The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20

peace? If General Pershing is nominated the American people will answer this question yes or mo. .;
 If must be said here that even prohli- nent republicans who are lntereseeu III this movement admit that General elsn ing could not favor the contlIlua s .ta an army greater than the neeos ol % sne country. They know that the mlno ol .lle 10 tion will be on the arts of peace rather tban the arts of war, that the man pow CT of the nation must be moplilzeu now to produce that which has pecoile sHoie .y through a long period ol war, .utle S
 ar debt incurred by this nation anu not included in the indemnity leVleu noains+ tbe foe must be paid, and, last h1t far from least, that with the oestruc- tion of the last arbitrary power there ;s no need for the maintenance of vast army. o
 So General Pershing if the republican nominee would not favor the maintenance of large army. However, America. which is now voting intelligently and with full knowledge that mans environ ment leaves it's impress upon the mind, will recall that General Pershing is a military man and that his life has been spent in building up military machine. These facts will be weighed and General Pershing will be forced to show more than his record as the leader or the ! American soldiers in the battles across | the seas if he is to succeed Woodrow | Wilson.
 l If General Pershing should accept the nomination an interesting political light l would be brought about and there would l be new alignments. One cannot conjec- 1 ture now what would be the result.
 Thousands of fathers would vote for hlm because their boys came safely home.
 Thousands of others would vote against k11r+ 1 tll1g l build up military machine which wouiu
 arouse the suspicion of other nations
 and might ultimately bring anotner 1. tragedy to the world.
 1 Democrats naturally do not knoW no" i what they will do ill the next campaign which will begin the latter part oi neN' year. They have not made complete
 analvsis of the causes leading up to the
 result of the recent general elections when they were defeated. untll that tanalysis has been made they will not pc l gin to look deeply into the future iho general opinion in Washington IS thd' 1 the defeat of the democratic party can-
 not be attributed to any one lniils' ,.. action was to be expected. It IS the his- 1 torv of the world A new thing soon 1 becomes old A person wants to try something else. Several things nave oe cured during the war to bring criticlsiil from the opposition. These several tnihss
 when placed together in some sempiance 1 of order impress many persons as peins serious. The republicans put these crlti- 1 csms and the acts of the democrats 1 which brought the criticisms together and they made the impression on the 1 voters which brought defeat to the defn- ocratic party. ,,r,c 1 CANNOT STAND RESTRAINT Another thing American people nave not been taught to appreciate restraint. 1 They don't like it and never will The l democratic administration has been forced to restrain the people In many l ways-and the nation, being at war, glao- l ly accepted the restraints. when toiu to reduce the consumption of sugar they did so. When told to use victory bread 1 thax1 ware glad to do so When asked to
 make Sunday a gasolineless day they did so. It was thus from the beginning to the end But it must be Kept Ill mind that the nation was convinced tndt peace was near when the November eiec- tion was held. Germany's allies had
 broken away and Germany was oesslhs for mercy. Realizing that peace Was ] matter short removed from the realty, the voters according to this truly Wasn-
 ir, r,gtonian view, decided it would be pet ter to have another party in control or
 the Congress thus assuring speedy re- turn to normal.
 Ii is safe to say that the democrats
 will attempt to redeem themselves Tn
 the next election and that an effort VIII
 be made to find the nations strongest
 democrat to make the race for Presl-
 dent. No one thinks for minute now
 that President Wilson would be can
 didate He would have been had not
 peace come during his second term, but
 now that the nations efforts in this war
 are over, there will be no disposition or
 the part of the President, his party or
 the people to break the precedent which is opposed to d third term for a Presi-
 dent.
 | William C.. McAdoo at present is re- I garded as the democrats hope What
 opinion the people will have of him a
 year from now when interest will begin
 to center on the presidential campaign
 remains to be expressed One thing IS
 certain: Mir McAdoo is the best adver-
 tised man in America today. One sees h,s name everywhere. There's an old slogan, Ut pays to advertise One is
 forced to wonder now if MT. McAdoo has been sitting up nights revolving this
 sloPan in his mind.