South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-22
EXACTLY WHAT DID HE MEANp HAS
REPUBLICAN HATRED OF PRIEST
WILSON COME TO THIS PASS? IF
SOME RED" HAD SAID 1T. WHAT
THEN Would IT BEp
THEN WOULD IT BE2

NDEED no. THIS Is NOT ~ hpet|l VI "a AN~15A4'4
red" none Of the gentry that has been flooding
4 the mails with bombs; not a speech Of Victor
Berger. Big BIZ Haywood. or Eugene v Debs. but
get t..
They say his name Cthe presidents), will
20 down in history linked to that OF George
washington. II was a wise bird that selected
the vessel in which ne makes his trips 10 Eu-
rope"
II is a quotation from an approving report OF
a speech recently delivered by VIII II Hays. re-
publican national chairman, taken from the Chicago
Tribune. just now on trial at Mt Clemens, Mich.
for denouncing Henry Ford as an anarchist. 1t
makes much difference with the Tribune, as TO who
the anarchist is. it seems, when it comes to de-
bouncing them. or showenng them with approval.
II was a subject Of much merriment too. on the
anti-administration side Of the United States senate,
when the good news" Of what Chairman Hays had
said. reached that body. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge
had il read into the Congressional Record amid
loud applause" from the majority, speaking their
apparent impulses. and registering their subcon-
scious hopes.
Meanwhile government secret service agents. in
search for the bomb plotters-anarchist who are
distributing internal machines among public men
intent upon blowing them to eternity.-have had
the statement brought 10 their attention. as a pos
sible Intentional suggestion. offered as an appendix
70 the red" propaganda. 1t was Interpreted as, as
much as 10 say that the only manner in which the
name Of Woodrow Wilson would go down with that
Of George washington, would be to go down with
the boat. George Washington."-and a trihing with
the lives public men, hardly to be tolerated even
from so heightened a source in these troublous
times.
This Interpretation was placed upon the remark
by republican senators in Washington; they thought
II was very witty" and smart. but now it seems
that either Chairman Hays is bidding for notoriety
as an ingenius sort Of Rooseveltian liar. or else his
senatorial friends have been mistaking him in their
admiration Of his anarchiaI tendencies. file says he
has been "misquoted." which we hope he has, but
be he misquoted or not. the record Of G.. o. T. sena-
torial glee over the remark still stands, and shows
something OF what the republican hatred for the
president is. and. about how much they would care
IL something like an anarchistic blOw-up OF the
George Washington. with the president on board,
were TO result.
Nor does this hatred stop with the president. Elk
presidents who stand by the president. even though
hey be republican ex-presidents. do not escape the
hatred and abuse of the presidents enemies. All Of
a sudden. Sen. Sherman has discovered that:
Taft has never had an idea since he quit
the presidency. . . = Now he has shaved off
his mustache and put on a Mother Huh
bard
at which the republican side Of the senate roared
VIII lauEnter some more III seems great sport WIFI
the majority side Of the senate. to hold public men
with whom they do not agree, up to the hatred,
contempt and ridicule OF the narchists,-even
though it suggests their names as fit targets for
bomb-throwersi
Get It now. and analyze it for yourself. Suppose.
for instance. it were "Pres't" Lodge, and Peace
Commissioners" Borah. johnson. Reed, Sherman
and Knox. now representing the United States at the
Paris conference, and
Suppose sen" Wilson at the most delicate per-
iod OF the negotiations with Germany-Austria, Bull
saria and Turkey sitting in the ante-room awaiting
their turns-should lead an offensive of embarrass-
ment against "Pres't" Lodge. and Premiers Lloyd
George. Clemenceau, Orlando and the rest?
Wouldn't the conduct OF Sen" Wilson be re-
garded as a hostile move against the interests of the
United States, and everyone Of the allied nations
represented in the conference? And If sen" VIII
son would have read into the Congressional Record,
a speech OF a pin-head democratic national chair
man. 10 the effect that the proper place for Lodge
20 lodge was at the bottom Of the ocean, wouldn't
Il be regarded as just a trihe seditious. insidious and
anarchistc, deserving the contempt of every person
who takes seriously the honor OF the nation. or the
responsibilities OF its public men?
Indeed. IL is high time that Chairman Hays seek
TO clear his skirts OF the remark charged against
him-a quite common way OF politicians when they
are caught with the goods on them. since the late
7. Roosevelt set the paee,-but be successful as he
may. it will be interesting to see how those in
veterate wtlson-haters in the senate. who showered
Mr.. Hays alleged remark with their applause. are
going to escape. They become "particeps criminis'
after the fact, even II there were no fact. It is as a
men thinketh in his heart that he really is, and
the heart speaks its true desire by impulse, even
though the head, sometimes would be trihe more
cautious.