Arizona republican., 1918-09-20
J. Ham. Personal Representative

papers. the Chicago Herald Examiner predicts the defeat of Medin Mccormick and the reelection of J. Ham Lewis, United States senator. We not deeply concerned with the prediction usually there little relation between the prognostcatons of the Hearst papers and the prosnostcated event The prediction n this is founded the fact that the president has requested the reelection of J. Ham.
 The Herald Examiner informs
 Mir Lewis represents in the senate. in a
 peculiarly personal and important way the
 president of the United States. And the pres
 idont of the United States is the man that good
 Americans Of all parties most earnestly desire
 Co uphold in every possible manner
 We may inquire in what capacity Mir. Lewis repre- sents the president He has been described the whip" of the senate but supposed that of J. Hams numerous self assumed functions and ,ould recall that that dignified body had ever before had a whip also knew that J. Ham was interpreter of the presidents English the ainer and elaboraor of the presidents speeches and writings. Without him would have known what tho president when before the war declared that Americans were too proud to fight .houeh will confess that J. Hams rendition of hat now famous remark, after times changed and vent to war, not clear. In that case assumed that J. Ham had made himself the personal repre- sentative Of the president without authorization toy the president J. Ham, seemed to be the personal representative" of all democratic statesmen who had said things that afterward appeared awkward
 Again the Examiner says:
 Thousands of lifelong republicans who
 gladly paid their tribute to Mir. McCormcls
 character and ability at the republican pri-
 maries WILL VOTE WITH WOODROW
 WILSON FOR JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS
 ON ELECTION DAY.
 The majority of citizens in this state will
 vote with the president with the command
 cr-in- chief of the American army and navy.
 He publicly requested Mir. Lewis to run, set
 tins forth the senator's importance to the
 work of the administration. In so doing the
 president let it be known that the presence of
 Mr. Lewis in the senate is desirable and
 cssary to the administration.
 THAT WILL BE ENOUGH FOR THE
 PATRIOTIC CITIZEN of Illinois. He is think
 ing not or politics not of party but of the
 war. of the in the White House upon
 whom rests the wars burden.
 Why did these thousands of lifelong republicans" give tribute to Mir. Mccormick in the primaries if not because he loyal. for he is loyal in pre- eminent dcgrec-a supporter of every war measure and of every preparedness measure before the war when J. Ham thought could never be forced upon use IT loyalty is the test why should these lifelong republicans now desert Mr. Mccormick after having rendered him such conspicuous tribute in the primary lt is true that the President requested J. Ham, to run. He also requested Joseph w. Davies to run in Wisconsin,; he requested Henry Ford to run in Michigan and they ran-after fashion, but not fast enough. The president also requested FinIay H. Gray Go run in the Sixth Indiana district and privately requested Chiffon to in West Virginia but they too ran too slow. The president also recently qucsicd democrats of the Ninth Alabama district to defeat George Huddleston for reelection but they did not comply. We hardly expect the repub- hcans Of Illinois to be compaisant
 Now 10 the crowning idiocy of the Herald Examiners predictions
 IL would please all if we read that
 FaF clio ,f f.crrr
 portant. highly educated and influential had
 openly declared againt the kaiser and refused
 him ndorsement and support.
 lt would make pleasant reading for Ger
 many In November if the cables announced
 that the central typcally American state of
 Illinois had voted againt the president against
 his expressed wish against of his abest
 supporters in congress, against that patriotic
 war senator. James Hamilton Lewis. But
 Berlin. in the opinion of this newspaper. will
 -yt no such pleasant messages from the state
 of Illinois
 This reduced to its lowest terms is: any vote for a republican candidate during the war is a dis loyal vote Any vote against the expressed wishes of the president is treason. Here is an as- sumption that the republican party is against the war: that the responsibility for the rests on the democratic party, and cannot be shared.
 may he said of Mir. Mccormick that he was for America and Amercas part in the war before Mr. Lewis was for it. and at time when hc was aVcrse to preparation for the war; at time when all the Hearst papers were openly sym pathetic with Germany and were barred from all the countries Of the allies. Since then and since our en- trance the war Hearst papers which are now setting up standards of American loyalty were decry- ing the denouncng two of our allies; were throw ing obsructions in the way of the draft and of the Liberty loan and these acts of dsoyaty they are being punished by indignant American people in all parts of this country
 Mir. Mccormick and the republican party were for the when the democratic party was silent