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Show - G O. P.VIGTORY WOULD GHEER iyp Foe Would Misinterpret It as War Repudiation, Gerard Says y United Press. WASHINGTON, OcU SO. That Gar, many would misinterpret a Republican Republi-can victory In the coming election, was the claim of James W. Gerard, former United States ambassador. In a state- , roNit through the Democratic nationals committee. j "I know, he wrote, "that German "T cannot understand our political sys- I tern: that If a congress opposed to the president Is elected they will he- j lieve again what they believed, be- I fore we dared to war with them, that there Is in the United States a great number of people favorable to the German Ger-man cause and opposed to the president presi-dent end to war. ' And. encouraaeo: by this belief, the military resistance of the German people will again stiffen and the favorable moment for the al- ' J l " ' "I sm so sura of this that, were I opposed to every other policy of the president and were he my bitterest enemy, I should nevertheless beg the American people to support mm at this fateful moment. At the same time the committee piad pnhUg m Wt'y 1 f-'w ' "'B from ex - Senator Ha nsbrough, former North Dakota Republican, saying he rould not escape the conclusion that the minority campaign "really amounts to' a scheme "deliberately intended to counteract the great democratic movement now going on In the world." |