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Show M WHY WE NEED A REPUBLICAN CONGRESS m INTERVIEWS WITH REPUBLICAN LEADERS W ' BY RICHARD BARRY, IN THE OUTLOOK I fl' 'I Mf ; WHY SHOULD THE UNITED STATES, IN THE MIDST OF WARDIVIDE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF CONTROL IN ITS GOVERNMENT , I WENT TO THE j H CHIEF OF THE REPUBLICAN LEADERS WITH THIS QUESTION, FROM MANY TRIBUTARIES THfe ANSWERS FLOWED INTO ONE RIVER, WITH THIS ( Sjl' DOMINANT IDEA: . ' m ! ! THE COUNTRY IS ENTITLED IN TIME OF WAR TO THE USE OF THE BEST BRAIN POWER OF BOTH PARTIES; SO FAR IT HAS BEEN LED LARGELY W& BY ONLY ONE. UNDER OUR LAWS, DIFFERENT FROM THOSE OF FRANCE, ENGLAND, ITALY AND CANADA, THE ONLY WAY TO SECURE A GEN-1Q "J MP UINE COALITION GOVERNMENT IS FOR THE PEOPLE TO ELECT IT THIS NOVEMBER; THEREFORE IT IS DISTINCTLY UP TO THE INDIVIDUAL AM- Hi ERICAN VOTjER TO SAY WHETHER OR NOT HE WISHES TO HAVE BOTH PARTIES. OR ONLY ONE IN THE RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT OF THE WAR jjft ; SENATOR LODGE have backed it and have taken the lead in the war's sup- TAXATION III . V Shortly after Henry Cabot Lodge was elected by the fJil "lLSif feAS L8 has been widely apparent that in the framing of ? ".' Republican Senators as their leader and spokesman, I Aaimns unBf "fi4?. ? fv our war revenue ms one Southern Representative com- j I : sought him in the minority conference room, previously J"fi Jjj ?S TlS "tJfSSSL JSSSSi P y ' inS from a sma11 North Carolina town in an agricultural I ccSpied by the late Senator Gallinger. "Republicans are iffiffiSSL m nf Strict has had a dominating voice. This is Mr. Claude ; 1 of one mind as to this war and as to the terms of peace," .. e f 525,5 f- K iL& "EfLSSjlSS Kitchin Chairman of the House Ways and Means Com- ! flfe lie said. "Even as a minority they have never flinched g r nfl a E?X5Ll inSv ,nittee who holds his commanding position, not by vir- TC where the majority party has weakened. Without the ?o0PlenJ !?JMJ2!SS mhI cr0Wned by tue of financial experience or knowledge, but solely, ifll liepublicans of the House the first and second draft bills tne Peace of m overwhelming victory. . through the. rule of seniority and party organization. Mr. :mf : on which all of our success in war rests, could never have I WILLIAM H. TAFT Kitchin voted against the resolution to declare war, and Sir-! been passed. In control of the organization of -House and .. MmMUU.BiMn T xiA -f t , ne nas openly stated on the floor of the House that he in- m Senate they will be able to drive the war forward with t .?,n J iSJSiSS tehds to make "Northern bankers" pay for it. It ap- ?ii r -8Wter energy than the present majority because they ffiigj Afift tStSSSJS Vears manif estly " air that uch a man should have the W Save no friends in executive office to protect and no ord- n.ed Jh his breadth i of ! manner indicated one whose chief voice -n financial legislation, especially when one -W ? era to take from any source except the country's cause. YiXJ , SEJ S5Si Jj.I l i2 fc considers that the great bulk of the revenue must be sup- m IThey will not hesitate to tell the truth, and nothing can "Jan jS JLCJ S-&SRwt Plied h others than Southern agriculturists. There is . tfl so advance the war as absolute. truth in dealing with the Mr. Wilson, awho for four jears-.j J only one way to eliminate Mr. Kitchin as a dominant fac- W American people. Republicans have but one Idea now, J,??; ?aS ?'L JSS J5f i5! 5 &?L w! tor in the f Jture war revenue bills, and that is through !, nd that is to. win the war. They have nothing to conceal. J ? -1, ha?f Sf ftftft W" the election of a Republican Congress. Mi . Thev. realize that Americans are brave, that they are Srtenna ''" ?fe!S?Jiftff??JSS; The-election of a Republican .Congress would change. I , fcu any sacrifice, that they want to know the truth, tv conte "J SKLJISSSS KifrfhS2SS the chairmanships of many other important committees 1,1 oy will facejt, that they will do all the better for ?on Committee on Ways and Means, If ing it, and that nothing is gained bymisleading them. ,mscSid"ct 01 lailm?'- " nelghb or become stern. Whether or'not their i? any justice in the statement that j(l . Republicans wish to sustain to the utmost those .. , .wJth s,l!cna vlTew'. sai.d r vf Vi. vi " sPirit of sectionalism influences much of the Federal Jm'f" v ,vi. . ;ed vith responsibility-first, and above all, our :h6hAtest Patien.?f- lt 1S utterly "eath consideration. legislation under the control of committee chairmen in K i .wmies in the field, then the Administration; but where American cibzen can now consider any moment but Congress from the S5uth; it is nevertheless true that the th-'L is inefficiency, delay, or wrong-doing they will ad- the present. The party fortunes of 1920 must be allowed Scutlr is very much more largely represented in such . tt dress themselves to correcting it without fear or favor." to ta ca of themselves. The only thought that one chairmanships than any other part of the country. Kk Other leaders in the Senate pointed out to me that can afford t?"1" now is that a Republican contro. As an mustl.ation 0f what changes would probably III ' Eepublican urgence for more speed and nothing else had of Congress w needed imperatively to drive the American occur in chairmanships if the Republicans control Con- J awakened the country to its high duties toward this war: war proj?,amhle on toua successful conclusion. The elec- it m be gaid -that Mr Kitchin pi.esent Chairman fv , that only pressure" had given lis a large army; that only tl0n m Maine proves that the American public is well ofthe Ways and Means Committee in the House, would ' H I? persistent Republican demand had sent the necessary awa,re whl?h Jarly 1ias T rtter YtZ record and c? probably be supplanted by -Joseph W. Fordney, of Michi-9; Michi-9; Z munitions abroad; that only Republican insistence had g?1 can b.etter Je trud to met waI Tln Pan, recognized internationally asa financial authority; I N properly developed the shipbuilding programme; that the comjng tjyo yfeai-s. The country knows that the Dera- that g Hubert' Dent j of Alabama; the present Chair. Wm- h- joniy through constant Republican agitation had the War ocratic-leaders in Congress have fallen down repeatedly mari of the House Military Affairs Committee, who has t Department been put on even a fair working basis. $ amj.tant. enses. They know that Chairman Dent,, of been present peril to our military, efficiency, t M; . c THFonORP nnnvwiT ihe $&.&"? Committee, failed to meet ttie.de- probably would be supplanted by Julius Kahn, of CalifoigJ f ; ; THEODORE ROOSEVELT mands of his party leader, who in a great war crisis was n whJ hag twke th& contlys war pr0grammlB l i f" In the period between the Spanish and German wars also the Commander-in-Chief of the Army. They know that g Mal,ti of Virginia chairman of thtT m? f . . Republicans stood continuously for construction and pre- tnat rf the ranking Republican member of that Commit- Senate Committee on Appropriations, would probably be paredness. Bearing this in mind, I sought him who for tetm. .Kahn, had not stepped into the breach and fought replaced eithet by jdhn.W. Weeks,' of Massachusetts, an f . iwo decades has been tiie party's chief spokesman. America s fight at a epical moment, the first Diaft Law accompiished banker and a graduate of Annapolis, or by . . 'The lack of a Republican Congress," said Theodore juld" not have gone through as it did The American Francig E Warren f Wyoming father-iri-law of Genei- ' , t .. Eoosevelt, "has meant slowaess and irresponsibility and lJ0 g10. wliat Champ Clark, what ; CHaude Kitchm, al Pershing. and finally that Senator Lodge, recognized, I f i r needless dragging on of the war, because the real con- ai other Democratic 'ders repeatedly didon the floor everywherl'as th'e leadiJg poUtical authority in this coun-B coun-B V structive forces of this country are in the Republican of the House to.f"F $ S YfA try on foreign affah-s, and now minority leader in the H i . narty. Give us a Republican Congress this year, and we measures not only on the declaration of war ett, Senate, would doubtless come to his own as the real di-K di-K fc will be in a position to force immensely increased war ef- even after the United States ; had I been commuted to its rector of the courge of the geJlate in f ord relations H k .- ficiency. It could probably secure the appointment of a present high position. The QCOUtry knows Pctly well A vote in.Indiana or California.or New York, or in M I ,v v Director of Munitions- and, of hih Air Minister; officials that, fudging the tap parties ionly on thei '"" the any8tate in 'the'Union, if cast for Republican Congress- T ft whom France, England and Canada long since found es- present Congress, there is nothing to Jo but to give the ig justag eftective in rcrnoving t&se airmanships V F Bential, but the appointment of which- the Democrats Republicans the next control The American Nation f rom the Souttra!rif cast the staf es of the incumbents. . I K ' party has opposed through the hereditary inability of the stands vitally in need of that control, and it will never be The question isnot oneof sectionaUsm but of the inequity. K Democrats to think in terms of a really efficient and or- n greater need than in the coming Congress. that ta when the South spends the money whUe the - ganized Government. In aU 6ther ways that mean heigh- "No voter should have any thought of 1920 now; Al 'Northand West thabaia " " ', , tened war efficiency through concentrated and intensive other issues in thecoming election are a8econdary to tins: RECONSTRUCTION I co-ordination the RepubUcins are better.fitted by tem- How can ithe Uxiited States cjeye ite highest war effl- ;k"ik I . I " ' perament .training and experience to achieve than are the ciency ?' The onlanswer to tiiat question lies in the study . Whale toe notary and financial prosecution of the I m; , democrats . r - of the records of the two parties in the present Congress, war is the first issue before the country, the next com- I "Now that the United States has become a world "Is there any Tground' I ajked, "for the contention I K a -power in the fullest sense of. the phrase, it can no longer of certain Democratic orators that Republican victoryin other countries except the United States are preparing K -trust for.leadership to men who have stubbornly contend- November would be interpreted as favorable to Germany, constructively for peace. The United States alone isas 9' ed for the narrowest limitations of National authority,! 'The Gemanr taow perfectly weU," ranted the ex- unprepared for peace as she was for war. The Democrats , m l - and who have thought in terms of the State rather than President, "that it will go. even harder with them when show no disposition to consider in advance thereconstruc- ; r, in terms of the Nation, and yet who have swallowed their the Republicans win the election. They are just asf ully tion problem. . They are no more, the preparedness party B; wn Words whenever a momentary political advantage informed of the records of the two parties in Congress for peace than they were the preparedness party for war. H' wag ijg Kained thereby. aa they are of the military conditions. They know that While they have the excuse for their delay in equipping I Kg' "Some people may point out to you that under the they have more to 'fear from the Republicans than from the country with a proper war programme that the Unit- I H Democrats the United States has reached a greater cen- the Democrate, judging the two parties by their records ed States is not a miUtaristic Nation, and that it was for B:;v -tralization of authority than ever before. This is true, since Apnl, 1917, by then? prepaedness records and by a time "too proud to fight", it is difficult to imagine what H? l but it is not in line with any pinciple. The Democrats run their whole life records. tiieir-excuse, will be for lack of preparedness for peace. - lefore the wind' they change and dodge; they seize any "Besides they have our party declarations, and they Through Senator Weeks the Republicans have already Bk' ' -expediency they unduly limit authority, they unduly ex- know that there is not one Republican leader with claim troduced in the Senate a resolution calling for theap- Bll tend it but you cannot pin them down to a definite pro- to' any titular rank in the party who has not proclaimed pointment' of a Gommittee on Reconstruction, which" B gram ' On the other hand we do know positively what himself vigorously .in favor of carrying the war to a would adequately consider in advance the many problems M . the Republicans have done, what they stand for, and what speedy 'knock-out' victory. The German leaders will know that will be upon us at the. drop of the peace hat, and H r they will do when they come into power again. It is the definitely when the Republican Congress is elected in which, if we are unprepared to meet them, may throw us H Vi inevitable lone of events that the Republican doctrines, November that they have nothing to hope for from Am- into, panics and confusions from which decades will not H ' which are in direct opposition to the Democratic theories Rricans except hot shot and more of it. deliver us. It is true that Senator Overman, since Sena- H -and practices of local government, as well as to their pres- "Moreover, our allies, who are well informed as to our tor Week's proposal was made, has introduced a bill prac- H ent abnormal trend toward ijaternalism, shall control the methods of party government, would be immeasurably tically putting the control of all reconstruction, policiear B'' . .campaign.' cheered by a Republican victory. They would know that into the hands of the President. But this plan cannof? B ' . "There should be a mutual responsibility for and a that means a speeding up all along the line; that it means pass even a Democratic Congress without weeks of de- I H j -mutual check upon the extra-Constitutional powers grant- an end to all hesitation and delay; and they would recog- bate, if at all. A Democratic Congress will not meet these od the Chief Executive as war measures solely. The only nize the fact that the will of the American people has been reconstruction problems at the only time that they pro- P ' way to have this is through the election of a Republican expressed at the' polls in favor of the "Win the War Now' perly can be met in advance; a Rejjublican Congress B Congress. This is the people's war. The Republicans policy." would meet them properly. H H Congressman Welling says: "Intelligent men all over the land today concede that a Democratic Congress will be eelected and ought to be elected. In no other way can this II H country serve notice upon the despots of Europe that this nation stands squarely behind the President.!' Mr. Welling evidently does not include such intelligent men as K XodgefRbosdHlt, TaffiWfc others. These.men perhaps know as much about it as Welling does. The people will judge - '$y '.' -V 'rr- CACHE COUNTY REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE tf I - . , (Paid Political Advertisement) s ,- , ,A..ff; . II B. -' " II HV( El H ;.r II Bt if, , " " il KE&ZSZZ " ' -- - T -"''1"-' "" -"' -mmiiZma-.m .J auay aMa -A.- Q.M H J K. . mrf , . " , u,,... II..HIIIII..II ii laiimwiiMiiiMf M IIW |