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VOL. XXXI. No. 24. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1920 PRICE FIVE CE
CAMPUS VOICES
POLITICAL
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PHILLIPS URGES CDX'S ELECTION
TO VINDICATE AMEHCA'S INTEGHITY
PREDICTS "COMEDY WHEN MUCH-LAUDED REPUBLICAN TEAM GETS
INTO SCRIMMAGE," SHOULD GRAND OLD PARTY WIN;
REGRETS HOOVER INCIDENT
He--- Will You? She---Hoke Pretty!
HOBBS CHARGES LEAGUE AN ATTEMPT,
TO SURRENDERNATION'S SOVEREIGN
NECESSARILY BECOMES AN ISSUE OF CAMPAIGN, PROFESSOR I
CLARES; POINTS TO OTHER PROBLEMS UPON WHICH
PARTIES MUST TAKE STAND
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(By Prof. Ulrich B. Phillips)
(By Prof. William Herbert Hobbs)
In the matter of politics we are
already "back to normalcy," and be-
low it. Most campaigns are insincere;
but in nearly all respects, except per-
sonal mud-slinging, few campaigns
have been so depressed and depress-
ing as the present one.
A reaction was to be expected from
the fervor of Roosevelt and the exal-
tation of Wilson. One man only, it
seem, could have saved us from so
extreme a descent, and he inglorious-
ly failed.
Recalls Hoover
Had Herbert Hoover stood upon his
assertion of early spring that he would
accept the nomination of either party
adopting a platform satisfactory to
him, the Republican convention would
probably have taken him in order to
deprive their opponents of the sure
winner; and the Democrats would as-
suredly have embraced him had he
been within their reach.
Hoover had a gospel which America
greatly needed and wanted to hear, but
by his announcement in May that he
would not accept a Democratic nom-
ination he virtually bound and gagged
himself. This incredible blunder of
Hoover's delivered the . Republican
party to the cynical banality of its
machine operators and reduced the
Democrats to a choice among candi-
dates who were generally not wanted.
Hoover's action practically assured
tion of the public mind, the Republi-
can managers believed that any nom-
inee of their party, however colorless
and vacuous, would be elected. Their
choice was made as if to prove their
diagnosis.
The campaign, of course, has been
mortally boresome. Its dullness has
been emphasized by the wriggling of
the thirty-one Republican illuminati,
whose pronouncement brings to mind
the manifesto of the ninety-three Ger-
man professors of 1914. The ringing
repudiations of Harding by Herbert
Parsons and other genuine pro-League
Republicans has alone relieved the
dreariness.
Hopes For Success
For the promotion of liberal policy,
for the vindication of American integ-
rity and for the mitigation of the pres-
ent wretchedness of the world, I hope
for Cox's election.
But if next Tuesday gives us Hard-
ing Instead, I shall have a shred ot
solace in looking forward to witness-
ing a comedy when the much-lauded
Republican team gets into the scrim-
mage, with the players and coaches
disagreeing over the shifts to be used,
and the captain plaintively ignorant
even of the direction of the goal. Re-
grettably the scrimmage will hardly
begin until the first regular session of
the next Congress, which will not con-
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE HOLDS EDGE OVER DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE
YET STRAW VOTE TOO SMALL TO INDICATE UNIVER-
SITY CHOICE; MANY GIVE OPINIONS
Never in our history have the issues:
of the impending election been sur-
passed in gravity except, possibly, in
1860, and 1916. All these issues may
be compressed together into the ex-
pressive term "Wilsonism."
The Wilson League of Nations; '
which from its wrapping superscrip-
tion of "Covenant" and from being so
largely advocated from the pulpit, ac-j
quired a disguising odor of sanctity,
must even now be looked upon as a
dead issue. Even if it were possible to
forecast a Democratic landslide, its
ratification would still be impossible.
Time and opportunity to study its
vicious provisions, cleverly disguised
under alluring phrases and by positive
though false assertions of its sponsor,
have permitted a people suddenly
sandbagged into insensibility by ofi-
cial and other propaganda to regain
its sound senses; but to gain this time
a few individuals braved a storm of
abuse.
Becomes Issue
The League of Nations enters into
the campaign chiefly as the record of
a futile attempt of the administration
to surrender our sovereignty to a
European supergovernment.
The still living issues of the elec-
tion are:
(1) The restoration of civil and rep-
resentative government under the Con-
stitution after an interregnum of auto-
cratic personal government;
(2) The restoration of business
methods to replace unsound theoriz-
ing, and a delegation of responsibility
to men of proved capacity in place of
an army of sychophants and time
servers;
(3) Imposition of strict economy I
avert disaster and to put an end to a
orgy of extravagance and waste whic
has been as stupid as it has bee
wanton;
(4) Replacement of patronage i
the interest of the South by a trul
national public service;
(5) Replacement of our late pac
fist-international foreign policy of mil
chievous meddling in those Europea
affairs which do not concern us by
strong but friendly American policy:
(6) Opposing a sturdy front 1
bolshevistic and other radical infi
ences to which Mr. Wilson's loos
phrase-mongering and the active syn
pathy of his radical appointees ha'
given encouragement, and for whit
his "The New Freedom" had supplic
the text.
Stands on Wilson's Record
Through his unqualified endors
ment of Wilson and his "Covenani
Governor Cox must stand or fall c
the record of the two Wilson admini
trations. Despite a Government ce
sorship which has outlived the wa
and notwithstanding the use of m:
lions of Government funds for W
sonian advertisement, the people a
now in possession of the salient fac
and may be depended upon to rend
a just verdict.
It is a hard thing to have to say
an American President that his allu
ing phrases have borne small relatic
either to his actions or to his evide
purposes, but the fact has been t
often proven to be longer gainsaid. I
tellectual dishonesty has been, in fa
the keynote of his career.
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the later trend of affairs. vene until the first Monday in Decem-
In view of the confusion and relaxa- ber of the year 1921.
Democrats Happy, Evil is to Hit
Republicans and Not Them, Says
Critic of loth Party Leaders
(By Robert Bartron)
I am a Democrat. I was born and
brought up a Democrat. I am still a
Democrat. * * * And because I am a
Democrat, I sincerely hope Mr. Hard-
ing wins. The Democrats aren't will-
ing to have Mr. Cox represent them,
and if Mr. Harding pleases the Repub-
licans, I hope to Heaven-for the sake
of Madame Democracy-that he wins!
I, as a Democrat, am ashamed of a
mud-slinger like Cox, and I know that
every honest Republican is ashamed
of a villifyer like Harding.
If Cox should win, he would winl
by a very small majority, and probably
be hampered in every possible way by
a Republican majority in Congress. If,
I say, Cox should win, I most em-
phatically believe the Democratic
party would not rise again for twenty
LAUDS CHRISTENSEN 'AS
FARMER-LABOR LEADER'
(By Edward G. Punke, A. M.)
The acid test of a truly democratic'
nation is its toleration, moderation'
and generosity. Especially is this true
in times of peace. Likewise such
characteristics redound to the great-
ness and glory of political parties. We
Americans swell with pride at the
thought of the unprecedented gener-
osity of General Grant to the soldiers
of Lee; we love to tell of the mag-
nanimity of Lincoln and point proudly
to the political amnesty issued by
(Continued on Page Four)
years,-because Gov. Cox would be
fighting against a very hostile country,
because he would be fought by an
antagonistic Senate, and because he
isn't worthy of the Presidency, any-
way!
And Harding. * * * I was talking
with a prominent. Wisconsin editor the
other day, who was campaigning for
Harding. A Democrat asked what he
thought of Harding's "French envoy
statement." He replied, "Harding is
absolutely the biggest fool in this
country! He doesn't know history; he
doesn't know even the rudiments of
diplomacy; as far as I can see, he
doesn't know anything!" "Then," re-
plied my friend, "why are you cam-
paigning for him?" "To save the
party!-" was his answer. In that one
phrase, I believe, is summed up the,
attitude of the mass of Republican
voters. They don't care who the man
is. "They have to save the party!"
Harding will win. And the Demo-
crats want him to, although they can't
say so, for they know that if the coun-
try, and the rapidly growing group of
"Independents," especially, has four
years of a weak, fearful man like
Harding, who is entirely in the hands
of the "Big Three"--Lodge, Smoot, and
Penrose-there will be the biggest
landslide in the history of this country
in 1924.
And so, to repeat, it seems to me_
Campus opinion has given the odds
in the coming election to the Republi-
can party, if communications from stu-
dents, faculty and graduates can be
taken as criterions. Likewise the
straw vote conducted almost entirely
by mail from the Michigan Daily of-
fices gives Harding a slight edge over
the Democratic candidate. However,
the tact that but little interest was
manifested in the pre-election ballot,
THE STRAW VOTE
For Harding..............37
For Cox................. 28
For Debs .................5
For Christensen............4 1
causes the figures to have but little
representative quality.
The diversity of opinion, and the
earnestness with which those support-
ers of candidates who did send com-
rimnications to The Daily, wrote, indi-
cates that what interest is being mani-
fe.ted in the coming election is by no
r sans lacking in character.
Denounced League
t rof. William H. Hobbs in his,.com-
munication roundly denounced the
League of Nations and the Democratic
party, and practically predicted Re-
publican victory.
Prof. Phillips, writing for the Demo-
crats, on the other hand, declared it
imperative for this country to accept
the Democratic party to protect the
integrity of the Nation.
Many other communications favor-
ing one side or the other were received,
at the offices of The Daily, but lack of
space prohibits their use in their
entirety.
Although commonly agreed that the
battle for the presidency rests between}
also came in for a good share of
attention.
Many May Change
Karl W. Guenther in his letter de-
clared that many people are beginning
to consider voting outside of the two
big parties "because they believe that
both the Democratic and Republican
parties are cheapening the institutions
of the government by persistent avoid-
ance of real issues."
Henry Walker, student, although de-
claring that he is not a Democrat, is
following along with many other bolt-
ers and will vote for Cox this time, he
says. "I believe the U. S. should have
membership in the League of Nations,"
he says, and later qualifies his choice
of candidates by referring to Cox as
follows: "He is Aot my ideal, but the
lesser of two evils seems to be my
choice."
Afterarraigning Governor Cox in
terms that could not be called mild,
(Continued on page four)
HERE'S ARTICLE X
Here is the famous or as some
would have it, infamous, Article
Ten of the Covenant of the
League of Nations, that has
-caused so much arguing, pro
and con.
The League of Nations, some
followers of both parties are at-
tempting to show, is the real
issue of the coming election.
ARTICLE X.
The members of the League
undertake to respect and pre-
serve as against external aggres-
sion the territorial integrity and
existing political independence
of all Members of the League. In
case of any such aggression or
in case of any threat or danger
of such aggression the Council
shall advise upon the means by
which this obligation shall be
fulfilled.
Notary Public Has It All Over
the Reverend When it Comes t
Listening to Her Solemn Vos
(By Barney Darnton)
Lots of them are exercising the di-
vine prerogative of the duly qualified
elector these days. Up at the Republi-
can club headquarters they have been
passing out absentee voter applica-
tions and genial courtesy in great
shape, while the notaries about the
campus have heard more women say
"I do" in the past fortnight than have
all the preachers and justices in town
in all their busy lives.
So the University is voting. But its
about as interested in the election as
a bathing beauty is in ancient Sans-
krit. That sounds rather startling at
first, but it's none the less true. We
will produce Exhibit A.
Any afternoon in the past couple of
weeks you could see a long line of
voters in the hall leading to the Re-
publican club offices waiting to get
their applications for ballots. And
any afternon you could hear the same
thing. They talked football, and hair-
cuts, and dancing, and gin recipes, and
movies, and sometimes even studies,
but never a word or two about the
election.
There is not even one election bet on
record as yet. Think of an election
which doesn't condemn some mistaken
enthusiast to push a peanut from the
low building to the engineering arch,
or to allow his beard to whisp in the
breeze until the "party" comes bac
into power!
The professionals are ranting an
waving the flag in the time-honore
style, but old Mr. Man-in-the-Stre
views the whole affair with a tole
ance and indifference that would ha;
been impossible to his father 20 yea
ago.
Yesterday we asked the first thre
men we met on State street this que
tion:
"What do you think about the ele
tion?" Here are the replies:
"Gimme a cigaret."
"Going to the movie?"
"Great game, wasn't it?"
Yet more than 5,000 votes will b
cast by University students.
The torchlight parade and the car
paign doggerel seem to have been rel
gated to the dim and distant.
SAYS DEBS' SUPERIOR
TO COX 1AND0HARDINI
(By Chas. A. Madison)
Although appeals for political di
cussion appears to be directed only
Republicans and Democrats, I, too, as
to be allowed to voice my politic
opinion.
(Continued on Page Four)
that both men are a disgrace to this Harding and Cox, many supporters of
country, and, while it is truly the the minority parties were not a bit
choice between "the better of two backward in voicing their opinion.
evils," the Democrats are supremely Many Debs men addressed com-
happy that the "evil" will hit the Re- munications to The Daily, while Chris-
publicans and not them! tensen, of the Farmer-Labor party,
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