South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-09-15

the halls OF congress ! hear the
president daily assaulted as "a tyrantI
such as American history has not
hitherto recorded. From the stump
I head him proclaimed a weak and
vacillating man. One assaults him
because he did not 20 10 war when
Belgium was invaded and another
because the Lusitania was sunk,
while a third condemns him as be-
ing pro-ally merely because he and
the German emperor asreed upon
the rules that govern neutral ma
tons in time OF war. Racial pride
and church loyalty are given TO un-
derstand that ne has not considered
them. tt is limited that he should
have done so. but his detractors
have not the courage 70 say that the
republican party will decide between
races or churches or which race or
church it will prefer.
Before we are besuiled by any of
this, we have a right 10 demand
categorical answers 10 these ques-
tions: Would the republican party,
If it had been ia power, have de-
clared war when Germany entered
Belgium or when the Lusitania was
summarized: or because the allies
have violated the rights Of neutral
trade? Will the republican party.
if IL comes into power intervene in
Mar.ico? Is there anything in the
constitution which prevents the
congress of the United tSates from
declaring war without seeking the
advice OF the president? What views
did the republican party i'm congress
of the United States entertain with
reference 10 Belgium. TO the Lusi-
tania. 70 the blacklist and 20 the
Mexican situation? Why. if II was
displeased with the conduct of the
president Of the United States, did
il not offer resolutions upon one or
/ more OF these subjects and place it
self upon record? What does The
republican candidate for president
think he would have done or would
do?
And here are questions for the
people 10 answer before they decide
how they will vote. DO YOU have
much faith i'm a candidate. who in
the most awful cataclysm of civiliz-
alton. assaults, for mere party SUI
/ premacy. "a patient and patriotic
( president for acts OF omission and
commits sion and yet is not cour-
ageous enough 10 say what he would
/ have done under the circumstances
/ or 10 make any promises as 10 his
future conduct? What do you think
( of an organization which seeks 20
/ fOment trouble among our own citi-
! zens for partisan purposes with the
! certain knowledge that the warning
nations of the world will be inn
/ pressed with the idea that we are "a
| divided people and that they may
! freely violate the laws of neutrality
/ without fear of either punishment
! or reparation? Are you dissatisfied
/ with present conditions? Are YOU
willing TO be plunged into war
which nay sacrifice the best blood
4 of the republic, rend us into fac
/ tons which decades may not again
I reunite, and dissipate the resources
/ of the most prosperous and content
/ ed people on earth for the cooling Of
I the hot blood of some few men who
have gotten too close 10 the confa-
| grafton 10 remain calm and self
| poised Americans? Don't you know
I that the one thing which would
have rendered the reelection Of the
! president a certainty would have
! been to engage in war? Do you want
! 10 punish him for the peace which
1 comes at eventide like a benedictior
upon every home and for her hand
maiden. plenty. which cheers and
warns our hearts?
But. those who criticise. say the
president is an indrm American
Now it so happens in this country
not birth nor religion. but loyalty tC
! America constitutes the American
Any blood and any faith and any
party that assaults an American
president because he chooses u IL
more blood and church and party
in the cause of peace would suffel
less by committing hari-kar. s.
that ID may becloud the real issue
the republican party has sought [,
/ copyright the phrase Firm Amer
icanism. without defining it, e,
this phrase they want the English
born TO understand that if the presi
dent had been "A firm American. Bel
gium would not have been invade,
and the Lusitauia would not haV,
been Junk. This is what the lat,
StrateSist at Armageddon is sup.
posed 10 believe. on the other hand
to that small portion of people who
think more of Germany than Amer
lea that phrase is supposed 10 NEAR
that had he been a firm American
the German emperor would never
have been called upon 10 admit q
breach of neutrality in sinking tn'
Lusitania. I'm my opinion. the aver
aee American wants 10 know who j.
i'm the partnership of Candidate
Hughes iu this firm Americanism. .
Does the firm consist of Hughes ant
I Roosevelt. Of Hughes and Hohenzol
Tern. or OF Hughes. surviving part
ner of the firm of Hughes anC
Huerta closing oSt "a shabby stool
of shelfworn political patent medi
Cines not guaranteed under the pur,
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