South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-08
america ALWAYS FIRST" HUH

1t a shameful necessity new TO the present genera
ton something witnessed in this country since the
Civil war and the reconstruction days following it, for
a man high in the official life of the nation. feel
forced denounce candidate for the presidency as
a traitor The last spectacle we had Of il Charles
Sumner on the floor United states senate
taking Gen George b. McClellen and certain of his
followers task in 1864, for the un-American, UNI
patriotic in which they seeking to defeat
reelection Abraham Lincoln. Sumner called the
victims o wrath "copperheads' Sen. James Ham
iItou Lewis in depicting of Candidate c..
Hughes and his followers
foreign relations, fails to give the objects of his
righteous wrath such a name. but defines them fit
for it. History has repeated itself
The tables have merely turned. Every generation
it seems and every stress the times have their
traitors The "copperheads' of the COS have gone.
bat their spirits have become reincarnated in the
descendants Of their former opponents of them,
il seems their former opponents themselves crush
ing the old patriotism Republican utterances in
Chicago. the party platform and the conduct and ut
terances o Candidate Hughes certain his sup
porters then with respect the foreign rela-
tions United states. "copperheadhkeT as
anything that occurred during the rebellion
sen. Lewis struck directly n his
method of dealing with Mr. Hughes and the republican
toward the administrations foreisn policies
Germany has depended from the start upon the dis
affection among ourselves TO protect it against
going TO war with that country accusing partial
ity and that the republican convention at Chcago pre-
sumed TO confirm. Mexico the other hand has been
distrustful us insncere i'm our friend
snip. thar We really eventually to intervene,
invade II not annex country what other con-
clusion could the de faco draw from the
Chicago convention but that if the republicans should
regain power in the United States-whch has happened
past-invasion. intervention. not annexation
would be sure to result The ordering of the Pershng
expedition out country concluding that was
pretense paving the way for invasion. followed with
lightning rapidity. CarrizaI engagement
natural consequence Talk about the United States be-
ing disrespected abroad. It the dirty contemplate
activities partisan politicians, that care nothing
for solidarity home if they ride upon
the Of IT, that has bro sh as of that dsre-
spect than any thing else under the sun.
Prest Tafrs advice the people of America year
that night VIC may ourselves, those diff
ferences stop the waters edge. has seemingly
been effectively forgotten since the convention Chi
cago-tha5 waters edse including the banks the Rio
Grande. quite effectively the senator shows the lack
true patriotism AR. Hughes when he points out
when the president issued his for the mobza-
zion Of the national guard for border service there
was no word from the republican nominee. He had
nothing 10 say" Not O single whisper of encourage
fell from his lips. either president or people,
though war seemed inevitable and united America.
il q any time the nations history. seemed vital
Necessity.
How different the attitude 90 the man OPP
posed Abraham Lincoln u his campaign for the pres-
dency iu 1850 when the civil war broke. days
after Commandment of Ft sumter precisely four
years previous ulsht OF the the
great Lincoln. stephen y. Douglas visited the white