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Show " ! " r v The Armies of the Kaiser Were Defeated the Smelt President Wilses Insisted Upon a Uniform Command Under General Foch! 1 1 The President Now Appeals for a Unified j Command on Our Front at Home! . iln this critical hour, divided political responsibility would undoubtedly have serious consequences. It would U mean contention between the President and Congress, 1 I with exasperating delays, and would greatly impair the ,flHiiBHM 1 P quality of the President's support, both at home and i jp ! Realizing the danger attendant upon such a division of responsibility, and acting as did Lincoln during the f ' 8BR j Civil War, and Roosevelt and Harrison during the Span- ' ish-American War, President Wilson now appeals for the I election of a Congress that will be politically in har- t. mony with the administration. In his appeal, the President Pres-ident says : fflHiE W "I need not tell you, my fellow countrymen, that I am asking ask-ing your support, not for my own sake, not for the sake of a po- Jyp -jfllll w litical party, but for the sake of the nation itself, in order that JF ' JjJ mm I its general unity of purpose may be evident to all the world. W& X In ordinary times, divided counsels can be endured without per- sjHHflflj ii parent hurt to the country, but these are not ordinary times. If in these critical days it is your wish to sustain me with un- divided minds, I beg that you will say so in a way which it will fR iliyio s . SlMllBllpWffll not be possible to misunderstand, either here at home or among our associates on the other side of the sea. I submit my difficulties and my hopes to you." M M WJjk PjMB MyVIl IMHB That a coterie of Republican politicians should attack 7'' the President because of this appeal, in spite of the fact BI II fiJiBflB Ji VUMT' that their own leaders under similar conditions made yJEBBa ffOiBull H9 mw similar appeals, was to be expected. They have long been doing this thing clandestinely, as a rule, because . .H . ,. , , . , . ... , , they feared to do it openly. These politicians, however, takes mto the llht of Publicity and to register protests, have yet to deal with the American people. "lt 1S not necessary for the, preservation-of our liberties to create the certainty that a Republican Congress would LET THERE BE NO DIVIDED COUNSELS IN itself make lamentable and possibly wellnigh fatal er- WASHINGTON rors in its desire to play a decisive part in the conduct of 1 Under the above caption, the Independent the great the war at a time and under circumstances when it could Progressive Leader of American thought for many years, not be as the Democratic party is now, wholly respon- has the following to say: sible for success or failure. In our judgment hard-head- Isdness demands that this responsibility should not be "American experience of divided political responsibil- destroyed. It is, we think, the plain dictate of common ity has never been happy. A Democratic President con- sense that the people should return a Democratic major-tending major-tending with a Republican Congress, or a Republican ity to Congress and assure to President Wilson the sup-President sup-President contending with a Democratic Congress, has port of a Democratic law-making power." never been, even in times of peace, an effective disposi- 0 . , ... j . . , . , tion of political forces. WASTE AND INEFFICIENCY , PrAeside.n Wilson has justified the confidence which j HAVE USUALLY RESULTED FROM IT, AND IT IS th.e American people have in him. They see m his ad-NOT ad-NOT POSSIBLE TO IMAGINE THAT A GREAT WAR ministration a record of unprecedented achievements, I IN ITS CRITICAL STAGES COULD BE MORE EF- and they wil1 not be besuiled into repudiating him be-I be-I FECTIVELY WAGED IF ENERGIES AND RESPON- fore Germany and the world. SIBILITIES SHOULD BE SO DISTRIBUTED." In this critical hour, fellow Americans and Country- This is no time to impose upon President Wilson's ?n t? American thing to do is to sustain the President administration unlimited inquisition. of, the United States by castmg your ballots, not for men whom we now know will fight him tooth and claw, but Irresponsible power is indeed a serious matter and no for Congressmen Mays and Welling, who have been un- human being is infallible. But a Congressional minor- swervingly loyal to the Government and to the Presi- ity is quite competent to ask questions, to bring mis- dent. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET For First Congressional District: For Second Congressional District: MILTON H. WELLING JAMES H. MAYS For Judges of the Supreme Court: S. R. THURMAN VALENTINE GIDEON A. J. WEBER DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE i W. R. WALLACE, Chairman. R. B. THURMAN, Secretary. i (Political Advertisement,.) L |