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MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1U18
ISSUE IS CLEAR CUT
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The Record has had little to say
on nulitica thus far and what it has
said has been in an effort to mak
the candidates for the more impor
tant olh'ccs define their positions
is aware of the tendency to carry
water on both shoulders; it is aware
that patriotism is not confined
any one party, and it is also aware
that no set of individuals has a mon
opoly of patriot' sm.
The duestion is not whether Mr
Wilson could have prevented th
war. as some pohtio.ans are even
now contending he should have done
or of whether he should have throw
the United States into it two year
earlier, as others claim he shoul
have done the ciuestion is: Are
the men who aspire to be congress
men and United States senator
favor of prosecuting the war to
successful conclusion and making
impossible for the Hun again
throw the world into a battle field?
That is the issue. If a candidate
tells one crowd that his election
will bring an early peace and inform
another that he will see to it that th
Hun Is beaten to a standstill, he
guilty of hypocrisy, and deserves no
consideration whatever. He shoul
le spurned.
Record readers are in better posi
tion than this paper to determine
whether the speeches they hear thi
fall are sincere or not. The" Rec
ord may not hear them; indeed, i
cannot hear all.
Intel icent. patriotic men will so
to it that the candidates do not hedg
w 11 see to it that they spea
plainly. Abusing the president doe
no good, abusing Taft or Roosevelt
bit? war men. does no good. Win
ning the war is the thing.
The war will be won, but gooc
North Carolinians should see to :
that their state is not placed in
humiliating pos tion by candidate
for office. They should see to i
that when the boys come home, they
will not be ashamed of their position
JMakc every candidate come clean
on the war issue.
The Record is not reproducing the
editorial from the State Journal be
cause that paper declared the Ree
ord had annihilated Jonas in the lit
tie controversy some time ago. The
Record's motives were good then, as
now, and its or'ginal Intention was to
let the public find out what sort of
fellow Jonas was. The public has
learned a good deal most of
from his insolent and threatening
letters but it will learn more. In
the meantime Mr. Webb is support
ing the country at Washington, and
is giving a practical demonstration
of his pos'tion.
In his war review a week
Frank II. Simonds ventured the op
ion that -the allies ni ght have the
Germans out ot trance betore snowjjj
falls and in his review yesterday j
tie inougnt me nuns woum not oe
pushed much farther than the old
Ilindenburg line this year. The
military writer was confident the
allies would win and he told how they
in a series of ' drives at different
parts of the line would send the en
emy retreating to pos'tions in the
rear. The Germans always coukl
make a stand on prepared lines, Mr.
Simonds thought, but each time they
would lose prisoners and supplies
and what is more important, morale.
Extraordinary Attraction
AT PASTIME
so iar the Kecoru has not seen
any report of the amount of War
Savings Stamps sold at that patrio
otic meeting at the three-county
corners. It has .heard from many
sources that Mr P. A. Setzer of
Hickory presented the matter vigor
ously and did his full duty, as Mr.
Setzer is in the habit of doing. It
wa3 up to the others to help out.
What they did in a patriotic way will
be published :n figures that will
speak good or ill of their sincerity
We hope the sales will amount to
$15,000 at least.
The Record does not know a father
who is not proud of his son or sons
in the service. These fathers and
mothers have every reason to be
proud. They are offering the best
that America has, and their worth will
be recognized more and more as the
years pass. The country has hon
ored its heroes, but never before
has it been able to appreciate them
as it will be able after this war.
"MAKING IT SAFE FOR
RIG J) DEMOCRACY"
State Journal, Raleigh.
Senator Charles A. Jonas, in his
opening speech in the congressional
campa'gn of last week, Is given but
a fragmentary write-up which, of
course, commits a candidate to all
the misunderstandings that such im
perfect recording invites.
Ne ertheless it is manifest that
whatever Mr. Jonas meant by some
of the very foolish things he said,
that democrm-v on the other side is
no concern of ourselves, tfluyt we
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snouui nut ue .11 ine vui uui iui mt.
hypocritical campaign two years ago
and that we .got into it because the
kaiser thought we were too cowardly
to light, he imagined he had found
a crowd ir reconciled enough to
war to make safe that sort of appeal.
Ami for making it Mr. Jonas should
be very much ashamed of himself.
We gather from Democratic com
ments that party leaders are very
happy over the evident fiasco of the
Morehead-Jonas grand fall opening.
It was Morehead through and through
to fancy that he can interest the
world, fighting the Hun for freedom,
in the proposition to pay America
more for her goods than anybody
else is pa d. That is the way Mr.
Morohead's mind works. It runs
wholly to business advantage, honor
able enoufih. we doubt not, but he
makes a poor start for United States
senator "when he would make Ins
miserable fetich protection, his para
mount issue.
As to Mr. Jonas, the gentleman
does not seem to know where to be
u'in. He can recount the falldown
of Congressman Yates, his opponent,
in the "support of the administration
when It came necessary for it to
make war. Mr. Webb supported JefF
McLemore's resolution and was head
ed to the long obl'vion which already
l-.as come to McLemore. Mr. Webb
was also on the road to questionable
fame when he paired with a better
American, a Republican, and thereby
relieved himself of actual responsi
bility in voting for a declaration ox
war.
Just where Mr. Jonas gets on, is
net viable to the naked eye. It
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ilUS PRISONERS DEPRESSED;
KNOW GERMANY CANNOT WIN
Rritish Army Headquarters, Aug.
-!.". (Reuter's.) The demeanor of
hundreds of German officers taken
prisoner recently is in striking con
trast with the attitude of officers
captured during the British retreat
last spring. Then German officer
prisoners were arrognant and meant
i to crush tne British to earth, but
now they are depressed and very
anxious. They appear to be wil
ling to talk and the tenor of their
conversation may be summed up asJ,
follows: They say Germany enter
ed tlij war with enthusiasm, but this
has long since disappeared and the
struggle has now become an econ-
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omic one wi th Great Britain.
They admit that Germany is In
practically a hopeless condition, both
economically and from the manpower
point of view and ask whether Great
Britain cannot consider Germany
sufficiently reduced to be no longer
a dangerous trade rival or whether
the allies intend to crush her alto
gether. In the latter case, they say,
Germany will be forced to fight to
the last, but thev make no effort
to conceal their impression of what : 3
this means Tor the fatherland. I 2
lhey say tney Del. eve there is ev
ery disposition to evacuate Belgium
ana northern ranee anct even ne
gotiate for tne retention or evacua
lion of Alsace-Lorraine.
They are generally unanimous in
agreeing that annexations thus far
made and the Brest-L'itovsk
treaty were a great mistake,
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pidlv needless th ng. At least he
thinks the Democracy which he hates
with 11 his moderate abilities, is re
sponsible for the war because it
made a campaign ostensibly to keep
out. The plain impl'cation of Mr.
Jonas is thata the Democrats meant to
declare war as soon as the result of
an anti-war campa'gn had borne fruit
in Wilson's re-election.
If the gentleman means that he
should say so. lie owes it to him
self to take a stand. Sam Farabee
has challenged him and annihilated
him on the state of facts now devel
oped by Jcnas himself. If Mr. Jo
nas is' opposed to America's entry
into the war he w'll find many in his
own surrounding counties no bet
ter c'tiens in that respect than
himself, but he should not be asham
ed of his position. If he has the
Roosevel; obsession so deei-rooted
that he thinks by bluster and terrific
writing all the insolent powers allied
with Germany might have been af
fr'irhtened into concluding the war
before it half began, it makes no
difference. That s as vital an issue
rf debate as Mr. Jonas has been able
to offer thus far.
The Republicans would be entirely
iustified in attacking the "he kept
us out of war" slogan if they had
a better record to which they might
point with their accustomed pride.
But Mr. Hushes was nominated by
German Influences that sought to pen
al ze President Wilson, for his man
fest inability to remain neutral as
between pirates and murderers and
gentlemen who play the game scrup
ulously by rules of international law.
Democrats in glorifying the peace
record of Mr. Wilson had substance
to cast over the shadow of war. There
was the ignoble back-down and self
abasement of Germany following the
Lusitanla and the pledge to respect
neutral rights. The violation an
repudiation cf this solemn compact
led to the war and the Republican
who refuses to see it merely defiles
h'mself.
Mr. Jonas might have had a cnance
in the ninth had he sailed into the
Webb record and assaulted it because
it fits ill into the relentless warfare
which Mr. Webb's chief is now wag
ing against Germany. We fancy
that nothing can make partisan De
mocracy quite so safe as the miser
able campaign of Mr. Jonas wh'ch
seems to nave as its oDjeci ju&unc
tion of the Webb course of hesitancy
and inharmony.
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think they cannot withdraw from i
Russia ,n the present condition ofng
affairs there. They are aware that m
the American army now has assumed
very formidable proportions and
there is a general admission of the
seriousness of this factor.
The submarine campaign they can
not refer to without gestures of im
patience. Captured non-commissioned offi-
i cers attribute recent German deteats
to the inefficiency of their air service
and more especially to the inexper
ience and lack of stamina of the
latest recruits who are most inade
quately drilled and trained and who
are physically Incapable of sustain
ing the h-ivy strain of defensive
warfare. The mere presence of these
new recruits, they say , produces
in a company a demoralizing effect
upon the older men because it Indi
cates to what straits Germany must
be reduced to employ such poor ma
terial.
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LIICION OF HONOR AWARDED
TO ITFTY-FIVE AMERICANS
NEBRASKA PRIMARIES
Springfield Republican.
Senator Is orris s resolution in
the Republican primaries of Nebras
ka indicates that the Republicans
there are not inclined to be punitive
in dealing with a man who was one
of the "wilful 12" and voted against
the declaration of war. Mr. Nor-
ris nan tne support or tne iarmers
of the nonpartisan league, while the
opposit on to him was not un..ted.
II is success in the primaries, howev
er, must embarrass the lcepubneans
of the east who may be inclined to
play up their party as the more pa
triotic one. Vardaman s defeat in
Mississippi !s the democrat'c retort
o Norris s v ctory in Nebraska. Yet
neither party could get far with' the
claim thata it enjows a monopoly of
patr.otism. The Democrats of Ne
braska are rather disarmed with ref
erence to Senator Norris bv the rec
ord of Senator Hitchcock, wdio before
the United States bpcnme a bpllVpr-
nt was in correspondence with "my
lear Vierick" in support of a move
ment for an arms embargo. Then
there is Mr. Bryan's dreadful Lus"
tania record in the farther back
ground. The wnr makes a fine mlv.
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With the American Army in
France, Aug. 25. Fifty-five officers
non-commissioned officers and men of
a certain American division were
awarded the legion of honor, the
military medal, the war cross or
d'stingu'shed service cross yester
day morning at the most brilliant
decoration ceremony the American
army has held in France.
Similar decorations have been
awarded 72 others, who were unable
to be present owing to the fact that
they are in a hospital. , Most of
the awards have been made for gal
lant conduct in the Marne battle.
The decorations and medals were
personally pinned on the Americans
by General (name delated), who was
accompanied by a lare-o group of
Amer can, French and British staff
officers as well as majors and brig
adier generals.)
After the decoration ceremony was
competed, regiments of infantry, en
gineers, French machine gunners
and American artillery, with colors
flying, filed past the men. thus hon
ored. Terfect weather added to the
.icy ot the occasion and the sound, of
the guns in an airplane battle over
head gave-just the proper dramatic
iouch.
French medals were awarded offi
cers and men selected by the division
authorit'es. The chevalier of the
legion of honor was given to Major'
UAly lcchet, mlantry, of Eustis,
Fla.; Capt. E. A. Cook of New York,
Capt. Arthur H. Terer, Lieutenants
Richard S. Heventor, infantry and
Harry W. Caygill, infantry, and Chap
lain Ilirrisa Darche, who was absent.
Lieut. Louis Viand, of the French ar
my, was awarded the distinguished
serv.ee cross for gallantry, coolness
and bravery during a raid in which
he led a Franco-American detach
ment. Sixteen non-commissioned of
ficers and 79 officers and men also
received the war cross.
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