Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1918 — THE NEW YORK REPUBLICANS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEW YORK REPUBLICANS.

it Will be a hard matter to find any fault with the quality of patriotism displayed by New York Republicans in their state' convention, which met at Saratoga yesterday. All of the addresses were lofty in tone and were emphatic in their demand . that all the people, regardless of political views, should support the war to the utmost. The New York Republicans were right in their view that the administration can be strengthened in its present program. That being true, there is no reason to feel that Republicans in congress would hamper the President or interfere with any plan that means putting even an extra ounce of energy into the fighting. This is not the war of any political party and ho party has any right to consider it as an asset. Public interest in the New York convention centered in the speech of Mr. Roosevelt. The report that his youngest son had just been killed in battle placed him in the attitude of a father who has given much. The speaker did not ask for sympathy but he did demand that those who have died shall not have died in vain. There is sound Americanism in his declaration: Our young men have gone to the other side—very many of them to give up in their joyous prime all the glory and all the beauty of life for tne prize of death in battle for a l°f~. ty ideal. Now while they are defend-| ing you, can’t we, men and women at home, make up our minds to try to insist in public and private on a loftier idealism here at home? lam asking for an idealism which shall find expression beside the hearthstone and in the family, and in the councils of the state and nation. And I ask you to see that when those who have gone abroad to endure every species of hardship, to risk their lives, ito give their lives—when those of them who Jive come home, that they shall come home to a nation which we, by our actions, have made a nation they can be proud to have fought for and to have died for. The fathers and mothers of the men across the sea can heartily agree with this; and those Who have sent no one abroad agree with the spirit of such doctrine if they are to be found worthy of those brave lads

Who defend them on the field of battle. No less valuable and striking was Mr. Roosevelt’s insistence for a right kind of peace, *‘a peace conditioned upon the complete overthrow of Germany and the removal of all threat of German dominion.” The country will stand with him in his declaration that “we must ‘treat agitation for premature or inconclusive peace as treason to the' republic.”—lndianapolis News.