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Show 5 frh Ml m r7. tr M w k JV Z J2I Ja VJ w' Vw m m pp rout !2a(; PreidentWilsonhasthrown downrthe gauntlet. Jj Hehascnailenged the free exergiseof your rights as citizens. He has used ' ' ' lJf t,. U 6 . his high ofin time of warfor fice as President of the ' United States and Commander-in-Chie- f purely partisan purposes, and has issued from the White House a call for THE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER OF ALL REPUBLICAN VOTERS. His mandate is that only- - Democrats must be elected to Congress." This notonly achal-leg- e to your intelligence and selLfitness for.self government, but constitutes an invitation of your sacred rights as American Citizens. -- 1 War Record The record of Republican senators and congressmen for loyalty and patriotism does not permit of challenge. This the President has admitted over aqd over again, and even now concedes in his singular pronouncement. And yet Republican congressmen of the type of Major Gardner, who fathered the preparedness movement in the House, and later gave his life in the service of his country ; of Julius Eidm, to whom, the administration wag obliged to turn for assistance to carry through the first draft bill, against the Democratic chairmans' opposition, and men like Mr. Mann and Uncle Joe Cannon, who said and MEANT that politics was adjourned, so far as Republicans were concerned, whenever if came trwar measures such men are for defeat, SIM- now marked by the Commander-in-Chie- f PLY BECAUSE. THEY ARE NOT OF THE SAME POLITICAL FAITn AS THE PRESIDENT. .The test is not one of fitness, of service, of loyalty to the country In this great emergency, but singly 4nd solely of political allegiance and membership in the Presidents - self-expressi- in-Chi- on "party. ef Sams masihs ago FWffeleat . Wilson' solemiily - an nounced to the American people that, inasmuch as a great crisis confronted the nation,- - polities -- wa adjourned. Now, upon the eve of election, the President,' following a policy without' precedent," has issued THE M03T AS-t- " " TOUNDING PARTISAN APPEAL THAT HAS EVER COME FROM A CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE UNITED STATES. The pronouncement is made to elect Democrats simply because they are Democrats, irrespective of personal quali- - ' fications or their record during therperiod of the war. In calls for the- one sweeping decree the Commander-in-Chie- f defest of those loyal Republicans in congress without whose support THERE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN PASS-ESUCH VITAL WAR MEASURES AS CONSCRIPTION, REVENUE BILLS AND EVEN THE DECLARATION OF - CIOUS 7 SCRIPT ; ; . t- - - LITTLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN. A 7 7.T. - , CON-- i , 7 7 . - ; measures than the Democratic majority. . On fifty-on- e roll calls in the Senate on war measures between April 6, 1917, and the 29th of May, 1918, the votes. , i effect of the election abroad. Our allies are not unfamiliar with the fact that' the Republican party is the war party, that it championed preparedness, and. that its . leaders . and . statesmen were J. sounfiing the cry to arms at the very time that the Demo-- " erotic party was conducting a great national campaign based upon the slogan He kept us out of war.? And the election of a Republican congress will constitute a declara- tion by the sovereign American people to their . allies in Europe and to Germany that the war will be prosecuted vigorously to a decision on the field of honor and that no-- , thing short of unconditional surrender will satisfy this ua- tion. 7"- - That knowledge, with the mandate it carries to the our allies of our firm allegiance to President, will the cause they have so long and so courageously defended, ... and will depress no one save the Huns. h The consummation of Republican aims in this war will i bring the assurance to every American mother whose son has died on the battlefields of France that his life shall not have been given in vain, and that the fruits of this great war shall not be lost to humanity in an . effort to secure an . early-peacat the expense of an enduring peace. The President speaks of the AND A CONVICT. Measures i Favorably Known Republican - -- Abroad - ; ,! - s 7 v . Although the Republicans of the House are in .the mi- -. nority, they cast more actual votes on seven great war D x their-conduct- example, - , 7 - d -- ; How Republicans Have Supported . 'WAR.'"' Is this patriotism or partisanship? "For nr-woul- al '' . - 7- publicans in congress had hampered him, hamper him in the proper conduct of the war? - In gpite of the faet that 33 per cent of the votes cast in the Senate on the Democratic side were against these im-- , portant war measures, and in spite of the fact that practi- cally 50 per cent of the Democrats in congress turned a deaf ' ... ear. to the Presidents personal appeal, for. the. passage of., the Womans Suffrage Amendment as a vital war measure, and- - ia de..... .he has no. criticism to make of of all these men because they are manding the Democrats. It is true that Republicans have differed from the ad--. ministration on some domestic questions. They have felt, for example, that it was not fair for the administration to' fix the price on the wheat and wool of the northern farmer . . and leave untouched the price of cotton and rice of the ' t - southern planter. ; ' the voters of Michigan are called upon to support Henry Ford notorious for his advocacy of '. peace at any price, for the exemption of his son from military service, for hia contemptuous allusions to the flag, on the sole ground that' he will blindly support the President . and will surrender to the Chief Executive those constitu-tionrights and dnties which the forefathers regarded as vital to safeguarding the liberties of American citizenship. Republican voters are called 'upon, either to stay at home in their respective districts, or to support such men" ' as Mr. Kitchin, who voted against the declaration of war; .' Mr .'Dent who, as head of the military affairs committee, opposed the selective draft,' or Speaker Clark, who also op-posed this measure and declared that THERE 13 PRE, His Astounding Action s by Republicans in favor of such measures were 72 per cent, while only 67 per cent of the votes cast bn the Democ ratio Bide were in favor of snch enactment' These were the RePresidents own measures. Does that record look as if - The Spendid Republican The decnee goes even further. IT STRIKES AT THE VERT ROOT OP REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNlftlNT. If Democrats are to be elected simply because they will do . the President a bidding, there is involved an assumption of -all legislative power by the Executive, which, in itself.is a bold' and dangerous step toward autocratic government. If, on the other hand, Democrats are to be elected sim- -' ply because they are Democrats, then this is a partisan plea unworthy of the chief executive of this great country, and lamentably unfortunate as coming in a great national crisis from the- President, not of the Democratic party, but of '' these United States. President Wilson has declared that the fundamental purpose of this war is to guarantee to all peoples free and in determining how and by untrammeled whom they shall be governed. And yet, in the very hour when Republican fathers are buying Liberty Bonds to the limit of their financial ability, and Republican mothers are dedicating and consecrating the lives and fortunes of their sons to this greit cause, the whole body of Republican vot- -' ers are officially proscribed and told by their Commander- -' either to stay at home on election day,- - or stifle their political convictions and vote without question" or qualification for Democrats. Is this President Wilson at his best or at his worst? -- - -- -- re 07 - 7' 7-j e j ' Republicans the issue is plain, The demand is FOR UNCONDITIONAL-SURRENDE- R -- neither more nor lessl You are asked to give up to the President that sacred American right of electing men of your own choice to represent you in Congress, and to forfeit the blessings ofTrue! constitutional government. r -- IT V J, i ' rT - V t ir. x. h r- - V p au. Ami i.S4md a Y This is the culmination of the methods employed earlier in the campaign by the Democrats of v' and now a Democratic Utah. They have repeatedly called you' disloyal and President-fo- r partison reasons-call- s upon you to forfeit yoiir most sacred rights of eitizenship r un-Americ- an, - - t i t 7r -' jpe jet- To the Fight, Republicans! Make Your Answer to ibis Attempfed Invasion ol Your Rights an overwhetming Republican Victory at the Polls Kov. 5th REPUBLIC AN STATE COMMITTEE I (Political Advertisement) Q 7 - |