New Britain herald., 1916-05-10

bill of particulars and better pro- gram they will receive scant atten-
 tion in the courts of popular opinion. l think I do the senator no justice when I assert that his plea was one of strict and unrelenting partisan
 ship. And I think, also, that the ] American people are in no mood for
 that form of statecraft.
 Republican Difficulties.
 Nevertheless, it is only fair to ad- init that the task set for the senator
 was not without it's difficulties 1 A Keynote speech is we'll nigh an 1 impossibility when the whole parry 1 is out of tune. The senator did the 1 best he could. He strove to utter war cry that would be heard from ] Hartford to Tokio," but the acous-
 tic properties of the Hartford ar mory are nOtOriously inadequate. I do not want to be responsible for
 an 1ll-timed levity over a subject es- sentially sad, but the vain attempts of the republican leaders to unite upon a candidate or platform pro-. duce contOrtions wonderful to con- template.
 To whom will the republican party turn for leadership? Do our friends desire Something heroic?" If so, the Colonel is ready. The republican party evidently needs someone who
 can discover an issue and the Colonel is the greatest discoverer of all time ! He discovered the river of doubt and recently, while in the West Indies he
 discovered devil bird with whiskers
 that emlts a peculiar sound and
 dotes on nuts. Why should a man
 who discovered Cuba. British East
 Africa, the river of doubt, the Irish Sagas, wildcats. Kettle hill, civil ser- vice reform, Amageddon the souare
 deal, social justice, the Ten Con,-
 mandments, George w. Perkins and the Golden Rule. be denied a nomin-
 alon in republican convention? To De sure the Colonel called the leaders or that party train robbers and crooks and I think that he eve, went so far to refer to them rn- generously as second story men: but now he is for peace-at any price. with or without honor-even if he has to fight for it. And after all. why should one not associate with re- pentant burglars and reformed crooks. To do otherwise is to make a mockery of social justice The un- forglvlng may also recall that he l said that the republican party was l a rotten husk'-but this was be- l cause he took all the meat out him 1 self. I understand that the "Old l Guard claims to have the Colonel | "Buffaloed'' but viewing the question 1 fairly, it must be admitted that he | is the logical candidate. The re- publican platform of Connecticut de- mands the nomination of a tried re- l publican. What republican, I ask, l has been more tried or trying than l Emperor Theodorus Africanus the l First? And what republican has tried | more republicans than the discoverer of the be- -Whiskered devil bird that 1 dotes on nuts? There is form of justice even in politics and, if you will permit a sudden shift of meta 1 phor the Colonel is the hair-shirt l that the republican party must wear in penance for it's sins. And, after all, the Colonel is the only one who offers an understandable criticism of the presidents policy. The Colonel wants war and he is bound to have war. AS recently as April 24th he gave forth an interview, saying If there is war my four sons will go and one. and perhaps, both of my sons-in-law, the young kinsfolk and friends of my sons will go;'' and later r. on in the same interview he said. "If we now go to war. these young men and all their fellows will die in thou sands. This is what I call "some- Ihlhg heroic. The whole family is going to go. If I were profane, I might say the whole dam family" and Theodore and his sons are going to die by the thousands. The only fly in the ointment is that he inti- Of Ia may stay at home This would be the act of a mollycoddle Can it be that he refers to Nicholas Long. worth? If there is to be a war I want Nicholas Longworth to go. too
 The Colonels policy reminds me of the inscription that some revolution ary Chinese put upon their banner during the Boxer Rebellion. The in- ! scription was "Willing to die.' An- other band, of a similar kind seeing the inscription and. not to be out done, prepared a banner of thelr own on which they inscribed tho thrilling words, "Detern1ined to die" and it is said that third band was organized with a banner bearing the motto, Already dead'
 The Republican Delegation.
 Perhaps I cannot be expected to sympathize as fully as I ought with l the sorrows of the republican party l If l had the gifted pen of Charles Hopkins Clark or possessed velvery l and insuating elegance of diction characteristic of our distinguished senator, l could depict in appropriate language the moving sorrows of the republican delegation from Connecti- cut as it proceeds toward Chicago.
 The senator in his eloquent Key |