Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1918 — ADJOURNING POLITICS. [ARTICLE]

ADJOURNING POLITICS.

Fred S. Bays, of Sullivan, is the democratic candidate for Congress in the Second District, and the extent to which his party proposes to adjourn politics is aptly illustrated by the speech which he opened the campaign in Daviess county. Note the following excerpts from his address designed to promote war time solidarity among our people: “The Republican party has had no leader since the day Count Bernstorff was handed his passports and kicked out of the United States. “The Republican party is, and has been, spreading propaganda of the German Kaiser. “The Republicans want to win the war quick by stabbing the President in the back. “Will Hays, Republican National Chairman, was at Lincoln, Neb., but a day or so ago sowing the seed of dissension. “All men were satisfied with the present Congress except the Republican politicians, the Kaiser and the war lords. “The Republican congressmen supported the war measures only after the lash of public opinion had been applied. . . _ “Those who criticise President Wilson’s measures would hurt a poisoned dagger into his breast. “The Republican leaders have their hands stained with the blood of their countrymen and are spreading propaganda of the Kaiser. “I want to go to Congress to fight by the side of Woodrow Wilson. God has been good to us. He gave us Christ to save the world and Wilson to free it.” , . . „ In this connection it might be well to take note of who this man Bays is. To begin with, he is an athlete, thirty-four years of age and a graduate of Culver Military Acodemy. He is rich in his own right and has as well, a wealthy mothes, the Bays family accummulating a fortune on coal lands a few yean ago.