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tor Warren, a Republican enemy of
the administration, in command of
the American expeditionary forces.
Wisconsin placed Admiral Sims,
lifelong Republican, in high command
or naval operations in the danger
zone. wisconsin put Howard E. Cot
fin, Republican, in the war depart
ment in charge of supplies Major
General Goethals, Republican, in
charge of ship building; Major Cen
era1 E. H. Crowder, Republican, in
charge of the draft. wisconsin made
a Republican, General Peyton C.
March, chief of staff of the United
States army. wisconsin turned con-
troll of the emergency fleet corpora
ton over to Charles NJ Schwab and
Charles Piez Republicans. Fl. P. Davi-
sen, Republican, headed the Red
Cross: Frank A Vanderlip, Republi-
can, was placed in charge of the war
savings stamp campaign; Harry A.
Garfield, Republican, and son of a
Republican president, was made fuel
administrator; Herbert Hoover, Re-
publican, was appointed food admin
istratcr. OF eight members of the war
board wisconsin appointed five Re-
publicans, and it gave five out of
eight places in the council of national
defense to Republicans. Republicans
seem to have had a very fair share Of
the places of honor, trust and respon-
sihility in the military and civil tasks
incident to the prosecution of the war.
hut they did net control the senate or
house. Down with wisconsin,!
wisconsin undermined German mo-
rale. The Wilson notes, both prior
&c and following our entrance into the
war-the butts OF unthinking partisan
scorn and derision at home-saptar-
ism. until finally the whole edifice
crumbled into dust The German
ON0S(AA W III ny tue SlCuS0-
hammer blows of America and her
associates in the field, locked home
ward for moral and material support
and found that the forces upon which
it relied had caved in. wisconsin
had destroyed German faith that
might makes right.
Wisconsin carried to Paris new
creed of international faith embody-
ing the highest aspirations of the best
elements of the American people, with
out distinction of party-a program
approved, before it was made an issue
OF politics, by many leaders who are
now, for selfish reasons, masked in
cloak Of pseudo-patriotism, it's bitter
est enemies. wisconsin, single-hand-
eG but backed by the worlds con-
science. crammen this creed down the
men who had hoped to set upon the
threats of unwilling European states
men, who had hoped to set upon the
smoking ruins another edifice based
on concert of power, secret diplo-
macy and military supremacy.
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wisconsin was handicapped in its
efforts to achieve an enduring peace
rather than a temporary makeshift by
secret plotting and one reactionary
n AFf or h.
president was struggling to commit
European chancelleries to the embod-
iment of the league of nations in the
peace treaty, the treaty wreckers in
the senate strengthened the hands of
| lustful imperialism abroad by serving
/ formal notice that the senate would
vote down ratification. Notwithstand
/ ing this backfire. wisconsin emerged
/ triumphant from the Paris confer
ence. For the third time being. the
power CT enlightened public opinion
was victorious. The suffering peoples
of Europe knew what they wanted;
their rulers were afraid to deny it to
them
wisconsin, having successfully pros
ecuted war which ended in q blaze
of glory for American arms, thus sue
cessfully framed a peace which kept
its solemn pledge to the people that
the blood CT American soldiers shed
on the battlefields of France should
not be spilled in vain. Down with Viii
sonism and up with Republicanism,
which shamelessly proposes the re-
pudiation of the nations contract with
the widow and the orphan, the halt.
the lame and the blind!
wisconsin has sought to lead this
country along the paths of justice
and equity to moral nights which