Show I PARTISAN POLITICS STilL WiTH MITH US I 0 nAY lu i Ir Senator Warns Against j i Giving Wrong Impression sion sian to Allies I po Partisan PartIa politics Is with us nd nd I I j whatever er may bo ho its undesirability is going oln to remain with us declares I United l States Senator Reed need Smoot In Ina Ina a leading article In the May issue of ot the lie Forum a national magazine ma In n the lie opinion of oC Senator Smoot there should be no IIO partisanship In war- war tune time There can n only be an American I war var if success is to be Lc attained he ho de decIa decIa de- de cIa clares rca The finance committee of or which Senator Smoot is a member has not divided or ot submitted a minority report on a single ln lo piece of or le legislation since sinca l the war began says s 's the senator and the lie same can bo be virtually said of ot the appropriations committee This ThiN much can cnn be lie said In President Wilson's Wilsons praise the continues that while ho lie is an intense partisan and persists in it in war wai as aN he lie didIn did didin in ill peace he lie makes no pretenses of or being otherwise o disposed ed Neither hy by expressed utterances nor by lIy Implication ion tion has lie he advised the thiC American peo reo- pie to diminish h their Interest In 11 party welfare or 01 their activity In the promotion promo promo- I lion ion of oC p party Interest L 1 Thou Though h his bis attitude m may differ diCer I from th that of oC all his predecessors ece Inthe Inthe in inthe the presidential office and hO It may be regretted he ho acts alls within his lila rl rights In adhering to the tenets and promoting the welfare of his larl party With equal qu consistency he must ex- ex ex expect nil all men who hio believe c In III tho thoI ho su- su su superiority I and of oC Republican principles policies and in tho lie superiority o of tile the lie representatives cs and personnel of tho the Republican party part to le legislate and administer administer administer ad ad- minister the affairs of or the lie government I I I io- io to support the candidates o of ot otas that party as earnestly as he lie supports candidates ates of his own All effort cHort to top stop partisanship Is of or orno Smoot moot no avail a declares Senator We e must remember that v we e arc are no longer I Isolated politically Heretofore tho ho extremities and of or our campaign methods ha have made appeal In lii foreign forel n countries only to students oi of the curious and re regarded by theta them amusing Am i Amer-i ro only a as Inexplicable or Now ow our situation Is We Ve must speak in language lan ul ulo o this Ilia I Is ts known ill in England land Franco France anil HIllI In iii G Germany When our cur political fervor fer fer- vor or leads us into o and cx- cx n generally however r SlId SlId- cannot explain either to we wo our ui allies or to our enemies that thaL It was not meant as said They will ill In Interpret lii- lii our oiin noW political Ical expletives b by till lie dictionary a and tid construe 01 our t words not by definitions that modify them forus for Cor forus us bu but bU t IJ by their actual nH meanings Ur U nl III Senator Smoot showy shows for fOI example that th the word has 1185 a very co cogent ent dictionary meaning In lii the lo local locAl lo- lo cal eel campaigns ns lie no ll said we have had hisil since the tho lie war be began an It has lisa been used I actually glI gl J to extravagantly as so o a t. t warrant for Cor the Impression In lands that hat most o n our citizens are arc I traitors to the country The language e ethis when In lii Interpreted Interpreted In- In of this country he lie asserts In Iii ot other lands Is hi Interpreted literally makes the lie American 6 nail and his Ideals misunderstood I That there thero are arc a great number of or people In this tills country who though not I disloyal have ha favored orell tarrying meat incas tires ures In lii the hope that luit the tho war WU would be won without our doing a great cat deal dealto to win ivin It Is iii the statement of or Senator I Smoot t. t lie Jio This a llo lo Is I J and must br bf overcome II We e e HUME think only of V I lory ictor and iid fill null it t ti l I ft it ivi without I bout pat pat- ins ilig of If how lion i eo P C max get tag forth tho thin fullest effort |