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138 LAW AND LOCAL POLITICS
was the business of the Republican party, as it was the business of every loyal citizen, to win the war as completely and as quickly as we possibly could.
The reader may already have gathered that Governor James P. Good* rich was one of my political ideals. He was a man of complete unselfishness and devotion to the service of our people. It was because of m\ great admiration for him that I so deeply appreciated his commendation of the council's work when he wrote:
You have made Indiana the model State Council in the nation, and brought great credit to our common wealth, and I am certain that the record which Indiana is making and intends to make in support of our common country against the enemy is due in great proportion to the splendid efforts of yourself and the Indiana State Council of Defense.
Perhaps it would seem that my change of titles which took place in mid-February 191 8 would signal a difference of emphasis and direction in my life, but in reality it did not. As Republican chairman, my first sweep through the country was on a Liberty Loan tour. That was my message and my purpose.
I do not think that I ever really left anything behind. I carried with me whatever convictions I had formed during the war and either fitted them into a new pattern or expanded them to fit the larger task. Republican politics for me suddenly became national. Whatever patriotic purposes I had formed reached out into the broader field. What had been nourished in the soil of Indiana was now put at the service of the country.