Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-19
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REPUBLICANS HAVE HELPED MOST.
'fSince the war began the Republicans
in Congress have acted in n spirit OF the
largest patriotism, and wholly without
regard TO questions of politics. For tho
administration measures designed Tor
efficiently carrying on the war they have
furnished a larger perccntagy OF support
than have the Democrats; and where tho
administration was wrong, the bulk of
the Republicans venturcd to withstand 1T
and have stood by the country, whereas
the bulk of tho Democrats have not done
SO: although there have been some con-
spicuous and honorable exceptions.
The right kind of peace, the peace
which America must insist upon, 'oi
Roosevelt said. was "a peace conditioned
upon the complete overthrow ot Germany
and the removal of all threat of German
world dominion" In fighting against
disloyalty III America, against all lorcign
racial solidarity in this country, nc de-
clared, eve must treat agitation 1or pre-
ma ture or inconcllsivo peace as tfeaS"h
TO the Republic" The German spy, the
"alien enemy here at home, and the
even fouler and more dcspicablc native
American who serves the alien, the
Colonel said, should be interned at hard
labor, or, II caught IN fiagrant offence
should be shot
Alludinp to n most gallant American
army across the seas, and To snip ana ar
plane production the Colonel said that
''wc owe much of this achievement To the
work of the Senate committee on military
affairs. and We owe even more to the
success of the German drive which began
in March.
IS nan \ SLOW START,
1--WE have played n poor part IN the
early stages of the world war. the toionel
continued let us make the finishing oi
the wa an American task Bv tins tune
next wear We ought to have overseas m
army as great rs the combined armies at
France and England, an army ot between
}.OOOOnO and 10000 fighting soldiers
on The various fighting fronts, and thus.
considering rCplacCmcnt7 and nnn-com-
hatantS means At lCaSt 6On.ODo men
Congress should refuse assent 70 the
War Department prrse policy Of pro
crastinatlon IN dcfCrrlng the necessary
extension of the age limitS for tho draft.
and in other WAYS There should hC no
further delay Resides enormously
strengthening ii our army IN France We
should hV this time have declared war ON
Turkey and have sent 100 600 soldiers to
aid our Niles IN Western Asia We have
had to use English ships to ferry our
troops across the NlantC and We could
use japanese ships to ferry them across
the Pacific
Nr~l REAr HrN TO KNEES
"1hcrc must le no peace until Germany
IL beaten to her knees 10 leave her with
stranclc-hod on Russia, and through
her vassa Niles. Austria, bulgaria and
Turkey. dominant III Central Europe aud
Asa Mirror, would mean that she had
won the war and taken q great stride
toward world dominion
belgium must he rclnstatcd and re-
imurecd France receive NlsaCc. Turkey
driven from Europe. tho Colonel snid.
'Itahau- Austria must go to Italy AMI
Observation-Disclosures % Rumama. and
Armenia must bc free. the Jews gwen
Palestine and the Syrian hrStians TIC
protected. with tho Poles and other NlaN
races released from tho menace ot the
German sword Il nlcss We do all this
hc declared "vc shall have failed ~
making the lhcrtl II wcl-tRhavcd
civilized peoples secure. and We shall have
shown that our announcement about
making tho world safe FOR democracy was
an empty boast
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These are the t.,SA : set IS rs regards
winning the war and ending the war.
hc continued -Ihcreiure tho men lcctcd
this fail should not only 10 absolutely
lo,ai but posscsscd of broad VISION, sound
common sense high character ard I'm
wedding resolution for they must grapplc
with tremendous international questions
4 iIru,d man. q hait-hcartcd pacitl~i =
foolish visionary may do as incalcuIahlc
harm as the dc1nagoguc or consclcncclcSS
r,alItlcal tr.ckstcr \nd ot course no dis
lo,al man and a man 81 morclv luke warm
LOYALTY should bc chosen. no matter what
TIC ticket on which he runs
Tie keynote Of the Republican party
was sounded hy tho national chairman
Will H Hayes. who urged the support oi
the administration and the need Of p
Republican Congress and who insisted
that the Republicans Of the nation are
unit all harmonious