The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-01-20
LAMENTATIONS ON JEREMIAH

ON JEREMIAH
When the Republican State Execu-
tive Committee employed a man to
manage its press bureau, the mem
bers-maybe unconsciously - got a
Jeremiah. Immediately after this man
got on the job, he sent out distress
ing and dreadful dissertations of de-
spair and calamity, both present and
impending, to the G.. o. p. editors to
publish. This publicity man took up
the work where he left off 20 years
ago-he was just 20 years behind the
times. Arguments of despair and cal
-amity are the relics of the dead re-
zines of 20 years ago, Of which this
G. o. p. publicity agent is lingering
survivor.
The Medina County Gazette, stall
wart Republican paper, is one of the
publications which received the week
Nv compositions Of the G. o. P.'s Jere-
.sniah. Here is what that paper says
about the material:
pASTARDLY POLITICS
There has been nothing more repre-
hensible in American politics than the
present studied effort on the part of
the standpat forces in control OF the
Republican party to aid and abet an
era of hard times In this country. 1t
-. o,a,,I,, ,,rooIaimad af tha rQpant
meeting of the Republican National
committee at Washington that hard
times, want and poverty we're to be
the life-savers of that party. Today,
from every standpat source, Is COM
ing the calamity howl coldly calculat-
edtto shake business confidence and
bring on Industrial paralysis
AS we write, there lies on our desk
a copy of "the Republican News Let
, ter" dated at Columbus, Jan. 3, 1914.
Trditors are invited to use the con-
, tents of this letter In whole or In
& partp And what is this Republican
News Letter" that all the editors Oi
Ohio are invited" to use and bring be
fore their readers? II Is a pure cal
amity howl calculated to bring on busi
ness panic, If possible 1t Is moth
ing else. It's one big. faring head
line reads: INDUSTRIAL DEPRES
SION" There follow three columns
OF calamity" talk, prophesying hare
rimes and business disaster.
AT the recent meeting of the Re
publican National committee at Wash
ington, Senator Reed Smoot, nationa
ecrmmitteeman from Utah by grace o
the Mormon church, was cheered again
and again when he airily made the fol
aowing declaration for n turkey-buz
zard policy for his party: THE silen
wheels in the factories, the smokeles
stacks of our mills, and the suffering o
the people under Democratic ad
ministration will speak louder thar
any national declaration of principle
that We can make. ALL we will hav,
70 do to bring victory to Republican
banners will be to point to the closet
smfH doors and say: Wilson--that'
aH.Il.'"
No declaration of principles needed
says Smoot; just wait for calamit,
and suffering!
From every other standpat Republ
can source is coming this same sort o
business poison-this studied attemp
TO bring suffering and want upon mi
lions OF American citizens TO furthe
the political ends of the Penroses an
1sarnescs and Smoots and Daughertie
Fd~ In control of the Republican pa,
~.
The attempt to inject this poison II
gD the business arteries of this cour
try is made, too, when reliable ilnar
cial authorities, like Bradstreet's an
Dunn's and Henry Clews, tell us thu
the business outlook for 1914 Is brigh
..eajng daily and that no business d,
preston nor panic Is ahead.
Benedict Arnold and Jefferson Dayi
we're not so dastardly traitors to the
country as are the Republican leader
who today are ready to help brin
munger and cold and suffering and mi
sery 10 millions of poor men and W
znen and children In this country in o
der TO advance their political interes
and the Republican calamity howle
and Republican News Letters" al
seeking to do just this thing.
This despicable political panic {
tort has already failed. The countl
rs aroused against it-and the booI
srang is already recoiling upon its pr
iectoTs.
The political party that seeks a ne
lease OF life at the hands Of Anne
can voters by encouraging panic al
hard times, badly miscalculates. for
gaxn reap from such foul sowing on
me contempt and distrust of all RIG
thinking people.