Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1919-01-09

Democrat by Birth, Republican 81
Marriage, Soldier by
Preference.
arthur Sears HeIning in Minneapolis
Journal9
Neutrality-suspicious. is the politics Of
General u. j. P~ershing?
This is the question interesting all
those politicians, both republican and
democratic, who fully expect this war
like every previous American war. to
produce a president OF the United
States.
The revolution made General Wash.
Civil war msde &c eral Grant I.csi.
dent; the war with Spain made Colonel
Roosevelt president, at least indirectly.
for it made him governor of New York,
from which position he stepped to the
vice presidency and thence to the presi
dency. Will the war with Germany
make General Pershing president? The
politicians ask.
Each Party Has a Claim.
II there We're a reliable political or.
acle to consult, the politicians would
inquire not whether General Pershing
would be president. but whether he
would be a republican or democratic
president. For the politicians are at
sea on the politics of the commander
in.chief of the American Expeditionary
Forces.
Each party claims the general as its
own, although on grounds far from con.
elusive in either case, and thus far;
General Pershing has not come to the.
rescue of either party with any enlight.
eminent.
The republican case is based on the
fact that General Pershing married a
daughter of Senator Francis e. War.
rem, Of Wyoming, one of the wheel
horses of the republican party, and was
the signal beneficiary of favor at the
hands of President Roosevelt, who pro-
NOTED him from captain to brigadierl
general over the heads Of 800 officers.
Senator Warren was chairman of the
senate committee on military affairs at
the time. 1t is known that General
Pershing always has been a warm adj
mirer Of Roosevelt.
Afraid He's 4 Republican"
The democratic case is based on the
fact that General Pershing was born and
reared in the dense democratic atmos-
iphere of Linn county, Missouri, and
democrats who know family ON
nections claim him. according to the.
democratic New York World.
Congressman w. w, Rucker. Of Mis-.
souri, dem:1, who represents the district
including. Linn county, has written to
several trustworthy constituents in that
locality inquiring the politics ofsGeneral
Pershing and Of the Pershing family.
7 expect to nave a reply in a few
days, Congressman Rucker said.
Understand, 4 am making no accu-
sations. but / am afraid General Per-
shing is a republican
Says General Has Never Voted.
ssetlsstor Warren, who is at present!
in Wyoming. is known to regard his
son-in-law as a republican.
a close associate of the Warren fam
lily has this to say:
Pershing is a republican or a democrat.
/ do Know that he was appointed to
SyJrcrTSsts n = ;,o+o,.as ~ attot,n 4, ,,.iss
jority and that he never has voted In.
all his life, for the reason primarily
that he was always far distant from
his home on army assignments at cleo
ton times. He loathes. politics and has.
never given it any attention"
Newspaper correspondents in France
have been ~endeayoring to discover the
generals political leanings, but in vein,
Grant was in Same Boat.
HI am not a politician General Per-
shing was quoted recently as stating to
the correspondents. am a soldier.
My whole politics and duty is to be loyal
to my government and to the admins.
trationF which directs II. NJ
The failure to dispcl uncertainty Of
the political inclInations OF the gener.
al. however, viii not discourage the
politicians Of either party who want to
bring about his nomination for the
presidency. They recall the same, un.
certainty regarding the politics Of Gem
eral Grant, who never voted for a re.
publican and might have been nomiIiat.
ed BY the democrats had not the re-
Ipublicans beaten them to II"
FARM AND HOME COURSE is
/ INDEFINITEI1Y POSTPONED
Brookings. s. Ds, jan 9.-!The State
college farm and home course has been
Indefinitely POSTPONED. Tine coiiegs au'
thorities decided q to take AM
GhanclIss with another possible out
break Of influenza The course was
scheduled to be held during the last
week ii january AZ the State college
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