The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-06-28
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as-possible winning of the war. Nc
one Is going to get me mad over this
contest / am not going to charge
anybody with treason. l shall not
work myself up into a lather of ex
citement because that would only sol
my own linen and achieve nothing.
The recent Republican convention
through the mouths of it's spokesmen
went too far-so far, indeed, that those
who wish the party we'll ave now re-
GREETING some of the statements made
and are gravely warning us Demo-
Gratis not TO toss back the indiscrimi.
GATE pile of brickbats which were
hurled directly and indirectly at the
President of the United States. This
advice, for myself, | am going to take
but when l consider the opportunity
offered, l. to paraphrase Lord Give,
am amazed at my moderation.
All aightThinking Americans.
shall not. therefore, attempt a re.
view of the encyclopedia of Republic
an strength and Democratic weak
ness, which the Governor of Indiana
presented to the convention of his
party. 1t may be that America is not
a Democracy but | shall leave that
question for some future de Tocque-
1t may be that we have no interest in
the form of government which the
German people may desire but, for
myself, | say that we have an interest
in the people who rule in Germany
and that until we have stopped MUIR
der and rapine and pillage and ter
rorism on land and sea, theory or no
theory, the house of Hohenzollern will
be the common enemy of all right
thinking Americans. Theory or no
theory, We are not going to let that
house buy the bankrupt stock of hell
and force upon unwilling and defense
less peoples all it's horrors.
Just what the Republican party
means by saying that its purpose is
to win the war now most of us do not
understand. What the Democratic
party stands for is to win the war as
soon as 1t can be won and it holds
that to the speedy winning Of 1t these
are the essentials: Conviction of the
justice of the cause in which We are
engaged; a fixed and definite end to
be attained; the whole hearted, disin-
terested, political and patriotic sacri-
ice Of personal ambition, party
preferment and individual success to
the objects attainment, and conf
dence, absolute confidence, in the
Commander-in- Chief.
A thousand parties may meet and
adopt thousand patriotic platforms:
the Republic may mobilize all it's
all its men and all it's re-
sources, and yet the chance OF fail
ure will be great If. behind all the
party platforms and modified
strength of the Republic. you do not
put the confidence OF the American
people in the Director. General
History Repeating Itself.
Some timid soul may say, You are
not speaking with discretion; you are
giving proof of the charge in Repub- |
ican speeches and papers that you
ook upon the war as an asset of the /
Democratic party" | speak for no
)ne but myself when | say, ii will not |
le needful for any Republican to adj |
luce proof that this war is an asset |
If the Democratic party. | count it I
Is an asset because of our system of |
government and in the light of our
history. | do not claim that the indi
han the individual Republican but
Idmit that this war in serving as a
,arty asset differs from none other
n which the Republic has engaged.
rhe War of the Reb' ION was fought
~ Republican and Democrat alike but
I was fought under a Republican ad-
and by Republican
in Chief This war is
icing fought by Democrats and Re
ublicans alike but it is being fought
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nd under a Democratic administra-
ion. That which was a Republican
sset in the years oil 90, "a and '9S is
Democratic asset IN 10 ).
Some Republican politicians are do
ng now what some Democratic poll
icians did during the War of the Re-
ellion. boasting of their patriotism
ut indulging in never-ending criti-
ism OF the administration in Its
rosecution of the war. Similar criti-
ism struck Lincoln; il was hurled at
fckinley; it is now gathering in
torn clouds around Wilson.
Same UnseIfish Loyalty.
Wherever two or three Republican
oliticians are gathered together. 10
here are loud protestations of pa
riotism and devotion 10 the Com
lender-in- Chief, but criticism of
lany things that he and his subordi-
ates have done or failed TO do. Err
Ors and omissions are aired. ana
fzed and magnified. These critics ..
lain they are loyal and whole-heart-
dly in support OF the war, but (.
nd In this but" lies danger TO tho
uccessful pyosssuHon Of shs Was
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