The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-04-20
THE GoLDF1ELD NEWS AND WEEKLY TRIBUNE

THE GoLDFIELD NEWS AND WEEKLY TRIBUNE
office and the issues of the war to control for his party a seat
the senate? The reason assigned was that Lenroot ~ Wv
ed for the McLemore resolution. And the presiuens
letter which was made a campaign document, In hlch ho '0"'
THE McIemore resolution, the embargo issue, and the armed
neutrality measure presented the first opportunities to apply me
acid test N our country to disclose true loyalty an e"
AmericaniSm -
And this was made the basis for the campaign slogan ! II
President Wants Davies" And the Nevada News Letter, whicn
speaks for the presidents party in Nevada, printed IL WIN ap-
proving comment.
The president was right in his opposition to this resolution
1t was thoroughly vicious and the Tribune saos :. y"
feated. as it should have been. But this occurred more than d
year before we entered the war and while the president was
excepting us out of war" AS to the "acid test" one o those ~
voted as Lenroot did, but not a member of the presidents party
has since resigned his seat in congress and entered the army
as a private volunteer soldier. Isn't that the real acu e9'
And the author of the resolution was a member OF the pres
ident's own party. He and thirty-four others of that party
voted for it, and the president, while himself a candidate, neg
lected the opportunity of writing thirty-five letters into thirty,
five congressional districts, setting forth his "acid test ao
failed to do it. He will have, within a few months' aho'her
similar opportunity. Will he grasp it?
But the McLemore resolution in the house was an innocent
scrap of paper compared with the embargo resolution IN IN
senate to which he refers. The author OF that, senator n"h
cock, was also a member of the presidents own party LII
virtue of the recent death of Senator Stone ne no" . TO- u we
chairman of the most important committee IN Inc senate a. LIZ
time, the committee on foreign relations. AND ! o Suggest oe
propriety of the "acid test in the case of Mr.. Hitchcock we pre-
sent here a copy of circular printed in German and lstrlDut
throughout Nebraska on the eve of the election two years ago.
1t bore the name of the president of that notorious organization
the Germ~an-American Alliance, that has since been 1orceo "
surrender it's charter.
lone of our principal duties must be this, that we hall ID
in the reelection oil United States Senator Gilbert M. Hitch
cock. Senator Hitchcock has the great Recommendation Tn "a ne
has championed the u of true neutrality and the embargo
shipments of wr munitions, that he is bitterly 1ougnt
against by Ill friends OF the allies, that he is feared by TIT pre-
hibitionists who also seek his defeat. hitchcock Jus r~"'o
every German vote. We ought, however, do more nal
this for him. We ought to employ all II u influence TO carry
votes fol him sc that he will certainly be reelected. Iherefore'
vote and work for Hitchcock"
This distinguished leader not only introduced and cham
pioned the kaiser's resolution for an embargo on munitions,
but the equally odius measure to prevent our present allies from
even raising money by the sale of securities in this country.
This is no time to play politics. No president OF a repuDhc
ever had more loyal support for his war measures from N OPP
posing party than our president has had from Mr.. Lenroot ana
his party. And while our allies, France, Italy and England,
have tried to enlist the support. of all elements OF their popula-
will not look with charity on any effort by any party or the
leaders of any party to monopohze or capitalize for partisan
advantage the patriotism of the nation or the issues OF this war.
The people care not a rap who holds the offices as long as
they are capable and give their time and all their energies to
winning the war. And a united people is the first requisite to
that. A campaign is approaching and there are breakers just
ahead. This is constructive criticism
HIM newspapers paw little attention to the activities of