Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-29
Significant

Results of city elections held in all the more important of the industrial centers ot the state Monday, indicate a return of the voters to a safe and sane political system, as we'll as a manifestation of most intense loyalty and patriotism. While patriotism was the issue in such cities as Bisbee. Je- rome and Globe, yet the men elected on that platform were of the same and conser- vative type, while their opponents general ly were of the radical agitator type.
 The overwhelming defeat of all these radicals in these industrial centers could not have been accomplished without the aid of the workingmen generally and union men at the ballot boxes. Therefore, the returns are all the more significant. They mark turn in affairs. The days of the waving of the bloody shirt of radicalism are fast passing in this state. The radical and the agitator and the trouble maker are on their last legs. They can no more make political capital out of their wild attacks upon the copper barons and their unsel- fish support of the poor workingman. They must have something concrete upon which to base their attacks, and they must have a record of either accomplishment or abili- ty or construction behind their support. General terms and assertions will not do.
 The war has knitted the best men and women in this state together as never had been dreamed of before When the rich and the poor and the laborer and the busi- ness man work side by side day after day in common cause of country they begin to find out something about each other. They begin to think and to reason and to act along broader, finer, fairer lines. And in this great work the real patriots are dis covered. The real state and home and business builders and worth while folks be- gin to sort the sheep from the goats. In time of war men who love their country and have pride in its institutions and su- preme efforts in a supreme crisis naturally get together upon common ground, and men who lack these high ideals and solid foundations of citizenship naturally herd together They brand themselves by their acts so plainly that their empty and mean ingless words and assertions can no longer cover them with garments of responsibility.
 The war marks the passing of the rabble rouser and cheap and selfish politician. Soon there will come time when nothing much will count but what one IS doing tor his country. Soon will come a time when hundreds of thousands of the boys will come back from over there and they and their millions of relations and friends will cast the deciding vote at all elections upon a patriotism issue of accomplishment only. Soldiers who faced German steel will be elected to office. And their experiences in a stern and terrible game will have made them thoughtful and broad and fair and able to administer affairs upon big basis
 War IS stern test of manhood. It wipes out class hatred and differences with an impatient and implacable hand and sorts real men together and throws the dross up- on one side where all may see 1t in its cheap and worthless nakedness.
 A new yard stick is being made with which to measure the politician and the office seeker, and 1t Is a stick that only a real man may abide and come up to the standard. The shouter will fall far short Capitalists have other things to think of and to do these days besides merely making money. They must dig down deep for a dozen different kinds of war work funds and taxes every month. Workingmen have other things to think of than the empty mouthings of the agitator All good union men are enlisted in higher cause than a labor union, tt Is the union of humanity under a supreme test And out of the war will come a stronger and yet a more toler- ant lot of capitalists and workingmen to take up again and carry on the industrial needs and burdens of the nation.
 Mark well the signs of the times. They