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Show President's Appeal, for ' Democratic Congressmen Brings G. O. P. Statement WASHINGTON. Oct M.-l-Following ths lUtiiMnt of President Wilson tJ the voters of the United States In. which he urges the return of Democratic Demo-cratic nntnw not because the Kepubllcana are not patriotic, but because conditions demand that his administration be supported and not controlled, the Krpublit-an leaders Issued the following; statement: "Home time ago the president said 'Politics Is adjourned.' Now, in the closing days of the campaign delayed bf the united efforts of all parties for the LJherty loan now, when all publlo meetlnge have been given up owing to ths Influensa epidemic the president sends out a -direct party appeal calling upon his eountrym.n to vote for Democrats, because they are Democrats, without any reference to wh ether such Democrats have been or are In faver of war measures and have a war record which deserve support. sup-port. "The voter of Michigan, to take a. single example, are called upon to support sup-port H en ry Ford notorious for h is advocacy of peace at any price, for his contemptuous allusions to the flag, for the exemption of his son from military service on th sole ground that he, will blindly) support th president. The president is quite ready to admit that Republicans are loyal enough to fight and die, as they are doing by th thousands; thou-sands; loyal anough to take up great loans and pay enormous taxes; loyal enough to furnish Important men at , no salary on soma of th great war ' boards In Washington; 'but they are not loyal enouah. -in the president's i opinion, to be trusted with any share 1 In the government of th country or legislation for It. PLANS OF a O. P. house, we can point out soma1 of the things they will do. They will replace Mr. Dent of Alabama, at the head of the military affairs committee, with Julius Kahn. to whom the administration administra-tion was obliged to turn for assistance to take chars ff and carry the first draft bltl acainat Mr. Dnt's opposition. They will put a Republican at the head of th waye and means committee, as j-lsr at the hit-. t' d tit M Kltchin of North. Taroltna. who voted-against voted-against lb war. They will give the country a speaker w he did not oppose and would never sppos a draft bill and would never aay, aa Ppeaker Clark did. that There la prsetsus llttl dlf-fere dlf-fere ore between a conscript and a convict.' con-vict.' RKCORO IN SCNATtf. "Although th JUewhUmsa of the house are In the minority, they cast more actual vote vw seven great war measures than ths Democratic majority major-ity was abts to do. What Is the record rec-ord of the senate? Of fifty-on roll calls on war measures between April , ltlT, and the Sch of May. 111. the votes cast by Republicans In favor of I such measure were 71 per eertt, while only C7 per cant of tha vote cast on th Democrat lo side were In favor of such measures. Those were the president's presi-dent's own measure. Do that record look as If we had hampered him? The Hep ubl lean party In congress has supported sup-ported the administration policies since ths war with a unanimity and an absence ab-sence of criticism unprecedented In party history. WHEAT AND COTTON. There are some domestic questions where we should undoubtedly differ from th tours pursued by the administration. admin-istration. We should not, for example, , fix a price on the farmer's wheat and leave the planter's cotton Untouched. Another domestic question In which the Republican party believes thoroughly thor-oughly is economic preparation for the coming of peace and they are clearly of the opinion that th con g re a of th United States should not be excluded ex-cluded from that great task. "This 1 not th president' personal war. This Is not the war of congreas. It i not th war of th Democratic or th Hepubllcan party. It la th war of th American people. It Is more. It Is the war of the United States, of the allied powers, of th civilised world agalnat the barbarism of Oermany. In this great burden and responsibility th Hepubllcan party representing more than half the citlsenship of the country demands Its rightful share. If the Republican party Is intrusted with power In either or both houses they will do everything possible to drive forward for-ward th war and hasten ths day of victory. And they will do mora. They will give all th money to the last dollar dol-lar necessary to sustain our armies and our fleets, but they will check the waste now going on of th money given giv-en by the most generous people on th face of th earth. EFFECT OF ELECTION. "Ths president speaks of the effect of the election abroad. I'n says there they understand ths meaning; of elections. elec-tions. They do, and they will know that If th Republican have a majority In congress, the war will be pressed with greater vigor than ever before. They are quite aware that th power of the senate la equal to that of the president In the consummation of peace by treaty. They will know that the Hepubllcan party stands for a victorious victori-ous peace and the overthrow of Prussian Prus-sian militarism. That knowledge will not depress the spirit of our allies or encourage ths government of Germany. 'The Hepubllcan party believes that the queetion of surrender should he left to Marshal Foch, to the generals and to the armies In ths field. When they report Oermany has laid down her arms the United States and ths allies should then Impose their terms. Will that knowledge cause dejection tothoee who are fighting with us? AH the world knows that the Republican party par-ty Is opposed to negotiations and discussion dis-cussion carried on In dlp'.omatic notes addressed to th Oerman government. The Republican party stands for unconditional un-conditional surrender. There Is no Republican Re-publican creed so short that there Is not room In It for those two words. (Signed) "HKNRT CABOT lXDOR, -KKKD 8MOOT, Chairman. "Republican Senatorial Committee. -FRKDKRICK H. OILLETT, "SIMKON D. FbSS. Chairman, "Republican Congressional Committee.- |
