The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-02-05
Old Stuff.
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This office receives every week from the
Republican national committee at Wash
ington, lot OF free publicity matter cal
culated to stimulate the prestige OF the
Republican party in the next election and
squash the Demmicrats.
1t does nothing OF the sort
In our office it goes into the wastebas
ket. JIF
1t is the most childish, out-ofda lot
OF stuff We believe@coald be conceived
From the first line 10 the last it's bang
and whang on the present administra
ton and their conduct OF the war. 1t
reads as if the fellow who gets it up was
one OF those chaps whose motto is: III
something amt wrong, faint right"
| It's whine and rail and wheeze at
the whole Demmic,atic family and judging
| from his material. the United States is
| the worst governed country on earth in
stead OF being the best Ii the Republi-
can party's campaign funds are going into
the manufacture oil this sort of slush, it 5
time we improved ourselves by drawing
in our purse-strings and turning DENIM.
Gratis.
| Victory no Bar TO Investigate Gross
Waste" is one of the headlines in this
weeks sheet ''Bernstorff Lauds Work
and Views OF Colonel House is another
| whether trying to make Col House out
a pro-German or not IS not explained
First of Wilson's Points Has Beer
LOST" is a third. and so on ad inlintum
All of which has William Randolph
Hearst skun to a frazzle in the minds o
decent, fair-minded. American folks
Ii the perpetrators OF this sort of hog
wash think they're going to carry mex
Years election by banging and slamminl
and throwing mud at the Demmicrats ant
their conduct of the war, they have
beautiful period Of disilusionment comm,
to. them. Having voted the Repuhlieal
ticket ourselves in the past, We herewith
declare that we are ashamed OF such pie
yune methods for winning a campaign
The Democrats, headed by Wilson, hav
done great and eommendahle work, X
gardless of whether they're Demmicrat
Tor Methodists or Knights OF pythias Tn
Republican party in their shoes, wouldn
have got us bit better victory Tn
men in both camps are just human tive
legged men, anyhow, full of virtues an
. full of faults. And the pot needn't stan
, in calling the kettle black We haven
, met many Republicans yet who have bee
, especially proud of Chickamauga.
!. If this sort of stuff has the approval {
! the big majority OF the Republican part
: leaders in Washington and elsewhei
throughout the country, it's a nigh,
: good reason why they shouldn't be give
!, the reins of power to run the create
7 corporation in the world The ment
: calibre that would stand for this sort
vancouver isn't exactly competent in o,
0 lowly estimation to direct the affairs
Q a hundred million people. There are hi
ger things that need our political attic
q ton than abusing the Democrats for VIII
t they haven't done The sentiment of tn
Il country at the present time is prone
t. put considerable thought on what Il
r Democrats HAVE done They and the
/ leader have built the organization tn
IS licked Germany and for the moment '
5, haven't got improving brains to such
m extent that we're going to put them
l. the class with wife heaters and hors
thieves because they've refused to
the boys retain their uniforms or sor
other measelev little bit of detail tn
men with really big brains wouldn't D
st any more attention to than man Ii
ut Wilson minds what some little weazone
r.. up tohacco.spitter who earns seven dolla
n week, thinks Of him up in the brnsh