Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-08-01

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such promptness that none of these
enormous appropriation bills was be.
lfere@either house of Congress as much
as three days In other words. they
met with no opposition at all from
the Republicans, but, on the contra
lry, every Republican gave the heart.
lest possible cooperation and sup
port
Kahn Leads Patriotic Forces.
But the most striking instance OF
Republican support was given in the
pa sing Of the Seleetiye Draft Law
The Hon Claude kitchen. the leader
Of the majority in the House of Rep
resentativeS. refused to father the
measure. with Che result that Julius
Kahn, of California. with whom
served in the House and who is my
personal friend am proud to say
The ranking Republican member eff
the Committee on Military Affairs
had 10 take charge of the bill and
PM il through the House. The speak.
sr OF the House OF Representatives
the Hon. Champ Clark of Missouri. so
| eeently the choice Of the West Wiz
ginia Democrats for the Presidency
left the speakers chair to oppose the
measure aud to declare that con
scripted man looked to him like a
convict
And yet some Democrats have had
The impudenee TO raise the issue of
comparative loyalty--an issue which
we have been generous enough not TO
mention. The reason why for the
frst time in our national history the
minority representatives have given
,prompter and completer upport than
The majority party Is because of the
traditional and unriyaled loyalty Of
1.-THE Republicans.
We love the Republican party for
many reasons, but for this one par
ticuIarIy; that 1t was born OF love Of
the Union, the passionate loyalty to
It's flag DiVested of its ardent loyal
tyt. the Republican party would cease
to exist. | think both parties in this
country are loyal: or, to be exactly
accurate, the case stands this way;
the Democratic party is loyal and has
generally been; the Republican party
S loyal and has always been loyal.
: The fact is, we taught most of our
Democratic brethren what loyalty they
: know, and sometimes had to do it
with gun and a club. But for the
violence of our devotion to the IN
or, they might now even have owed
allegiance to the flag. A prominent
Democrat said recently in my pres
8 ence that the success of the Repub-
lean party would encourage the Kai-
ser. My answer was that ii 1t was
'eally true that the Kaiser would be
: Encouraged by the success of the party
)f William II. Taft, Theodore Roose
Welt and General Wood. it was proof
, conclusive that the blamed fool didn't
: even read the papers
Democratic Demagogues.
The reason that the Democratic
: party has not given the same loyal
support to the prosecution of this war
: which the Republican party has given
is due to the fact that the pacifists
: in high places in that party, had, be
fore the election, by demagogy, dull
ed the patriotic ardor and fighting
/; spirit OF the rank and file of their
party. The most eensurable and the
least patriotic campaign slogan ever
: employed by any party in this coun-
: try. was when in the last campaign.
J he Democrats sought to have the
, President succeed himself upon the
alse issue, "He kept us out of War
: 1t should be remembered that we
have never yet declared war upon
e Germany. What we did was to de-
| clare the faot that state or war ex-
isted by the act of Germany. By what
act? Surely the mind Of every one
recus at once to the sinking OF the
Lusitania, and since the people now
know what the administration then
knew. every one will think of the in
suits by the Kaiser TO our ambas-
sador in Germany, and to the acts of
Bernstorf in Washington. II the
President possessed in any consider
able degree. the vision Of statesman
and surely he did, he must have
known that we would have war, no
matter whether he again became Pres
ident or Judge Hughes was elected TO
succeed him. Was 1t not his patrio-
tic duty to have prepared for this
war, even though such preparation
would have deprived him Of the false
l issue upon which he won. And in