Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-12
Question for the Voters.

Oxford. Neb., Aug. 5.-To the Edi-
tor of The Bee: The humbuggery of
the primary law is again in evidence.
The democratic and republican par
ties are a unit in agreement that
America was right when she declared
war and that we shall not hesitate or
lay down our arms till the damnable
Huns are crushed to their knees and
cry for mercy for numbering our citi-
zens and for their devilish deeds in
France and Belgium. Both parties
hold in loathsome contempt these peo-
pie that celebrate the drowning of
women and children and whose COM
mitted atrocities gives them the
worlds record as human devils. Both
parties are unstinted in their denun-
citation of German propaganda and
those whose sympathies are with our
enemies.
Notwithstanding the above facts our
primary law makes both parties stand
sponsor for men whose past records
are in complete harmony with the
wish of the German-American Alli-
ance. Their names are on the ballot
because they had the price and will
be presented to the people on primary
day without debate as both parties
are forced to carry the load; /. e.,
men who opposed the war, who would
have starved our allies by embargo
ing food, and would have compelled
their surrender by refusing arms.
These men were proved by their acts
pro-German or ignorant addle-headed
statesman and in either case they
are not safe to be trusted in the senate
today.
Think of a man using his senatorial
power to prevent arming our ships for
protection against the murderous
Huns and then under the primary
law being recorded as leader of the
republican party. Remember that
this is the same man who, when the
Huns were plotting their devilish
schemes against our government and
distributing their slush fund they had
stolen from the Red Cross, stood up
in Lincoln, Holdrege and McCook and
warmed the cookies of the German
heart by proclaiming that we had no
more cause to war with Germany
than with France and England. He
said the millions Of Wall street were
. trying to write a declaration OF war
with the blood of our sons; and then
after posing for applause stated the
astounding fact that he could not dis
tingush any perceptible difference be-
tween a ship being torpedoed by a
submarine and sending all on board
to the bottom and a ship meeting de-
struction by running against mine.
Think of such q man being allowed
under the primary law to rape the
republican ballot for reelection. Our
boys are fighting and giving their
lives to protect our national honor
and to crush those brutes, who, ac-
cording to Ross Hammond's state
ment,' are 10 times worse than the
widest savage that ever roamed this
earth. What would be the feelings
of our boys should they come home
and find that we had elected man
to the senate who had said this was
Wall streets war and when we made
the declaration we were putting the
dollar mark on the flag? No wonder
Viereck thought this man worthy to
have his picture on the front page
of the Fatherland along with our
great democratic senator who also was
elected by the German-American AL
lance. 1t Is not strange now why he
should camoufiage when filing by Civ
ing out statement that no disloyal
or pro- German votes were desired.
Will the republican and democratic
parties prove that they are able to
weather the primary and nominate
men whose war records will not de-
mand continual apology? If they can
do that it will matter little which
party succeeds, and both parties have
the timber If they only will use it.
A. C. RANKIN.
Candy and Sugar Conservation.