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Show THE WAR ISSUE. One issue of the campaign has expired ex-pired after a brief and feeble existence. 2s: kss a politician than the president himself tried to breathe into it animation anima-tion and strength, .but it lingered with j but a tipark of life for a fortnight and I then gave up the ghost.. ,( Hughes will got us into war," the president declared in effect, and when he made the statement he hoped that some one would take stock in his non-. non-. sense. The idea tickled the fancies of the .Democratic spellbinders for a few days and then lost its charm. Nobody had any faith in it. . The president devised the issue as a counterblast to the telling attacks made upon the battle cry of his followers, fol-lowers, ' 1 Wilson has kept us out ot war." The only effective reply was . to convince the people that any other policy than that which the president had adopted a policy of opportunism, of dodging and shifting would get the nation into war. The reply was forthcoming, forth-coming, but it failed to have the. desired de-sired effect. The American people, strong in sincerity and a desire for justice, jus-tice, cannot see the necessity of forever for-ever weakening and wavering, of delaying de-laying and avoiding. They are confident con-fident that" a policy of dominant Americanism, Ameri-canism, a strong, straightforward, frank policy toward all foreign nations, is the right policy and they know that a policy poli-cy founded on justice is not as apt to ; get the nation into war as a flabby policy based on expediency. |