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Show SHALL WE HELP OR HINDER THE . PRESIDENT IS ASKED c- , Only Issue at Stake in Election Is the Upholding of Wobdrow Wilson in Time of Crisis as the Allied Countries Are Doing World Coming to Democracy by Leaps and -Bounds Under His Leadership. WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. More appeals ap-peals to tho voters of the country were Issued tonight by Democratic and Republican Re-publican leaders, including acting Chairman Cummings, of the Democratic Democrat-ic national committee; Attorney Gen-oral Gen-oral Gregory and Representative Fess of Ohio, chairman of tho Republican congressional campaign committee. Mr. Cummings said that the men and women at home "who enjoy the great privilege of suffrage have the same responsibility resting upon them Tuesday Tues-day that rests upon the soldiers who are fighting America's battle for democracy de-mocracy abroad." Only One Is6uc. "There is only one issue," he declared. de-clared. "Shall wo help or hinder the president? He has asked for a, vole of confidence. Shall we give it to him? There is not one of Ihc allied coun-trlos coun-trlos England, France, Italy or Belgium Bel-gium that would not give Woodrow Wilson n vote of confidence at this crisis. Arc wc of the United States less grateful or appreciative? Under his leadership the world is coming to democracy by fast leaps. Thrones are tumbling. Dynasties are crumbling to dust Tuesday will give a word of check lo the president. . . . "In the final hour of the campaign certain political opportunists havc seized upon tho president's war policies poli-cies as an object of attack. They profess pro-fess fear that the president's war aims will' not result in a victorious peace Separately and collectively they shout 'Stop him! Stop him!' The news of the day discloses that tho president's political crisis at home, alone, arc fearful of the success of his policies. "On the front page of a New York 'daily one of tho leading Republican organs or-gans of the country, I find the following follow-ing headlines: " 'Wilson views followed at truce council.' This over an Associated Press dispatch from Paris, j " 'Truce terms strip Turkey of all power.' This over an Associated Press dispatch from London. 1 " 'Austria split; Karl out.' This over a dispatch from Vienna, recounting the j downufall of the Austrian emperor. "'Kaiser Karl. and Archduke flees: new republic is proclaimed,' a Zurich j message announces. "In other columns I read that 'Ger-; 'Ger-; many recognizes Czeeho-Slovaks;' and , 'Yanks free twelve towns,' that 'Pershing's 'Per-shing's men In an advance of four miles take three thousand Germans.' "Do you want to stop him? I am confident you do not." Chairmen Fess urged "overy citizen who respects his rights to cast a bal-i bal-i lot without "Official Interference to j scrutinize closely the activities of the administration which has virtually I taken over the direction of the cam-I cam-I paign to take the present control in I congress." j Some of tho cabinet members, he I said, have been away from the capital (Campaigning in Republican states and i others have issued appeals. ) "The president," said Mr. Fess, , "armed with wider authority than is ; exercised today by any monarch on earth, makes a direct appeal for votes. This most unusual attempt of the head of the government to uso his colossal power for party advantage in time of war, to try to capitalize the people's patriotism for partisan purpose Is like nothing seen in the country since ihe Civil war. "Mr. McAdoo. head of the treasury and of the federal board in charge of banking resources of the nation and head of the capital issues committee in control of all new enterprises both public and private, director general of all transportations, railway and inland waterways with more than two million employes, Mr. McAdoo,- a Georgian, whoso prejudices are made known by his appeal printed on railway sched-jules sched-jules in which he names -the wars our 'nation has engaged in but omits men-jtlon men-jtlon ot our greatest past war, the Civ- 11 war, an insult to every American citizen, Mr. McAdoo pleads for a Democratic Demo-cratic congress for tho sake of unity. "Mr. Burleson, of Texas, head of tho postal system, director of telegraphs tele-graphs and telephone -with thousands of employes, on behnlf of tho present control permits to bo issued from his office a call to arms. People Cannot Be Deceived. "While rumors persist that a peace stampede will be used for party purposes pur-poses the" people cannot be deceived as they were in 1916." Attorney General Gregory said: "Tho partisan Issuo was injected Into tho approaching election by men who are admittedly the leaders of the Republican party. World's Most Influential Citizen. "The president is regarded by tho world as its most influential citizen and by our allies as their chief spokesman. spokes-man. Nevertheless, Colonel Roosevelt, the accepted unofficial leader of the Republican party in the United States . . . has by every means in his power sought to destroy tho confidence reposed re-posed by the people in the president and to weaken the authority with which the latter Is clothed. In a more subtle way the leader of the Republican Repub-lican party in the senate has pursued tho samo course. "Heretofore these gentlemen could hardly be said to havc occupied a more dignified position than tho traditional dog that bayed at the moon. A very different condition would arise if the party led by them obtained control of either house of congress, where It could prevent the passage of legislation legisla-tion essential to the further carrying out of the president's policies. . . . Wilson's Plain Duty. "It was therefore the plain duty of President Wilson to warn the people against the danger of this government becoming one of factions at a lime like this." The Democratic national committee tonight made public a letter written by Herbert Hoover, food administrator, administra-tor, to Frederic R. Coudert of New York City, in which Mr. Hoover said. Hoover for'President. "I am for President Wilson's leadership leader-ship not only in the conduct of the war, but also in the negotiations of peace, and afterwards In the direction of America's burden in tho rehabilitation rehabili-tation of the world. There Is no greater great-er monument to any man's genius than tho conduct of negotiations with the enemy by tho president. If the final overthrow and surrender of autocracy can be accomplished through the German Ger-man and their allied people themselves, them-selves, the president will not only save the lives of a million American boys and countless innocent women and children, but will have attained more complete victory and a more permanent perma-nent guarantee of peace than any other oth-er means." 00 .. |
