Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1916 — Van Rensselaer Club Banquet To Be Best Ever Given. [ARTICLE]

Van Rensselaer Club Banquet To Be Best Ever Given.

The annual Van Rensselaer club banquet to be held on October 12th this year promises to be the best ever given by this organization. The committees in charge have been working hard to make this banquet one to be remembered and have secured Nadel’s orchestra to render music during the evening. The banquet will be served in the dining room if the Methodist church by the church ladies. The toast program has been arranged and the committee has arranged for something novel in this line, and promise that much enjoyment will be had by all from these dinner speeches. Following the banquet, there will be a dance at the armory.

President Wilson says that “There is only one choice as against peace, and that is war,” and, therefore, he argues, “the certain prospect of the success of the republican party is that we shall be drawn, in one form or another, into the embroilments of the European war.” He says further, “A very great body of the supporters of that party outspokenly declare that they want war,” Maying all due allowance for Mr. Wilson’s overpowering ambition for re-election, and for the desperation which is his as he perceives to how great an extent the American people disapprove of his administration, it is still appalling to see the chief executive of the United States seekng to further his political

'fortunes by such bald misstatements of fact, statements which no one of his intelligence can fail to appreciate are absolutely contradictory of the truth. Mr. Wilson’s reference to “a very great body” of republicans being outspokenly for war recalls the incident of the-man who remarked that he had “a wide acquaintance in New Haven,” -whereupon his friend replied, “Oh, I know, it’s Judge Taft.” If Mr. Wilson knows of any such “great body” it is only a single individual, and he probably would be hard put to, name even one republican who wants war. Furthermore, Mr. Wilson must know, if he is to be given credit for any intelligence, that war, is the last thing which*Cfov. Hughes desires, and that the assertion that as election would result in involving thisrfountry an the European war is the cheapest kind of political clap-trap, clap-trap unworthy of even a third rate democratic' spell-binder.