Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
POLICIES
AREFAR TARGETS
Patriotism Does Not "Stop at
Waterh Edge" if Partisan
ship Does


Washington, D. c.. Oct. 81. - Efforts
of Democratic politicians to silence dis
cussion of President Wilson's conduct
of foreign affairs in the present cam
paign were sharply denounced in an Of
fetal statement issued by Chairman
Wilcox, of the Republican national
committee. in Washington.
Attention is called to the slogan of
the democrats that politics end at the
attacks upon the weak and vacillating
foreisn policy of the administration is
dsnsiignated d. 5 g nj by Mr.. Wilcox as the
and 1t is pointed out that the public
itself has repudinted the plea for quar-
ter; Mr.. Willcox,s statement says:
The shallowest of partisan pleas, the
Irankest confession of weakness i'm
aginable. the cry has been raised in
o hSRe Of to the
But desperate as it has been, 1t has
been cunning pleas for all that.
Americans Patriotic
"If there be one thing to which an
American responds more quickly than
another 1t is the call of patriotism.
from Woodrow Wilson down. to be-
cloud the issues growing out of the
bungifng of our foreign relations dur
coverel, like quinine pill, by a coat
ing of sugar.
"tully realizing the weakness of
foreign blundering, Democratic man
ayers and spellbinders craftily endeav-
ored to distract the attention of the
seeking to make it appear that any
criticism of Wisconsin was criticism of
the GoYernment--and, hence, criticism
";rhe fearlessness of Republican at
tack upon this false and pernicious
theory will stand out, when the history
n r he p1 mr. io of &c x1-titt
one of the most serviceable achieve
ments in American political life.
1T has been conducted with a thor
oughness that has completely demol-
ished and exposed to contempt the de-
ceit of the Democratic argument, until
now the enlightened voter understands
that full and fearless criticism of an
administration for it's mishandling of
our relations with other nations is ac-
tually obligatory upon all intelligent
citizens and is the very essence of pa
triotiSm.
Lodge Well Posted
This has been demonstrated most
clearly by Senator Lodge in his speech
before the Republican State convention
Of Massachusetts Ranking member of
the foreign relations committee of the
Magdalena Bay resolution, the most i'm
portant amendment to the Monroe Doc
trine ever adopted, and one Of the fore
ternational law, Senator Lodge is Pc
culiarly able to explain the relation of
foreign affairs to the present campaign.
He showed in his Boston speech that it
was President Wilson who dragged the
foreign affairs of the nation into parti-
san politics by pursuing policy of con-
stant shifting designed to meet the DO
litical eXigencies of the moment.
" In what l am about to say concern
ing foreign relations, asid Senator
Lodge. L do not criticise the President
because he is a Democrat and l am a
Republican, for in dealing with foreign
relations have at no time since / have
been in public life approached them in
party spirit, and so long as | continue
to hold the commission of Massachu-
setts | shall never do so.
&" In the many shifts and changes
made by this administration in interna-
tional relations, it would have been i'm
possible that at some point in their
movement they should not have occu-
pied the right ground. The President,
like Mrs. Witterly. forms and ex-
on an immense variety of subjects" He
can hardly fail, under the circum-
stances, to be right occasionally, and
when he has been right he has had my
support
"That sums up the Republican posi-
When the President has been right Re-
publicans have supported him as the
head of the Government upholding the
prestige: when the President
has been wrong Republicans have op-
posed him as the head of the Govern
ernment and lowering the national
prestige Republicans have not sup
ported him through thick and thin for
while that would be loyalty to Wilson
1t were treason to America Politics
does end at the waters edge-patrlot-
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