The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-01-11
loUR REPUBLICAN MALconrENTs

sentiments nor express the opinions
of the republican press of the eoun-
try, for it is doing all in its power to
i~helittle the president and embarrass
his administration
The failure to equip an army and
navy OF several millions of men almost
instantly it saysTs largely chargeable
to the "short-sighted. dog-in-the-man-
ger policy of a bone-headed (soIid
ivory democratic, partisan admins
tration" =
In contradiction to this statement
listen TO what Mr. Arthur Balfour
says;
america has done as much in three
months as England. under the strain
OF mortal peril, accomplished in two
long years"
Mr. Balfour is not a partisan bone
headed fsolid ivory) democrat. but is
one of the most distinguished states
men Of England.
Is the nation to believe this accom-
plished. non-partisan statesmen or the
franticaIly hostile editor OF the
Events?
The Events then goes on further to
say:
The kaiser chooses men for each
post who has demonstrated fitness
and ability along a given liae-regard,
less of party utilization or whether he
is personally friendly to the kaiser or
not He stops not to inquire whether
LudendOrff is democrat or republi-
can. but. recognizing his superior fit
ness for the job at hand. clothes him
with plenary authority Therefore
the German retreat at the Masurian
lakes is turned into a Russian rout. "
And this:
Lincoln appointed his personal enc
mics to his cabinet-men who ridicul-
ed his genihs and made fun OF his un-
couthness he knew them to
be patriotic Americans of large abili-
ties-and he felt that the nation
should have its ablest men at the helm
during the great civil crisis. thus to
profit by their sagacity and expert
ence"
Mr. Wilson has removed no man
from the army or navy because of his
Political affiliations and we deny thar
Mr.. Lincoln appointed his enemies to
Liaces in his cabinet The record does
not substantiate it, Because some of
them were candidates for the repubh-
can presidential nomination did not
make them the personal enemies Of
MIR Lincoln
The record does not show that Mr.
Lincoln appointed democrats 10 any
high office
/ Who more than Elihu Root stands
higher In the councils of the republi-
can party?
Did not Mr.. Wilson make him chair
man Of the commission that was sent
to Russia?
And what about Mr. Raymond Rob
ms of Chicago? Is he not now on 4
mission to Russia? Here is what q re-
publican newspaper says about him.
THE United States has a man at
the head of its Russian work in the
person of Raymond Robins. If so
genuine friend of the people as Ray
mOnd Robins fails to gain the conf
oence OF peoples government there
lis something wrong with the people
who are running the g0vernmet."
In the appointment OF these men
does it show that Mr. Wilson is
sfeeped in political prejudice to such
an extent as, to be called bone head
ed and solid ivory" at that?
Because. Nr Wilson. after consulta-
ton with the most trusted and expe-
r:enced army officers did not send Mr..
Roosevelt to France at the head of
raw, unframed division. Mr.. Roose-
Welt, like the Events, is doing what
he can to belittle him and bring his
administration into disrepute.
As is well said by the New York
American:
Mr.. Roosevelt works himself up
in a furious fit of rage from time to
time over the fact that we did not
Lake the invasion of Belgium cause
of war when it occurred-Mr. Roose-
welt publicly stated over his own sig.
nature in the Metropolitan Magazine
that the invasion of Belgium did not
justify a declaration of war by the
United States against Germany"
The whole truth of the matter is
that Mr. Roosevelt and the more partfl
san than patriotic republican newsps n
EQrS are not frviuO- RI hoIC --;, Ecu