New Britain herald., 1916-08-05
WHY WORRY? ?

#onnecticut guardsmen on the bOr- M are causing great concern in @tical circles. It is feared the boys M not be back home in time to cast l@r votes at the presidential election ASNovember. The only wall heard Mar, however, is from the Republi- M side of the fence. Apparently,
 e are no Democrats in the Ma Ha al Guard This, for the Repubi- @ reason, they are too proud to @ is proposed that an extra session he legislature be called for the pur- M of appointing commissioners to the border and take the vote Mthe local guardsmen. Congress- s Hill is one of the sturdy who be- #e the question can be settled in $ way. At the time the first appre- lAsion over the guardsmen arose, Ml Mlely, the taking care of dependents
 
 M Mecial session of the legislature. An @ ous populace at that time was told N expense of getting the members N he legislature together was too St to cOnsider,- in the a hborhood of $8O,OOO or $1O0,O0O. M to this the sum of money neces- N to defray the expenses of a com Bion to the border and back and M easily seen there will be no spe- # session of the legislature this
 Son. If there was no action when @ women and children left behind "a he soldiers were supposed to be
 Ewing to death, surely the mere 8 ering of two or three thousand will not cause over exertion. M is to be deplored that this is so. "a soldiers on the border are entitled @ cast their votes. Circumstances &&e lever, are against them. They
 e fallen into a trap set by the Ad-
 stration. President Wilson, real
 he may have a tough time of it
 EoyembeF, and, knowing also that
 e are no Democrats in the Nation uard, sent all state troops to the E ter to keep them away from the
 s Thus in one stroke he greatly
 anced his chances of reelection. Scut down his opponents hopes by
 e 2,000 votes from Connecticut @ almost fifty times that many from
 er states. So, after all, the "too #1d to fight" slogan came into prac- $ use All democrats who felt that & about it refrained from taking up < and swords and going to the #rican border when the country was 3 hanger. Because they stayed home, huse there is not one member of 8 political party in the ranks of M boys in khaki, Woodrow Wilson M scored a great political victory,
 t is the way it appears to his zHmies.
 The truth is, there are Democrats Syell as Republicans in the National aArd. At least that is so in the case Ahe guardsmen from other states. Anecticut may be different. The Ran who make up our fighting forces @y be all Republicans. Then, it Is Eth while looking after their inter-
 . Were it the other way around zee they all Democrats, there would & no harm done. They could stay #the border from now until election
 and from then on to Inauguration a and no one would raise a whim- 8 no one would raise a voice ot S Stest. But they are Republicans and My must come back to vote. Either
 t, or a commission must be ap- M nted to go to the border and bring #ek the votes. And woe to such ( x &nmission if it should bring a few
 
 se in this commonwealth who
 uld rise in. their might and smit, Z h and every member of the offend "a commission,-hang them in effigy ' rn them in the market-placc. I
 a terrible state of affairs. But wh. 5 Try about the votes of a few thou Mld guardsmen when Connecticut i 8 primed to go into the Republican & uran in November, just as thos # tes in the "solid south" vote for tn # #mocracy? We are rapidly reachin 8point where the Solid South wi
 k like a shattered egg shell whe Empared to the impenetrabilit c &r own beloved North.