Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-06-24
The Republicans Attack.

Natlonal Convention, winch was large
ly devoted to a bitter and partiza
tack on President Wilson and his pol
icies, indicates the plane upon which
the President party proposes to pitch
the approaching campaign.
AS pictured by Representative Alben
w. Barley, Democrat, OF Kentucky
Democrats are prepared to meet these
personal assaults upon the President,
and Representative Barley says the
country has but TO remember how
Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lin
coin and other great presidents were
maligned, in order to take such at
tacks at their real worth.
Representative Barley recalls that
traducers Of Lincoln went ever further
than present day critics Of President
Wilson. Lincoln, he says, was called
"the baboon at the other end of
Pennsylvania Avenue" his administra-
ton was described as weak and vacil-
latng;" he was accused of "treach-
cry" Of having sacrificed the "honor
and dignity of the nation, and was
called by some of his critics an "im
beetle"
But where today are the traducers
of Washington; where are those who
malgned Jefferson; where are 2,
defamers of the character of 'Oi,
Hickory Jackson; where are those
who, with lcering look and sinister
smile, sought to besmirch the recor
of Abraham Lincoln? ?" asks Rcr-
sentative Barley "They lie in IN
marked and unhallowed graves. They
have all descended into the stilnc--
of deep Oblivion from which they wi
never emerge"
Representative Barley and othr.
Democrats believe that the best and
most convincing argument to such at
tacks is the fact that many presidents
and particularly war presidents" have
had their motives misunderstood anC
maligned in their day, and that hstor,
has given imperishabiIity to Their
names.
Further along this line, Reprc
sentative Barley says:
THE figure of Washington grows
more imposing as the years go by, and
each year pilgrims by the thousand
tread softly near his tomb. Tefferson's
memory and his great deeds are en-
Shrncd in the hearts Of a grateful pos
terity. The heroic courage of lack
son as soldier and statesman inspires
each new generation Of American
patriots. And the tragic career of Alb
raham Lincoln gives hope to every
struggling boy in this fair land, and in
his honor we build monuments and
cities.
at is not my task to assign to Wood
row Wilson the place which he will
occupy among the great statesmen of
America and the world. Impartial
history will perform that duty. No
word of mine can add to the fullness of
his stature. No word or act of yours
can detract from it. But if may Be
permitted to indulge in a prophecy, it
is not difficult to forSee that those WI
now snap at his heels like hungry
lackals will take their places among
the forgotten register of the nations
manconteHts, while he will stand wit.
Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln n
one of the few great figures of thi
era
Let me in conclusion adopt as a
hitting motto for the Democratic part,
and its great President a sentence ut-
tered by the great Lincoln in his fa-
nous debates with Douglas over the
senatorship from Illinois. When COM
plant was made that the course he was
pursuing would defeat him for tina;
hlgh Office, he uttered this immortal
sentence: i am not bound to win. hut
! am bound to be right In being
right, he lost the senatorship, but he
gained the presidency and a premier
snip among the worlds great states
men. In being right, Woodrow viii.
son has lost the support of a narrow.
partisan, and slothful Republican Con
greSs, but he will have gained a prize
INFINITELY greater in value and in hon
or, high place among the meaeer
list of the worlds real statesmen and
benefactors."