Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-18
SOME ARE NON.PARTISAN.

1t is truly pleasure to read some of
the really northern papers who have
forgotten that the War Between the
States was fought, and believe that
the south is actually part OF the United
States.
The bloody shirt" must be buried,
and it will-along with an avalanche
Of votes against Candidate Charles E.
Hughes.
The Philadelphia Record. a north
paper, has the following editorial.
In seeking to arouse feeling against
the Democratic party Candidate
Hughes latest dodge is sectionalism-
the partisan trick that in the genera
ton Immediately following the Civil
War was called waving the bloody
shirt" The South is held up as a
DOGGY man, and because Southern
Democrats, following the established
practice of advancement by seniority.
hold most of the chairmanships of
committees of the House of Represen-
tatives the bewhiskered nominee sees
a dreadful peril to the nation. Mr..
Hughes does not tell his audiences that
il the Republicans secure Congress, all
| the chairmanships will be held by
Northern men and that the South will
be left without representation, so that
sectionalism will continue as before.
That is an unfortunate feature of our
politics, but the evil is far less serious
under Democratic control than under
Republican, because Democracy, being
a national party, draws its member
ship from the South, and is strong in
the East as in the West Republican
ism, on the other side, has little
strength below the Mason and Dixon
line.
The truly despotic and vicious man
ner in which the Democratic majority
in Congress Yields it's power is re-
vealed to us in all its iniquity by the
Boston Transcript, one of the narrow
est and most bigoted Republican pa
pers in the country. Its Washington
correspondent, writing under date of
August 10, of the eagerness of rep
resentatives and senators to adjourn
and go home, says:
The Congress which is still in
action came into session nearly ten
months ago. 1t has been sitting
with rare persistence almost every
day since that time 1t has ground
out a mass of legislation which is
staggering to recall and imposing
to look upon. It's total expendi-
lures have run higher than any
/ previous session of Congress in
history and are probably greater
than the total expenditures of the
ordinary sessions of two Con-
crosses.
The Sixty-fourth Congress while
having been nominally under the
control of the Democratic party,
has been remarkably non-partisan.
A study of the numerous roll calls
hos shown very slight tendency
for Cleavage on strictly party lines.
The majority of the big army and
navy bills were enacted without
roll call. Republicans and Demo-
Gratis joining in putting the meas
ures through uncontested Even
the revenue bill, which SO far has
only succeeded in passing the
House, received a substantial
number of Republican votes. Many
of the measures upon which the
Democrats are plumbing them
selves as distinctively Democratic
achievements were put through by
bipartisan combination.
Truly tyrannical and devlish, is il
not? Or how many Republican Con.
crosses could a Democratic CORE.
spodent say as much at the close of a
long session?