The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-10-29

no Is careful to qualify 1t so as to
10 the Nation or even loyalty TO their
party principles ahead OF adherence Il"
tho administration. lie in no way dis
eliminates between Democrats who arc
pru-war and those who ar" anIi-war. He
asks tho exclusion from Congress Of the
man who is anti-adminislratinn without
the slightest reference to whether h"
Is pro-war or anti-war. loyal or dis
loyal. patriotic or unpatriotic. Tho one
test hr imposes is loyalty IN himself.
Tho President Of the United States re-
pudlatos the position of hcinc Pr"si-
dent of all tho people. and substitutes
for it the position OF partisan leader
ship If enc political faction: while even
in this "i"ti"u H.. makes s"rvil"' adh"r-
cncn 10 his ndminiS' ration tho t"st Of
membership and Of ii" moral right -
any mau Ia do his share in the great
work If national government.
Contrast with this tho position OF
Abraham Lincoln. In tn" drr;,cSt days
OF the Civil War. Lincoln declined out
right 10 max" any party appeal or 10
apply any party test Or any test say"
that Of loyalty in the prosecution of
the war and loyalty Ia the Union and
10 liberty. In March. 1864. he advo-
Gated sending L. Congress only "uncon-
ditional supporters u! tn" var, max
ing II" rct"r"nc" /" any party; and in
June If that year. in answer 10 some
correspondents who signed themselves
as ~, mnrrnts." Ii" expressed his regret
that they had not called themselves
"Am"ri"nn citizens" saying lin this time
Of national peril would have preferred
| 1,,y-, ton
higher than any party PLATFORM" and
i in August. in tn" "nly political letter
he wrote that year. II" appealed tn 'alI
those VIII" maintain unconditional de-
! votinn !" tn" Union" AMI in THIS appeal
he explicitly excluded his own political
friends with those oi his political enc
mics. "whum no pn:iisau malice or par
tiSan hope can make falls" To the ma
| t!un'S life; lie thus explicitly based
his appeal 10 pro- war mon. without nSk-
! ing about their attilud" toward him
self. Again and again he appealed /"
ALI loyal mru' and IL all friends OF
union and liberty" and in 1861 h" ac-
tcptrd his nomination as coming from
the unconditional Union me-
Lincoln made II" party test. lie APP
pc;lcd /" all loyal men Of AL parties.
! n" asked that Tho test of fitness for
! SnUal administration. but unconditional
support Of he war. Mr.. Wilson Az
plies the most rigid rariy test. II"
| cxpiicirly r,pi,diHl"s loyalty To- tho war
as test. II" demands tn" success Of
| the Democratic party. AMI HSkS the lie
| feat of al iro-war mon II they have
| been anti-ahrliniStrat'"n IL ASKS i"r
| Tho defeat Of pr"-war kcruhinanS lie
| docs not ask for III" defeat at anti-war
| Democrats. On the contrary, h" sup
ports such men II although nnti-war
! they arr pru-adnlinIS,r ton. II" docs
| moi ask for Loyalty /" ~" Na;I"n; II"
! asks only fnr Support Of himself There
! is not the slightest suggestion that lie
,liSapprnvrS Of di$IuyHlty Ia III" nation.
/ do not douh, that he d""S feel ~"u:
, uisHpprUVal Of such diSiurhllN; hut APP
rar'ntly this feeling on has par, Is, 50
I 'rpl thai il slips from his nin! when
/ No rrutrmplr',S what II" regards rs ih''
! far greater siu of fallur" III m!h"rcncc
! !" himself.
| slider just what is meant when the pr"Si-
! dent says that IN the present congress
! tho leaders "f III" minority although
unuu"sii"nagly -rr"-Wrr nay" nc"n anti
| ported In" administration when a dccla-
ration Of war WAS needed. They sup
! rnrtcd il when th"r" was Il d"initd Tor
, tho draft. They supported IT when v"
| srnnt tho army or"rS"nS. Th"y sup
| nnrtrd every demand for money whether
| ty taxation or by loans. They support
! cI II ar 2avH il initaiiv" and guidance
: or every issue where II stood for Nlgnr-
! Gus prosecution Of the war: ana thcy
! .urp"rich j. on Ties" issues when hAIi
: I'M. leaders Of President Wilson's own
j,arty Oppuscd him when he had commit g.
/ ted himself :" war U"aS'lr"%--HnI Vel
! President Wilson now makes a PARTISAN
/ appeal in favor of tn" Democrats Whc
/ { opposed the war MEASURES and against
tho Republicans who supported him.
Now whH, docs Mr. Wilson near
when he sparks -: these leaders ~ be
| in@. although ''rr"-Wnr yet huh-ad
! rlluiStrati"u"' II" means that whrr
. tn" war department waS adniniSicr"
| with utter In"ftici"n"v they invest 'Etlcd
the matter nmd Insisted upon efficiency
! II" means ilnr When lh"H found MAJ
Nothing effective WAS h"inE don" IL
| ship building they insisted That ih'
! work la spc"d"d up. He meant ma
wii,n they found that six hundred mil
! lion dollars had been spent Tor aIrrlhncS
and yet that not M Hjrplnn" had reached
! cur suldi"rS At II" front they lnSlStrI
:hnt our soldiers should got The am
planes for which IN" people had rhld
! Mr. Wilson regards u AZ "ant i-nd!niniN
! ,rAtiun" L. demand that our gallant r"i
| ut the. front Tro.iy" ia" guns ami nh'"'
| rifles and tank. Hnh airplnu"S ana Sh"',s
and clothing f.: which congress hat