Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1918 — HOOSIER COMMENT [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER COMMENT

Mt. Veter, if you do not register you can not vote. The right to vote carries with it the duty to vote. Register. “Bring the line up to the flag” is a good enough battle cry for 1918. It means bring these airplanes up to the flag, it means bring these machine guns and those big guns up to the flag, and it means bring those ships into service so the line can move forward to early victory. Experience has shown that Congress'has a useful part in forcing supplies and equipment forward with the flag. Republicans in Congress have proved constructive as well as consistently loyal. The people are ready to entrust the conduct of the war to Republicans in Congress, knowing full well that those Republicans will hasten victory in every possible way in cooperation with the War-Administra-tion. The Sullivan Times, Democratic, says, “Politics has been adjourned, in word and fact” Which perhaps accounts for the activities of President Wilson in Wisconsin with his famous “acid test,” in Michigan with his pacifist flivver candidate for Senate, and. in several other localities, invariably scheming for Democratic party advantage or for power through better control of Democratic party machinery. Our men on the west front appreciate those George Creel pictures, but they’d much rather have fighting planes than, plain fakes.

The Rossville Journal quit last week for the lack of patronage. It se<?ms remarkable that in these times of big money going into everybody’s pocket, that the one institution that supplies the people with all the information that the government must circulate should be obliged to suspend its work for lack of patronage. Yet every day a country paper is obliged to shut down for lack of patronage.-—Brook Reporter, f