Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 19 June 1918 — Page 2

BACK PRESIDENT SAYS MARSHALL "Vice-President s Patriotic Address to the Democratic State Convention. . WILSON IS LOGICAL LEADER Party Contest This Year Not Between Patriotism and Treason Wilson, Without Whom the World s . Hope Must Perish. Indianapolis. June 19. The following is the full text of Vice-President Marshall's speech before the Democratic State Convention today. He ■> Baid: What shall I say to you. my comrades in arms of the long ago and row? What word ehail you take back! Ito the thousands of courageous souls i "who have never faltered in their de- j Tense of the Democratic - party? Shull It tie a call to arms, to the buckling on of armor, to the renewal of the Republic-old conflict between contending theories of government'.’ Shall it be i wonl of cheer for the future and of consolation for the jtast ? If this were all and I could convince myself that old theories -were again to be presented to the jieople for settlement, ft were an easy task, but as 1 am willing to go Lincoln pne r J' Wi' * ; ‘ THOMAS R. MARSHALL. better and to aver that you can not Tool many of the people any of the time, my task is difflcul'. You are supposed to meet, prepare and present a platform containing is cues for settlement at the next election. Your task. too. is difficult, frhere are times in the game of politics when problems may he presented to the people for solution. There are other times when parties can not make issues, when the people make them. This year the people have made the great issue. Only One Great Question. I What purely state and local matters are being considered I can not jtell for the exigencies of official life Tn Washington have made me in a measure a stranger Io the land of my nativity, but I do know that there is only one great question loward (which all the thought and purpose and emotion of the people of Indiana ere being directed. They can not look with indifference upon the fastebbing tide of the life of their sons (upon the Western Front, upon the death grapple between Bethlehem land Berlin, without demanding to (know what you think is needful to (the winning of the war. and they are 'going to stand by the party which f’ eemtngly presents the best hope for he wars speedy and successful (termination. They will have none of (fault-finding criticism, little patience douching errors of judgment, niisjtakes. delays and omissions when (pointed out. They will consider great Eirinciples and sail to their aid his ory, realizing that what affected con (duct and result in the past is very (likely to affect conduct and result in the present. Party contest this year is not belt ween patriotism anti treason. The taverage Republican is as patriotic as Che average Democrat. The partisan (character of the contest has to do with the successful and as-speedily-as-possible winning of the war. No lone is going to get me mad over this (contest. law not going to charge (anybody with treason I shall not [•work myself up into a lather of ex citement because that would only soil any own linen and achieve nothing. The recent Republican convention, Through tire mouths of its spokesmen, ( ■went too fat —so far, indeed, that those ' who wish the party well are. now rejgre*?iiitg some of the statements made »nd ate gravely warning us Demo- ' ctals not lo toa* back the Ujdiscrixru- -■ •• ~

pate pile of brickbats which were j hurled directly and Indirectly at the President of the United States. This advice, for myself, 1 am going to take but when I consider the opportunity offered, I, to paraphrase laird Clive, am amazed at my moderation. All Right-Thinking Americana. I shall not. therefore, attempt a re- ! view of the encyclopedia of Republic-' an strength and Democratic weakness which the Governor of Indiana presented to the convention of his party, it may be that America is not a Democracy .but I shall leave that question for some future de Tocqueville to argue out with the Governor. It may be that we have no interest in the form of government which the German people may desire but, for myself, I say that we have an interest ! in the people who rule in Germany I and that until we have stopped murder and rapine ami pillage anti t< t■ i rorism on land and sea( theory or im I theory, the house of Hohegzoiiern will | be the common enenir <; 'll right thinking Americans. Theory or no , theory, we are not going to.lit that ' house buy the bankrupt stock < I. .1 and force upon unwilling and defenseless peoples all its horrors •lust what the Republican party (means by saying that its purpose is 1 to win the war now most of us do not I Understand. What the Democratic 1 party stands for is to win the war as ( ' soon as it can be won and it holds ( that to the speedy winning of it these are the essentials: Conviction of the j ' justice of the cause in which we are , I engaged: a fixed and definite end toi I be attained: the wholehearted, disinI terestod. political and patriotic sacri . I flee of personal ambition, party , I preferment and individual success toi , 1 the objects' attainment, and conti- j deuce, absolute confidence, in the ! Commander-in-Chief. A thousand parties may meet and adopt a thousand patriotic platforms: the Republic may mobilize all its I money, all its men and all its re- ! sources, and yet the chance of failure will be great if. behind all the (patty platforms and mobilized strength of the Republic, you do not put the confidence of the American people in the Director-General. History Repeating Itself. Some timid soul may say, "You are j not speaking with discretion: you aro (giving proof of the charge in Repub-j , lican speeches and papers that you I ' look upon the war as an asset of the! I Democratic party.” 1 speak for no i , one but myself when I say. it will not be needful for any Republican to ad- 1 due proof that this war is an asset ;of the Democratic party. 1 count it as an asset because of our system of government and in the light of our history. 1 do not claim tiiat the individual Democrat is a bit more loyal than the individual Republican but I admit that this war in serving as a party asset differs from none other in which the Republic lias engaged. Tbe War <tf the Rebellion was fought by Republican and Democrat alike but it was fought under a Republican ad ministration and by a Republican commander in-t hies. This war is being fought by Democrats and Republicans alike but it is being fought by a Democratic t'ommandei-in Chief and under a Democratic administration. That which was a Republican | asset in the years of '62, 54 and '9B is ' a Democratic asset in 1918. Some Republican politicians are dm ing now what some Democratic poli- , ticians did during the War of the Re- , bellion. boasting of their patriotism i but indulging in never-ending criticism of the administration in Ils prosecution of the war. Similar criti-. cism struck Lincoln: it was hurled at McKinley: it is now gathering in storm clouds around Wilson. Same Unselfish Loyalty. | Wherever two or three Republican politicians are gathereed together, lo there are loud protestations of patriotism and devotion to the Commender in Chief, but criticism of many things that he and his subordinates have done or failed to do. Errors and omissions are aired, analyzed and magnified. These critics claim they are loyal and wholeheartedly in support of the war. but—And in this "but'' lies danger to fife successful prosecution of the war. There must be no "buts.' There must 1 be the same unselfish loyally to the ' President of the I nited States in this ‘ dangerous hour as was expressed by the Scottish woman for King Charles , when she said she was loyal to the I crown of Great Britain though that crown hung upon a gooseberry bush. I I These critics are the men who seemingly believe, although they 1 have no confidence in the ability of the President of the United States to call to his aid and assistance such persons as he believes can aid him in tiie prosecution of this war: that they : by a partisan election can hand him I advisers and counsellors In whom he 'i will have confidence. This is humanly ! impossible. The President has called 1 7 to his assistance ex-President Taft. ' ex-Justfce Hughes. Goethals. Hoover ', Stettinius, Rosenwald and hundreds of individual Republicans and I have ‘ hope and confidence that he is going 1 to call hundreds more but he calls ' them as individuals and not at the behest of a party caucus or a partisan election. The Real Controversy. The real controversy between the Republican politician and the Pres! flent is this: The President chooses to select by hand his Republican assistants while the organization lie ‘ mauds that lie take them machinej 1 u . n -

What is lamentable in Republican organization patriotism is its duplica 41 on In American life of the Prussian idea It is not needful to be born in Germany nor of German blood to have a Prussian mind. .My complaint in the long years has been, not that the Republican party did not rule ( well, but that it ruled along unscianitifle lines To tuy mind a Republican -Commander-in-chief could rule well in such a conflict as the one in which we are engaged. The Democratic Coinmander-in-Chlef is ruling well. He has the confidence of the rank and file and of very mam of Hie Repub lican leaders but he has the enmity ot the Prussian Republican, the man who its cocksure that, no difference what I the issue or the circumstances, the , Republican party was born to rule ! and that all Democratic rule is bad I Ji.st because it is Democratic, us . u:i<lerst:tt:d that honesty and ability , Mid !<i»»ity are individual and not ( yarGtan. 1 ani lolj byway of defense, however, that protestations against the conduct of this war have come from certain Democrats and that, then.lore, the assaults that have het; ,n ade are not political in their <hir (acter. Again history repeats self. In the diary of George W. Julian ot Hie day following the assassination or President Lincoln will be found these words: "Have spent most of the afterI noon in consultation with Wade, | Chandler, Covode. Judge Carter I and Wilkinson, correspondent ot the Tribune. • * * 1 like the radicalism of the members of this caucus but have not in a long time heard so much profanity. It becomes intolerably disguting. Their i hostility toward Lincoln s policy I of conciliation and contempt for his weakness were undisguised: and the universal feeling among radical men here is that his death is a God-send.” The One Vital Issue. Make no .mistake about it. there is but one vital issue in the mind of the American people and that is the winning of the war. It is not a Demo cratic war nor a Republican war but it is being fought under a Democratic administration and that administration will, in accordance with the his-, toric mind of the Republic, be supported for many reasons by Democrat and Republican alike The Republican party of Indiana ( announces that at the conclusion of the war there will arise great prob--1 lems of reconstruction. It does not say what the problems will be but it is cocksure that, whatever they may be. no brain not stamped G. O. P. can hope to cope with them. When I was continuously in Indiana the Republican party lived in the past: it now seems to live in the future: could it by any possibility be convinced that the present is the time in which to live? It is always a dangerous thing to criticise from either language or con duct because neither may express the true motive of the man. Still there have been no other standards given to humankind when political parties go before the people. There are times when men and newspapers can be independent. Those times are in the hours of peace. But in the hour of war no man or paper can afford to be independent. He who is not for the President is against him. Suspect the man who is always talking about his patriotism and at the same time shedding bitter tears because he Teels that his duty just forces him to point out how weak the President is in choice of men. how feeble he is I in the execution of necessary military operations. I have mvseif been so long a partisan that I have an intense compassion for those who are seeking the weak joint in Wilson's armor. I knowhow many of us there are tossed between duty and desire, who feel the urge of non partisan patriotism and at the same time long for the fruits of a partisan triumph, who can appreciate the Presbyterian elder s lament that he wished he had gone to New York before he was converted. The Time for Decision. Now is the time when men must answer the question as to whether they are whole-heartedly with the Com-mander-in-t hies of the Army and Navy of the United States or whether they are with the party that is seeking mainly political preferment. Let us now see what has taken place in Indiana. In an informal letter to the Republican editors of his state, at their meeting on January 25. the junior senator from Indiana used the following language: "The Republican party demands, and will not be denied, the right to a full share In the vigorous prosecution of Jhe war and the establishment of American ideals, whether a partisan administration wills it or not." He uttered substantially the same untlmcnt at the recent Republican state convention. This expresses th» idea of a good any office holders and office seekers i America. They conceive that the Republican party is some sort qf a ent lent being, capable of hearing ins and getting into the thick of the ght. The quotation contains a cov--1 suggestion that this ferocious war achine has been rejected by some cruiting officer, it would be fa r . ore intelligible if the charge Wu irrctlv made that it had been re cted and the reason for its rejection ven to the Republic. No one now nows whether the Republican party as bean rejected or not. and. if so. I

i whether It has been rejected for dat feet, hernia or defective vision. 'l Greethouee vs. Haye. [t Parties do not enlist. Men do. Lout ( putative zeal of equally loyal won must be judged by the relative time , given by them to war and to politics, j There were two state chairmen in In ( diatta, one Democratic, the other R< [ publican: one gave up his political ! job to devote bis full time to war; . work; the other gave up his war work , in order to engage exclusive!' in poll I tics and • the Governor of Indiana wrote him: • "I have a feeling, too, that yon / have found it necessary to resign t. as chairman of the State Council > of Defense in order to perform s even more Important duties I And still I suppose that it will be i said by many that I am making only a miserable, partisan. Democratic speech, when 1 suggest that this lan iguage and this conduct indicate that the interests of the Republican party j I in Indiana and in the nation are far II more important than the doing of | everything that can be done for the i winning of tbe war Then this Young Lochinvar ambled ■ i out ot the West upon the G. O. I’.—• '[ the Grand Old Palfry—and with force i and arms seized the Lady Theodora ' and carried her off to that medieval castle called Republican headquarters. where he set her above the salt and introduced her as a Republican vestal virgin. But our Young Lochinvar discovered that there were large numbers of his' retainers who did not believe that she was the coy maiden she said she was and who strangely Bisic.ed that they had seen her walk ing t.ie political streets in 1912 and 1916. While he was busy, running from one end -of his domain to the other, trying to convince the faithful that their suspicions were not true, the Lady Theodora, being left at home, concluded to take a hand in the war by writing letters in derogation and criticism of 116 management to a i newspaper, which newspaper had as , its managing editor a man who was, at the declaration of hostilities against the imperial German government, an alien enemy of the United , States, and which newspaper had published the Rose Pastor Stokes letter and other seditious documents. Political Jockeys in Indiana. Some men at least are going to ob- ' .ject if she is the Republican party , and if she is going to fight the war ’ in this way—through the columns of 1 the Kansas City Star and. notwith- ' standing her great desire to take ( charge of everything, they are going lo insist that she shall not be per- , 1 mitted to do so earlier than March | 4, 1921, and not then, if God and the J right shall prevail. . I It is time for those of us who hitherto have been known as political .' jockeys in Indiana to realize that the ,' people have put out to grass the j Grand Old Palfry and the historic i Democratic stalking horse and that in this race for the world's freedom i stakes, neither one of them can be so . dotted as ever to reach the last quarter before the flag falls. One Other Incident. , I And now may I touch upon another , incident. There is no explanation of what constitutes the Republican , 1 party of Indiana which is going, re- . gardless of the wishes of the administration. to take a hand in this war. . It is presumable, however, that the , party is to be known bv its leaders. . A federal prisoner in this state, in- , dieted and arrested for attempting to cause insubordination, disloyalty, etc., i by making false statements and ap- . peals on the public streets, was ac- , quitted in Judge Anderson's court be- . cause he was not guilty under the . law. He had publicly proclaimed i that "Any young man that would enlist or volunteer his services for the United States should be taken out , and horse-whipped." and that all loyal Americans should withdraw their supi port from the war which was being fought by the United States, he said, not in behalf of freedom or liberty but in the interest of the capitalis'ic class. Congress gave the country additional legislation to cover cases of , this kind and on the final roll call, the two Senators from Indiana voted against the legislation, while in the House, the Republican representatives from Indiana voted for it. and • yet earlier in the same Congress, when the espionage bill was being subjected to roll-call, four of Indiana's nine Republican representatives voted "yea" and four voted nay, ’ while one did not vote at all. Who Speaks for It. ( Who is the Republican party of* Indiana and who speaks for it. The truth is that it is much like the Democratic party in that its representatives never get together except upon election day. The senators from Indiana. faithful as they have been from their viewpoint in the discharge of their duty, can not have sat in their places without realizing that there arc men upon their side of the chamber who no more believe as they do than the most rampant Socialist in the land and yet these very men are pretending to constitute the Repub lican party. Does the Republican party in Indi ana reject with scorn the votes of the German sympathizer in the state? U so. why didn't it have the courage to say that this is an English-speaking I people: that nothing so tends to unite a people as the use of a common lan gu»gc atid that, in the interests of building up a cohesive American citizenship. it proposed to see io it that the German language was no longer | taught m the schools of Indiana. I .•aw nu t w .

No. 1 hope 1 am mistaken, but 1 b» liuve that tbe party Is witli tbie question as It waa with prohibition—for prohibition and for the English lan I guage but keeping silent in the hope of the liberal vote and that of the German sympathizer. But One Language. A man is not a German because he has a German name or because he 1 hus German blood in him. He is a Gorman whatever his name or blood, if he wishes the house of Hohenzollert. to triumph. 1, ot course, want my party to win but, at the risk of being read out of it, I beg you to vote auainat any Democrat who ia not whole-heartedly behind the President of the United States and the way he proposes to win this war: who is not in favor of taking the German lan-] guage out of the schools of Indiana i and welding into a united people, bv 1 the use of a common language, all those who dwell within our borders. | Yes, we are to have politics this year in Indiana, but politics this year must be patriotic as well as partisan in character. It must be the kind of 1 politics which whole heartedly gets behind that colossal figure of these stormy hours, the man whom Providence has set upon the mountain peak of duty, desire and endeavor, with whom we can 1 win, without whom the world's hope must perish —Woodrow Wilson. Captain-General of the Armies of Freedom, Admiral of the Seven Seas. It will not do to keep 1 our promise to his ear and break ii to his hope. i * UNIONS OPEN SOLDIERS’ CLUB. I Erst St. Louis Labor Men Put Themselves Squarely Behind Defenders. [ St. Louis. Mo.. June 17—In East St. Louis has just been opened a sol- ‘ diers' club which is probably unique ’! among the hundreds of such institu--1 ticns now operating in the United 1 States. This club is a novelty, not because of.location, service or equipi im nt. but because it shows concrete- . ly am! undeniably labor's interest in | the war. J The East St. Louis Soldiers' and ' Sailors' Citib was conceived and made a reality by labor unions of East St. Louis, working in co-operation with the War Camp Community Service. T’.,■; r.nion label might fittingly be , placed on the chib and everything therein. The management is entirely , in the hands of organized labor, un;!d j ' th' chairmanship of Earl W. Jim.;er.on. of the Butchers' Union. The ; painting was done by the Painters’ i Union; the building was repapered |by the Paperhangers' Union, the 'iba hs and other plumbing were put

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—— in by the Plumbers' Union: the furniture and equipment were donated by other labor organizations of Last St. Louis. There are three commodious rooms in the club, provided with comfortable furniture, shower baths, pool tables. player piano., two phonographs, a library of 2,000 volumes, anelectric clothes pressing machine and many other things which will contribute to the comfort and convenience of the • enlisted men at Scott Field and the tb'Hisui.dc who pass through East St. Louis. / The union committee in charge of the dub is represented on the St. . Louis Ibjaro of the War Camp Comnr.'nity Service, which supplied the library and records for the piano , plavcr and the phonographs from its Recreational Supplies depot. MEN AND VICTORY DESSERTS. i Dessert after dinner isn’t the most important thing in life these days, but I it is important enough to deserve s serious attention. The woman who . arranges her meals with a view to i avoiding the use of wheat and other . foods that we Americans must re- > frain from eating in order that we : may send them to the soldiers ■ abroad, must redouble her efforts to • make the meal attractive. More • than that, she must, even more than s in normal times, exert herself to make sure that every part of the meal I ‘ is real food, serving a real food puri pose. I The man has his part to play also.

• Even a favorite dessert is a small ' thing to sacrifice as a contribution to the world's struggle to maintain liberty and economy. If the woman i ought to work out new desserts, or • alter the old ones, the man ought, if • necessary, to learn to like them. , And that is the situation exactly. ' If it is a part of the war-time duty ' of women to change their marketing. > their menus and their cooking, it is ' also the wartime duty of men to ■ change their tastes and adapt themselves to the substitute desserts. There are plenty of desserts that ■ can be made from the various cereals. such as rice puddings, corn- • starch desserts. Indian pudding with ' fruit, ami many delicious steamed ' puddings made from some of the vic--1 tory cereals. A good pudding will prove a satisfying solace to the most omnivorous pie-eating male in captivity. The following recipe is a victory pudding that has been tried out on the mere male with gratifying sucess: ’ One-fourth cup of molasses, two ' cups milk, one tablespoon suet, onefourth cup rice, oue teaspoon cinnamon. one teaspoon salt. This may be cooked in a double ' boiler or in a fireless cooker for two hours and a half. It can be varied by the use of raisins or nuts, or both, and g little orange or lemon rind adds to the flavor. Serve with cream. DEMOCRAT WANT ADS PAY BIG.