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Show ASK VOTERS TO UPHOLD WILSON American Pro-war Socialists Social-ists Commend Leadership Leader-ship of President. NEW YORK, Nov. 1. leadership of President Wilson, which "is responsible for the collapse of autocratic power in Germany and Austria." was commended in' a statement tonight by six prominent "pro-war" socialist;. They called on voters, regardless of party, to "uphold the president by voting for only such congressional con-gressional candidates as support, with loyalty and enthusiasm, the president's entire program of war and reconstruction." reconstruc-tion." ' The statement, signed by Allan L. Benson, Ben-son, Henry 8. Slobodin. J. G. Phelps Stokes, Chester M. Wright, Frank Bohn and William English Walling, said in part: "It was President Wilson's leadership of the democracy since America's entrance into the war which has. united and inspired in-spired the democracy among our allies as well as at home. This moral leadership, leader-ship, more than any other single fact, is responsible for the collapse of the power of autocracy in Germany and Austria. "There are two tasks to be performed first, complete defeat of Germany's military forces; second, construction of a practical international organization. "We warn fellow citizens of all parties that if forces of practical and progressive progres-sive internationalism are denied fulfillment, fulfill-ment, here as among all our allied and enemy countries, destructive Bolshevikism will develop." |