Arizona republican., 1918-10-29
We must always seek to create events, lot merely to suffer them.
 Marshal FOch.
The Analogy Is Lacking

In the course of his partisan statement in which he democrats to congress this fall the president referred To ;hc fact that such plea had offered in behalf ,s Lincoln in 1864 and again in behalf of Mckinley 1898. by Theodore Roosevelt Senator Lodge and President Harrison This defense has been of
 ed since by democrats, and of them before :he astonishing statement had made mention of the fact that such appeals had been made by republicans. It is uov presented o show that Mir Wilson was not the f-s' sinner that similar ourages had been committed before and that this one therefore, allowable.
 We will grant that those things done before lrt with reasons. which do not now exist. There every why Lincoln should be reelected in 1864 In Che midst of the The president must be either r republican democrat A very large number of democrats of the north in hearty sympathy with t..o south with which We were at war. Many others though loyal 10 the north, were not unsympathetic with the south and desired end of the war by promise. A democratic victory in 1864 would have been a triumph of the confederacy.
 It was proper then to appeal for the election of Lincoln. But there is American party not in fIl accord with the presidents expressed war aims Tho republicans have been thoroughly and effectively loyal he grudgngly admits. They are pledged to a peace only with complete victory and that is what he president says he for The American people themselves want nothing less. There therefore no issue Of the there is therefore reason why the president should have raised the partsanism
 Roosevelt Lodge and Harrison may well have ap- ucaicd Co the voters in 1898 to rally to the support of McKiacy The democratic party under the leader ship of William J. Bryan was already forming in op- position to the policy of the administration Mir Bryan and the democratic leaders in congress were creating issue of the readjustment policies of The government and out of it's outlined Philippines polcy The itself was over. but the Philippines were yet Go be quieted. Already heard the nut terings of ant-imperiasgn which be the slogan oi Mir Bryan in 1900.
 We now see what would have happened if t'e democrats in 1898 had control of the next congress- The country would have been deprived of Philippines policy against which the democratic party had been committed by MT Bryan-a policy so wise. just and humane formed in the interest of he people of the islands that though for eight years u was made the object of confined and violent demo- cratic assault the democrats in the five and half they have been in absolute control of the gov crnment have dared to change it in any essential rariicular though their platform of 1912 pledged tSem 90 a change.
 Then as nov. the democratic party. though a
 minority party. willing to sacrifice everything on 'ae altar of partisansm And every policy opposed to republican policies was to be made an issue If the democrats had in 1898 the Philippines would have hccu cut loose to drift into savagery only because it the republican policy reclaim and bring happ- ness and prosperity to the islands.
 In these circumstances which now stand out clearly there was reason why Mir Roosevelt Senator Lodge and former President Harrison should appeal to ihe voters against interference with the working out oi policies which have since been given the approval ot mankind.
 But neither Lincoln himself, Mckinley in the rrcat needs of their hours descended to the level to which President Wilson has precipated himself be- the voters.