The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-09-05
PLATFORM:
BORN OF VICTORY
Canadian Soldier, Incapacitated
Through Wounds, Here to
Preach Democracy.

among American miners, who are be-
ing called upon to redouble their efforts
to meet the ever.increasing demands
for coal. Private R. A. Quigley, late of
the Nineteenth Canadian Infantry, who
received his baptism of fire in the Elan.
ders inferno early in the world war and
who was honorably discharged after
two years service because of physical
disability through wounds suffered, ar
rived in Cumberland Tuesday for a
speech-making tour through the
Georges Creek, Upper Potomac and
Somerset regions, now being arranged
by Federal Agent Howard P. Brydon.
Private Quigley is native of Bel
fast. Ireland. the Celtic characteristics
of dash and daring standing out prom
inently in his outspoken convictions,
appearance and emphatic manner of
address. Three horrible sharpnel
wounds in his back and legs, one of
which wounds has as vet refused to
yield to treatment sufficiently to heal,
have not quenched his ardor nor dimi-
nished his courage, for he would will
ingly even now return to that He'll up
on earth-the front line trench-dId not
his disability forbid.
Private Quigley came to America in
1913. He secured employment in an
Ohio steel industry. The desire to as
sist IN repelling the onslaught of the
Hun came to him early in the war. He
crossed the border and enlisted with the
Nineteenth Canadian Infantry on Feb.
Is, 1915. The following June Private
Quigley was in Flanders facing the foe.
He went through the battles of
Messines Ridge, st. Eloy, the second
battle of Ypres and the second battle
of the Somme. Hair breadth escapes
fell to his lot without number in this
awful series of sanguinary conflicts.
Twice he was half buried by exploding
shells. On another occasion in the
battle of Ypres, his company was sub
jected to the most terrific and concen-
trated shell fire for period of twelve
hours. There were ninety casualties
out of total company strength of $50,
and every man was all but nervous
wreck from shell shock and the strain
of the perilous situation. yet the
trench was held and the position was
maintained in the face of this frightful
onslaught.
Private Quigley has been an eye
witness of every conceivable barbarity
the Hun has been guilty of perpetrat-
ing. He admits that he could recount
by the hour instances of fiendish
atrocities committed,b by the Germans, but
that is not his mission here. His force
full eloquence, and he possesses it, will
be devoted largely to impressing upon
his hearers the necessity for greater
output, that world democracy NAV
triumph and German Kultur may be
consigned to the He'll it has sought to
create for decency and righteousness.
True word pictures of life at the front,
trench fighting, machine gun attacks,
barrages, lover the top" and all of the
instrumetalities aud agencies of modern
war will punctuate his addresses, but
the deep underlying motive and inspir-
ing thought will be his fervent, oft re-
repeated appeal for greater production
of coal and the necessity therefore.
Private Quigley has small respect for
the pacifst in whatever guise and what
soever degree he may exist. Occasion
ally he encounters one in his travels.
Recently one of this yellow backed
species inquired of Private Quingley
why he was so emphatic in his view
that the Hohenzolern dynasty must be
annihilated, root and branch The Can
adam soldier then related this incident
Private Quigley was in quest of fire
wood. 1t was fearfully cold in the win
ter of 1856 while the Messines Ridge
campaign was on, and fuel was very,
very scarce. He located a piece
of timber in a pile of debris which
had once been a French home until
the Hun had demolished it by shell
fire and bombs He called to several
comrades to assist him in extricat-
ing the timber. In so doing there
was exposed to view the remains of
three French children, bayonetted and
butchered by the Huns, and their bodies
buried beneath the debris of their once
happy home.
Private Quigley and his comrades re-
moved their bodies and on the hillside
nearby tenderly consigned the mutt
lated corpses to the grave. over which
a wooden cross was placed bearing the
inscription, Here lies three unknown
French children, butchered by the Ger.
mans"
1t did not require any further illus
tration to the pacifist. That private
Quigley retains and will die with the
conviction that the best German of the
Hohenzollern school of Kultur is one
who has passed to his final reckoning
and now and for all eternity is feeding
the flames of He'll.