South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-27
BOASTS OF G. .. P. AID TO
WAR ADMINISTRATION IS
SOUNDING BRASS" BILL
OF PARTICULARS DODGES
SPECIFICATIONS. SOME
COMPARISONS.
BY JOHN HENRY ZUVFR.
Editor The News-TimCs.

Editor The News Times.
= TOT the least surprising that
IN Lodge. smoot- Gillett and
Fess. arch anti-aiministration-
T lists in the senate and house &C
+ Washington. should have sprung Ht
once TO the rescue OF their party.
/ facing the Indictment brought
I against it by Pres't Wilson.
/ The defense i interesting; the
same old indulgence In glittcring
I gcncralities. the same old effort To
pick from the democratic party its
vvorst.-and distinguish the entire
/ organization by their standard.
This il no brief for Claude Kitchin.
democratic floor leader. who NOto}
against the war; Il Is no brief for
/ Chairman Dent of the house mili-
tary affairs committee. nor even for
/ Speaker Champ Clark. except inSo-
far as they have been miSrcprcscnt-
cd in the republican reference Co
them. as i'm any sense typical OF the
democratic side Of the house as a
whole.
/ Democracy realizes that IL hae i'm
its ranks and on the floors Of con-
/ grpSS. senator's and congressman
wearing the democratic label who
have been quite as aHti-administra-
/ tionist I'm their conduct as the re-
pubIicans have becn-but thesc
/ democrats are I'm the wOeful minor
ity. less than a score out Of 2G6.
I while the anu-administratiOnis re-
publicans. pushed TO the jungle of
"copperheadism,' are I'm the near
majority. numbering 1O1 out Of 253
with another hundred To- furnish
them with applause.
Another difference is that the
democrats are eliminating the
''cOppcrheadism" at least in spots,
( as the case Of Nardaman OF Missis-
sippi. Hardwick of Georgia. and
McIcmOre Of Texas. while the re-
pubIicans conspire. according 90 the
advice of Mr.. George Wiclscrsham.
who was Taft's attorney general, 10
retain from their party. only the
/ 'sCopperheads' or similar illS.
Elect republicans" says Wicker
sham. who will not DE at the heck
and call Of the president. Those who
have acquiesced i'm what tho prcsi-
dent wanted during the past two
years should be retired"
lDOSITIVEDY silly at the Very first
glance for Nfessrs- Lodge. SmOOt.
GfIett and Fcss 90 undertake 20
brag about what the republicans
have done I'm the way Of supporting
administration war measures. when
all those who did the supporting are
90 be retired.
Neither is Mr.. Wickersham alone.
Boise PcnrOse puts IL that I'VE need
I a senate and house that will take
: things out OF the presidents hands
and direct the affairs Of the nation
along republican lines" while VIII
II. Hays. the republican national
chairman. contends that "it Is not
less politics. but more politics that
we need and must have. away
from all of which dictums Messrs.
Lodge, SmoOt, GilIett and Fess ap-
pear 10 think the voting public
needs TO he camouaaged
/ WTONDER why these republican
w gentlemen. I'm attempting 20
defend their party against the presi-
dental Indictment, listing Dent.
Kitchin and Clark as shining ex-
amplcs Of democratic opposition IN
administration measures, forgot 50
easily TO mention Sen. George TT.
4 Chamberlain Of Oregon. and Sen.
/ Gilbert IT. Hitchcock Of Nebraska.
Is it because Chamberlain after
dining at the Republican club in
New York. at elbows with Col r.
Roosevelt the most inartistic
. ''coppcrhead' in the nation. return
ed 10 Washington properly salved n
take up the republican cudgcl
against the president and his party
"a II amply bought TO make r ap-
pear that the senate opposition came
from within the democratic fold?
L Hitchcock immune because he
has always been on hand 20 second
Chamberlain's motions?
They are two Of less than score
OF democrats I'm both houses whom
this committee Of defense" would
have us believe have cast moro votes
against war measures than their fOf
republicans have cast.-but they
dare not back 10 with a bill Of par
. ricular~.
HEY say on seven war measure
L republicans I'm both houses
cast moro favorable votes than the
democrats. They don't tell III. how
ever. what the seven measures were;
probably the Chamberlain army in
vcstigariOn measures. the super-war
board bin 10 tie the president
hands tic Roosevelt II want 60 90
20 France bill and few other
anti-administFation idiOsyncrasics
The senate has been fun 81 cm-
I barrassmcnt resolutions. amend
mcnfs % war measures. etc. great
war measures" perhaps from the re-
publican standpoint. for which the
republicans have voted in THE ma
iority. and quite the same In the
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