Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-01 | Page 2 | Democrats Make More Statement on the Situation

DEMOCRATS MAKE MORE STATEMENTS ON THE SITUATION WASHINGTON. Oct. 81. Another wrlen of polltkal Htaternents wan Insueil tonight by Democratic leads'. , u , Homer H CummtncB, art ins; chairman of the Democratic national committee, mad'- public :oplen of a telegram and a Irtt'-r which he raid were ent by A. A. U Knhn of Minnesota to V. II. Carpenter Carpen-ter of Minneapolis In regard to arrange-inenlB arrange-inenlB for a vllt of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt to Minneapolis October 7. and Charged hat they showed violation of the agreement that the Liberty loan campaign he kept free from polltii-n. lames W. Gerard, former ambassador m Germany, In a statement reiterated his belief that the election of a majority of Republicans to the senate and house would ho rcKairtcd In Merlin as a repudiation repudia-tion of President Wilson, while Representative Represen-tative Kllchlu of North Carolina, IItoi-ocnitlo IItoi-ocnitlo leader In the house, made publjO a 'letter ho had written to Senator Colder Col-der of New York. denylnK chnrKoM Unit he had not Miiiporle'l adml nlalratlon war measures. K, 1 i eseiiliillve Kllehln In a letter to Senator C alder challenged the New VorU sen,, lor "to name a war measure pro posed by Ihe president, since our declaration dec-laration of war. thai I did not vote for."' It. denied "as Infamously false" B statement state-ment thai he had said New Yorlt and New KiiKland hud brought on the war and I;,) was koIiik to make theui pay for It.