Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1918 — Republicans Misrepresent Mr. Greathouse’s Speech [ARTICLE]

Republicans Misrepresent Mr. Greathouse’s Speech

Bold Attempt to Please and Satisfy Pacifist and ProGerman Voters. Republican newspapers in Indiana are deliberately and purposely misrepresenting what Charles A. Greathouse, Democratic State chairman, said in his recent speech in regard to the pacifist and pro-German vote. They are saying that “Greathouse says the Democrats do not want tjie German vote.” Mr. Greathouse did not say any such thing, end the Republican newspapers know it. What he did say was that “the Democratic party does not want the votes of either the pacifist or the pro-German, and that if the Republicans want them they are w-el-come to them.” Thai is sound Democratic doctrine, and the Democratic party in Indiana stands squarely behind Mr. Greathouse on the proposition. The Democratic party does not want the disloyal vote, whether it be the pacifist or the pro-German. But it. does want the vote -of every loyal citizen, regardless of his nationality. Loyalty is the test, and not nationality. It has been charged that the Republicans played for the pro-German vote in 1916 and got it, and that the Republicans are playing for the same vote this year. The very fact that the Republican papers are publishing the misstatement of the speech of Mr. Greathouse is proof that they are appealing to that very element and that they hope to line them up for the election. Ls that was not the fact these papers would not be seeking to curry favor with that element. If the pacifist, the pro-German or any other, disloyal man wishes to affiliate with the Republican party the Democratic party is perfectly willing that he shall do so, and that the Republicans shall take him in.