Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1920 — MR. COX AND REPUBLICAN STATESMEN [ARTICLE]

MR. COX AND REPUBLICAN STATESMEN

1 * Gov. Cox’s appeal to Republicans isl the name of Lincoln’s action in the civil war crisis, McKinley s in the war of Cuban ifidependence, ana Garfield’s prophecy of American moral leadership get him on pretty He says Lincoln “fought a war over the purely moral issue of slaQf course, he did nothing of the sort. Lincoln fought for the preservation of the union, threatened at that time by disintegration, through the state rights doctrine of Mr. Cox’s party, just as it is threatened today by the internationalism of M,r Wilson which ’ Mr. Cox has undertaken to support and ©on 1 ” 111 ®-. To Lincoln, union, not the purely moral question of slavery, was the paramount issue, and he said so in unmistakable terms. . As for McKinley’s intervention m Cuba, however moral issues colored our feeling, it was rested securely on the basis of our national welfare and the right to be at peace on our frontiers. Furthermore, war would not have been declared if the Maine had not been SU As for Garfield’s “prophecy,” we beg to call Mr. Cox’s attention to. the fact that Garfield spoke of “moral” leadership and not of alliances likely to involve us with every imperialist enterprise cherished in the world. . , _ The chief good that can come from the present campaign is to clear the air of the Big Talk and moral buncombe which for eight years have defied the common sense of the American people and hid in a dazzling gauze sorry facts of the Wilftmian internationalist policy in Europe, Mexico and Asia.—Chicago Tribune.