New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-08-24
PRESIDENT
THE CAUSE OF
Z PARTISANSHIP
AS LONG As THE PRESENT
ATTITUDE rs CONFINED HE
MUST EXPECT REPUBLI-
CAN OPPOSITION TO HIS
ECONOMIC POLICIES
Special to State Record.

special TO State RECORD.
Washington, D. C., August 22.-
The Republican publicity bureau says
Complaint is made by some ad
ministration papers because some
Republicans maintain in Washington
an organization to continue discus.
sio of political questions regardles
of the absence of political campaign
and regardless of the continuance
Of the war. Those papers deplore
such activity as partisan and urge
its discontinuance.
"If these administration defenders
want discontnuance of partisanship
they can find ample opportunity for
initiation of such program at the
White House. Neither before the
war began, nor since, has President
Wilson shown the slightest indica-
tion of intention to abandon parti-
sanship. On, the contrary, he has
violated the spirit of acts of Con-
gress in order to perpetuate intense
rartisanship. We have had illus
trations of that in the case of every
commission he has appointed when
there was in contemplation bi-parti-
san representation. Moreover, when
there were congressional contests in
New Hampshire and Indiana, recent
ly, a spokesman of the administra-
ton went into the districts where
elections were to be held and made
vigorous partisan campaigns assert
ing in New Hampshire that vote for
Republican is a vote for Prussian-
ism and for the Kaiser; In the
face of such challenge as this, any
Republican who would desert his
co1ors would be unworthy of citi-
zenship in a free Republic. So long
as President Wilson is willing to
countenance spokesmen who assert
that "a vote for Republican is vote
for Prussianism and for the Kaiser,
he will have partisan contest OH his
hands.
"But, entirely aside from the fact
that President Wilson has led in
the maintenance OF partisanship,
there is no reason why any man,
whether Republican or Democrat,
should forsake his economic princi-
pies because war is in progress.
We shall have peace following this
war and we shall then be confront
ed with the problems of peace. In
fact, those problems now confront
us, for if there is any virtue in pre-
paredness for war in time of peace,
there is equal virtue in preparedness
for peace in time of war
Republicans believe that the per-
manent prosperity of this country
depends upon the establishment and
maintenance of a protective tariff
which shall represent at least the
difference. between the cost of pro-
duction here and abroad. Democrats
dispute this proposition and assert
that it is folly to produce an article
a. home il we can buy it cheaper
abroad. This is question upon
which there is much controversy and
ought to be controversy so long as
there are those who advocate build
ing up foreign enterprise at the sa-
orifice of our own.
"President Wilson has never re-
tracted his assertion that the Rep |
ublican party is the refuge of those
who are afraid nor has he quail
fled his description of Republican /
leaders when he said that some of
them are misguided, some of them
are blind and most of them are ig-
rorant'. Whenever he is ready to
change his view of Republicans and
take them into council on an equal
ity with Democrats in the admins
tration of the affairs of the govern
ment, and whenever he is willing to
espouse economic principles which
represent America first, he and his
defenders can reasonably expect a
of partisan discussion.
Until then, men who differ with him
upon fundamental questions of eco
nomics and who disapprove of his
factional and sectional administra-
ton, the extravaganza and ineffi-
cheney of his appointees, partisan dis
cussion should and will continue"