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Show f S ATTACKS t lit KlIT Chairman of National Com-') Com-') mittee Urges Republi-lQc Republi-lQc cans to Vote Ticket. 'democrats Declare Charges I o Made Are Not in Acts, Ac-ts, cordance With Facts. ii NEW YORK, Oct. 27. William K. lays, chairman of the Republican national na-tional committee, made public here to- - light a statement In which ho replied n behalf of his party to President Wil- , wn's appeal to the nation to return a crrJratlc congress. In his statement flHays said: "President Wilson has questioned tho motives and fidelity of your representatives representa-tives in congress, lie has thereby impugned im-pugned their loyalty and denied their patriotism. pa-triotism. His challenge is to you who elected thoso representatives. You owe ;j H to them, to the honor of your great party and to your own self-respect to meet that challenge squarely, not only as Republicans, but as Americans. T, as your chairman, .call upon you to do it. Complains of No Credit. "Mr. Wilson accords the Republicans no credit whatever for having supported the war measures proposed by his administration, ad-ministration, although they have done so 1 with greater unanimity than the mem-" mem-" bers of his own party. Despite that fact, ' he accuses them of having tried to usurp his proper functions. "At no time and in no way have they tried to take control of the war out of his hands. The president knows that. !i The country knows it. You know it. A more ungracious, more unjust, more van ton, more mendacious accusation was never made by the most reckless stump orator, much less by a president of the United States, for partisan purposes. It Is an Insult, not only to every loyal Republican Re-publican in congress, but to every loyal Republican In the land. It fully merits the resentment which rightfully and sure-: sure-: y will find expression at the polls. "Mr. Wilson grudgingly admits that the Republicans have been 'pro-war." Then why does he demand their defeat? Because they are still pro-war? Hardly Hard-ly that. No! It is because they are for peace, though not without victory; because be-cause they do not believe lasting peace can be obtained through negotiations; because be-cause they consider that 'U. S.' stands for unconditional surrender as well as for the United E-tates and Uncle Sam. The Democratic congress does not.- Mr. "Wilson does not. There is the issue, clear as the noonday sun. The country will decide. Bidding for Mastery. "Mr. Wilson wants only rubber stamps, Itis rubber stamps, in congress. He calls for defeat of pro-war Republicans and jjttrelection of antiwar Democrats, tie, fls the executive. Is no longer satisfied to be one branch of the government, as provided by the constitution. Republican congressmen miMl be defeated and Democratic Demo-cratic oonsi'ossmen must, aa they would yield in everthing, That la evidently his idea the icUa of an autocrat calling himself him-self the servant, but bidding for the mastery, mas-tery, of this groat free people. Republicans in congress have seemed to him good enough when they assented, as they did assent with highest patriotism patriot-ism and sometimes against their best judgment, to his proposals. Republicans at homo have seemed to him good enough to send fully a million of Ihelr sons into tho battle, to furnish at least half of the army and far more than half of the money for winning the war, but they are not considered good enough to have a voice In the settlement of the war. The Real Purpose. "But Mr. Wilson's real purpose has nothing to do with the conduct of tho war. lie has had that from the beginning, begin-ning, has it now. and nobody dreams of interfering with his control He wants just two thjngs. One is full power to settle the war precisely as he and his sole, unelected, unap pointed, unconfirmed personal adviser may determine. The other Is full power as the 'unembarrassed 'unembar-rassed spokesman in a f fairs at home,' as he actually demands in his statement, to reconstruct in peace times the great industrial affairs of the nation In the same way, in unimpeded conformity with whatever socialistic doctrines, whatever unlimited government ownership notions, no-tions, whatever hazy whims may happen hap-pen to possess him at the time, but first and above all with absolute commitment to free trade with all the world, thus giving giv-ing to Germany out of hand the fruits of a victory greater than she could win by fighting a hundred years. A Republican congress will never assent to that. Do you want a congress that will? Germany Ger-many does. "Mr. Wilson forces the Republican party to lie down or fight. I say fight. Answer with your votes! "Mr. Wilson is for unconditional surrender sur-render yes, for the unconditional surrender sur-render to himself of the Republican party, of the allies all to him, as the sole arbiter and master of the dest inles of the world. Do you stand for that? Answer with your votes!'' Insulting, Democrats Say. At Democratic headquarters the Republican Repub-lican manifesto was characterized as an unmannerly, hysterical and insulting attack at-tack on tho president, based upon an absolutely ab-solutely false assumption of .facts. The attitude of Democrats In congress generally was tersely expressed by Senator Sena-tor Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska, chairman of the senate committee tm foreign for-eign affairs, who said: "Really, such a wild outbreak should not be dignified by any notice. But I cannot refrain from characterizing it as grossly misrepresenting the president's position. "The whole statement of the Republican chairman is so wild, so unbalanced, so utterly unfounded on anything the president presi-dent has said or done as to cause wonder that it could have emanated from anyone presumed to possess judgment or self-possession. self-possession. Of course, it could be shown to be without foundation in all of its particulars, par-ticulars, but it is enough to say that the president's whole attitude in the national campaign appeal's to have been wilfully and grossly misstated." Garbled Misstatement. "So far as I can judge from the hurried hur-ried reading I have listened to, the statement state-ment is a garbled misstatement of facts." This was the only comment Scott Ferris, Fer-ris, representative from Oklahoma, chairman chair-man of the Democratic congressional campaign cam-paign committee, would make tonight upon the statement of Hays. The Hays statement was read to Mr. Ferris, but he said he preferred to read it over carefully in the morning before making any other comment than that quoted. When the statement of Mr. Hays was brought to the attention of J. P. Tumulty, secretary to the president, he declined comment, stating that undoubtedly Democratic Demo-cratic leaders would give the statement whatever consideration it merited. Bad Tempered. "A bad tempered and vicious assault upon the president," was the way Senator F. M. Simmons of North Carolina, one of the Democratic leaders of the senate and chairman of the finance committee, which is recasting the war revenue bill, characterized charac-terized the Hays political statement tonight. to-night. "The statement is calculated to undermine the confidence not only of tho people of this country, but of the world In President Wilson," he continued. "It Is reprehensible in every sense. As to the war aims of the president and his attitude toward peace, the statement is unwarranted unwar-ranted and a misrepresentation of the facts. Instead of helping his party, as he hopes by such a tirade, it will recoil politically upon them." Senator Thomas S. Martin of "Virginia, majority leader, said : "I will not discuss dis-cuss such scurrilous matter." .Senator Pomerene of Ohio said: "The public can easily judge between the president presi-dent and Mr. Hays. The statement that the president questions the loyalty of the Republicans is not true, as anyone who has read the president's statements must know. This is the kind of a statement state-ment from Mr. Hays that I would expect from a man of Mr. Havs's type. He has been traveling about tho country, making speeches and visiting political meetings, trying lo stir up iesentment against the president wherever he could. Mr. Hays is the Uriah Heep of the Republican party. I hope he will continue to make more statements similar to that he issued is-sued tonight, for such statements will aid in winning to 'the support of the president presi-dent every true American." Politics to Limit. In the light of Chairman Hays's attack, a statement made earlier In the day by Senator Fletcher of Florida is of particular particu-lar interest. He said in part: "The president's presi-dent's address hurts because It is frank and true in every word hence these tears and this flying into a pasrdon observed at this time in Republican headquarters. Tho Republican leaders have been playing play-ing politics to the limit and the president knows it. The president Is right and puts the matter squarely to the people everywhere. every-where. The Republicans did seek to dictate dic-tate policies and no answer has been made to that charge. They endeavored to make political capital and gain some political po-litical advantage out of everything the president said or did and out of everything every-thing proposed in congros." Would Double Amount. An authorized statement issued by tho Democratic national committee earlier in the day contained this reference to Chairman Chair-man Hays: "At a recent meeting of Kentucky Republicans in Louisville, Chairman Hays of the Republican national nation-al committee stated that for every dollar dol-lar tho state Republicans raised he would guarantee an additional two dollars from the party's national fund. As .early as May II, Chairman Hays and the treasurer treas-urer of the Republican national committee. commit-tee. Fred W. Upham. were earnestly soliciting so-liciting funds for the campaign. In letters let-ters sent out on that date supporters of tho party were asked to contribute $1000 each. These requests are said to have been sent to 1500 persons. A million and a half dollars, It would seem, was the goal of the Republican manager in this solicitation." Homer S. Cu minings, acting chat mi a n of the Democratic national committee, in a formal statement tonight charged that the nation's selfish interests are seeking to get control of the government by electing elect-ing a Republican congress next month, and asserted that the country will he appalled ap-palled when it learns of the money used for the purpose. |
