The Owosso times., 1920-10-29
STEADY, REPUBLICANS!
BY Will H. Hays,
Chairman of the Republican National
Committee.

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Steady, Republicans!
This, of all times, is the time to
keep the ranks firm.
We are in the front trenches, post
ed on the firing-steps, each and ev-
cry one of us, and our duty there is
to keep our eyes-every second-on
the opposition.
Don't let anything in the rear
draw our gaze from the enemy's line! i!
This is the imperative call to the
performance of an instant duty.
Steady!
Let not the certainty of Republican
success, which means so much for the
country's welfare, be lessened in even
the slightest degree by any inability
to order our own affairs.
Our day is already certain-the
day of Republican victory-but we
have got to remember-and we must
remember NOW-that, sure as the
dawn is and bright as the day will be,
the moments before its arrival must
not be allowed to be fraught with
threatenings, for the daylight will be
of small use to us in our task of MAX
ing the most of it, if we blind our
selves before its coming.
Let us keep our feet on the ground
we must!
Let us keep our eyes ahead-it is
our duty. ...
Let us keep our minds clear-if
we don't, then our victory, certain as
it1is, decisive as it is bound to prove,
will fall short of that benefit to the
country as whole which the next
four years demand from the Repub
Eean party.
We have national duty. We have
got to pull THIS country out of the
slough of despond, and disorder, of ex-
travagance, of an half-baked and
false and evil idealism. We have got
to set it's feet firmly again on the solid
highway of progress. We have got
to start it-aye, and keep it-on the
road of justice to all and from all,
the road of prosperity, of those things
that are best for every man, woman
and child among it's inhabitants. We
have got to restore Americanism to
America.
This is the gigantic task.
Gigantic-bu we can do it.
1t is up to us. There's no doubt
about that, and we are going to do it
thoroughly.
But we must be fit in every fiber
NOW. We must perfect our train
ing NOW. 80,
Steady, Republicans!
Do now what you did during the
World war. Repeat the patriotism of
1917-1918.
, Hold the boat steady. The winds
, may blow. We have reached the
place where the cross-currents may
run. But remember that the ripples
do not show the direction of the main
current, which flows surely and
strongly underneath this eddy and
that froth.
Here is no moment for little things.
We have to perform task worthy Of
our party strength, worthy Of our
party history; we have a patriotic
work to do that is epoch-making, ma
tional. Upon our performance will
depend the future Of the country.
The chronicler Of centuries to come,
the generations Of Americans to be,
will look backward at these now-ap-
preaching years as of the most tre-
mendous import in the development
of American policy-and it is the Re-
publican party that is to direct that
development.
Let us permit no distraction.
No acrimony among us. No petty
chickering's. Nothing - NOTHING
must decrease the certainty of our
doing we'll that which we are certain
ly about to be called upon to accom-
lish.
Let no stones be put into the snow
balls!
Loyalty to country.
Loyalty to the party.
Loyalty to the party always that is
to save the country.