The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-11-20
G. o. P. Is Urged
By TAFT to Join
Cause of Unity
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formed of common clay.
Fears Run Gamut"


Fears Run Gamut'
"These honest Republican broth
ers claim that when they seek their
way to patriotic duty they find be-
fore them a suffocating mucky murk
the miasma of class hatreds, smoke
screens of politics, the purulent Odors
of eXtravagant waste, the poisonous
fumes of party purges, the fogs of
war defense production disunity; all
arising from the vicinage of the
Executive Mansion.
"These sincere Republicans say,
therefore, that no one can learn the
final purposes of the President nor
see what horse he rides nor where.
"Their fears run the gamut from
a Presidential fourth term to totali-
tartan Democracy, with Republican
ism taboo. They can hear the Presi-
dent, with a jolly grin as he flicks his
cigarette, like the Mohammedan
Turk who divorces his. wife, four
times saying to them 'talak,' mean
"Be thou BECOME
Felt BY Others
But these suspicious were likewise
felt by earnest men of the American
Revolution, the Civil War and the
first World War.
eve realists who see colossal dam
gers from abroad believe in the pro-
tecting genius of the American people
and institutions-an dismiss these
fears.
eve recall that wise Abraham Lin
coin wrote the ambitious, loose
tongued Hooker, when he made him
commander of the Army of the Po-
tomac, in substance, "Give me vic
tories and | will risk your dictator
ship"
Some ''As In Trance"
"The world despot seeks present
conquest of three Eastern continents,
and the seven seas. He sends our
men and ships to ocean graves.
Nevertheless, some leaders of our
party, as in a trance, like the little
children, trail after the Pied Piper of
Hamelin Town-the Democratic Sen
ator Wheeler, a brilliant isolationist
and bitter zealot.
"The prudent national chairman
and House leader, Joseph W. Martin,
has called a Republican policy con-
ference for January. Agenda of that
: respectable family conclave should
deny association with a passionate
Wheeler, frigid Lindbergh and an
amorphous Nye. Give us an honest
Republican pedigree and a firm
policy.
Party Not United
"The Republican party is not
united on foreign policy. Senators
Austin, Bridges, White, Barbour and
Quincy and Representative Wads-
worth lead the growing Republican
retreat from the dangerous hermit
isolationism of the Wheeler group
those who watch and wait until Hit
ler's saber beats on our very door
"The pressure of mountaineering
events must force into unity the di-
, verse elements of our national life.
Republicans of Maryland and the
nation should actively aid this essen
tial advance. 1t is not enough merely
to march along, with a few modern
Copperheads shouting hate and fear
from the rear.
Traces Party History
History pursues familiar pat
tern.
"The Republican party arose in
1860 because it boldly met issues, as
the Wing party died because it
Stunned them.
Lincoln said this country" could
not endure half slave and half free"
Nor can the world today, say we,
Lincoln declared the Union should be
preserved; nor did he weakly add by
measures "short of war" So our ma
ton endured wholly free.
Freedom Challenged
"The freedom then won now is
challenged by a conqueror more evil
than any who ever sought to rule the
world.
; "Spain denied freedom of the seas,
sank the Maine in Havana harbor, and
= sent Cerveras fleet into our Carib-
bean Sea- A Republican President led
the nation 1t moved by land and
water to defend part of the western
world and promote it's freedom.
German imperialists in 1917 sank
the Lustania. Theodore Roosevelt
sought swift reprisal. He and another
Republican, Gen. Leonard Wood, vol
unteered to lead divisions abroad. A
} united Republican party supported
: Woodrow Wilson when, after the 1916
election he concluded he was not "too
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