Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-29
MARSHALL CALLS
WISCONSIN, BELGIUM
)F UNITED STATES
Pleads for 100000 Republicans
to Sacrifice Partisanship
for Country.

Madison, Wis, March %. Repub-
leans of Wisconsin were asked to en-
uiale the example Of the French AT
Serdun tonight by Thomas Marshall.
VICE president Of the United States. IN
an address in the support Of the can
didacy Of Joseph e. Davies, in which
ne declared that wisconsin was the
Belgium on the United States.
When German bay0nets entered
Belgium America was aghast. Now
German ballots have entered Wiscon-
SIN at the time Of our greatest peril
he said.
More than half million men count
ed life cheap loss to save yerdan to
France. | come to Wisconsin to find
= 100000 Republicans will not count
Inc loss Of partisanship cheap il there-
by Wisconsin may be saved to the
Union"
DisIoyal vctes Needed
The vice presitis.sf declared thar the
results Of the Wisconsin primaries
demonstrated conclusively that only
by the aid Of disloyal votes could Re
publican be elected United States Sen
ator from Wisconsin.
He followed this statement by point
Ing out the danger of the election OF
any man who was forced to depend
upon such votes for his election.
No Republican can come to the
senate from the state of Wisconsin.
without q feeling on the part OF the inn
perial German government. that that
senator, having changed his mind once.
may, by the shifting of few hundred
votes in Wisconsin. be induced to
change 1t again.
Quotes EIihu Root.
He followed this statement by adjur-
ing the Republicans ~ Wisconsin to
follow the advice Of Elihu Root, whom
he referred to as .the gseatest living
Republican" He quoted Senator Root
as follows:
For four years the Democrats will
be in control IN Washington. and If
we love our country we must give
that party our whole-hearted, honest,
sincere support, Just as If every man
there was Republican. That is the
only way we can prove, not only our
love for our country, but that the Re
publican party loves its country more
than power"
Text of His Speech.
The text of his speech follows:
Il have no prejudice against the
Republican party. Except for its err
rors, / would not now be enjoying the
languorous ease of vice president OF
the United States / have great, per-
sonal regard for many Republican lead
ers and for the rank and file of the
party everywhere. / should be
ASHAMED of myself If | made any
wholesale charges of disloyalty against
the party as an institution or against
individual members thereof, not based
upon specific statements of fact.
81 do not expect by anything may
say to affect the votes OF Republican
office holders, Republican candidates
for office or Of those in whose breasts
are beginning to stir an ambition for
future preferment at the hands Of the
party.
Party Criticism Not Constructive.
individual criticism, stripped of
party backing, may be constructive in
its character, but criticism which
comes from political organizations
cannot be constructive in its charac-
ter The Republican party cannot
tear down Democratic work and erect
in its place Republican work without
detriment to the plans of the COM
mander in chief, now being carried
out.
ssYour state of Wisconsin is under
suspicion. The law of politics is that,
SO far as usefulness is concerned, you
may as well have a bad character as
to have bad reputation. You Repub-
leans have made the issue here in
Wisconsin. If the vote at the primary
il based upon the charges and coun-
ter-charges which you have made each
against the other, you are about half
for America, half Tor the kaiser, and
MI against Wilson. Your self.appoint-
ga leaders are now trying TO convince
the loyal half that the really impor-
tant thing is not loyalty or disloyalty.
but PARTY success. Having purified
the stream IN the primary YOU welcome
the sewage to help you over the cleo
ton.
Refers to Civil War.
II think there are large numbers Of
YOU who win not want TO rest under
such suspicion. You viii find your
self In the attitude of many Demo-
Gratis in the North Curing the War of
the Rebellion, who voted the Republic
an ticket rather than rest under the
odium Of the statement Of Horace
Greeley that he did not say that all
Democrats were horse thieves, but he
did say that all horse thieves We're
Democrats. Old Dog Tray not only
adorns a tale; he points moral
1T makes no difference how pure
and patriotic the purposes Of the Re-