South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-31
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JANUARY 81, 1913.
MORE OF G. o. P. PARTIsANsHIP.


The copperhead-ropublcan press-and the cocka-
triee-republican poiitcians-have their loop
hole through which They rather eau
uous anent the manner which they seek TO refute
what Sec'y Baker had TO say to the military
affairs committee about the "a prepare
lions. but the truth about those preparations never
was an issue iu underlying reality, and hence why
should they seek it, The issue not prep
aration. coordination. speed. when YOU
follow the undercurrent but rather, who do
ilg the preparing where the coordination coming
from; who applying the lash?
So we have it that Sec'y Baker made a favorable
impression, but'-then they revert SEN Chamber
lain again and his disproven charges
The but is the loop-hoe. 1t that the secre-
ary of war has called for two assistant secretaries.
appointed purchasing agent, and another assist
ant or two. wherefore. of course regardless of the
good that has been without these aides,
il merely goes TO show how inadequate is Bakers
grasp the situation" another of the copper
mead organs puts it. in effort appear sympa-
thetic: How badly he overworked." There must
still be super-war cabinet. with republicans it..
and democratic senators seeking reelection in re-
publican states: there mess things up for the ad-
ministratiOn, by perhaps. favoring certain OF their
campaign contributors in their war profteerns. and
making their future contributions doubly any
body doubted that there politics than pa
triotsm the senate Investigations and in the de-
public advice conditions all that is neces-
aary dispel S witness the actions and
The comment Of republican leaders and republican
press now. in still quoting Sen Chamherains
lemagogc bombast
secy Bakers disclosures merely serve to render the
ambitions of those republican leaders-editoriaI and
Jtherwise-that much more greedy, and that much
The more venonous. 1t has rendered the copper
head i'm them, simply desperate There will he no
cabinet. however. congress senate house,
more patriotic than partisan. both the republican
and democratic sides, will not stand for it, while even
il neutrality-suspicious. Wilson would still be COM
nander-in-chief of the army and navy and Sec'y
Baker and his work has mis- unqualified Endorsement
We quite imagine the commander in chief a con
gressional cabinet once established treating it
with much the "discourtesy" that he treat
III the senatorial recession the Garfield con-
,ervaton order. and after much the same manner as
Prest Lincoln dsregarded the "copperhead' war cab
met of the rebelon-which ne finally left to drown
us sorrows in the waters of the Chesapeake Pres
Wilson has of not permitting himself to he SER
iously hndered in his work by any antics of congress
bockheads. whether opposition party or
II his own and anticipate that he would mantair
that reputation though the Chamberlain bill be
came a dozen laws.
Congressional INVESTIGATIONS are not "a bad thing
when properly conducted; when conducted for the
good of the country and attained are utiz
that end I'm the course Of these investigations
Secy Baker himself admits information was brought
TO him that us1des. in his judgment, the
president his request for assistant secre-
taries, and the other aides that has named How
he viii continue boss the work of the war
department will on continuing its present line Of
work. though the "copperheads" continue 20 hiss and
to spit venom until they blow themselves blind The
secretary of war is masking of the good has
come from the inyestisatons this spite in
trigue that marked their inception. and is-passns
the purpose of the intrigue along TO the junkheap
The country can rest assured therefore and this
even If the republican press does quoting Cham
berlan i'm what he said before Secy Bakers reply just
though the secretary of had replied 10
IT, and it stood unchallenged. II is merely charac-
teristic. or is it hat, in their minimum of brain ca
paey they are unable comprehend the naked truth
and only falsehcod is attracted to them by its like