Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-03
Would Have People Believe
G. O. P. Harbors Same
UnpatriotiC Attitude
They Took.

took charge of the legislation in op-
position to democratic leaders. This
did not conhne itself to leaders, but
the vote on the measure for raising
an army stood:
Republicans, 2Ol.
Democrats, 1871.
Independents, 5.
The votes against the measure:
Republicans, 8.
Democrats, 10, including Randall
and London, both of whom have
, trained with the democrats.
Aid Man. Power Bills.
On measures designed to supply
the mean for the prosecution of the
war, the bond bills and the revenue
bills, republicans cast larger per-
centages than the democrats. In
the recent man-power bill, the re-
publicans again had to take the lead
against the democratic opposition
and carried the measure to final
success.
Although the democrats have had
at least | more votes in congress
than the republicans, on eight of the
war measures, including both man
power-bills, the republicans cast
more votes than the democrats. In
70 of them not republican vote
was cast against the measure, and
in all OF them the republicans cast
almost their full strength.
In sharp contrast with this posi-
ton, the democrats in the civil war
studiously planned to block Mr..
Lincoln every turn. They openly
opposed the war, on the onset. The
senator's and representatives from
II states withdrew to join the re-
bellion. Those democrats hailing
from the states not in rebellion, save
a notable few, openly obstructed
measures designed to vigorously
prose dte the war.
Morrill, Bill Opposed.
! The Morrill, bill, designed to col
lect necessary revenue to supply
the funds to prosecute the war, was
violently opposed by the democrats
in both house and senate. The legal
tender act, designed to increase the
circulating medium, was resisted by
a united democracy. The vote stood
in the house 90 for, all republicans;
50 against, including all the demo-
Gratis who voted.
The next great war measure was
the National Bank act, which was
again resisted by every democrat in
the senate but three. The vote in the
house stood 70 yeas and "a nays, al
most strict party vote. These three
outstanding war measures, and with
out which the war could not have
been successfully waged, were vio-
lently opposed in debate and almost
soldlv resisted in vote by the demo-
cratic members in each branch of
congress. The same is true of the
emancipation issue, and the ques
tons growing out of the slavery
question.
More Democratic Patriotism"
The democratic official opinion on
the war WIS announced in the ma
tional convention of 1864. The chair
man of the democratic national
committee, August Belmont, in
opening the convention, said -Four
years of misrule by sectional,
fanatical, and corrupt party have
brought our country to the verge
of ruin. The past and present are
sufficient warning of the disastrous
consequences which would befall US
if NJ. Lincoln's election should be
made possible by our want of pa
triotism. The inevitable results of
such a calamity must be the utter
disintegration of Our whole political
and social system amid bloodshed
and anarchy"
Horatio Seymour, the chairman of
the committee, declared: -Four
years ago convention met in this
city when our country was peace
full, prosperous and united. Its
delegates did not mean to destroy
our government, to overwhelm us
with debt or to drench our land I'm
blood; but they were animated by
intolerance and fanaticism, and
blinded by an ignorance of the
spirit of our institutions, the char
acter of our people. and the condi-
ton of our land They thought
they might safely indulge their
passions, and they concluded to do
So"
War Is Condemned.
In the democratic platform of
1864 appears:
Resolved, that this convention
does explicitly declare, as the sense
of the American people, that after
four years of failure to restore the
union by the experiment of war,
during which, under the pretense of
a military necessity, or war power
higher than the constitution, the
constitution itself has been disre-
garded in every part, and public lib
erty and private right alike trodden
down, and the material prosperity
of the country essentially impaired
Justice. humanity, liberty and the
public welfare demand that immed-
late efforts be made for a cessation
of hostilities, with view to the
ultimate convention of states, or
other peaceable means to the end
that, at the earliest practicable mo
ment, peace may be restored on
the basis of the federal union Of the
states"
Here are some of the reasons for
Lincoln's desire for a republican
congress. No such grounds can
exist for President Wilson to desire
democratic congress, and any at
tenpt to ascribe Linco1n's reasons