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Show H Republican Chiefs Puncture fl Appeal To Gather Votes m Record of G. O. P. in Congress Shown Superior to the H Democrats in Support of Measures to ; Defeat Hun Tyranny ;H WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. The statement issued by II Republican leaders in Congress follows: ! "Some time ago the President said 'Politics is Ad- journed.' Now, in the closing days of the campaign de- W layed by thp united efforts of all parties for the Liberty ! Loan now, when all public gatherings have been given jH up owing to the influenza epidemic, the President sends ;H out a direct party appeal calling upon hiscountrymen to tH vote for Democrats because they are Democrats without 'H any reference to whether such Democrats have been or !H are in favor of war measures and have a war record jH which deserves support. "The voters of Michigan, to take a single example, ! are called upon to support Mr. Henry Ford notorious 1H for his advocacy of peace at any price, for his contemp- ;H tuous allusions to the flag, for his exemption of his son 'H from military service on the sole ground that he will :H blindly support the President. Republican Loyalty Unquestioned by President : i'iie i-resiaenc is quite ready to admit that Kepub- ;H licans are loyal enough to fight and die, as they are doing H by the thousands; loyal enough to take up great loans ' and pay enormous taxes; loyal enough to furnish import- ant men at.no salary on some of the great war boards in H Washington. But they are not loyal enough in the Presi- dent's opinion, to be trusted with any share in the govern- ment of the country or legislation for it. H "If the Republican party controls the House, we can fl point out some of the things they will do. They will re- fl place Mr. Dent of Alabama at the head of the military B affairs committee with Mr. Julius Kahn, to whom the administration was obliged to turn for assistance to tako .H charge of and carry the first draft bill agavist Mr. Dent's - opposition. They will rat&ii Republican at the head of the sjM ways and means committee, as leader of the House, in- stead of Mr. Kitchin of North Carolina, who voted against the war. They will give the country a speaker who did not oppose and would never oppose a draft bill H and would never say, as Speaker Clark did, that 'There H is precious little difference between a conscript and a con- viet.' G. 0. P. Casts Most Votes for War Measures I "Although the Republicans of the House are in the I minority, they cast more actual votes on seven great war H measures than the Democrtic majority was able to do. H What is the record of the Senate? On fifty-one roll calls ' on war measures between April 6, 1917, and the 29th of May, 1918, the votes cast by Republicans in favor of such JM measures were 72 per cent, while only 67 per cent of the votes cast on the Democratic side were in favor of such -1H measures. Those were the President's own measures. ; Does that record look as if we had hampered him? The I Republican party in Congress has supported the admin- istration policies since the war with a unanimity and an I absence of criticism unprecedented in party history. I "There are some domestic questions where we should I undoubtedly differ from the course pursued by the ad- I ministration. We should not, for example, fix a price on I the farmers' wheat and leave the planter's cotton un- I touched. Another domestic question in which the Repub- I lican party believes thoroughly is economic preparation I for the coming of peace and they are clearly of the opin- I ion that the Congress of the United States should not be I excluded from that great tasK. i, m - .War Not President's,. But of All Americans I "This is not the President's personal war. This is not' the war of Congress. It is not thewar of the Democratic or the Republican party. It is the war of the American people. It is more. It is the war of the United States, of the allied powers, of the civilized world against the bar- M barism of Germany. In this great burden and respon- 9 sibility the Republican party, representing more than m half the citizenship of the country, demands its rightful p share. If the Republican party is entrusted with power, S in either or both houses they will do everything possible ft to drive forward the war and hasten the day of victory. sf, "The President speaks of the necessity of telling the j& plain truth. That the Republican party in control of Con-' Mr gress would do, for they have no friends to shield. And M they will do more. They will give all the money to the M last dollar necessary to sustain our armies and our fleets, w but they will check the waste now going on of the money, m (Contlnuod on Pago Five.) .. Sp Republican Chiefs Puncture JH (Continued From Page One) lli'j ' given by-the most generous people on the face of the- jl earth. ) Republican Victory Discouraging to Germany " jH "The President speaks of the effect of the election jH abroad. He says there they understand the meaning of el- jH ections. They do, and they will know that if the Repub- jul licans have a majority in Congress, the war will be press- HM ed with greater vigor than ever before. They are quite IH aware that the power of the Senate is equal to that of the- jH j President in the consummation of peace by treaty. They iH will know that the Republican party stands for a victor- ! ious peace and the overthrow of Prussian militarism- 'H That.knowledge will not depress the spirit of our allies. M or encourage the government of Germany. H "The Republican party believes that the question of H surrender should be left to Marshal Foch, to the generals H and to the armies in the field. When they report Germany H has laid down her arms the United States and the allies H should then impose their terms. Will that "knowledge M cause dejection to those who are fighting with us? AIL H the world knows that the Republican party is opposed to M negotiations and discussion carried on in diplomatic notes M addressed to the German government. The Republican- H party stands for .unconditional surrender. There is no H Republican creed so short that there is not room in it for those two4 words." M "HENRY CABOT LODGE, "REED SMOOT, Chairman, H "Republican Senatorial Committee, Ml - "FREDERICK TT. GIL-LETT, """ "SIMEON D. FESS, Chairman VK "Republican Congressional CommittcD." &M w$ President Keeping Politics in War, Says Hays ftp Wilmington,.Del., Oct. 25. Will If. Hays, Republican gj$ national chairman, characterized Pre: ident Wilson's ap- kM; peal for the return of Democratic majorities in Congress $yjj as the "climax of many acts of the Pre. Wlent designed to Sjj keep politics in the war, despite his widely heralded de- gg clared intent to keep it out." Ej |