_Anaconda_ (Mont.) _Standard_, May 24, 1919.--... At St. Louis
the members voted down all proposals for obtaining from Congress
increases of pay for the soldiers and rejected all efforts to
obtain canvasses of the members to ascertain their preference as
to parties and as to presidential candidates. Everything was
excluded which would tend to committ the organization to any
particular party or any particular candidate. Young Colonel
Roosevelt, son of the former republican president, and Colonel
Bennett Clark, son of Champ Clark, former democratic speaker of
the house, joined hands in the endeavor to keep partisanship and
politics out of the organization.
_Collier's Weekly_, May 31, 1919.--A national convention of
American soldiers and sailors in which no grievances were aired,
no political axes ground, no special privileges or preferments
demanded; where oratorical "bunk" was hooted down; where social
discrimination was taboo and military rank counted not at all;
where the past glories of war were subordinated to the future
glories of peace and where the national interest was placed
above all partisanship--that is something new under the sun. It
was in such a convention held in St.
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