at lightning speed for Tucson. A largw number of citizens were in waiting at Maricopa and Company I. Sixth cav alry of Fort McDowell, Major Chaffee commanding, were drawn up in line. As the train came thundering into the deport at Maricopa General Sherman standing on the lower step was quickly recognized by the crowd. In a few minutes after the train stopped the president and Mrs. Hayes stepped to the platform and were re ceived by General Willcox, Acting DO YOU LOVE TREES? By Dr. James I. Vance What a wonderful thing a tree Is! Think of how a tree comes into being. One day a tiny seed falls into the lap of mother earth. Rest ing its tired cheek on her warm breast, it falls asleep, and when it wakes, the miracle of being has been wrought, the door of destiny has swung wide, and the world of light and sunshine and song Is calling. Think of how a tree grows. With infallible in stinct it feels out and finds what it needs. It gathers food from the soil. It draws sustenance from the rocks. It drinks from stream and sky. It captures and imprisons the sunshine until its garments are living green. It bows to the wind and bends to the storm and blushes under tho warm gaze of the ardent sun. Through all this it grows tall and strong and lusty, spreading its branches to bless the earth, and lifting its head to salute the heavens. Think of how a tree serves. The birds come and build their nests in its boughs. Any bird that wants to may come, for the gospel of the tree is: "Whoso ever will may come." The beasts of the field, the rattle and the sheep, ,and tired men from the neisy town come to rest in shade. And w-hen its fruit grows to luscious ripeness, it says: "Take, eat,' and If yon will not take,' it will of its own accord drop Its bounty into your hand, for. the tree lives to serve. Think ot how a tree suffers. It bares its Lead to Uie tempest. It is exposed to the ice and snow. It is assailed by the stormwlnd, und its bruises and broken branches bleed. Then when the woodman drives the keen edge of his axe into its heart, the. tree gives its life to feed his fire. Think of how responsive a tree i. Nothing leaves It the same. It res-ponds to the charging seasons, it stores up in itself tho record of eve'ry experlehre, and draws a circle around Its heart for each year It lives. It carries to its grave the kiss of every Minhearn. the baptism of every raindrop, the 'caress of every kind, the blow of every thunderbolt. Think cf how a tree bind the world together. Successive generations have had the same tree for a friend. Yes. a tree is wonderful. There is something wro'-j- w'h ou li j on 0 nut trees Governor Gosper and Chief Justice French. . The Dartv were all nlalnly dressed. the presideni being attired in a suit of black and a soft black hat. Mrs. Hayes and the other ladies of tho party dur ing their stay distributed large quan tities of fruit to children and Indians gathered around. As the train left the depot three rousing cheerrf were given for the president and three for Mrs. Hayes which were acknowledged by waving of handkerchiefs. ' Local Linea Eight days more to election. Grant LeBarr has gone to Tomb stone. M. H. Calderwood will arrive from Agua Fria and will remain until after the election. Professor Kelly has been quite 111 for the past week. Ha wishes to state that there will be no band practice until next Thursday evening. At a meeting of the board of direc tors of the Salt River canal this morning the price of water-was re duced from $2.50 per inch to $2 for shareholders and $2.25 for outsiders Territorial Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Patrick Dooley will confer a favor by informing his wife Mary, at Conten tion City, Pima county. Supposed murder. Thomas Harper will be hanged at Tucson., December 10. Presidential Campaigns XIX. THE McK IN LEY-BRYAN RACE OF 1896 Bry Frederic J. Haskin WASHINGTON. D. C Oct. 23 Tha hardest fought political battle of Amer ican history as the campaign of 1S96 in which William McKinley of Ohio vanquished William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska. The fact that McKinley was re-elected with ease in his second campaign against Kryan, and that the Republican majorities of 189& look so great on paper, has caused many men of short memory to believe that Mc Kinley won his first election without great difficulty. In that year the Democratic nom inee. Mr. Bryan, made the most re markable speaking campaign ever un dertaken by any man. In the same year, the Republican campaign man ager, Mr. Hanna, spent five times aa much money as had ever been- spent before in a presidential race. The lie publican campaign was conductedfwith such consummate skill that the name of Mark Hanna will live for years as that of the best political general the country has produced. , The veaf 1896 was a rear of DOliti cal revolution. Both of the leading parties underwent great changes, and the number of independent voters waa increased a thousand fold. Mr. Cleve land's second administration began with the country on the verge of a financial crash. The blow descended and the panic of 1S93 was on. The money question, which both parties had eo carefully side-stepped for so many years was presented in such a-i. way that the administration could not avoid taking a position. Mr. Cleve land and his cabinet decided to place the country squarely on the gold stan dard, and to disregard the petty sops which had been thrown to Bilver. The treasury regulations accomplished thie purpose long before the McKinley ad ministration came in. . Democrats In Control For the first time since the first part of Buchanan's administration the government was in control of the Democrats, that party having the pres dent and a majority in both houses of congress. Mr. Cleveland called , con gress together and urged the repeal of the silver purchasing clause of the Sherman act, which would finally "demonetize" silver. His party did not agree with him on that subject, and it was with the greatest difficulty that his purpose was accomplished. President Cleveland had been an ex emplar of civil service reform and was opposed to "pernicious activity'' in politics, but he went to the extreme of the use f patronage as a club to drive the repeal bill through congress. Even then, it was done only by the help of eastern Republican votes. It left his party hopelessly divided. The Democratic landslide which rer elected Cleveland was the result, of popular disapproval of the McKinley tariff bill of 1890. After the terrific fight on the silver purchasing clause repeal, the Democratic congress en deavored ,to enact a Democratic tariff bill. The party was already torn asunder and could act with no unani mity. The result was the passage of the Wilson bill, which Mr. Cleveland permitted to become a law without his signature. As the people had condemned the McKinley bill six months after it was passed and before its effect could pos sibly have been felt, by the election of the Democratic house in 1890, so the Wilson b4U. charged with responsibility for a panic which was on before the bill was written, resulted in the over whelming Republican congressional victory of 1894. A Year of Split Parties All through the three years of the Cleveland administration leading up to the campaign of 1896 there waa con stant strife in both parties. For a time it seemed that the Republicans would declare for free silver and that the Democrats would follow their presl dent in advocacy for the gold stand ard. Then it seemed that both partiea would declare for the gold standard and the silver hosts would enroll un der the banner of Populism. The Re publicans felt certain that they could win on the prosperity issue, and by denouncing the Cleveland administra tion for its issue of $262,000,000 of hnnd in "time of profound peace." But they didn't want to split their own forces by taking sides in the money fight. Mr. McKinley anS Speaker Thomas B. Reed were the leading candidates for the Republican nomination for nresident. Mr. McKinley had the good fortune to have Mark Hanna for his political captain. Hanna organized the states and took even New Eng land away from Reed long before the convention met. Mr. Hanna was afraid of the money question and Mr. McKinley was committed by nis record to "bimetallism." So the Ohio leaders attempted to "Btraddle" the issue once more. The Ohio state plat form contained a delphic utterance on the money question which said nothing. But when the national convention met at St. Louis. Mr. Hanna found that the question was one which was too bhr to be straddled. Senator Thomas C. Piatt of New York forced Hanna to accept a gold standard plat form. It was later modified by a pro nouncement in favor of international bimetallism, which permitted Repub licans who had been shouting for sil ver to come down gracefully. Senator Piatt may not be regarded as a great Btatesman, but in 1896 and 1900 he am things that left marka on the history of the country. Westerners Bolted When the sMd plank waa adopted, 84 western Republican delegatea, headed by Senator Teller of Colorado, Senator Cannon of Utah, and Senator Duboia of Idaho, walked out of tho convention and Into the Democratic party.' All over the countryv there were Republi cans who loudly proclaimed the fact that they had bolted the nomination of McKinley. A national silver Repub lican convention waa called. Mr. Hanna, chosen chairman of the na tional committee, knew that he had a great job ahead of him and he set to work. The Democratic convention met In Chicago. The Cleveland wing of the party controlled the national commit iee, but the recommendations of tnat body were swept aside on the first vote and it was clear that the silver men controlled the convention. A resolu tion commending the ..then present Democratic convention was voted down with vengeful hoots. No man was ever hated more than the Democratic na tional convention of 1896 hated Grover Cleveland, the Democratic president of the United States. Leading free silver advocates like Richard P. Bland of Missouri and John R. McLean of Ohio were contest ing for the nomination. The story of their defeat is a most familiar bit of political history. William Jennings Bryan, who had reported the St. Louis convention which nominated McKin ley, for a Nebraska newspaper, came to Chicago at the head of a contesting delegation. He was iiven a seat. Then came the great debate on the platfArm, the eastern Democrats fighting hard against the majority. In that debate, Mr. Bryan, then only 36 years old, slim of figure and full of mane, leaped into world-wide fame in a moment. The famous "crown of thorns and cross of gold" speech, whether the figure waa borrowed from Representative Mc Call of Massachusetts or not, sent that convention wild. Bryan was nom inated. Triumph of the Boy Orator A little later the Popullsta and the silver Republicans also nominated "the Boy Orator of the Platte " The Cleveland Democrats called a conven tion at Indianapolis and organized the "National Democracy." General John M. Palmer of Illinois, a soldier of the Union, waa nominated for president with General Simon Boliver Buckner of Kentucky, a soldrer of the Confed erascy, for vice president. They polled but few votes, the majority of the gold V. Democrats voting straight for Mc Kinley. Bryan soon began his unprecedented and unequalled campaign tourfc He did not then possess the suavity of his later years, but he was mightily in earnest. No other man has ever aroused the enthusiasm, which he created in that campaign. He spoke to over five million people, making over a thou sand separate speeches. In the first part of the campaign he traveled in ordinary day coaches, the railroads making it as hard for him as possible. Toward the end of the campaign the railroads relented and he was enabled to get a private car. He was without money and in his great canvass was sometimes forced to borrow the prica of a ticket to the next stopping place. Against this terifflc campaign, which seemed to be sweeping the country for the Demicrats. Mr. Hanna planed the great "campaign of education." The farmers of the argicultural states east of the Mississippi were Induced to be lieve that the election of Bryan would mean bankruptcy for them. All of tha wealth of the country was back of Hanna he had millions to spend and he knew how to do it. Careful canvasses taken two months before the elections showed thst sucb states as Ohio and Indiana were for Bryan. The work that was done to turn that defeat Into the overwhelm ing victory of November was due to w jvniiyn a (A-v 4 t- jt x, Aliai t-UJ A4 Hanna. Bryan's appeals to the people of every section, the enormous populv Interest in his personality and the pic turesqueness of his campaign, on th one aide, and the efforta of the Re publicans to reach every voter with' campaign literature and personal arg ument on the other side, resulted in a widespread popular Interest In poll- tics such as had never been known. While the campaign was decisive. and while it practically settled the money question for all time, defeat did not diminish the- popularity of the Democratic standard-bearer, who has ever since stood high in the councils of his party. McKinley was chosen president and his administration wit nessed the return of prosperity, the greatest the country has ever known. After all. not the least among the Re-TM puDtican assets of 1896 was the fact - -that the panic of 1893 came during a Democratic administration. " o MOTHER FAILS IN LOi II FOR SI SAN FRANCISCO. Oct 25. Led on by hope Mrs. Mary Errickson traveled 10,000 miles in search of her shell- shocked son, James Errickson. The long search started several months ago when she learned that he was a patient in a shell shook ward at Camp Mercedes. Texas. She hur ried there and learned that he had been transferred to Council Bluffs. Iowa. There she again learned he had been transferred to the coast. At Wenat chee, Wash., her money gave out. She secured employment driving an auto mobile to Oakland, Ca! having heard that her son was on Alcatras Island. Mrs. Errickson hurried to Alcatraa Island. They brought James Errick son before her. But the James Errickson before her was not her son. Her aearch had been futile. CM A newspaper ser-ice has established a new air record. One of its men haa flown from London to Paris and has written a story of the trip while in tha air, flying a hundred miles an hour at the time. The story was 3,000 words in length. O San Francisco is planning a $2,500, 000 civic center as a war memorial. WE N EED-HELP Housing conditions in Phoenix are more congested this year than ever before. The Arizona State Fair will bring a great influx of visitors. They must be taken care of. Every one must help. If each citizen will do his or her part, every visitor can be taken care of. Arrange to take care of some visitors in your home. Let the Chamber of Commerce know about the accommodations you have. Call 1294 or 4986 and your rooms will be listed. This is the only way your reputation for hospitality can be maintained. ' DO IT TODAY! THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE -Committee on Accommodations for State Fair. Phones: 1294-4986