Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1918 — THERE WERE CRITICS IN OTHER DAYS [ARTICLE]

THERE WERE CRITICS IN OTHER DAYS

A reader of The Democrat who remembers the criticism of the federal administration during the civil war, hands us the following clipping from a Chicago paper which may be of interest to those people in these days «yo are prone to criticise the administration in this trying hour:. Montpelier, lowa—To the Editor: When inclined to feel discouraged and disgusted by the senseless criti•sisms and denunciations of the administration’s conduct of the war, etc., let us hunt up old history of our school days find read extracts from ‘•Brick’’ Pomeroy’s La Cross Democrat. * Not until almost three years of war was there an attempt to coordinate the efforts of the several separated- armies by the appointment of U. S, Grant lieutenant-general | with general command of all the armies on March 3, 1864, . | With- an army of 116,000 he attacked Lee, who had 65,000, and

Grant, after losing about of his men in a month in the Wilder-! ness and at Cold Harbor, con rinded to back up, cross the James and attack from the south. The attark on Petersburg failed and for txe rest of the year there was no gtoeral engagement. The Democratic national cngrtM-j tion declared the war a faiisrePresumably because «o .many lies, from ts loyally suip;>orted the gorer»- ; nient and so many radical cans denounced it, the goreranei: , party assumed the name of Xa*. : - as Union party. A week prior to I the meeting of the Union party convention. radicals met in Cleveland and nominated J. C. Fremont for Presfden*t and; J. Cochran for Vice Presfident. They were induced to wal-' draw from the contest in Septet ,:e? lest the Democrats win, but in his letter of withdrawal Mr. Fremcf: wrote: "I consider his > Mt. Lincoln’s) administration has :eesi litically, militarily and finanoally a failure and that its necessary continuance is a cause of great regret.” Apd the gieat Wendell Phi’Lje one of the founder.- and leaders the Republican party, wrote: The administration, therefore, I regart as a civil and military ailwere. and its "avowed policy ruinons te the North in every point .of '.vaew Lincoln’s Secretary of War Sifiton.zmore than once called ILnenlz. a fool. \ . Though similar instances galore might .be cited, let these srtffc-s to show that while great ist-ai. or international '-rises bring to sifront great national or world l-T’d-ers, they also, never fail to. reietl a lot of pigmies wno.-e ec:. howls." E. A. ALLB'EE.