The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-10-18
0OR SUPREME PURPOSE
BY WILL r.. HAYS
Chairman Of the Republican National
Committee.

A million red-blooded American citi
zens will buy Liberty bonds this day.
This is our answer to the latest wore
from Prussia.
And there will not be one second
waver in this Liberty loan drive unit
1t has been accomplished.
Remember. this is the supreme pres
emit purpose of every Republican.
With the conclusion of this Liberty
Loan drive political activity will again
occupy us, and then as now every sin.
gle act of the party in state and nation
shall be determined solely by how we
can contribute most to the sum total of
war good.
New Hampshire and Wisconsin early
sent their answer to the Democratic
attempt to use the war for partisan
political purposes.
Maine voters by an unprecedented
Republican majority sent their EN-.
phatic denunciation of such practices,
and have shown to the country that the
people of this nation endorse the Re-
publican position that this is the war
of no political party-that it is the peo-
pies war, and that the war must be
kept out of partisan politics and par.
tisanship must be kept out of the war.
Notwithstanding these defects, the
Democratic high command furthur pur.
sues this policy
They are circularizing the country
with a pamphlet entitled "Why you
should give earnest attention right now
to electing Democratic Congress 4" 1t
is signed by an officer of that commit
tee. One l have before me was sent
out in letter dated Sept. 10, 1918,
which letter is signed by an officer of
the organization. In this pamphlet they
say the election of Republican Con.
gress would be q" source of comfort
and citation to the Kaiser and his CO.
horts "
Against this reprehensibles cohduct
by responsible political organization
protest, notses. q Republican, but as
an American.
Again say, such statements do no
harm politically to the party against
which they are directed. But for ma
tional reasons most important deplore
them.
Shame on any political management
that would seek to make q political
asset out of the patriotic war spirit
which now inspires this nation.
For shame, that any political organiza
ton would put party spirit above Amer
ieanism, and sacrifice patriotism to the
meanest spirit of psrtissnship. know
that the great majority Of the member
ship Of the Democratic purity does not
approve of such conduct. 1t is an insult
to every soldier in France. it is an in.
suit to every Republican home. from
which 81 very many of those boys came,
it is an insult to every soldier who
fought for Abraham Lincoln, it is an
insult to an uhsullied record for pa
triotism Of political party that is
child of patriotism, conceived when our
foundations trembled. and born in the
lap of extremity, with a mission almost
holy; it is an insult to judgment and
justice, reason and righteousness; and
the electorate, tf ,bjs tttltIy wi
handle properly the political manage.
ment which in this country's darkest
hour would attempt to make politics
out Of the most sacred trust ever given
to men.
Against this kind Of politics the Re-
publican party shall not reply in kind
We appeal to all patriots, whatever
their politics, to aid us in every posi-
BILE way in our efforts to require that
be kept out of the war and
that the war be kept out of partisan
politics. Nothing that the Democratic
party can do can change for one mo-
ment the Republican party's great pur-
pose, to determine the party's every |
act in state and nation by how we can
most to the winning Of the
war, for peace with victory and limit.
less support of the country's cauee
regardless CT everything else In the i
world, and for sane preparation now
for tho y,roh1ov,o 10 v,aoco