Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24
Load Too Heavy for One Horse
By WILL H. HAYS.
Chairman of Republican National Committee

/ We are living today in one of the greatest
epochs in all the cons of Gods eternity There
never has been anything like it since time began.
and there will never be again while time shall
last The world is on fire. There will never be
moment in the lives of any of us when it will
be so important that individually and collec-
lively we direct our thoughts with care an! our
actions with consideration.
This country has to save the world.
The republican party constitutes, in all prob
ability, the majority of the citizenry OF this
country
We are republicans. We are proud of it.
The history of the actions of the republican
party is the story of the progress of the nation.
A man could not have been more proud to
have been republican in 1901, when the party
was born to make men free, nor in 1898, when
it gave of its best to preserve the liberty of a
downtrodden neighboring people, than he is to
be republican today when we are making it
our supreme purpose to make certain that our
party runs true to its tradition, continues stead
fast in its avowed purpose, and functions in its
performance of loyal, efficient national service,
requiring it of our own membership and OF
everyone else. democrat or republican, in office
or out of Office regardless of the office, high or
low, and regardless of the individual, big or
little.
The fact that the republican party in con-
gress has been able to give more generous war
support than the opposition is not recited by
republicans in dsparagement of the democrats.
BY tradition, by training, by experience, by as
pratlon and by actual performance we have
been qualified to do this. More is properly ex-
pected of us by reason of these things, and the
fact that we have been true to our consistent
record of preparedness, patriotism and perform
ance, though at times subjected to the most
narrow partisan attempts to deter us, does not
enttle US to any more credit than that due for
the discharge of any recognized duty
There is no geography, political or physical,
in the patriotism of this country. Democrats
and republicans alike love the flag and are ready
together to die for it. | attribute to the men,
bership of the democratic party in this country
the same high patriotic motives and loyal hearts
which we claim for ourselves.
| have pity, rather than any other concern,
for those men who accuse republicans of lack
of patriotism and failure in war support. Such
statements, spawned in spite and uttered with
the evident belief that partisan advantage can
be gained thereby are the walls of ignorance
and the woofs of selhshness They do no harm
politically to those against whom they are di-
rected. The contrary is true But for national
reasons most important | most earnestly urge
continually that there be no allegations from
either one side or the other concerning disloy-
atty in this campaign. Shame on that man or
committee OF either party who does thatl Such
allegations are calculated to create among un-
thinking people feeling of resentment on one
side and dlstruSt on the other, when acrimon-
Gus divisions are most deplorable. Such allie
cations will give a totally false impression OF
conditions in this country to the enemy. And
the man, or the committee, or the party who
starts anything like that is guilty in the very act
of the worst kind of disloyaty.
This is no time for little things. All the or
gained diabolical forces of scientifically
trained brutality are at the throat of this coun-
try. And we appeal to .all patriots whatever
their politics, to aid us in every way possible in
our efforts to require that partisanship be kept
out OF the war management and all war activ-
ties. In the name of every American soldier in
France, in the name of every American mother
of those boys, l appeal for the support of the
country's cause by all men and women without
thought of party. Let not political parties
spend their time accusing each other of disloy-
atty, when both are loyal. Rather let US en-
deavor to make certain that every possible eff
Gent instrument in men and material which is
available shall be used in winning the war, that
efficiency shall replace inefficency wherever
found, and that both the two great political
horses which we have shall be harnessed to-
gether fully and freely to share in the pulling
OF the heavy load each striving to see which
can pull the harder.