Bisbee daily review., 1916-10-13
They Unite a People as Noth- ing Else Will De-" Declares President at Indiana Gen. tennial Celebration.
REPLIES TO FAIRBANKS
 TALK OF SECTIONALISM
"Any Man Who Rev;ves That Issue Is Ignorant of His United Country" Hotly Retorts President.
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 INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 12.-Pres-
 ident Wilson today replied to the
 Republican charge that the Demo-
 cratic party is sectional party,
 with the statement that "any man
 who revives the issue of section
 alism in this country is unworthy
 of the confidence of the nation"
 The president came to Indianapolis to address meetings of good roads ad- vocates and farmers, review an auto- mobile parade celebration on Good Roads Day of the Indiana centennial and address at a non-partisan lunch con of leading Indianans. In his first speech he spoke of the good done by highways in preventing sectionalism. Answers Fairbanks.
 My fellow citizens" he con-
 tinued, 'I need not tell you that
 l did not come here to talk politics
 but there is one thing that is per
 tinent in this connection, which
 cannot deny myself the privilege
 of saying. Any man who revives
 the issue of sectionalism in this
 country is unworthy of the con
 fidence of the nation. He shows himself provincial; he shows that
 he himself does not know the
 various sections of his own coun-
 try; he shows that he has shut his
 own heart up in little province
 and that those who do not seek
 the special interests of that prov
 ince are to him sectional, while he
 alone is national That is the
 depth of anti-patriotic feeling"
 At both beetings the Presidents were interrupted frequently by applause and handclapping marked his progress through the streets. At the fair grounds where he made his speech. the hall in which he spoke later was filled. He also spoke briefly at luncheon given him by Governor and Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston of h. diana.
 The Farmers Side.
 The second speech was devoted to 1 cratic administration for the farmers of the nation. The President left here at 5:35 D. m. for Long Branch. N. J.. where he will arrive tomorrow after noon at 2 o'clock.
 President Wilson in his Good Roads" speech said in part:
 Good roads are necessary for every aspect of our lives, to draw neighbor- hoods together, to created community of feeling, to create those arteries which may be compared to the ar teries of the human body. The blood of the nation will not flow in harmoni- Dus concord unless it can flow in in innate sympathy.
 More Than Market Maker.
 And so the argument. the material argument the argument about markets and crops and the products of the mines sink into relative unimportance when you consider the spiritual thing that you are doing in making roads. You kuow there is an old saving that the lines between cities are obliterated only by the feet that cross them. There Is a very genial saying of a great English writer that he never could hate a man he knew. Sectionalism Is based on the radical danger of ignor- ance.
 Sectionallsm Died 1865.
 My fellow citizens, I need not tell you that I did not come here to talk politics. but there is one thing that Is pertinent in this connection which cannot deny myself the privilege of saying. Any man who revives the is- sue of sectionalism in this country is of the confidence of the na- ton He shows himself a provincial. he shows that he has shut his own heart uD in little province and that those who do not seek the special in of that province are to him sec tionaI while he alone is national. That Is the denth of anti-patriotic feeling.
 For Biuuer America.
 Now. my fellow citizens. we had time and opportunity until the present
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