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Show PERSHING'S BOOM. "The Pershing Republican league has been organized iu the Buckeye slte by former United States Senator Charles Dick. of Akron and fourteen other citizens citi-zens o Summit county. -The avowed purpose is to make ..the commander-in-chief off the American forces in Europe the Republican candidate for president in 1920. General Pershing has been regarded re-garded as a presidential possibility for some time, but whether he is a Republican Republi-can or a Democrat no one seems to know. He Is a Missourian by birth and was sent to the military academy at West Point by a Democratic congressman, congress-man, thus giving rise to the suspicion that he started out in life as a Demo-crnt. Demo-crnt. His father-in-law, Senator Warren of Wyoming, is a stalwart Republican, and thi3 fact is supposed to give the general some sort of affiliation with the G. O. P. Our own opinion is that the American commander- is not What you might call a member of either one of the great parties. He is not known to have participated in politics as a partisan, parti-san, and it is not probable he has cast many votes during his career. Good soldiers are not . supposed to take part in political campaigns and Pershing has followed the long-established precedent. Rither party could nominate him for president without doing violence to tradition, but as 1920 is still in the distance dis-tance it might be well to delay the booming end grooming of candidates until un-til some time next summer, when the soldiers will be back from the front. Ex-Senator Dick has not beou in the newspapers for some time, so he may be seeking the limelight through the medium of a Pershing presidential boom. |