The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-06-28
JASPER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JUNE %, 1918.

I have myself been so long a par
tisan that | have an intense compass
sion for those who are seeking tn,
weak joint in Wilson's armor. / know
how many of us there are tossed be
tween duty and desire, who feel tn,
urge of non-partisan patriotism anC
at the same time long for the fruits
of partisan triumph, who can appre
ciate the Presbyterian elders lamen
that he wished he had gone to New
York before he was converted.
The Time for Decision.
Now is the time when men must an
swer the question as to whether they
are whole-heartedly with the Com
mander-in-C Chief of the Army and
Navy of the United States or whether
they are with the party that is seek
ing mainly political preferment.
Let us now see what has taken
place in Indiana. In an informal let
ter to the Republican editors of his
state, at their meeting on January %
the junior senator from Indiana used
the following language:
THE Republican party de-
mands, and will not be denied,
the right to a full share in the
vigorous prosecution of the war
and the establishment of Ameri-
can ideals, whether partisan
administration wills it or not"
He uttered substantially the same
sentiment at the recent Republican
state convention.
This expresses the idea of a good
many office holders and office seekers
in America. They conceive that the
Republican party is some sort of a
sentient being, capable Of bearing
arms and getting into the thick of the
fight The quotation contains a Gov
ert suggestion that this ferocious war
machine has been rejected by some
recruiting officer. It would be far
more Ineligible if the charge were
directly made that it had been re-
jected and the reason for its rejection
given to the Republic No one now
knows whether the Republican party
has been rejected or not, and, if so,
whether 1t has been rejected for fiat
feet, hernia or defective vision.
Greathouse VS.. Hays.
Parties do not enlist. Men do. Com
,asative zeal of equally loyal men
must be judged by the relative time
given by them to war and to politics
There were two state chairmen in III
Llama, one Democratic, the other Re
publican; one gave up his political
oh to devote his full time to war
work; the other gave up his war work |
n order to engage exclusively in poll
les and the Governor of Indiana
wrote him:
L have feeling, too, that you
have found it necessary to resign
as chairman of the State Council
of Defense in order to perform
even more important duties"
@AhN oNiii SuppOSt lHdl IL VIII Dc
aid by many that | am making only
miserable, partisan, Democratic
peech, when l suggest that this Ian
uage and this conduct indicate that
he interests of the Republican party
n Indiana and in the nation are far
lore important than the doing of
verything that can be done for the
inning of the war.
Then this Young Lochinvar ambled
ut of the West upon the G. o. p
he Grand Old Palfry-and with force
nd arms seized the Lady Theodore
nd carried her off to that medieval ,
astle called Republican headquar-
ers, where he set her above the salt ,
nd introduced her as a Republican ,
estal virgin. But our Young Lochin-
ar discovered that there were large 8
umbers of his retainers who did not :
elieve that she was the coy maiden I
ne said she was and who strangely :
lsisted that they had seen her walk
lg the political streets in 1912 and =
916. While he was busy, running :
'om one end of his domain TO the /
ther, trying to convince the faithful :
lat their suspicious were not true, }
le Lady Theodore, being left at {
ONE, concluded to take a hand in the 4
ar by writing letters in derogation .
nd criticism of it's management to a y
ewspaper, which newspaper had as y
S managing editor a man who was, Y
the declaration of hostilities i,
sainst the imperial German govern {
ent, an alien enemy of the United n
tates, and which newspaper had pub +
shed the Rose Pastor Stokes letter
Id other seditious documents.
Political Jockeys in Indiana.
Some men at least are going TO OBJ
CT If she is the Republican party /
Id if she is going to fight the war =
this way-through the columns of o
e Kansas City Star and, notwith- i.
anding her great desire TO take
large of everything. they are going
insist that she shall not be per- .
tilted TO do so earlier than March :
1921, and not then, n God and the .
ght shall prevail .
1t is time for those of us who hith- Il
to have been known as political q
ckeys In Indiana 10 realize that the 0
opls have put out to grass the
and Old Palfry and the historic r