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Show tl . , ; STEADY, REPUBLICANS! BY WILL H. HAYS, 1,1 ' Ctlrro of the ItcotibUcaa National Committed. fcr Steady, Republicans! This, of all times, la (ha Una , to keep the ranks Arm. K We aro in the front trenches, posted on the firing-stops, oaelt ' and every One of ua, and our duty -i. there la to keep our ayea every v second oh tho oppueltloa. Ifcm'f Jet anything la the rear I' 4rnr our gnzc from the enemy' line! TliW In the Imitative cjII to ? ilin iK-rforiHunro of aa Instant duty. Steady! Let not the certainty of Repub-. Repub-. llcin success, which tneana so much for the country's welfare, he lessened In even the (lightest ' decree by any Inability to order , our own affairs. Our day Is already certain the " day of Republican victory but we have got to remember and ), w must remembor NOW. that, aim; as the dawn Is. and bright ns Ihit day will be the momenta bo- fore Ita arrlvnl must' not be al- E1 lowed to t fraught with threat- cnlnee, for the daylight will be o mnll use to us In our task of making the moat of It, If we blind ourselYea before Ita coming. Let us keep our feet on the J , ground wo must! d Let u.i' keep our eyes ahead It g le'our duty. Let ua keep our minds clear .. If we don't, then our victory, cer tain as It In, decisive as It la bound to prove, will fall short of that benefit to the country aa a whole which the next four yenra demand from the Republican party We hove a national duly. We have got to pull this country out of the Rlough of despond and disorder, dis-order, of extravagance of a halfn baked and false and evil Idealism. We have got tu box .Its feet firmly again on the solid highway of progress We have got to atart It aye. and keep It on the road. ' i t Justice to all and from all. the road of prosperity, of those things that are boat for every man, wotaan and child among Ita inhabitants. in-habitants. WcMuivo irot to restore AmcrlcitnUni to America. Tfelaja the gigantic task. aigantlc but wo can do it. i It la up to us. There's no doubt about that, and we are going to do' It thoroughly, . But wo must bo fit In every fiber NOW. We must porfoct our training NOW. Steady, Republicans! Do now what you did 'diirtng tho World War. Repeat the patriotism pa-triotism of 1917-1918. Hold tho boat steady. Tho winds may blow. We havo reached tho placo where the cross-cunents may run. But remembor that tho ripples do not show the direction of the main current, which flows aurely and strongly undorneath thla eddy and that froth. Here Is no moment for little things. We havo to perform a task worthy of our party strength, worthy of our party1 history; we ' nave a patriotic work to do that Is epoch-making, national. Upon our ptrformanco will depend the future of tho country. Tho chronicler of centuries to come, the generations of Americans to be, will look backward at these now-approaching years as of tho mot tremendous Import in the development of American policy and It Is the Republican party that la to direct that development. Lot ua permit no distraction. No acrimony among ua. No petty bickerings. Nothing NOTHINO must decrease the certainty cer-tainty of our doing well that which wo' aro certainly about to bo called upon to accomplish.' Itct no Mtoiict be put Into the hiiowImiMn! Loyalty to country. Loyalty to the party. Loyalty to the party always that. Is to save tho country. seasasiasawseiesaMsaBaesaasi |
