Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1920 — DEMOCRATS VS. SOLDIERS. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATS VS. SOLDIERS.

It was not necessary for the Democrats in their platform openly to insult the men who fought in France while the slackers and draft dodgers in that convention were profiteering. The soldiers already knew that the Democratic party was hostile to them, that it neglected their welfare while enriching that section of the country in which it dominates. If the soldiers are not aware of the fact that the war revenue bill could not be passed until pork was provided for Virginia in the form of training camps and munition factories, they all know that soldiers paid JI a day were compelled by the Wilson administration to work on Virginia roads side by side with Negro laborers receiving $5 a day. The soldiers know that the Democrats made Congressman chairman of the committee on military affairs, and that Dent exercised the full power of his position to prevent reinforcements being sent to our hard pressed battle line. The soldiers know that the Germans held command of the air while six hundred million dollars was being squandered for the benefit of those close to the war department.

The soldiers know that the Democratic states did not furnish volunteers for the war. They know also that the draft law was manipulated by the Democratic administration to spare the southern states from furnishing their quotas of troops. They know that boys from Illinois and Indiana were sent south to fill up the divisions accredited to the Democratic states. They know that the Democrats had millions for camp builders, ship builders, contractors, airplane promoters, conscientious objectors and slackers, and that economy only entered the Democratic head to oppose the payment to defenders of their country of a small percentage of the sums lavished on stay at homes. * It did not take the insulting words to show Democratic hostility to American soldiers. —Chicago Tribune.