Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1920 — LET’S GO! AMERICA FIRST [ARTICLE]

LET’S GO! AMERICA FIRST

NATIONAL chairman calls ALL REPUBLICANS TO . * THE COLORS. • Chicago, Oct. 31.—The following statement was given out at NewYork today by Will H. Hays, chairman of the Republican National Committee: * “Two years ago, speaking in my capacity as chairman of the Republican National Committee, I appealed to Republicans to reject President Wilson’s amazing demand for the bestowal of absolute authority upon himself as Executive. The result at the polls was emphatic and decisive. The Wilson demand was denied, by an enormous majority. “Nevertheless, he contemptuously ignored the verdict which he had sought, assumed the attitude of an autocrat, refused to heed the advice of a co-ordinate branch of the government as required by the Constitution, perpetuated for the United States aihong all the nations of earth a state of technical warfare, lirevented the repeal of arbitrary aws considered essential to effective conduct of war, but universally recognized as burdensome and harmful in time of peace, permitted all the Executive departments to lapse into a condition of inefficiency bordering upon utter collapse and postponed in excusable manner resumption of the normalcy which alone can produce prosperity throughout our country. “This is a mere, compact statement -of facts. “It now becomes my duty in like capacity again to speak upon the eve of a National Election. Few words are necessary. The issues are fixed and plain. “Upon the Democratic side you have:

“(1). Internationalism, involving the United States, contrary to its traditions and for the first time ’ln its history, in a military alliance with four other great powers to superimpose their will upon all other peoples on Earth. “(2). Wilsonism, comprising the truly dreadful effects of unpardonable unpreparedness for both war and peace, an unprecedented orgy of waste and extravagance, a wholly unintelligent and ruinous taxation and an aggregation of executive heads notoriously matchless for inefficiency. “(31, Campaign methods. “(4). James M. Cox. “Upon the Republican side you Im vo • “(1). Americanism, comprehending the preservation of the Independence of the Republic, the faith of the Fathers, the integrity of the Constitution and an earnest desire to join with all other free Nations in an honorable associa--tion designed, without impairment of self control or self-respect to maintain universal peace upon the enduring basis of justice established under law rather than of authority asserted by force. “(2). Comprehensive of vital domestic problems and determination to solve them through intelligent and sympathetic co-operation of all departments of the government instead of by arrogant domination of one. / a. „ y . .. “(8). A campaign worthy of the party’s traditions and the countrys “(4-. Warren G. Harding. “(5). Calvin Coolidge. “Necessarily the candidates personified the issues. I could ask for no contrast more vivid. ' “Even as Chairman of the Republican National Committee, therefore, I make no appeal specifically or exclusively to Republicans. My few plain wdrds are addressed to all tru Americans. It is not a partisan appeal. It is an appeal to patnot“T simply ask them to VOTE without fail, conformably, to the admonitions of their conscience, their patriotism and their common sense.