ACID TEST OF PATRIOTISM
Frear, James A.
Acid Test of Patriotism Congressman James A. Frear*Asks if There is One Rule for Northern Republicans, Bat Another for Southern Democrats By JAMES A. FREAR (Speech in House of Representatives,...
...The few exceptions are shown in my own State—2 out of 2,500,000...
...States Senator from Wisconsin to succeed Senator Paul O. Husting...
...Explosives Act...
...and that Mussel Shoals proposi'.'o.i is no worse than many others...
...The foregoing takes no account of enlistments, .Regular Army, except during those months named, National Guard since August 5 last, ior of any voluntary enlistment, engineers, forestry, or other special organizations, nor in United States Navy, since no official data as to these are available in this office, but indications are that total of these, including Navy, exceeds 7,500...
...Our boys are in France today, many of them with the State guard of which I was a member for many years and among them the company I organized over 25 years ago...
...paper prior to the Wisconsin election...
...BRITTEN—And I would like to say to the gentleman from Wisconsin that my father was among those troops from Wisconsin...
...Here are the number of suits: Conspiracy in connection with the draft in Wisconsin, how many...
...Reed) in his remarks on the floor of the Senate, which were quoted at the beginning of my remarks...
...Davies' election means joy at Washington and gloom at Berlin...
...Remember this state has over 2,500,000 people within its borders...
...They, and they alone, have given to Berlin and the world a false issue...
...Attorney General's Office, March 9, 191...
...Applause ou Republican side...
...403 VICTOR L. BERGER, SOC...
...I do say that the "acid test" of loyalty mentioned in President W'ilson's letter and Vice President Marshall's speech on the McLemore and other prewar measures would empty the seats of one-third of the membership of this House, Democrats and Republicans alike, notwithstanding these same members have stood for and voted for every war measure presented to Congress...
...Kitchin, of North Carolina, whose able direction of war The Appeal TO THE WISCONSIN SOLDIERS AT CAMP GRANT: Tuesday, April 2 You are entitled to vote for United States Senator from Wisconsin to succeed Senator Paul 0. Husting...
...Applause...
...Senator Stephen A. Douglas, Gen...
...Representative Fitzgerald, the Democratic wheel horse from New York, and Foster, Keating, Slayden, Shaekleford, General Sherwood, hero of over 40 battles during the Civil war (applause,) and many other strong Democratic Members voted against measures that the President now declares in his letter are "acid tests" of loyalty when applied to a Republican candidate for the Senate in Wisconsin...
...Practically 42 per cent of the boys who are at the front today, according to statements I will submit, are soldiers of German extraction...
...That partisan issue of comparative loyalty IF acid tests apply in Wisconsin and New Hampshire, then surely they applied to Gray, of Indiana, who voted against the "acid-test" measures and yet received the President's written approval...
...James A. Frear, M. C, House of Representatives: To date Wisconsin has put into military service under draft act 14,690 men, the excess of 1,814 over draft quota requirement being result of voluntary induction...
...ington, D. C, of criminal cases brought the Government in both eastern and w. ern districts of Wisconsin, for a State \ between 2,500.000 and 3,000,000 pco . whose record for loyalty has been attache by the President and Vice President...
...85 ANTHONY BENJAMIN, PRO...
...Nine cases and seven of these are pendinc With that record the chairman of the Milwaukee Council of Defense demands that Milwaukee hi-placed under martial law...
...Attempts have failed to frighten men into tiw :ks of the Democratic party either in New mpshire, Indiana, Wisconsin or any other te by raising a partisan cry, more to be eon-med than the bloody shirt of old, and my dis-: :uished colleague, Mr...
...It gives statistics more than I have read to you showing that Wisconsin is the first State in the financial district to which it belongs and in which -ve are located in the amount of contributions to the liberty loans...
...That advertisement I have already read to the House...
...MADDEN—Mr...
...Will the President say /'One rule for northern Republicans, but another for southern Democrats...
...MADDEN—Will not the gentleman again read the advertisement of which he speaks...
...Chairman, one of the ablest Democrats at either end of the Capitol, recently said in public debate: It will be conceded without argument that I have been, perhaps, as bitter a partisan Democrat as has sat in this Chamber for many years, * * * but when it tomes to a question of loyalty to this ¦Government, I deny that there can be drawn a line between a loyal Democrat and a loyal Republican...
...Indiana fourth, with a percentage of 122, and Iowa fifth, with a percentage of 111.4...
...Applause on Republican side...
...In Wisconsin the persons who inserted that would go to jail under the law if he published such a statement without giving the name of the man behind it...
...They are fighting for this war just as anxiously and as earnestly as the boys of parents on the Democratic side of the aisle, and no man ever expressed our sentiments more eloquently or forcibly than did the Senator from Missouri (Mr...
...You have understood, I suppose, that there have been mobs and lawlessness there like we have found in other states recently, burningB, explosions, and all those troubles which has placed different portions of our country under suspicion...
...I have a brief statement received from one of my good Democratic friends the other day in New York...
...when Wisconsin's sons are giving their full measure of devotion in France...
...First in Loyal Service...
...The Rockford Advertisement THIS advertisement was published in a newspaper at Rockford, 111., without any signature...
...The New York Election...
...The percentage of Illinois was 34.8...
...Trading-with-the-enemy act, how many cases have been brought—remember this is the official statement from headquarters ? None...
...Reed), whose patriotism rises far above the plane of petty partisanship, and I do so for the purpose of making a brief observation on the same subject...
...I say as a Democrat that if either one of the leading candidates is returned, a loyal man will be sworn in at yonder desk...
...Notwithstanding other active support, Mr...
...Who will question the right of utterance of such sentiments prior to the declaration of war, or the patriotism of the President, or of hundreds of fathers and mothers who anxiously The Answer Vote of Wisconsin soldiers at Camp Grant: IRVINE L. LENROOT, REP.....576 JOSEPH E. DAVIES, DEM...
...This much may properly be said at this time, because of partisan attempts outside of Con* gress to misrepresent those who ire giving their boys on this side of the House and who have loyally contributed all that can be given to our government in her hour of national crisis...
...Closely following claims of grave war inefficiency made to the coun'.ry by the Democratic leader,, Mr...
...Silence in the past on the part of those without records will not meet "acid tests," though they bear a President's indorsement, for the same reason that Congressman Gray, of Indiana, who failed in the test and election, received the same high indorsement before defeat...
...only those who stuffed the ballot boxes for Mitchel, of whom over 30 officials were convicted...
...The advertisement is as follows: Tuesday, April 2, you are entitled to vote for United States Senator from Wisconsin to socceed Senator Paul O. Hasting...
...We will continue to uphold the President in the prosecution of the war, loyally and wholeheartedly...
...Wisconsin is a lawabiding, loyal State...
...N N'o riots, no strikes, no mobs, nor any . tempts to blow up or destroy either (iover ment or private property have been reported in Wisconsin...
...Let them bring- -rvPunrA the record of their own States, native or by adaption, for comparison...
...Philipp, of my own State, says in part: I am heartily tired of seeing our people abused every day by an element of the press and a class of men who seriously regard themselves as patriots but who, as a matte-of fact, do not now, nor will they in the future, render the State or the Nation anv service that is worth while I propose to make a tight against the men and the newspapers that engage in that son of falsehood, and at least show them up if I can't do any more...
...COOPER of Ohio—Mr...
...Two million dollars is submitted as the contribution to Mitchel's campaign, and, yet, were the people of New York disloyal...
...Ever since the beginning of the European war, nearly four years ago, demands for a united national spirit have been voiced by administration members and the press...
...Gives the True Situation AGREAT DEAL has been said about disloyalty in connection with the State of Wisconsin, and I sent to the Attorney General of the United States for a statement regarding Wisconsin and the record of offenses in a state possessing nearly 3,000,000 people...
...Those who printed that statement are more to be condemned U»an ignorant men who are misled and act on such palpable falsehoods...
...Who gives joy to Berlin...
...It could not be published in my own State without having attached to it the signature of the person authorizing it at that time...
...All these distinguished men and loyal Americans are included in the indictment lodged against the State of Wisconsin...
...The national-defense act, how many cases of violation of that act...
...The espionage act, how many cases under that act that covers practically every offense that can be suggested ? Seven...
...It is known that the entire Guard except a few casuals is with the Rainbow and Thirty-second division now somewhere in Europe...
...Republican Representatives have unitedly supported every war measure asked for by tho President and have avoided criticism of the party in power, which, on the other hand, has maintained close party supremacy in all matters...
...That telegram is as follows: Madison, Wis., March 31, 1918...
...COOPER of Ohio—I would like to say that in an article published in a newspaper just a few days ago the statement was made that for every 15 soldiers in France at this time there was one soldier from Wisconsin...
...Wisconsin had more troops on the Tuscania than any other State...
...Trading with the enemy act...
...Message in New Hampshire IN opposition to this spirit of loyalty and ta-* triotism the Democratic senatorial whip, Mr...
...Davies' election means joy at Washington and gloom at Berlin...
...and when every nnn, be he a Democrat or Republican, is first of all a loyal American...
...President Wilson, your Commander in Chief, desires all loyal Americana to vote for Joseph E. Davies for United States Senator...
...I state this on all the facts that have come to my hands...
...Kentucky, 35.8...
...while in Wisconsin our percentage was over 54.5...
...measures has been loyally supported by Members on both sides of the party aisle...
...He says: I am heartily tired of seeing our people abused every day by an element of the press and a class of men who seriously regard themselves as patriots, but who, as a matter of fact, do not know, nor will they in the future render the State or the Nation any service that is worth while...
...Explosives act...
...More significant of present-day partisanship, the test, if invoked in past history and applied to Abraham Lincoln, who actively opposed the Mexican war, would have disqualified our greatest American and martyred war President from reelection to this House or from any higher office, notwithstanding his unquestioned loyalty to his Government after war was declared...
...Chairman, will the gentleman yield...
...Minnesota., 34.1...
...Men's Christian Association, Young Women's Christian Association, Knights of Columbus, and other war activities...
...Evidenced by voluntew enlistments the official record shows 54 per cent, or proportionately more soldiers have volunteered from Wisconsin in this war than from any other of the 12 largest States drawn upon for our Army...
...FREAR—Yes...
...FREAR—And let me say, in further tribute to the patriotism of Minnesota and Wisconsin, that, but for the troops from those States, when Meade rode up to Hancock on the slopes of Gettysburg and on that fateful day asked him for God's sake to hold those lines for five minutes, the Union would have been lost...
...This advertisement was published in an Illinois paper at Camp Grant, at Rockford, 111...
...I HAVE here a further statement to offer, which is a resolution passed by the Republican convention at the last legislative session of Wisconsin...
...It is an advertisement two columns in width from a Rockford paper, and is addressed to Wisconsin soldier boys in the camp Bt Rockford, 111., and it is as follows: To the Wisconsin Soldiers at Camp Grant: Tuesday, April 2, You are entitled to vote for Unite...
...Chairman, will the gentleman yield...
...The partifXa methods are to be deplored, but the result is a triumph for the American spirit of fair play and high ideals, which refuse to measure loyalty by lip service or party labels...
...There we have several thousand Wisconsin soldiers, and I wish to refer particularly to the soldiers of Wiscon-»in before I have finished...
...His statement was repudiated by an intelligent electorate, and a Republican Member from New Hampshire was added to those on this side of the aisle, all of whom are supporting every war measure in the present world conflict...
...What proportion of the people of this country would have passed any "acid test" before the declaration of war no man can tell, and candidates who make claims of super-loyalty now must offer their own records of service for war and greater sacrifice in its prosecution...
...Wisconsin is proud of the foregoing record, and submits the same to the fair and impartial judgment of all loyal citizens of the Nation and pledges itself to even greater accomplishments in the future...
...Every one can take his fling at the people of a great State...
...In this loan Wisconsin stood at the head of all the States in this district...
...Even the veteran leader and eminently patriotic ex-Speaker Cannon (applause), the grand old man -who sits before me, with his four score years and lifelong record of great public service and unrivaled loyalty, would fail the President's test,^~Congressman Woods, chairman of the congressional committee, who enjoys the respect and high esteem of every House Mem-: ber, and Representatives Esch, Haugen, Cooper, Hayes, Davis, and scores of Republicans, would be disqualified by the President for public service...
...I wrote him and asked about the New York election that was held up there where over 150,000 plurality was given Mr...
...They are all loyal, and you can not make me believe otherwise...
...BRITTEN—Mr...
...With Wisconsin men in other units, it may safely be stated that there are approximately 20,000 Wisconsin soldiers on or near tha battle lines...
...No civil cases were brought by the Federal Government in the State...
...Does not the test apply to Democrats in Missouri, Mississippi, Texas, and North Carolina...
...Applause...
...on a day when important war measures were pending in both branches of Congress...
...Wisconsin's critics have arisen from such States, but in past wars and in this war not one of these ha3 been more consistently loyal or unflinching in tests of sacrifice, national love, and defense of country than ray own State...
...Not a Lip Service •"I"1 HE boys of Wisconsin are intelligent and * not easily misled, but the men who sought tc deceive them by that wicked article have an account to settle with the American public...
...Focht) and other gentlemen are greatly appreciated, for I was about to refer to the fact that Wisconsin furnished the greater part of the Iron Brigade during the war to save the Union, and a hundred thousand brave soldiers was the new State's contribution to that war...
...Gray was defeated and a Republican elected who has supported every war measure...
...No state in the country in proportion to its population can offer such a splendid record...
...Democratic governors, Congressmen, Senators, and heads of bureaus by the score from Washington were called upon to join in this1 recent drive to make Wisconsin safe for partisan Democracy...
...Every measure for the war has been supported by practically every Republican and Democrat in the House...
...Michigan third, with a percentage of 142.5...
...Civil cases...
...Wisconsin's troops when they left Camp Douglas were fully equipped, not by the Federal Government, but by the State...
...LAW AND ORDER IN WISCONSIN...
...New York, New Jersey, Indiana, Virginia, and Mississippi have given loyal support at different times in past history...
...THE following resolution, adopted by the Re-publicans of the Wisconsin Legislature at the last legislative session, gives a full and complcW-anawer to charges of disloyalty registered by the President and Vice President against the citizenship of Wisconsin...
...The same Democratic senatoriaf whip has recently presented his usual arguments to the people of Wisconsin in the senatorial campaign with like results, the election of a Republican...
...Fighting Against Falsehoods...
...Since our own entrance into the war, legislative criticism of administration mistakes, inefficiency, or extravagance have been tabooed by Republicans and partisanship relegated to the rear...
...Wisconsin was the first state in the Union to file a complete return of its registration under the selective law with the Federal Government at Washington...
...That is the record...
...Their boys are going to the front today just as willingly and gladly as the boys of fathers who plume themselves on superpatriotism, and their fathers are back here in the factories, mills, offices, and workshops doing what little they can to help win the war...
...That "acid test" of votes before the declaration of war would bar Congressman Mann, the distinguished leader of the House minority whose loyalty and patriotism are unimpeachable...
...Democratic Leaders and the Acid Test MORE remarkable, the President's "acid test" on votes cast prior to the" war would remove from Congress the- distinguished Democratic leader of the House, Mr...
...Wisconsin, indeed, is in good company...
...Conspiracy in connection with draft...
...ALETTER received from Gov...
...Applause on Republican side...
...Davies's election means joy at Washington and gloom at Berlin...
...Will the President say, "One rule for northern Republicans, but another for southern Democrats...
...our subscription to the sf.eond liberty loan was $87,056,900...
...Selling liquor to soldiers, 37...
...Chamberlain, chairman of the Senate Military Committee, who startled the country with disclosures of lack of arms, clothing, and proper sanitary conditions for our soldiers...
...Who gives joy to the Kaiser...
...Record of Wisconsin XI/ ISCONSIN has been criticised fa* Mta high * » in authority...
...Although we differ hare on political questions it is not a Democratic country or a Democratic war that commands pur allegiance, but a common country t.nd that country's cause which we unitedly support and Will continue to support...
...Does not the test apply to Democrats in Missouri, Mississippi, Texas, and North Carolina...
...The soldiers will not be deceived, although a few may be improperly influenced...
...Wisconsin stands at the head of the list of her neighboring States in the percentage of .volunteer enlistments, which numbered over ^ 17,000, 45 per cent of which were of Teutonic blood...
...Davies' defeat means gloom at Washington and joy at Berlin...
...how many suits were brought by the government under that act in the State of Wisconsin that State of over 2,500.000 people...
...Applause...
...was attempted last election in Indiana, the home of Vice President Marshall, and a former Democratic Member of this body, Mr...
...It violates the Wisconsin law, because it is unsponsored...
...When Congress declared war Representatives in Congress on both sides of the aisle gave loyal support to every measure that would help win the war, and their example has been emulated by every State and every community throughout the country...
...I propose to make a fight against the men and the newspapers that engage in that sort of falsehood and at least show them up, if I can not do any more...
...ORLANDO HOLWAY, Adjutant General...
...Presi-flent wilson, your Commander in Chief, de sires all loyal Americans to rote for Joseph E. Davies for United States Senator...
...My attention has been called particularly to an advertisement which I shall read and may again refer to later...
...Davies's defeat means gloom at Washington and joy at Berlin...
...The man who beat him, Hylan, had for his father a Union soldier, as was mine...
...Chairman, I have quoted the words of a distinguished Senator (Mr...
...on a day when the world waited in breathless suspense for tidings from that battle—on that day the Vice President of the United States and the Bemocratic Senatorial whip were reported by the press to be far away from their post of duty, demanding of the people of Wisconsin support for the democratic candidate for the Senate under penalty of being denounced as against their country and for the Kaiser, and as a disloyal people, while the Democratic candidate for Senator, armed with a letter from the President (with its "acid test" of the same import, was repeating bitter partisan claims of supcrloyalty...
...The battle has been fought before an intelligent, discriminating electorate...
...Our country's cause is greater tban any party...
...Wisconsin's citizens have contributed ove.* $125,000,000 to liberty loans, Red Cross, Young...
...X National defense act...
...In Wisconsin less than 2 per cent of the men called under the selective-service law failed to respond to the call, while in the United States as a whole 8.2 per cent of those called failed to respond...
...That must be the trim test of loyalty...
...Wisconsin placed its entire election machinery at the disposal of the United States in the first registration for selective service...
...Applause on Republican side...
...Position of Lincoln MORE significant of present-day partisanship, the test, if invoked in past history and applied to Abraham Lincoln, who actively opposed the Mexican War, would have disqualified our greatest American and martyred war President from reelection to this House or from any higher office, notwithstanding his unqualified loyalty to his government after war was once declared...
...Chairman, one moment I think the gentleman omitted to read the heading of the advertisement...
...FREAR—I have already read it, but I snail read it again...
...Lenroot, one of the :est Members of this House, whose record for . alty is unimpeachable, has been vindicated the people of the great State of Wisconsin, iy a vote of over 150,000 he has been selected those who know him best for the highest ior in the gift of the State,—to represent a ple whose intelligence, discriminating judg-;it, and patriotism will meet every test of ;ilty and service in the future as in the past, represent Wisconsin, the State that is and ways has been loyal to this Government, i Applause on the Republican side...
...The last paragraph is commended to the attention of those who engage in factional loyalty: The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, hereby again renew their allegiance to the Republic, and pledge their loyalty and undivided support to the National Government in its prosecution of the present war to a successful end, and in this moment of struggle, which threatens the very existence of the Nation, will never shirk in their duty as loyal citizens of their beloved country...
...In the seventh Federal reserve district the subscription of this state was 155 per cent of its minimum allotment...
...Wisconsin has never wavered...
...Davies' defeat means gloom at Washington and joy at Berlin...
...The State of Wisconsin stands second to none in meeting the demands made upon it by the Federal Government for our national defense...
...FREAR—It is headed, "To the Wisconsin Soldiers at Camp Grant...
...Indiana, 41.6...
...Iowa, 50...
...During a Great War Crisis ASENATORIAL election occurred in Wis consin this week, and the political dogs of war let loose...
...Total known credit, 35,493...
...Falsehoods and misrepresentation cannot be reached by us under the espionage act...
...Only those who made the false issue...
...The people of New York were loyal, although they defeated Mitchel over 2 to 1. They are as loyal as the people of New Jersey, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Louisiana, or any other State...
...I served with the Wisconsin National Guard for It years in addition to 5 years' service in the Regular Army, and know the boys in service...
...Hylan over Mitchel, who insisted on running as a loyalist or royalist candidate, better than his fellow citizens, as though we are not all .loyal...
...The people of the State of Wisconsin have and always will stand squarely behind the National Government in all things which are essential to bring the present war to a successful end, and we condemn as unpatriotic all activities which seek to breed the spirit of disloyalty among the people of our State...
...Acid Test of Patriotism Congressman James A. Frear*Asks if There is One Rule for Northern Republicans, Bat Another for Southern Democrats By JAMES A. FREAR (Speech in House of Representatives, April 5, 19/8) IDESIRE to speak on the subject of Wisconsin's position at this time before the country at large and to discuss matters of national moment that concern the whole country...
...At this poir-t I will insert the exhibits relating to Wisconsin and then speak briefly on the river and harbor bill...
...Wisconsin has over 40,000 men under arms now in this war, and measured by the number of her soldiers in France, approximating 20,000, Wisconsin is second to none at the battle front...
...17 prayed against war and for guidance from on High for the President in his hours of trial and responsibility...
...FREAR—Yes...
...I know as I look across the aisle-He continued— that I am looking into the faces of men whose sons are, some of them, upon the battle line, some of them in training camps, and some of them upon the blue waves of the ocean...
...Let us go on with our business here...
...A vote against Mitchel was to be a message to the Kaiser that New York was disloyal...
...not one has been tried...
...Applause...
...As I look into the hearts of all here I know that each man would give his last drop of blood that surges through his veins if he could bring victory to our armies and a glorious fruition to our hopes...
...That is about all we can do when the press heralds these things like they have been donig...
...There have been no riots, no strike?, no mobs, or attempts to blow up or destroy either Government or private property...
...Applause...
...Illinois stood second, with a percentage of 152.8...
...If acid tests apply in Wisconsin and New Hampshire, then surely they applied to Gray, of Indiana, who voted against the "acid test" measures and yet received the President's written approval...
...Gray, Bought relection through a letter approving his candidacy written by President Wilson...
...If we criticize measures when they are brought up, as we do, we vote finally, like we did yesterday, for a measure which contained an infamous private water-paw-er measure behind it of $125,000,000, simply because we will not stop the wheels of government in this war...
...The Attorney General's office, Washington, D. C, gives the following lists of offenses which are being prosecuted in Wisconsin in both the east-*rn and western districts...
...but the troops from Minnesota and Wisconsin did rush up and they held the lines and gallantly helped roll back the tide of treason to defeat and brilliantly aided in rescuing the Union from destruction...
...that was the miserable twaddle indulged in by reputable papers...
...Our subscription to the first liberty loan was $36,236,750...
...N Espionage act (all pending...
...Mitchel, who ran on that platform...
...Credit for voluntary enlistment Wisconsin National Guard previous to August 5 not i'ully settled, but War Department offers total of 19,217 men...
...lr...
...Let the election go on in Wisconsin...
...The remarks of the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr...
...FREAR—My father was there, too, with three and one-half years' service, and I had two uncles wounded in the Battle of Gettysburg, which the gentleman from Pennsylvania so eloquently described, and I have a boy now in France...
...Is there any difference in the loyalty of the official, however high, and that offered by the humblest mother in the land who hoped and prayed against war, but gave her all when her country called ? Even the President said to us in his message prior to the war, "I am inclined to think that Germany had a right to sink belligerent ships without warning," and five weeks before entering the war he said he was "not contemplating war or any steps that might lead to it...
...As I look upon this side I see men whose sons are engaged in the same loyal service...
...Has a Fine Record HOWEVER high the station, critics will find no State with better record for progress, legislative accomplishment or steadfast patviotic support of our Government in peace or war...
...Michigan, 81.1...
...There has been no aisle between us in this expression of loyalty to our common Government, and we have not distinguished between upholding a Democratic or Republican President...
...For extreme partisanship, nothing in American politics has ever equalled this infamous statement that Davies' defeat means gloom at Washington and joy at Berlin...
...Those who sink all interests, State and National, through miserable appeals to prejudice in hopes of thereby securing partisan success...
...Record in Attorney General's Office, W;i...
...TOTAL FEDERAL CASES BROUGHT IN WISCONSIN...
...The following startling two-column adver'ise-ment, presumably with authority from the Democratic National Committee, appeared in a Rockford (111...
...In financial aid and quick support of her eountry's cause in this war and past wars Wisconsin's record for patriotism invites comparison with any State, North or South, none excepted...
...Chairman, I do not care to discuss the unprecedented action of distinguished officials in seeking to advance interests of the Democratic candidate by charges of wholesale disloyalty against my State at a time when every ounce of energy should be joined in united effort here...
...all are pending...
...That slander has been publicly rebuked by the electorate of Wisconsin...
...History records the constant loyalty of her people and their glorious achievements...
...Philipp, of my own State, wrote me a personal letter recently, from which I read a brief extract...
...None...
...There are many things which 1 will put into the RECORD to shew that no state stands above Wisconsin...
...Those who make that false issue in New Hampshire and Wisconsin...
...And every newspaper practically in New York City with one exception—I have a list here—was arraigned in favor of Mr...
...Lewis, declared in the New Hampshire special election last fall that a vote for the Republican candidate for Congress was a vote for the Kaiser...
...President Wilson, your Commander in Chief, desires all loyal Americans to vot"5 for Joseph E. Davies for United States Senator...
...Mr...
...Chairman, I have here a telegram from Hie adjutant general of the State of Wisconsin, o whom I applied for information respecting Uie Wisconsin troops today under arms...
...not one in the entire State of Wisconsin...
...War Department has also given credit for Regular Army enlistments, period of April 1 to June 30, inclusive, 1917, 1.586 men...
...on the day of the greatest battle in all history, with our own American troops engaged, in France...
...McCIel-lan, both candidates for the presidency, and many Democrats whose names are high in history and who loyally supported their Government after war was declared in 1861, would not have met the peculiar "acid test" of present-day partisanship...
...Selling liquor to soldiers...
...Wisconsin took the initiative in providing for the dependents of its soldiers, and has made the most liberal provision for them of any State in the Union...
...When the Tuscania was sunk not long since there were 89 men from my district alone on that boat...
...on the same day of a senatorial investigation, disclosing $800,000,000 in appropriations by Congress for aeroplanes had not yet resulted in a single war plane being shipped to Europe or a single cannon sent to our troops abroad...
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