South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-08-16

Washington was doing a great in
structirt work by sending OUT PAM
phlets containing real instructions.
You can't just tell a woman d
do this and that and have her do il.
She is perfectly willing 10 do things.
but she wants 20 know the reason
why"
Miss Ianders was given a prolong-
ed ovation at the conclusion Of her
address. Chairman Neal then called
upon the state candidates for short
talks. The evenings speaking was
concluded by a short address br
Chairman Van Nuys who reiterated
his denunciation Of the afternoon Of
sens New and Watson He declared
that Sen Watson changes his pa
triotism 20 suit his audience. and
that it was necessary for him to
make his Indiana keynote speech
behind closed doors 1t Fort Wayne
last Saturday
The meeting was closed Dy the
audience standing and singing the
star Spangled Banner" led BY Mr.
Scanlon
The Afternoon Session.
Denouucins the actions of James
+ Watson and Harry s. New In
diana's two republican United States
senators. as criminal. and haying as
unpa triotic the partisan propaganda
of republican leaders as Just the
kind of propaganda the kaiser him
self would send out Fred Van
Nuys democratic state chairman.
relenJlessly uncovered the insidioUs
efforts Of republican Campaigners TO
undermine the national administra-
tion in the minds Of the people, at
the meeting Of the democratic state
the oliver hote Thursday after
noon.
~ believe the rank and file of the
republican party 10 be just as pa
triotic as is the rank and fiie Of the
democratc party declared the
state chairman. but the republi-
can leaders such as Jim Watson and
Harry New Of Indiana are not pa
triOtic
They go about the slate at
tempting 20 spread the poison OF
AAcLOllACAn ana A4rL4 u.s. DF NtAlAlAE
falsehoods about the war prepare
tious the government has made and
is making.
Believes Watson Criminal
'I believe that Jim Watson is
criminal when he brings the unneces-
sary worry TO the gray-haircd moth
ers OF the bows who they have gwen
to their country by telling chem the
uutruths that he told them al Fort
Wayne the other day
The republicans DO not want 10
win the war first They want to win
the election They are going about
the country telling YOU that Pres't
Wilson needs a republican congress
to aid him win the war They are
more interested i'm winning the cleo
tion than they are in winning the
war. and that is why they are going
about attempting 10 iii the minds
of the people with distrust
The republicans are attempting
TO dig up the old spirit of section
alism Jim Watson is going Up and
down Indiana. trying TO re-create
the old spirit of sectionalism that
existed Just after the Civil war but
thank God no such spirit exists i'm
the hearts Of the American people
today That spirit is dead, and its
only emblem is the blue and gray
uniforms that hang i'm the attics.
To Win On War.
IT believe that this campaign
will be won or lost on the national
administration conduct Of the war.
IL it was true in 1898 that the cleo
ton of democrats to United States
congress would be reputation of
the national administrations con-
duct of Spanish American war, why
should not the sending of republ!-
cans 10 congress next November
be a reputation Of the national ad-
ministration's conduct of the pres
ent war; Theodore Roosevelt in
1895 issued a call 10 the American
people in 1898 20 send republican
congressman TO Washington to show
the world that the nation was be
hind the administration in that war.
We are simply applying Theodore
Roosevelts logic Of 1898 TO 1918"
Chairman Van Nuys then dweIt
upon organization. lie urged the
county chairmen and county organ
izations 20 get the full vote regis
tered. He declared that the result
of the election in Indiana IN Novem-
Der depends upon whether the dem
ocrats register their full vote
The state chairman declared that
the burden of getting out the reg
istration should fall upon the coun-
Is candidates He said that they
should be called upon TO assist the
county organization in every way
possible
Introduces Mrs. Mccullough.
I'm introducing Mrs. Frank Nc
CoIough OF Fort Wayne. repre-
senung the Franchise league of In
diana. Chairman Van Mugs said
tnat the Indiana democracy had
gone on record in its state platform
i'm favor OF woman's suffrage. He
declared that the state central COM
mittee had even gone further than
that. ard is asking the AID Of the
women in the state TO win the cleo
ton i'm November.
Tie declared that the women Of
the state had responded 10 the call.
and were doing most valuable ser