The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-26
HEROES TO THE FORE

iub CdlupdiSu III oShSi@i &c
as candidate for the presidency IL
1920 indicates that the great party
Is seized with an unbearable lack o.
patience. Republican leaders turf
Ipale and call for the smelling salts
when they see real greatness coming
to Democratic leader like that which
has crowned Wilson in his administra
ton of the nations affairs in the great
war. Now Wilson is going to Paris
to help fix the terms of peace and he
! is going to play part unlike any
American has ever taken in world al
fairs
The Republicans cannot stand
although they are tied out. Really the
racket is being made by the shallow
leaders. Republicans of the deeper
statesmanlike stamp arc not worried
about the accomplishments OF Persl-
dent Wilson. It does their hearts
good to know that an American can
play the part Wilson is playing in the
disposition of the differences among
Inations. They can see Anericanism
lin the lead,-far overshadoWing every
thing else in the world. They are reai-
| ly willing to give Wilson and the
Democrats credit for it. They know
what a chapter is going to be writ
| ten into the history of the civilized
world by President Wilson and the
leaders Of his day
But the noise makers cannot wait
till it is time again to talk politics.
oershing is on the battlefront solely
because a wise democratic comman-
der in chief OF the army and navy
saw fit to place him there. Since he
has been there he has upheld every
estimate President Wilson made of
him when he made him leader Of the
lighting forces, and he will not like
" want to make his announcement
until he returns and has time to sur
vey the situation.
And in the meantime William G.
McAdoo, although mot on the firing
line in France has been one of the
men of accomplishments since the
war started There has never been
more active man of executive ability
N Washington since men OF the pres
ent day have been able to measure
ihe merits of mems work Pershing
carried his men to battle and he and
they fought till every advance they
made struck terror in the ranks of
the enemy. That, however, was but
the work assigned in that special
field. In other fields other men were
at their posts. Pershing won,-so did
McAdoo. The latter had to win for
Pershing to win. Both were major
clements in the great machine that
DESTROYED Germany. Both did their
best,-and when the time comes the
American people are going to be able
TO recognize their worth as heroes.
In the meantime it will take wis
81 party program than this to draw
4 curtain over the accomplishments
If the democrats during the time
President Wilson has held office
Whatever the republicans have done
in the critical time of war to help
win it is to their credit but to cap
taiize the accomplishments of the
democrats in the work of Pefshing
fer campaign uses, is to cheaper both
General Pershing and the republican
party
What the democrats have done will
Enthusiastically put democratic sup
remacy in the atmosphere of another
election time, What the party has
done can no more be forgotten thar
can the deeds of its statesmen. Per
shing will not be the only man capa
BILE and fitted to fill the presidential
chair when the war is finished ana
ali people are assigned TO their peace
| full problems
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