The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-27
STAND BY WAR
Continued from Rage One,

war in order to hold power. there was
no evidence of it. Motter was in the
front ranks of those who stood at the
train entrance to greet the national
chairman. and Hays, when asked
about the incident. said:
1t Is Ancient History.
why. replied to that statement
and there is nothing further to say.
That is ancient history now"
However, in the course of his speech
at the conference, Hays made an indi-
rect reference to the matter by ex-
pressing the hope that 1.-The two great
political horses which we have shall
ly to share in the pulling of the heavy
load, each striving to see which can
pull the harder
On National Issues.
No reference was made to local can
didates of the opposition party and
the speech of the distinguished visitor
was confined entirely to national is
sues-or rather to the one national
issue-the winning of the war in the
quickest possible time and the thoro
crushing of Prussianism.
Altho he was scheduled to speak
tonight at a liberty loan meeting at
which he could. not possibly make
reference to politics, Hays did not
slight the liberty loan in his address
this afternoon, but rather made it the
most important part of his address,
asserting that it is the one issue with
which the country is now concerned
and that all else must be classed as
mere chores" when compared with
the importance of backing up the SOL
diers in France with every dollar they
need.
Loan Most Important.
''The mission of America is about to
be accomplished, he said. "Ameri-
can soldiers in France are at this
the reason for America and the stuff
of which this republic is made. Their
complete success and the consequent
eternal establishment everywhere in
the world of the integrity of American
rights, interests and honor and the
right of men to govern themselves are
all assured with the proper perform
ance of the plainest duty by the citi-
zenry at home.
1.-The fourth liberty loan is our next
objective. =
There is no geography, political or
physical, in the patriotism of this
country. Democrats and Republicans
alike love their flag and are ready to
die for it. We continually insist for
all parties that the war be kept out of
partisan politics and that partisanship
be kept out of the war.
Just as in congress the Republi-
cans led the fight that made possible
the passage of the great war measure,
so now the party membership and Or
ganization has an immediate. definite
war task in the accomplishment of
which it can fully function. I repeat,
let there be no contest in this country
as to anything that touches the war
except that contest-who best can
serve, who most can give.
THE success of the fourth liberty
| "a ha fxYse
/ supreme motif of thought and action
| until that objective is attained
THE entire Republican organiza-
ton in every voting precinct in this
country shall be fighting force in
this liberty loan drive
| This is the Republican organiza-
| tons business.
| This is the real business of every
man. woman and child in America.
| Everything else is chores.
Again I say. every act of the Re
| publican party in state and nation has
been and shall be determined solely
by how we can contribute most to the
sum total of war good.
| The Republican party says to the
country-STAND BY THE WAR. Ane
in this declaration of purpose is in
cluded the slogan which the Demo.
cratic party seem to have adopted
stand by the president a duty which
Republicans have assumed as a mat
ter of course as to all that the grea
office implies
All Parties Patriotic.
Touching on the patriotism of tn
Republican party and its members
Hays said:
Il have pity rather than any othe
concern, for those men who accus
| Republicans of lack of patriotism
and failure in war support. Sucl
statements, spawned in spite and ut
tered with the evident belief that
partisan advantage can be gaine'
thereby, are the walls of Ignorance
and the woofs of selfishness. They d,
no harm politically to those agains
whom they are directed. The con
trary is true. But for national reason
most important I most earnestly urg
continually that there be no allega
concerning disloyalty in this campaign
Shame on that man or committee Q
, either party who does that!
Such allegations are calculated t
create among unthinking people feel
ing of resentment on one side and dis
trust on the other, when acrimoniou
: divisions are most deplorable. Sue
r allegations will give a totally false i'm
t preston of conditions in this countr
E | to the enemy. And the men, or tn
, committee. or the party who star
anything like that is guilty in the yer
, act of conduct most reprehensfb1e.
1.-The party in power says politics
r adjourned and then proceeds to prat
: tice the most powerful partisan pol
t tics ever attempted by any politics
t party in any period or In any plac
Witness New Hampshire, witness Wi
= cousin, witness Michigan, witne
6 | Maine, witness daily performances.
Reflection on Democrats.
: est Hold in my hand pamphl
| nv Den
II ocratic national committee, and s1gn'
: by an officer of that committee. 1t
in a letter dated September 10. 191
and in this they say the election of
n, Republican congress would be a
N source of comfort and elation to II
n kaiser and his cohorts
u "Agaihst tn unpatriotic conduct
a responsible political organization
: protest. not as a Republican, but as I
|, | American.