South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-27
MEPHISTOPHELEAN HYPOCRISY OF THE
MOST HELLISH RANK

II VERYBODY knows where this newspaper stands.
r partisanshp partisanshp. o the liquor
IL and suffrage questions. We have. under
the present management compromised either.
the sake of party and with victory sight
the right side stronger for them than
In other words. their issues have never been a par
US; have criticised democrats and
republicans alike for oppositional attitudes toward
them They not partisan issues in Indiana and
not be- both the political parties having ignored
and endorsed the other.
It is the individual voter. therefore pick
candidates who If converted into officers will
do with these issues; pick them according to your
judgment. likes dislikes. regardless party
but doing that you should be consistent
on the face OF things it stands, the men run
ming for the state assembly the republican ticket
the qualified serve best, and jointly the
dry" suffrage interests the next legislature
They pledged by their party. same as are the
democrats vote for suffrage, If the subject should
reach them. and additionally the republicans have
openly pledged on their personal RESPONSE
bnity. for the ratification of the national pro-
hi6iton amendment and 10 weaken he present
state prohibition
Good! AS individuals respect them and their state
but as republicans they are being surrounded
with bad color suggestions of faith
that render their promises doubtful
When republican publicists to exploiting these
dry attitudes virtuous so apparently
merely because they of republicans. while
nouncing democrats who have proved their worth in
that direction and whose work these republicans
expected above all ratfy, hypocrisy
to Mephistopheean keep confidence sensible.
Then with the hypocritical record Of the Carson
campaign back of that. his promise violated
his official conduct. morality
issues this condoned by republican pubicsts and
including certain republican legislative
candidates themselves-supporting these &. 0. p.
publican nominees. republican nominees
their dry" pretenses becomes more doubtful virtue
still.
With the republican organ-journalistic spokesman
OF the partyexhibtng the audacty the defeat
of Congressman Barnhart. democrat because he voted
prohibition suffrage in congress- while presum
angelic republican legislature.
all because they they will. if elected ratify
Congressman Barnharts congressional work in those
respects hypocritcaly partisan
that for confidence any republican promise
the ssue-coses the doors locks the windows and pulls
down the blinds
Yet as pointed out in this paper Thursday that s
what the republicans OF this district doing the
tyo-faced campaign they are waging--and they
wagng it all the 18th district, while Candidate
Andrew J. Hickey, Congressman Barnharts opponent.
gravitates here there and yonder hobnobbng with
brewer. saloon keeper and blind pigger,
ing to capitalize the anti prohibition strife.
II cannot be otherwise than disgusting 10 any man,
who has OF decency. right mindedness high
principles hidden anywhere in his cosmos II anything
singing rebue right-minded peo-
pie. this does Il the voice of republican newspaper
that knows such thing principle when party
is involved. and such it becomes the voice OF the
party that It represens-unt that party repudiates
The republican candidates the assembly, II
they be and hold public confidence.
had better divorce themselves from the republican
ticxe nd ND Of he
o. p, hypocrisy.
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