The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-08-27
THE .BITTER-ENDERsr

States today Is unification OF the
sections.
1t seems to it, speaking in no parti-
san or unfriendly feeling, that sec
tionalism is as bitter now, if not more
so. than it was Immediately after the
close of the civil war for then to show
its good will and fraternal feeling the
New York Herald, under the manage
ment Of the elder Bennett, carried at
its masthead the following ticket:
For president-U. S. Grant; for vice
ent-Robert E. Lee.
The Herald would hesitate long
time before holding out such an olive
branch today.
Through the columns of the Manu-
facturers' Record, Mr.. Warren G..
Harding assures the people of the
South that if elected president he will
conduct the affairs of the nation in
such a manner as to obliterate all
sectional and geographical distinc-
tions.
His record In congress throws out
no such hope, and If he, were disposed
to do so. it would be impossible for
him to divorce himself from his party.
The ''hymn of hate which was the
paramount utterance in Senator
Lodges key note" speech at the
Chicago convention, has found very
generous response from Senator
Harding's party. and it goes almost
without saying that the rank and file
stand sQuarely behind Senator Lodge
and gladly take up the chorus of his
hymn
/ The Chicago Tribune, purperting to
be the worlds Greatest Newspaper"
soon after Senator Lodge gave inter-
ance to the "key note" of the cam
paign, printed an editorial entitled:
Democrats VS.. Soldiers" in which
it stated that the democratic states,
meaning the Southern states, failed to
furnish their quota Of troops at the
call of the president, thus broadly
insinuating that those states were
not loyal or patriotic.
II went on further to state that
those states were shown favors by
the war department.
So unjust and cruelty vindictive
were the Tribune's charges that they
were taken up by the Stars and
Stripes, a paper that had its birth
with our expeditionary forces in
France. ',.s.
That paper made answer as fol-
lows:
perhaps one of the parties may |
yet have the good sense and courage
to delouse itself of the editorial in
sects who play fast and loose with
the truth about the men who fought |
For America. When a public man
arises who can understand how and
why men fought, he will talk langu-
age that men can understand, and he
will not need to be begging for the
votes of men. They will flock to his
standard. Meanwhile the fourflush-
ers will be lucky if they get off with
the silent contempt of those whom
they endeavoror to bunco. The old
personal methods of deal.
ing with political liars would make
their case uncomfortable.
"As for the soldiers, who are ex-
pected to believe such stuff, they are
forearmed with the knowl- |
edge that neither politics, geography
nor religion counted for whit when
men were going forward under ma
chine gun fire. The 9th division Of
the north smashed Mr.. Hindenberg's
line side by side with the 30th divis-
ion of the SOUTH
IL the rank and file of the republi.
can party did not share the feeling
outlined in Senator Lodges speech
and the Chicago Tribune's editorial,
would not flood the Congressional
Record with speeches in kind, nor
would the newspapers and magazines
devote their columns to effusions
along the same tenor.
They must know that they are
appealing to kindred spirits and that
the sentiments they voice are shared
by the great masses that compose the
republican party.
In coming down on the boat from
New York few days ago we heard
a woman say that whenever she saw
Woodrow Wilson's picture in a news
paper or magazine she always tore
it out and trampled it under foot as
tie Southern women always tare out
the picture of Abraham Lincoln when |
ever they see it in history or geog