New Britain herald., 1918-09-26
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 WILSON'S TRENCHES Will H. Hays Demands DisSoCia- - tiOn of Politics and War.
 ATTACK ON THE PRESIDENT
Head of Republican Machine De- cIarcS Democrats Use Worlds Con- fliCt for Partisan Purposes-Scnato Townsend Shoots at Ford.

v Grand Rapids, Mich, Sept. 26.- Charging that the Democratic party had attempted to use the war for par tisan political purposes, Will H. Hays, chairman of the Republican national committee, spea king before the Re- publican state convention here today, urged that the war be kept out of politics and that partisanship be <kept out of the management of the war The two great parties, he de- clared, should work together to a commend end-peace with victory.
 The national chairman referred to Nthe recent Republican victory in Maine and chara cterized it as Maine's reply to 'the Democratic attempt to use the war for partisan purposes"
 Continuing, he said
 ''The Democratic national commit We says the election of a. Republican congress would be a source of com fort and elation to the kaiser and his cohorts. Against this unpatriotic conduct of responsible political or ganization I protest, not as a Republi- can, but as an American. We seek in vain to understand the mental gymnastics of those who can sec comfort and elaton to ,ths~lSaiser' In the election to the Senate of Com mander Truman Fl. NewberrN as against Henry Ford. a man who is a<id to have spent thousands of dol lars in a propaganda for peace at any price after the slaughter of innocent men. women and children by Hun nish hounds of hell.
 'This is no time for little things. A.A the organized diabolical forces of a scientifically trained brutality are at the throat of this country Tn the name of every American soldier In France I appeal for the support or the countrys cause by all men and women, without thought of party"
 Townsend Attacks Ford.
 .@vere criticism of the Democratic aGministration and Henry Ford as a senatorial candidate was coupled with vigorous defense of the Republican party's war efforts by United States Senator Charles F. Townsend in his speech as temporary chairman of the convention.
 Senator Townsend charged the ad- ministration with ineXperience inef- ficiSncy and vacillation, and declared that although President Wilson told congress politics had adjourned. dem ocratic politics never was more active JudH when lI6 DIeSluGllI SeuI Tor JTcnry Ford--a man, he said, 'who opposed war and who felt soldiers wage murderers"-- invited him to become a candidate for the United States senate.
 Criticizing the governments publici- ty policies, the senator said:
 The acts of the government in peace and in war should be known to theapeople; it is their business and all thE truth and only the truth should be given them. Today our press is gagged and some of the most reliable Dews concerning the war comes to us through thG Canadian paper. The ad- piIAstFation issues a neWspap per in charge of a man who has been known for years as as socialist, and it is a proven fact that gross falsehoods have beon knowingly published by him.
 The republican party should be re- turned to power the senator said, not only for the successful prosecution or the war but to safely guide the nation tbEough industrial and international difficulties that must be dealt with after the war.