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Show LEADERS BACK UP THE PRESIDENT Three Secretaries Tell Why They Think Congress Should Be Democratic. Wilson as Man the World Looks to for Guidance, Lane Says. WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. Secretaries Lane and Redfield today authorized statements state-ments of why they believed the country should return a Democratic congress next week. Secretary Lane said: 'At the head of our state is the man Rl whom the world looks to for guidance Wm in this contest. To back him to the limit HJ and enable him to look the kaiser in the eye and tell him what the conscience of the world commands is our duty, irrespective irre-spective of party. He must not be discredited, dis-credited, weakened or worried by any apparent hesitation on the part of the people to generously support him. "The kaiser knows that . he is a Democrat, Demo-crat, and those who have been loyal to him as the exponent of the nation's will should be sent to congress that they may prosecute the war and lead In the great period of reconstruction that is to follow fol-low a period in which larger consideration considera-tion must be given to the needs and rights of those who suffer the handicap of poverty or ignorance than ever before. be-fore. The Democratic party should, and must, take the lead in the evolution of a more intensely socialized life. It has the right sympathies and it has the sympathetic and balanced leadership." leader-ship." Team Well Matched. Secretary Redfield said: "Ordinary common sense shows that the interest of the country requires the election of a congress (both houses) in political sympathy with the administra- ! tion. One does not swap horses while j crossing the stream save in an emergency. emer-gency. No emergency calling for the swap exists. The present team is well j matched, pulling together and doing the ! job well. One cannot say how the new , horse would behave. Let it be admitted, for the sake of argument, that he has i officially pulled fairly straight much, per-haps per-haps most, of the time thus far. There j are exceptions and often a visible tendency ten-dency to kick over the traces. "Under our partv system it is normal that the Republicans shou:d seek in advance ad-vance a basis on which to found their campaign of 1920. Such a basis they hope ! to find, they can only find, by pecking at j the administration between now and then, j It ia certain, therefore, that the elec- ; tion of a Republican congress now must ; substitute underlying, if not avowed, dis- ; cord for acknowledged and avowed sym-palhy, sym-palhy, and open the way to national em- j barrassment through the temptations to i political gains." |