The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-06-28

| President of the United States in this
dangerous hour as was expressed BY
the Scottish woman for King Charles
when she said she was loyal to the
crown of Great Britain though that
crown hung upon gooseberry bush
These critics are the men who
seemingly believe, although they
have no confidence in the ability OF
the President of the United States to
call to his aid and assistance such
persons as he believes can aid him in
the prosecution Of this war; that they
by partisan election can hand him
advisers and counsellors in whom he
will have confidence. This is humanity
impossible The President has called
to his assistance eX-President Taft,
Stettinius, Rosenwald and hundreds
of individual Republicans and l have
hope and confidence that he is going
to call hundreds more but he calls
them as individuals and not at the be-
hest of a party caucus or a partisan
election.
The Real Controversy.
The real controversy between the
Republican politician and the Presi-
dent is this: The President chooses
to select by hand his Republican as
sistants while the organization de-
mands that he take them machine
run.
What is lamentable in Republican
organization patriotism is its duplica-
tion in American life of the Prussian
idea. 1t is not needful to be born In
Germany nor of German blood to
have Prussian mind. My complaint
in the long years has been, not that
the Republican party did not rule
well, but that it ruled along unscien-
tlfic lines. To my mind Republican
Communicating could rule well
in such a conflict as the one in which
We are engaged. The Democratic
COMMANDMENTS Chief is ruling WE'LL He
has the confidence of the rank and
file and of very many of the Repub-
lican leaders but he has the enmity of
the Prussian Republican, the man who
is cocksure that, no difference what
the issue or the circumstances, the
Republican party was born to rule
and that all Democratic rule Is bad
just because it is Democratic. Let us
understand that honesty and ability
and loyalty are individual and not
partisan.
am told by way Of defense, how
ever. that protestations against the
conduct of this war have come from
certain Democrats and that, there |
fore, the assaults that have been
made are not political in their char
acter. Again history repeats itself |
In the diary of George w. Julian of |
the day following the assassination |
of President Lincoln will be found |
these words:
Have spent most OF the after
noon in consultation with Wade,
Chandler, Covode, Judge Carter
and Wilkinson, correspondent of
radicalism of the members of this
caucus but have not in long time
heard so much profanity 1t be-
comes intolerably disguting Their
hostility toward Lincoln's policy
OF Cancellation and contempt for
his weakness were undisguised:
and the universal feeling among
radical men here is that his death
is a God-send"
The Ono Vital Issue.
Make no mistake about II. there Is
but one vital issue in the mind of the
American people and that is the win
ling of the war. 1t is not a Demo
cratic war nor a Republican war but /,
{ is being fought under a Democratic
and that administra-
ion viii, in accordance with the his |
oric mind of the Republic, be sup |
ported for many reasons by Democrat |
md Republican alike. ]
The Republican party of Indiana [
announces that at the conclusion of {
~ ''Sa sAASAO VI great pIOD-
ems OF reconstruction. Ii does not [
ay what the problems will be but /
5 cocksure that, whatever they may Y
'e, no brain not stamped G o. p. can 9
lope to cope with them. I
When | was continuously in Indi- i
ma the Republican party lived in the a
'ast; ii now seems 10 live in the fu- a
ure: could it by any possibility be I
that the present is the time s
u which to live? I
Ii is always a dangerous thing to IA
riticise from either language or con-
uct because neither may express the
rue motive of the man. Still there i
ave been no other standards gi, en- a
o humankind when political parties i
20 before the people There are I
lines when men and newspapers can s
e independent Those times are in q
he hours of peace. But in the hour 4
I war no man or paper can afford to u
e independent. He who is not for {
he President is against him. Sus- r
ect the man who is always talking
bout his patriotism and at the same g
ime shedding bitter tears because he /,
eels that his duty just forces him to D
oint. out how weak the President G