Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 60, Number 42, Jasper, Dubois County, 28 June 1918 — Page 1
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BACK PRESIDENT SAYS MARSHALL
Vice-President's Patriotic Address to the Democratic State Convention. -
WILSON IS LOGICAL LEADER
Party Contest This Year Not Betwetn Patriotism and Treason Wilson, Without Whom the World's Hop Must Ptrish.
Indianapolis, June 19. The following Is the 'Zull text of Vice-President Marshall's .speech before the Democratic State Convention today. He said:" What shall I say to you, my comrades in arms of the long ago and now? What word shall you take back to the thousands of courageous souls who have never faltered in their detens of tbet Democratic party? Shall it be a. ca.ll to arms, to the buckling on of armor, to the renewal of the Republic-old conflict between contending theories of government? Shall it be a word of cheer for ho future and of consolation for the 'past? If this wero all and I could convince myself that old theories were again to be preeanted to the people for settlement, it were an easy task, but as I am willing to go Lincoln one
..en patnoti average Republican" fs as patriotic as the average Democrat. The partisan character of the contest has to do with the successful and as-speedily-as-possible winning of the war. No one is going to get me mad over this contest. 1 am not going to charge anybody with treason. I shall not work myself up into a lather of excitement because that would only soil my own linen and achieve nothing. The recent Republican convention, through the mouths of its spokesmen, went too far so far, indeed, that those who wish the party well are now regretting some of the statements made and are gravely warning us Democrats not to toss back the indiscrimi-
Tfiere" mustTTe no "buts." There must
be the same unselfish loyalty to the
President of the United States in this dangerous hour as was expressed by the Scottish woman for King Charles when she said she was loyal to the crown of Great Britain though that crown hung upon a gooseberry bush. These critics are the men who seemingly believe, although they have no confidence in the ability of the President of the United States to call to his aid and assistance such persons as he believes can aid him in the prosecution of this war; that they by a partisan election can hand him advisers and counsellors in whom he will have confidence. This is humanly impossible. The President has called to his assistance ex-President Taft, ex-Justice Hughes, Goethals, Hoover,
Navy of the United States or whether
aate pile of brickbats which were stettinius. Rosenwald and hundreds ther are witb the party that is seek-
hurled directly and indirectly at the Gf individual Republicans and I have I in mainly political preferment.
President of the United States. This hone and confidence that he is znin?1 Let us now see what has taften
advice, for myself, I am going to take, to call hundreds more but he calls I Place in Indiana. In an informal let-
operations. I have myself been so long a partisan that I have an intense compassion for those who are seeking the weak joint in Wilson's armor. I know how many of us there are tossed between duty and desire, who feel the urge of non-paVtisan patriotism and at the same time long for the fruits of a partisan triumph, who can appre-
dopecTas ever fo" reach the last quar-
ter before the flag falls. One Other Incident. ' And now may I touch upon another
ELECTRICITY!.
Why It Is Difficult For th Laymi
Understand What it Is.
Incident. There Is no explanation of I electiicity ? is a faro
rT , , ' lte 3uery h People who desire to : Indiana which ts going, re-tn?0 y, wre 10
what
party of
gardless of the wishes of the adminis
tration, to take a hand in this war.
get a rise" out of a scientific man.
And when he fails to answer it in
It is presumable, however, that the, same simple fashion that he
ciate the Presbyterian elder's lament party is to be known b itg leaders I might treat the question "What is rnflr no Ttrioliorl Vo Via I irnno f rv More i . . I 1 j n? ..
dieted and arrested for attempting to I "Aha ! You profess to know ail
about electricity. Why, you can't
York before he was converted. The Time for Decision. Now is the time when men must an
swer the question as to whether they
are whole-heartedly with the Com
mander-in-Chief of the Army and
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but when I consider the opportunity them as individuals and not at the be
offered, I, to paraphrase Lord Clive, hes of a party caucus or a partisan
am amazed at my moderation. election.
AH iiight-Thinking Americans. The Real Controversy.
I shall not, therefore, attempt a re- The real controversy between the
view of the encyclopedia of Republic- Republican politician and the Presi
an strength and Democratic weak- dent is this: The President chooses
ness, which the Governor of Indiana to select by hand his Republican as
presented to tne convention of his sistants while the organization de
party, it may De that America is not mands that he take them machine-
a Democracy but I shall leave that run.
queauüu lor some tuture ue locque- What is iamentable in Republican
vine io argue out witn tne governor, organization patriotism is its duplica
uC txxat wC iiav uu luteitL m ti0I1 in American life of the Prussian the form of government which the ida. It is not needful to be born In German people may desire but, for Germany nor of German blood 'to myself, I say that we have an interest have a Prussian mind. My complaint
u me peopie wno rme m uermany in tne ong years nas beeilj not tuafc
uuu mat unui we navo stopped mur- the Republican party did not rule
ux dau rapine ana piuage ana ter- wen, but that it ruled along unscienrorism dh land and sea, theory or no tific lines. To my mind a Republican theory, the house of Hohenzollern will Commander-in-Chief could rule well
oe me common enemy of all right- in such a conflict as the one in whieh T n in Ir in nr A rriV. . . t
cauD. xxiuij, ui nu we are engaged. The Democratic
theory, we are not going to let that Commander-in-Chief is ruling well. He house buy the bankrupt stock of hell has the e-onfidence of the rank and
ano rorce upon unwilling and defense- me and of very many of the Repub
teaa peupies an its norrors. lican leaders hut he h u enmit f I - 1. 1 A. 1 1 f I
just wnat tne Kepuoiican party the Prussian Republican, the man who means by saying that its purpose is is C0Cksure that, no difference what to win the war now most of us do not the issue or the circumstances, the understand. What the Democratic Republican party was born to rule
puity suinus ior is to win tne war as and that all Democratic rule is bad soon as it can be won and it holds just because it Is Democratic. ,Let us
are the essentials: Convictfon of tlie anf loyalty are individual and not
justice oi tne cause in which we are partisan.
ciißugeu, a nxea ana uennite ena to t am tolfl hv wnv nf l1flfaRP how
be attained; the whole-hearted, disin- ever, that protestations against the
turebieu, pouuciu ana patriotic sacri- conduct of this war have come from
fice of personal ambition, party certain Democrats and that, there-
icimeiii aim inaiviauai success to fore the assaults that have been
tue uujüci attainment, anu conn- made are not political in their char.
ounce, aosoiute connuence, in the acter. Again histo r atg Uself
v,uuii muucr-i i-niei. In the diary of Q Q w Julian Qf
ousana parties may meet and the day following the assassination adopt a thousand patriotic platforms; 0f President Lincoln will be found
tne itepuDiic may mobilize an us these words:
money, all Its men and all its re-
PHOMAS R. MARSHALL. better and to vor that you can not fool many of the people any of the time, my task is difficult. You are suppesed to meet, prepare and present a platform containing Issues for settlement at the next election. Your task, too, is difficult. There are times ii the game of politics when problems may be presented to the people for solution. There are other times when parties can not make issues, when the people make them. This year the people have made the great Issue. Only One Great Question. What purely sUte and iocal matters are being considered I can not tell for tho exigencies of official life in Washington have made me In a m'easure a stranger to the land oi my nativity, but I do know that there is only one great question toward which all the thought and purpose and emotion of the people r: Indiana are being directed. They can not look with indifference upon the fastebbing tide of the life of their sons upon the Western Front, upon the death grapple between Bethlehem and Berlin, without demanding to know what you think is needful to the winning of the war, and they are going to stand by the party which seemingly presentstho best hope for the war's speedy and successful termination. They will have none of j fault-finding criticism, little patience
touching errors of judgment, mistakes, delays and omissions when pokited out. They wiil consider great principles and ca-11 to their aid history, realizing that what affected conduct and result im the past is very
likely id affect conduct and resuJt Inciajm tnev
trie present. i dl Party contest this yoar Is not be- A , , k- - - i J rm, AIK1 1
"Have spent most of the afternoon in consultation with Wade, Chandler, Covodo, Judge Carter and Wilkinson, correspondent of the Tribune. I like tho radicalism of the members of this caucus but have not in a long time heard so much profanity. It becomes intolerably disguting. Their hostility toward Lincoln's policy of conciliation and contempt for his weakness were undisguised; and the universal feeling among radical men here is that his death is a God-send." The One Vital Issue. Make no mistake about it, there is
but one vital issue in the mind of the
American people and that is the winning of the war. It is not a DomoP.rnfiP Wnv lnr ll Rnnnhlinon vn kill
a oit more ioai , homo- rnnri,f mu. n
than the individual Republican but I ' 'VZi.lZ , L
admit that this war in serving as a!frt , . . ,4f , , . . tion will, m accordance with the his-
tnrfr TT,infl nf rno WnnnMii lin mm
in which the Republic has engaged. f" ;0i f"l 1 , U 1
The War of the Reb- ion was fought . - ,,. lrs iinfx antl Republican alike, by Republican and Democrat alike but: rm, Trtii t t , , r, , ,. , The Republican party of Indiana it was fought under a Republican ad- . J , : . . , , ... .'announces that at the conclus on of ministratin and by a Republican; Ml wn , , . . ; i , ... ,1 . i tl,e war there will arise great prob-commander-in-Chief. This war is , . . . ,b ,
luuia ul recuHHLrucilon. it does not
sources, and yet the chance of fail
ure will be great if, behind all the
party platforms and mobilized
strength of the Republic, you do not
put the confidence of the American
people in the Director-General. History Repeating Itself. Some timid soul maysay, "You are not speaking with discretion; you are giving proof of the charge in Republican speeches and papers that you look upon the war as an asset of the Democratic party." I speak for no one but myself when I say, it will not be needful for any Republican to adduce proof that this war is an asset of tho Democratic party. I count it
as an asset because of our system of
government and in the light of our history. I do not claim that the indi
vidual Democrat is
ter. to the Republican editors of his
state, at their meeting on January 25, the junior senator from Indiana used
the following language: "The Republican party demands, and will not be denied, the right to a full share in the vigorous prosecution of the war and the establishment of Ameri
can ideals, whether a. partisan administration wills it or not." He uttered substantially the same sentiment at the recent Republican -state contention. This expresses the idea of a good many office holders and office seekers in America. They conceive that the Republican party is some sort of a sentient being,' capable of bearing
arms and getting into the thick of the
fighfr. The quotation contains a cov
ert suggestion that this ferocious war
machine has been rejected by some recruiting officer. It would be far
more intelligible if the charge were directly made ' that it had been rejected and the reason for its rejection given to the Republic. No one now knows whether the Republican party has been rejected or not, and, if so, whether it has been rejected for flat feet, hernia or defective vision.
; wa7 not rum; unde7 Z tn e had, Publicly proclaimed , ÜOns rplth tmi,g mow fay young man that would en-1 ar- Particular familiar
cause insubordination, disloyalty, etc.,
by making false statements and ap- even tell what; It iV"
peals on the public streets, was ac-j How, to "tell what a thin is"-
law. He
THOr " A TT 1-
list or volunteer his services for the j tfaat the questioner is think-
l;nited States should be taken out and horse-whipped," and that all loyal Americans should withdraw their support from the war which was being fought by the United States, he said, not in behalf of freedom or liberty but in the interest of the capitalistic class. Congress gave the country ad
ditional legislation to cover cases of
A.-.
that to the speedy winning of it these understand that honerty" iiS
lGrveathouse vs. Hays.
VSäsSSSSXn do.
Com-
beiug fought by Democrats and Re
publicans alike but it is being fought
by a Democratic Commander-in-Chief and under a Democratic administration. That which was a Republican
asset in the years of '62, G4 and '9S is a Democratic asset in 19 3.
Some Republican politicians are do
ing now what some Democratic poli
ticians did during the War of the Rebellion, boasting of their patriotism
but indulging in never-ending criticism of the administration in its
prosecution of the war. Similar criticism "struck Lincoln; it was hurled at McKinley; it is now gathering in storm clouds around Wilson. Same Unselfish Loyalty. Wherever two or three Republican politicians are gathereed together, lo there are loud protestations of patriotism and devotion to the Com-mender-in-Chief, but criticism of
many things that he and his subordi
say what the problems will be but i is cocksure that, whatever they may be, no brain not stamped G. O. P. can hope to cope with them. When I was continuously in Indiana the Republican party lived in the past; it now seems to live in the future; could it by any possibility be convinced that the present is the time in which to live? It is always a dangerous thing to criticise from either language or conduct because neither may express the true motive of the man. Still there have been no other standards gh en to humankind when political parties go before the people. There are times when men and newspapers can be independent. Those times are in the hours of peace. But in the hour of war no man or paper can afford to bo independent. He who is not for the President is against him. Sus-
must be judged by the relative time
given by them to war and to politics There were two state chairmen in In
diana, one Democratic, the other Re
puDiican; one gave up his political
jod to devote his full time to war
work; the other gave up his Avar work
in order to engage exclusively in poll
tics and the Governor of Indiana
wrote him:
"I have a feeling, too, that you have found it necessary to resign as chairman of the State Council of Defense in order to perform even more important duties."
And still I suppose that it will bo
said by many that I am making only
miserable, partisan, Democratic
speech, when I suggest that this lan
guage and this conduct indicate that
the interests of the Republican party
in Indiana and in the nation are far
more important than the doing of
everything that can be done for tho winning of the war.
Then this Young Lochinvar ambled out of the West upon the G. 0. P. the Grand Old Paltry and with force and arms seized the Lady Theodora and carried her off to that medieval castle called Republican headquarters, where he set her above tho salt and introduced her as a Republican vestal virgin. But our Young Lochin
var discovered that there were large numbers of his retainers who did not believe that she was the coy maiden she said she was and who strangely insisted that they had seen her walking the political streets in 1912 and
1916. while he was busy,
ing of in this case is ordinary mat
ter. Heat has "been explained to him a3 a vibration of material particles, light, he has been told, ii a inn ? motion in the ether, and h nnderstnris the ether to be a kind of matter or a substance resembling matter in some particulars.
this kind and on the final roll-call, the w ue ueuieu xnac no
two Senators from Indiana voted -fniipit; general relationship against the legislation, while in the caÄ De stated between electricity
House, the Republican representa- 011(1 matter. ut, this bems: so. it
tives from Indiana voted for it. and ould be just as correct to say that
yet earlier in the same Congress, we do not know what matter is ftl when the espionage bill was being that we do not know what electriri-
subjected to roll-call, four of Indiana's fy fa. As a matter of fact, we do nine Republican representatives not know what 'matter is, and the voted 'yea and four voted "nay," latest lausible tW .fc while one did.uot vote at all. m. y , , . y . .
it up on an electric basis, o that on Who Speaks for it. this theciyilie idea of eiectr -ity vs
' wiuUi.v,uu vj. j juiuxe iiuuiLiinjii ui 1 man Lnat oi (liana and who speaks for it. Tho matter. Up f ortuiir.telv OIT seilSiH truth is that it is much like the Demo- have been evolved by conlt Trith cratic party m that its representa- -.tf nj . , , . tives never get together except upon Dd j election day. The senators from In- 0ny matteF Electricitv they know diana, faithful as they have been from Secondarily through its action their viewpoint in the discharge of J3?031 mater the light or heat thai; their duty, can not have sat in their Causes matter to give out, the atplaces without realizing that there traction that it causes certain subare men upon their side of the cham- stances to exert, and so on. To tho ber who no more believe as they do man in the skeet, therefore, matter than the most rampant Socialist in is familiar, and be demands a statsthe land and yet these very men are ment of the latter in termi of the pretending to constitute the Repub- formAr n'iinfT1Vnl
lican nartv "o imuu5 ,mm u.a.j tW ,o poMinn fw t After citntißfc has stated
ana reject with scorn the votes of tho f1 thf rcW mes back cs German sympathizer in the state? 1 "Understand all that, and it is i so, why didn't it have the couratre to most clear, I am sure, but tell ms.
say that this is an English-speaking tbejn. what is electricity anyway?" people; that nothing so tends to unite Another source of confusion to a people as the use of a common lan- tbe lay mind is that scientific men guage and that, in the interests of do not always nse the word "decbuilding up a cohesive American citl- tricity" to mean the same thing, zenship, it proposed to see to it that The ft , tho German language was no longer OVT,,Bfl T. . T J b r' taught in the schools of Indiana. ff th? thing that the thecrretical electrician calls "electric energy." No, I hope I am mistaken, but I be- ne energy of electricity Heve that the party is with this ques- that is, its ability to do work tion as it was with prohibition for the electrician multiplies the quaiv prohibition and for the English lan- tdty of electricity by the nottntial
guage but keeping silent in the hope or tension under which it exists, of tho liberal vote and that of the Ger- But to the engineer this product man sympathizer. jfif mnnemo w vÄ
-" Ui v,i U1V 111 i liXlmkW JLiU calls "electricity." 4 The work that a pound of water may do by falling a foot is one foot.
pound. 'Ihe water is the same after Tailing as before, though its enerr
But One Language. A man is not a German because he
has a German name or because he has German blood in him. He is a
German whatever his name or blood.
if he wishes the house of Hohenzoi- U less, So to the electrician
lern to ,triumph. I, of course, want fcnantity of clectrit.itv at 100 voi my party to win but, at the risk of III nrecisolv thr mmo". nr
being read out of it, I beg you to voto (though the former :V Nb!e to do a against any Remocrat who i nnt ir ,
whole-heartedly behind the President rm,- Aitr . '
of the United States and the wav in L,
proposes to win this war: who is no r,ß0USaDÜ3?1 j.-te among stu
in favor of takine tho normn inn. Gem J-iecincilv u a lonn il
C -J W A.A m. m.
guage out of the schools of Indiana ener sa?s ont'' "J :fit Jike lig1.
and welding into a united people, bv or neat- n' the replv
the use of a common language, all ' is not ener.-ry at all, though it
uiose wno uweii within our borders, may possess or corivv energy. 0u
les, we are to have politics tb disputant is talking abojt the elyear in Indiann. hut nrm
, - ""''iT txjv; juiranaj aiJU U1C VLllzr
m m cum nrr cause
luumufa must ho nntrfaHn no itrnll n:,.. . r . . . .
from one end of his domain to thein ch " V:""7 k" 1. apout tüat ot the engineer; hence
other, trying to convince the faithful p0itics v,hich vi,öiehel , "l . their dispute is merely a matter of that their suspicions were not trne.lbehlnd that coIossa, . r 5 .definition, though they do not know the Lady Theodora, ueing left at st , th f eso , it What wonder that some people li - r-i r iritinliirli.l ,1 I., 1 ' ' j m. lut i n ... - . . -
wnolt
Jun-
wuuuucu tu luv u. uawu au tu clence lms set th mminfn, .nlr i re snii content to rerard tne
war uy writing letters in derogation jof dutV( desire and endeavor rnby zt q a ch -lia 1 Mumbo
axiu uiiLnjiöui or ils manairemenr. io a. .t . ... - n ox -r -i ..
Ö,ITP7,.,Q . . . . (wuum we can win, without whom the ro l-o j . leJUiOUl newspaper, which newspaper had asworld.a hftnfi mnRf Mrl6ll .flB. I nai .Yeliui tUo)
mir
: ; .1 ; i. - i. 1 "w i,v-"u" nuuuiuiY
?7 V n Wil!"' Captain. General of the at the declaration of host.Uties Armies of Preedonl( Admiral against the imperial German govern- Seven Seas wju ment, an alien enemy of the United our promise to hig p States, and which newspaper had puu- to his h ul 1L
usueu me nose rastor bioives letter
and other seditious documents. Political Jockeys in Indiana.
Proved Har a Flirt. Senator Penrose at the dedic-
pect the man who is always talking
"1 1a V M f Vifri .AO .lvl r-, A A . It. . . ' , .
nates have done or failed to do. Er. , "ia VÜUluuaiu tluu tlL tafc5 tauie erto nave Deen known as .political Rttemoon as she pause
rors and omissions are aired, ana- "m,c "u"s ware -uecause ne jocKeys in Indiana to realize .that the 0n a street corner:
lvzed and maraiOed. These critics, . . " J"ot -u(popi aavn put out to grass tne
Some men at least are going to ob- Üon of Pensylvania's splendid capject if she is the Republican party' fool at Harrisburg said of a certain and if she is going to fight the war 8peech that had been made at a priin this way-through the columns of vate ' before dedicatory the Kansas City Star and, notwith- ceremonies. J standing her great desire to take ((mi , , , x n nf , Tnat spftßch was nreEnant witb
to insist that she shall not be per- meaning. It revealed m every sen- j mitted to do so earlier than March nce lts authors character. Brief 4, 1921, and not then, if Qod and the full and illuminating, it re-; right shall prevail. minded me of the beautiful young It is time for those of us who hith- ladv who murmured to herself one
4 been known as .political afternoon as she paused uncertainly f
" What
are loyal and whole-heart- r. , . weaK ine rrQsmenM Grand oia Palfrr and the historic t ranu
in support of the war, but ""'r' uieu' aow ieeDie fle 13 Democratic stalking horse and that meet orr3
n this "but" lies daneör to tiki, i uiwy auuwiry m tnn race for ths .world's freedom m.,1 r
successful pjos9uMon
stakes, noithy ono mJL them tan bQ so
a core i for tne me oi
remember whether Fm
in Tasker strt 07
Brown (after a latt night at th oi Be) Twnty-sev - forty - tera Q