Glacier County chief., 1940-11-15
! GEN ERAL
i HUGH S.
JOHNSON
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Washington, d. C.
DECISION is MADE

crazy, for which we must fight
he last in this dangerous world
most precious thing in our ma
bal life.
This may not be easy. This has
tn the bitterest campaign in my
berience. Deep wounds have been
(en-and received. Low blows
he been struck. Hatreds have
In melted. Class and religious
Ejudices have been infiamed.
BITS Of reprisals, repressions and
tn prosecutions have been
kpped Never has this country
en so torn and disunited.
Ne can't let this go on. 1t is
thaps Understandable in such an
kction, but as that vote decides, so
tst it be. Bad and surly losers
such a time as this are bad and
lily Americans.
There remain issues that were not
bed. Chief among them is the
tent TO which our people wish to
involved in war. This must still
debated and fought in congress,
as to everything which goes to
bke US strong for defense, our war
ID factions must do their utmost
be united-one for all and all for
1.-THE country.
i is a good thing too that the cleo
d was close. We should hear
more the cries of the victors.
be have a mandate" and, there
be, we hope, no new attempt to
be rough-shod over minorities
Fough popular inhibitions and con-
ttutlonal restrictions.
GOose-stepped Nazi SO per cent
"a" votes are what create dictator
fps and make wars. There will be
war There will be no American
fehrer, if we can maintain large
ID live political group of opposi-
fn in the country as well as in the
tngress.
It was hard fight. for one, am
I'D ii is over. For me it involved
Fmething like the job of taking
washing by day and digging wells
i night" I'm tired and battered
fd I'm going down to Bethany
zach and sleep for a week-turn-
6 over each day only long enough
get my column out.
In this domestic eruption of cam
fign and election, we seem to for
Fl all about the war which, after
l. is the greatest interest outside
p shores. Some columnist who
PENS TO have miraculous sources
information, says that Winston
auichill is getting very impatient
fout US. He wants to know when
L are coming into this shindy.
hope Churchill can restrain him
FL because we're never coming in.
Will cost us another hundred mil
pn and if we spend that much
pa get into this war, we shall have
Zen the last of our democratic and
economic system as we have known
The most remarkable thing l saw
this election was the enthusiasm
young people for Mr.. Willkie. He
EEmself seemed to grow younger in
fis campaign regarding of its Cruel
" demands. l never saw Mrs.
like look better than on its last
Pght. ! think she is the best cam
|aigner he has had. When l told
|ei that, she said:
Oh, no, all l did was to wave"
although he lost, Mr.. Willkie rep
esents something most precious and
'allable in American life, and the
mole country has come to know it.
Eggs, wastebaskets and political
currility cannot obscure it.
IL he had had at least little pro-
tsslonal organization - if he had
gen attended by people with a lit
e more experience in campaign
peaking-if advisers who were rank
var interventionists had not pre-
tnted him from taking the forth
isht stand against war that is in his
cart, his election would have been
walk-in. l know that from my
"h experience in many states, and
eiore audiences in the aggregate
ems OF thousands. 1t was the livest
ssue in this campaign, but such
'as Mr.. Wilkes instructive shrink
% from any appeal to emotion
ny appeal to anything but what he
eearded as debate on absolute fac
aal issues alone-things that did not
eslde in conjecture but that he
ouieRrove by the book-that he
ouiad5t use it.
1t was pretty but it wasn't politics
even perfectly legitimate politics.
ct, much as regret to see a failure
illy to cypress and to represent
mat l know to be the heart and
oul Of the American people-be-
ause there was no way to lay it out
nth T-square and compass on q
rawing board blue print - he
'ouldn't touch it. Yet, I am glad to
ave been SO closely associated with
man 80 scrupulously conscientious.