Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-07-26
A GAME TWO CAN PLAY.

can national convention Democratic
politicians began searching. the columns
of old issues of the senator's news
paper, the Marion STIR, to see what
could be discovered that might be used
against the Republican party in the
present campaign. y s@
In 1912 Senator Harding supported
Taft for president and as might be
said some things in his paper
that were not very complimentary to
Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive
nominee. The Democrats pOunced
upon some Of these articles with avid
ity and relish, reproducing them. to
create prejudice against Harding
among the millions Of admirers OF
But the shoe Is now on the other
foot and it may be believed that it is
pinching. The Democratic convention
at San Francisco also nominated an
editor for president and Republican
have not been slow in call
ing" the Democrats with lot of lex
hibits" from the record. 1t appears
that Editor Cox was tincturcd with
pro- Germanism before this country got
into the war and was not backward
in stating his position. What he said
lust before the United States congress
declared that state of war existed
between the United States and Ger
many reminds us of dOuble.c0lumn
editorial in a certain Webster City
paper which appeared ut about the
same time. q. '4. st"
Just before an overwhelming ma
tional demand compelled President
Wilson to ask congress to declare
war Governor Cox in an EDITORIAL felt
this way about it:
THE war has wrecked the world
and accomplished nothing for either
side. Germany has gained nothing and
lost much. !. The Allies have gained
nothing and lost much. The crime
of all the ages has accomplished moth
ing save the wrecking of a smiling
world. God grant that the next arm
lifted to WELD sword so fOOlishly
may he paralyzed and that the brain be
stopped from thinking before it con-
ceives Of war;
Then when it became more ana more
plain that this country would be in
volyed, Gov. Cox was of the opinion
that we should let somebody else do
our fighting. We could furnish NUM-
tons and provisions to our allies in
Europe. at big profits. but II would not
be necessary to help them with the
most valuable OF our assets-men.
Here is what the governor said in his
paper just five days before congress
passed the famous war resolution:
1.-THE best way to injure our
enemy, if Germany should become our
enemy, through declaration of war,
or because of state OF war, is to sup
ply the deficiencies az the allies. These
consist Of food and cloth
ing and munitions Of war. Instead OF
diverting our resources to raising an
army of a couple of million men,; i'll
stead of sending men abroad for senti-
mental purposes, we ought to go to
work to supply the allies with every
thing they need, and they do not need
men. We can best serve our own pllr-
poses by furnishing other matter than
men," -s ~
And here is an editorial from MIR.
Cox News of Nov. Z, 1915, six months
after the sinking of the Lusitania by
q German submarine, resulting in the
murder of something like 100 Ameri.
cans: E' 49,
Nor is victory by Germany the
worst thing that can happen. If the
Allies were to win, and their win
ming meant great increase of Rus
sian aggressiveness on the one side
and Of Japanese seif-assertiveness
upon the other, America might live to
be very sorry that Germany had not
won' o
The United States is to have the
second navy i'm the world. and 1t will
not be many years till it is actually
engaged. - 4 s.
Germany would have remained
ahead of us but for the war Her
losses PUT her back. era
AS for the navy of Great Britain.
it so far Orltranks all others that no
nation can hope to catch mp with ii.
And here's thing to remember
when the world Is talking war. = The
navy of Germany and of the United
States combined would be much more
powerful than Great Britain's. In
other words. combination Of these
two navies would have nothing to fear
from the powerful fleets of the mighty
Britain, and in war time. as has been