South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-21
COOPERATING WITH DEMOCRACY ~
ITS SERIOUSLY SILENT" MIMICRY
or HOOSIER STATE REPUBLICANS

be to stop right here ana leave the remainder of THIS
column blank However the platform itsen, as
framed oy the ultra wise gentlemen who contituted
the committee resolutions placed plank in tina,
document that comes 10 our rescue, pledgng q
sstency of which we most strenuously approve and
under which ind partisan reason for assert
ing independence with reference other matters
concerning which IN consistency We must assert our
independence. That plank reads.
In every patriotic effort aid Prest VII
son i'm the prosecution Of the war pledge
unsrudgins support the governor of In
diana"
Which IS me. we believe absolutely that Prest
Wilson should have men ia his cabinet. and the
high places the war administration including botA
houses of congress, democrats, least with
whom he can work in harmony. and who viii work
n harmony with him without "csrpins" criticism o,
disposition TO hamper him the war work. II ISM
Of TO the victor belongs the spells" but Of an
opportunity TO test out policy and follow out
program with leave and without hinderance in sucr
time of Since every activity dove-tails
into the welfare nation either to help win tho
war internal conservation for after the wal
building. why not pledge uugrudgiug support to the
governor" that Inc may have larger possible
opportunity to test out his program and ways?
or course, we admit that is q considerable stretch
of signidcances 10 compare Gov. Goodrichs needs o
harmony and cooperation. 80 those OF Prest Wilson
but when YOU srasping for TO protect you
from am impending storm, and YOU can find them IN
backyard such ultra-vyise genial gentle
men who framed the democratic state platform have
been pasturing why not appropriate them? The diff
ference is one Of deeree and kind like
the noon-day sun ceiling lighted candle afame-
but the Indiana democracy has been generous to the
Indiana republicans in other ways.
Take for instance, the vital issue in the state
national. which attitude the two parties
is absolutely identical; the prohibition and ma
tonal dry amendment issues The attitude of both is
silence; unutterable silence. This monkey nimicry
on the part OF the democrats may be complimentary
or otherwise, according to the point of view but with
four members of the resolutions committee, brewery
attorneys with only four dry members and the other
1--WE trhe more than nominaly wet due to the eff
fectve manpulations of nine of thirteen district
chairmen and their brewery advisers this supplemented
by influence Indiana Republico-
leagUe-the for the silence is not hard find
1t is though Coo and the Devil down together
when you brewery magnates and ministers of the
gospel bearing heavily on political committees, both
the same end, as they did upon the resolutions
committees of both the republican democratic
jconvenuons-only fear that it the voice of the
brewery magnates that were the more loudly heard
in both instances. Anyhow it has indeed, taken the
liquor question Indiana partisan politics and
entities legislative candidates neither party to
the particular support Of his party, because his
attitude toward that issue. whether he dry
And it releases all partisans find what candi-
dates attitude is and to vote for him regardless of
party according to their own best wishes
Taking the democratic platform for therefore
that the governor should have "ungrudging support
every patriotic Pres't prosecute
the war" and insisting that the president should
have democratic congress- and democratic, or at
least sympathetic support in his more direct war ad-
ministration repeat. why a republican egsla-
ture the governor and reasonable repub-
Hcan cooperation throughout the house The
democratic party went over to the republican party
with plank silence" the prohibition question
Very we'll since the carrying of that plank IS a
thing done in the state assembly, maintaining
the present prohibition law--if permitted by the
supreme court sland,-and ratifying the national
amendment. we guess we won't interfere with the
republicans finishing the Job insofar their being
republicans is concerned
In fact due to the beer-suzzled. attitude of the
Indiana democracy our democracy has than
faltered the state line way in and hi.
time frankly feel entering from the north, via
Michigan encrcling the thirteenth dstrict-nterested
quite exclusively in the election of congressman who
viii stand by The president and in a ST. Joseph county
ticket exclusive candidates legislature SC
far party is concerned-and then hiking back. We
will let Mr. Thomas Hoban and Mr.. w. A N1cInerny
who earnestly cooperating with the influence of the
I Rt- Hon. stephen b. Fleming of Fort Wayne and New
York and Mayor Ben Busse of Evansville SO success
fully manipulated the resolutions committee and the
convention. have all The votes they set for THEN
legislative and state tickets. and indeed we wish
them well
We may venture some kindly interest in the demo
cratic for judsships Of the appenat,
and supreme courts it perhaps beng well that there
should DE a divided political complexion TO those