Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-05-31 | Page 6 | No Compromise

party. Indeed, it may be truthfully said that quite a number of the executive's execu-tive's wishes would have been disregarded disre-garded had it not been for the patriotic Republicans who refused to play politics poli-tics in order to put the administration into a hole. But whichever way the election goes, whether the Republicans or Democrats succeed in capturing the house of representatives, rep-resentatives, there will be no letup in the prosecution of the war and no "compromise bargaining" in order to bring it to a close. When the United States went into the war it was for the declared purpose of freeing the democracies of the world from the autocratic au-tocratic yoke that was being gradually forced upon their necks. Until that great work is accomplished we shall not stay our hand. It will be victory or defeat, democracy or autocracy. We are not a nation of quitters and we do not believe the entente allies will give up while they have a fighting man left. No, there will be no "compromise bargaining. bar-gaining. ' ' NO COMPROMISE. "Win the war by victory and not by compromise bargaining," keynote of the convention of Indiana Bepublicans, is a very good motto and without doubt a great majority of tho American people peo-ple feel that way about it. The sentiment senti-ment is so strong, in fact, that there is not the slightest possibility that it can be successfully used as an issue in the coming political campaign. Still, it is eminently right and proper for the state conventions to go upon record in order that there may be no mistake about the matter. There can be no doubt as to President Wilson's intention to fight the war to a finish, for he has asked congress to clothe him with the necessary neces-sary authority to arm and equip as many millions of men as are needed for the purpose without being compelled to ask for additional forces from time to time. Perhaps the vote on the president's presi-dent's proposition can be used to gauge the real sentiment of the political leaders lead-ers who represent their parties in senate sen-ate and house. We have very little sympathy for the politicians of high or low degree while the American boys are crowding the railway trains and the transports on their way to the front. Men must be elected to fill tho offices, of course, and it is the privilege of every American citizen to offer himself as a candidate. Some of them may think their defeat will be a sign of the coming downfall of the republic and others may say so for the purpose of making a bluff. But the republic will live, the war will be won and the politicians will continue to look for "issues" from generation to generation. Tho terms of one-third of the senators and all the members of the house will expire on March 4, next year, and the Republicans have a very good chance of capturing the house and making still further inroads upon the Democratic majority in the senate. The Democrats were aided by the independents inde-pendents in organizing the present house, neither of the great parties having hav-ing a majority of members. But so far as war legislation is concerned the Republicans Re-publicans have given just as good, if not better, support to the president than many of the members of his own