The Cordova daily times., 1920-08-02

the war as partisan enterprise. He used it to the limit for the further ance of personal and partisan ends. His cabinet remained partisan. His appointments continued to be parti- san. He saw nothing in the war ex- cept an opportunity to immortalize himself and render his own partisan organization invincible. Abandoning the precedents established by Lincoln and Mckinley he carried on two wars at once,-the war with the real enemy and the war with the Republican party which was giving him such un- divided support Hence the narrow, partisan campaign letter of 1918 which brought from the people of the United States such an overwhelming vote of condemnation and repudia- tion, despite which President Wilson has continued to represent himself as the sole representative of the Ameri- can people.
 The crime chargeable against Re- publicans is not that of failing to SUD- port Woodrow Wilson as chief ex- ecutive of the nation or as command er-in-chief of the army and navy of h1s own personal partisan organiza- tion, engaged, not in promoting the interests of all the people of the United States, but in building up a gigantic instrumentality of personal power exerted to the injury and not the upbuilding of the people and their government. They have op- posed and will continue to oppose and condemn the inefficiency, waste partisanship displayed in the manage. ment of the war. They have Op posed and will continue to oppose and condemn and prevent the sacrifice o1 the rights, interests and ideals of the American nation as undertaken through the league of nations That is all.
 The Republican party throws back defiantly into the teeth of those who make it the charge that it has failed | in loyalty to the administration il anything that it has undertaken fol the good of the nation, rather thar | for the selfish aggrandizement of ar individual or a political party. It de clines to accept responsibility for tht physical and mental ailments of Pres | ident Wilson, whatever their req cause may be. It charges that Pres l ident Wilson himself is responsible 1 through his narrow. personal stub borness, his selfish ambition to con .stitue himself the whole governmen of the United States, for betweel lack of cooperation there has beel between the legislative and executive branches of government during tht past sixteen months,
 The difficulty under which thes Democrats spOkesmen are laborfng i: that they are unable to differentiatt between loyalty to the Democrat, party and to it's dictator, and loyalt, | to the government of the United States. When loyalty to one and Joy alty to the other conflicts, these rub l Der stamp politicians choose the mar rower, and the Republican party the broader allegiance The administra tion politicians think in terms O Wilsonism and partisan Democracy l Republicanism thinks in terms O American nationality.
 For the first time in Americal history the Republican party, during the world war, furnished an example of party of opposition giving better support to the government in wa time, then the party in power itself This statement is not a matter o l opinion; the truth of it is demonstra
 
 time in American history an Ameri can president has continued to regard l himself, in war time, as more tht head of political party, more per sonal leader, than head of a great gov ernment, and he has controlled events in so far as he could control them with an eye for personal and partisan rather than to a national aggrandize ment
 l With amazing effrontery the spokes men of such an administration at l tempt to portray such an executive as a martyr" to the malice" and "dis | loyalty of the opposition. They must suppose the people of this country arc noci1v~ i'm 11noY roour