Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 21, 1924, Page 8

TD rae i ie Biden h teth nei ata a PAGE EIGHT. be Casper Dailp Cribune to the better things and better’ candi. MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusivey en- titled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the, local news published herein. Member of Audit Bureau of ‘A. B.C) eee ee eee ET TEpEneanl The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening and The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Casper, Wyoming. Pu>- Meation offices: Tribune Building. opposite Dostoffice. ——— |/ Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second class matter, November 2 1916. Circulation - 15 and 16 Connecting Business Telep! Branch Telep' All Departme By J. E. HANWAY and E. E. HANWAY Advertising Representatives. Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bldg., Chicago, fT 6 Fifth “Ave, New York City; Globe Bldg., Boston, Mass., Suite 404 Sharon Bldg,, 55 New Montgomery 8t., San Francisco, Cal. 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There are also many more who are yoters but who did not vote who are even more disgusted and that explains, the light vote cast in the state on Tuesday. A government is not a government of Ne take and by the people unless the pe part in it, and the least pa take is voting at election voters to do their duty in this respect the machinery incident to their art must be simple and plain in char. acter and uncomplicated in performance. There could be no sytem devised that is further in the other tion, one that more ifs, ands, buts and « the Wyoming primary luw. Some individuals get along with it but’ the mass of -voters do not and ‘ will not understand it, and therefore do not and will not vote under it. If a voter understands the system well enough to vote at the primary this year before another primary rolls around the procedure has faded fre his mem- ory, and rather than bother with it, he avoids voting. A . The outcome of primaries are so of ten disappointing and disgusting to vo- ters, in that proper and expected re- sults are not accomplished, that voters abandon the whole thing and refuse longer to take part in them. The law has been in force a suffi nt length of time. for yoters to realize that the tem is a delusion. It constantly b inferior candidates and contributes efficiency in public office. The mass is influenced through sympathy to com- mit all sorts of folly in nominations. The system is jimmed by all sorts of trickery into a thing of ridicule, A persou who is qualified and who uspires to serye the public, in order to do so must practically go through two esmpaigns in order to call attention to his «aspirations. Fewer and fewer qualified persons are willing to under- go the ordeal and therefore the voters must make choice between unqualified candidates, Ignorance and lack of busines ability in. public office holders is exactly the cause of inferior public administration and high local taxek. ry system does not do what sed to do. It does not af. ford the voter the opportunity to direct- ly choose his candidates, according to the theory... It removes all opportunity of this kind from him by purpos votes, by bloc votes, by the division of votes in populons districts through the introduction of personally popular local candidates, who serve this purpose only, and do not hope for an election. Unde the prim system .the voter actug exercises less choice in a matter of ¢ didates than he eyer done under 4) vogue in the state. ytem is more susceptible ‘of ‘ollusion and other polit imes than any other sytem prac tin . ol It is ten times more ex- ve to candidates than, was ever mefl under the convention system. 8 the history of conventions that » in a dog's age some delegate was corrupted, but the history of primaries is jthat the entire voting population is either corrupted or gypped. Advocates of ‘purity formerly contended that party conventions were an‘evil in that they af. forded opportunity for manipultion. If that be true, and they did so afford in rare instances, what must now be said in this respect of primaries? They are nothing but manipulation from start to finish. The pr has well nigh ruined par Tt has set-up in place of two party government a mon grel one:party rule operated for and spoils. It, has set up the world as a factor in politics, whereas under the convention system there could be no appeal to the underworld, rather was the appeal of both political parties lates. So long as you retain the pri mary sytem you will have the under- world to contend with, because the un- derworld acts as a unit and its votes come in a*chunk for its own preserva- tion. Its bargain is made always look- ing to its continued existence. The people of Wyoming had better abolish the prima: at the next sesion of the legislature. They had bet- ter choose members of the legislature pledged in this purpose. It is a matter in which both political parties should join Lut the sytem should be wiped out, so that we could return to something fair and decent in the way of securing abler and better qualified public officers. It would seem that all good citizens would join in a movement of this sort to help rid the state of a festering sore, a erying disgrace, a thing of corruption and a blot upon the states’ civilization. Our Present Duty If there are any sore spots on anybody as a result of Tuesday's primary elec. tion, the sore places had better be annointed: with salve of philosophy so that we can go ahead and elect the can- didates who came through triumphant. It will be recalled that at the recent Re- publican county coyention, the candi- dates, their friends and workers, the county central committee and all other Republicans in attendance, pledged their undivided .support to the candidates nominated at the primaries. The thing now to do is for the Repub- lican party to come together in all its fighting strength to battle for the suc- essful election of the candidates placed m the ticket on Tuesday, Unless this is done the members of the are not playing fair with the can- they have chosen and they are a solémn pledge publically pe didat brea made. There is no good reason why every man and woman on the ticket cannot be elected in November. They can and will be if the Republican. party will come alive and go to work, ” There is no reason why the Republican completely s1 persohnel is not be entirely and cessful. The Republican superior to the Democratic personnel at it. ndida will not be elected iy standing around policy. They will ected only by industrious cam- paigning on the part of both candidates md the members of the party. The main ‘esponsibility rests upon party mem- ‘ers who placed the candidates in nom- nation, and they-must come forward and shoulder the responsibility. It is the duty of eyery Republican to work for and vote for the candidates Ahe majority of the party has put upon the party ticket. Remember, the contests carried on for the past month among members of the family are over and settled. We are now ing the common enemy and dur prin- cipal business is to exterminate it. Dawes Tells "Em We cannot imagine better hands in which to place the job of tearing the can off ‘Robert LaFollette than those of Charles G: Dawes. The occasion came in is official notification by the conven- on Ggommittee that he was the Repub- an ‘vice presidential nominee, and he improved it to the great satisfaction of all who heard or read his’ address. General Dawes, is a plain-spoken man, he strikes direct and the language he em- ployes is understandable to everybody. about time that some spokesman party came to, the front to dispute LaFollette in the things he has charged against that party by misrepresentation. It is time also that some spokesman took the Hon. John W. Davis to task in the things he would lay our door, by downright ignorance of ucts and by pure misrepresentation by design. If the favorite outdoor sport of So- cialists and Democrats this campaign is to be mudslinging, it! must always be remembered that we are neither without at nunition not the means of returning the fi It is not intimated that General Dawes will engage in a mud splattering contest with anyone. His way is to hand it to them with such emphasis and such obvious truth that it hurts tenfold worse than mud, That is what he has just done to LaFollette. That is what he will do to Davis later on. The Moral Tohie The speech of acceptance of Mr. John W. Davis, Democratic candidate gets him nowhere fast. Aside from the meaningless generalities with which the address is burdened just one note sounds clear and that is possibly the most un- fortunate one he could Mave struck. ‘It is the assumed moral superority of him- self and bis party. Mr. Dayis is un- questionably respectable and moral him- self, but had he been on intimate terms with his party and acquainted with its acts and history it is doubtful if he would have made it his associate in-any moral issue. = Leaving out of account the bad taste of such un appeal to the American elec- torate, it invites some inquiry into its justification and sincerity. ~ The Demo- cratic presidential, candidate was iden- tified with a recent Democratic na- tional administration whose record is a better index ‘of actual performance than may be found in the pious professions of a presidential candidate. Mr. Davis s of it that it was an administration “without scandal or corruption.” If Mr. Davis has so soon forgotten the revelations of the Graham investi gating committee which probed that administration's conduct of the civil side of war operations, he has no war. rant for the belief that they have passed from the memory of the people whe contributions for war pur po e ruthlessly squandered by the billions. Thousands of episodes in that orgy of waste and Worse may reits: ‘ou-loo onably be rated as scandals. The fif- teen hundred printed pages of direct evidence by credible witnesses accessible to Mr. Davis and ‘every other American citizen reveal the blackest page in Am- erican governmental history. A billion dollars spent .for aircraft and not a fighting plane at the close of the war! martial by Charles E. Hughes after an exhaustive official investigation and awarded a medal of honor instead by the administration “untouched by sean- $ Another billion spent on artil- lery, without an American cannon made: during the war at the fighting front when the armistice was signed! One. hundred and fifty million bread cans and 21,000,000 pairs of shoes bought for three and a half million soldiers, % 006 saddles, 2,023,204 nosebags, 1,000, 000 sets of double harness and 195,000 copper-tipped branding irons bought for 391,000 horses and mules employed _dur- ing the war! Twenty one million dol- lars worth of harness bought for mo- torized, ambulances! Within a few miles of where Candidate Dayis was speaking a tract of land for a govern- ment powder mill site was bought per sonally by a government agent for $207 000, sold by him for $120,000 to a real from that concern for the. government for $146,000! These instances, typical of thousands that happened in govern- ment undertakings under the adminis- tration. And the Department of. Jus- tice, with which Mr. Davis himself was then asociated as an officia ii nd refusing to deter, or punis who notoriously were looting the fed- eral Treasury and to that extent men- cing the nation’s prospect of success in prosecuting the war! , Mr. Dayis has-a keen nose for offi- cial malfeasance, under .a Republican administration. Did it fail him when his own party was in power and he was. a sharer of official responsibility? Did he know that three members of the Wil- son cabinet had retired from office to accept rich retainers from with government claims to prosecute and government favors to seek? he unfamiliar with the proceedings in copnection with the alien proper' todianship from which favored la agents and investors reaped million uearned compensation and profits? Mr. Davis was silent while all this went on Why, therefore, is he so suddenly and vehemently vocal now? Above.all, with his knowledge of the facts, why doés he now boast of the Jack of seandal which failed to attr: wide attention only because the Department of Justice of which he was a part, failed in “itk duty to prosecute’ thesmen who were by wholesale picking the pockets of the Americay people during the excitement of war? N There is other evidence in the speech of Candidate Davis that he is more pro- ficient in the denunciation. of Republi- can than of Demoeratic dereliction. Lis sense of propriety as a lawyer anda citizen not offended by the conduct of d senatorial investigation in which rumor and hearsay were retailed by disreputable witneses. in an effort to blacken’a Republican administration. It is shocked, however, when the chief in- guisitor is regularly indicted under legal procedure on the charge of selling his official influence to a crooked oil com pany engaged in foisting fraudulent claims upon the government. A jury will render a verdict upon the evidence in this case in the near future unless the defendant dodges trial and the great opportunity for “vindication” until after the election. That defendant has re: fused to support the Demo e presi dential candidate on the ground ‘th: Mr. Davis is the tool of corrupt spe inte He may be as credible and honorable a man as Candidate Dayis says fle The moral sensibilities of Mr. Davis were not shocked by the activities in Washington of Frank '‘Vanderlip, of Hog Island fame, in cooperation with the Senate committees of inquisition. That worthy issued a public statement h ng that he was maintaining a corps of 50 “investigators” in Washing- ton, trying to “get -something.on”. the administration and that he was practi- cally “the detective department of ‘the United States Senate.” But Mr. Davis is horrified because the regular oper atives of the Department of Justice persisted in ferreting out crime when it affected a public official of his own political persuasion! Mr. Davis professes to be shocked, too by his professed belief that Depart- ment of Justice has been affected by political considerations .in the ap- pointment of federal judges. He brings forward no specific facts upon which to base his accusation. He describes such appointments as “making political merchandise” of these posts. Was, the r of solicitor of the Department of Justice made merchandise when Presi- dent Wilson appointed “Mr: Davis to that post in recognition of his services in swinging the West Virginia delega- tion to Wilson in. the- Baltimore con: yention? As a congre n, Mr. Davis recommended many deserving Democrats for postoffice-and ather. public appoint- ment Was he then engaged in. the political merchandising busines? When Mr. Brandies was, as the result of a strong political pressure, appointed to the Supreme bench, was President Wil- son making political merchandise of the Supreme Court? It is generally agreed by lawyers that in the appointment. of federal judges the Harding and Cool- idge administrations have held to higher standards than have ever hitherto been maintained. Mr. Davis would do well to abandon virtue as an issue and address himself to the public problems now up for set- tlement, Pious profession of super- morality on behalf of himself ‘and his party will not withstand the wear and tear of a national campaign, OUR DAILY SONG HIT “She Said She Was Saving Kisses, So L_Added Some To Her Collection,” estate concern and bought by him again} everything Republican, being, permitted to fade into the back- campaign is interests | America donbts or can be made to doubt the honesty ‘of Calvin Coolidge. The Was! president has his defects and his limit- ations, like everyone else. For one thing. as do some of his. critics. He prefers to suggested the let of a correspondent,” says The New Herald-Tribune. shading ‘o- plain gust toward the beluted attack upon the integrity of President Coolidge, which is now naively announced as the real juice of the Democratic campaign... “Until this shift there had been much eloquent talk about principles and a campaign upon a high plane..The Demo- cratic party in ideals ube (0 power as a of bi; upon-a program of exalted reform. Senator had not discovered the crookedness of the president when he drafted the official report of his oil committee. Neither had he distoyered it when he made his speech us permanent chairman of the Demo- cratic convention, Eyen Pat Harrison, in his flamboyant diatribes against handled © Mr, Coolidge with . “Now the ideals and principles are und, kid gloves are removed, there are waving fists and hoarse threats, and the announced as headed straight for “the White House steps.” There are several reasons why this move if carried out, will spell ah even greater ster for the Democratic party than that for which it is in any event headed. “One is that it is a little too raw. Politics is politics, espécially Democratic politigs; but a sudden, trumped-up re- solve tojcall the president of the United States names in the desperate hope of gaining votes is not good manners, good Americanism or geod anything. “Another is that nobody in or out of he does not gush’ forth words as freely act rather than to talk. But by tradition ind training and by long habit he ve- longs with the straightforward folk of the world who do’not know how to be nything but honest. His career has heen the old American one of plain: liv- ing and high thinking. The American people recognized Mr. Coolidge for what 'e is, and they will have scant. patience toward partisan attempts to besmirch m. : 3 ‘The final reason is that the Demo- static carididate for the presidency is ill fitted for a mud-slinging campaign. His strength lies in his distinguished career and presence—in the fact that he is, in sum, a gentleman. His experiment with ‘rough stuff’ in his ‘speech of acceptance was a‘flat failure. It alienated admirers. and failed to:satisfy healers. The ‘soon- er Mr, Davis returns to his native stand- ards of accuracy and fairness the better for his yeputation and his candidacy. He is a far better equipp was Alton B, Parker; but if: he turns his back on his natural qualifications rough-and-tumble ‘spellbinder he -will prove even a worse..defeated candidate than was Alton B. Parker, and that is aying a -great deal. Mr. Davis hus threatened to take off his them on and wxke his campaign sincere- ly for what -he is ‘and fairly- upon the real issues of the campaign.” No Platform BY ELDEN SMALL Election of President Zachary Taylor was junique in seyeral ways. In the first’ place he was not.an active .candi- date’ and only half ‘acquiesced’ in the pre convention work of lis friends. _In the second place, he had written a let- ter to one of these friends in which he made it plain that if he.were to. be elected he ‘would not consider himself a@_ partisan executive nor bound. by any platform’ regulations against his own best judgment in any. public matter. His’ supporters ‘really favored. a non- partisan president, and that was the idea of the majority of the convention which, nominated him in 1848. Henry Olay and Daniel Webster, also candi- dates, were considered as partisans, and were defeated for that reason mainly: Gen. Winfield Scott was also a candi- date but Taylor won. easily. . Showing the entire.accord of the del. egates with the Taylor idea of inde- pendence of any party, the convention proceso’ to nominate Fillmore of New ork for vice-president, and then’ ad- journ without framing any party plat- form Asean The te campaign, in. truth, wa; upon Taylor’s pre-con- vention letter, .and “his Mexican war service: He received a plurality. of the popular vote but not a majority OES Ba id-gloves.’ We suggest-that he keep Lines and Angles By TED OSBORNE: CHECKED Sub—“Jack’s. extravagant career re- ceived a sudden check today.” — ; Ab—*Ts that so?, I. saw him an‘hour ago and he dovsn’t seem! to: be slowing up any,” i Sub—“No the check. was. from his father.” y 4 UNCLE HOOK SAYS “Th’ voice o’ duty is jest a whisper, while th’ voice o’ pleasure uses.a meg- aphone.” Pup asleep @ log. Hornets’ nest, Hot dog! Benney the Rat—“E heard that Spike got a suspended sentence from the judge.” Danny the Bat—“Gosh, he’s: lucky, 1 thought the'd be hung.” Benny the Rat— Crim For deals with much of the criminality of New York City. has taken the Uberty of pleading guilty for the American people for ple to crimes and to criminals, the the charges laid against them. Judge Talley can not be approached by any other nation. is but-an index to the Ameri- can crime record in other direct! In. burglaries afd- highway _fob-| Derles,; to say nothing of simple larceny, the United ‘States so. far outstrips its sister countries of the world that there is no second. Maudlin, mawkish sentiment to- ward criminals, make heroes and martyrs of them, the flocking of women to court rooms to see some handsome young wife killer—all these tendencies of the American people are credited by the criminologists with helping to make crime attractive, rather than repugnant, especially to the young, people of the day. When Judge Talley told one of the new judges on the bench with tim a few days ago that he would be heartbroken to find that most of the criminals arragined. would be lads of 18 or 19, he spoke from the wisdom of long experience. 4 In the state of New York, all first offenders ander 30 years of age, go to a-re- formatory. Yet the records show that one half of all inmates of Sing Sing prison are under 25, seven per cent are under 30.- Judg: Talley said today he was very glac none of the Amreican lawyers re .eently attending the Bar association meetings in London had been called upon by their English brethren to explain these appalling statistics. There is no longer a disposition on the part of the’students of crime to attribute the present “wave” to Most criminals of today were ut their mothers’ knees. ‘They were not the “men of the trenches” who had be- come steeped in the art of killing. ‘The tendency today is to search the homes for conditions which lead mere children to the criminal courts. Neglect or contempt of religious training, physical or moral defects, hatred of honest work, a desire for the comparative ease with which children obtain moonshine and other Iiquors—these nd other easily traced, causes help in @ measure to explain the terrify- ng growth of rime. “The. difficulty is that geems to care.” tendency. to the World war. during the war. an “easy living, Se Miao ae ago. ‘In it, he'sala: “The trial of a criminal case seems ike a game of chance, with all the chances in favor of the criminal, and if ‘he escapes, he seems to have the sympathy of a sporting public. Jndge Talley said he people of the country’ to know that ponsible_ es Res wanted the in making his charges about crime, Eighty he was not Indicting New York City. The record here is far above the average-of the country. Although slayings uppear common enough on the streets and in the boudoirs of the metropolis, the percentage to the population of the greater city is quite small. For the past ten years, the homicide rate? for the entire country was 7.2 per -100,000, In New York it was but 5.5. Chicago's raté is 12.7. In the popular mind, New York and ‘Chicago would be regarded as ‘two of the wickedest cities in the country, but the statis. ‘tics do not bear out any such stric- tures, Washington, the capital city of the nation, tops. Chicago in the killing line, with a rate of 13.3 per 100,000. Judge Talley’s own solution calls for a better training of children in the homes and justice that will be prompt, adequate, and final. The courts are doing their best, he de- clases, but without the co-operation of the citizen, they can get nowhere. He cited many. cases in which jurors haye’ deliberately flouted the testimony in-a case, and released a orisoner who unquestionably was yielding an ai over $2,000, cellent profits for the farmers. The pelts sent- from the island. to the last fur auction in Montreal realized the highest prices there. _ The latest census figures show nearly one million widows in the United States. It Frill Speed AHEAD 1 cash revenue of ‘and producing ex- SS oF not you can Bluffs precinct ‘Wash. Out in the wilds of wester® Wash- Chamblers and his wife Rése are the only two regis- ter3d voters in the preciner. ington, Terry “no jone}Cham _The coming cam: | Fi suilty.. Judge Talley describes this s a reaction in the jury box of the general spirit of lawlessness .that yervades the country. OLYMPIA, Wash., This situation was candidate than |~ and attempts to assume the part of. a}. 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