The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-11-01
II will smash the German line in
France. if you will smash that
damnable Hun propaganda at
home" ,. ,,,,,,,,,,
REPUBLICANS AND THE WAR.

1t is the duty Of every Republican
in the state of Montana to hold up
the hands of President Wilson, the
great executive of the United States.
How may this best be done. Let US
analyze.
The crisis of the presidents remark
able career came when, after having
been reelected because he kept US out
of war, he changed front as the ex-
igencies Of the occasion demanded,
and proposed the selective conscrip-
ton measure by which the mar pow
er of the United States could be arm
ed and mailed into a mighty host for
the preservation of the liberties of
the world.
Was he right about. You can just
bet your sweet life he was right.
Did all the members of his party
in congress give him the support that
the righteousness of his position de-
manded?
NOT BY A DAMNED SIGHT.
Where did his support come from?
From the Republican members of
congress.
The record stands. The vote was:
For Against
Democrats ......-....-~.--.144 81
Republicans .............169 AZ
That tells the story. Patriotic Re-
publican members of congress voted
to sustain a patriotic Democratic
president when many of his own party
had repudiated him. Support the
president by voting for Republican
congressional nominees.
The president, in an unguarded mo-
ment, and probably listening to the
urge of some of his political friends,
issued a statement the other day ask
ing that a Democratic congress be
returned, in order, he said, that there
should be harmonious accord in the
war policies of the government. The
president was mistaken. To insure
support to himself and his policies he
should ask for the election of Repub-
licans to congress. Possibly he wants
Republicans and is taking this meth
cd of getting them. He is going to
get them. His appeal, in the face of
the record, has made of this a Ger
tainty.
The Courier is for President Will
son, because he is the head of these
United States, and the United States
is engaged in war. But we take is
sue with him on the proposition that
this is the personal war of Woodrow
Wilson. 1t is rather a war of all the
United States of America. His ap-
peal to the voters to elect only DEM
ocrats to congress is a poor return
to the Republican senator's and rep
resentatives when it is considered that
the bulk of his support in this war
has come from the very men he op-
poses.
He could we'll profit by the example
of Lloyd George who has made him.
self the greatest man in England be-
cause, although he owes his position
to the fact that he is the leader OF
the Liberal party of England, and
when he came to his high place, wa:
big souled enough to rise above poll
tics and form a coalition cabinet, call
ing in as his advisors the representa-
tives of every party of his country
and thus making the war not a wa
of the Liberal party, but a war of al
England.
A vote for Walsh or Mitchell O.
Evans is a vote to put the Unitet
States under what is practically a die
tatorship, and is a vote to make thi
war the wal Of the Democratic party
A vote for Lanstrum or Riddick o
Linderman is a vote to make this wa
the war of the United States. If tn
Republicans are good enough to figh
and buy bonds they are good enoug
to have some voice in the government
DEMOCRATIC PRESUMPTION.
Democratic presumption is the onl
asset the Democrats have this cam
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