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Show PEACE 18 NECESSARY M'ADOO ASSERT .V15W Y01UC, Nov. 7. William 0. MeAdoo former aeeretan of tliatretta-ur, tliatretta-ur, in a statemant Monday night commenting on the lesult of the national na-tional uleetinn, declared that what the country need ia aulialdunce of the iwasiona and haUiils engnderel by the war and the partisan political appeals ap-peals that huvo followed. The atnte-ment atnte-ment aays: "It is of no nlm to try to explain the cniisea of the dumocrHtla defeat Sn ember 'id. The overw helming republican re-publican victory has given that party tho preaidunc.v, and both housea of the congress. After March 1 1 It nexl it will have entire responsibility foi the ixdirie and admiuistraton of tho government and cannot evade or excuse ex-cuse its failure to perform the promise prom-ise it bus made to the country. Uudei our imlitieut svstem it is always belter ( huvo one art control at Washington Washing-ton than to have divided authority. Whut tho country iniRrutivly need now is sulwideniH) of the iwaslons and hatred engendered by the war nnd jiartisau political appeal that have followed. We are sick of politlenl slander nud controversies. We want domes! io a well aa international peace and want restoration of thnt flue spirit of co-operation which made Amenon invincible in war. We faee domestn and Intel national problems of great tjrtiv it The only wny to solve them is through mi-oiierntlon. The highest dutv of the leadara of both arties is, therefore, to promote better feeling aiming all elasses of our people, to refmin from unworthy ap-Mais ap-Mais to class and tacinl prejudice uni to bring to bear iim our serluis liroblems that dispaasiouata and intelligent in-telligent concern through which nlnno there la promise of genuine mUlti service. "Tho democrat io party bus suffer-ed suffer-ed a aware, hut not a disnslrous defeat de-feat It is far from doad; it is not even sonousl wounded. Throughout our hintor.v overw helming poutiaiil inverses lmve been follow oil by ox-traordinwuj ox-traordinwuj jolitioftl reoovenes. So long na the demoonitio party is true to its mission of sarvico to tho com-mon com-mon people it will live. What wo must do now is to build up nnd strengthen tho party nrgnuuntion, not in tho iuteiost of nny individual or group or fiution, but toi tho cause of democraej itself, nnd, nbovo all, for service or eountrj. It will not Ik difficult, through proper londorship nnd reorganization, to roinsplro )srt cnthufinftin, to restore pnrty umiv, to malntnin imrtj idoals nnd jmnri pies nnd to regain wpulnr confidence To this task detuoerntie lenders must now devote themselves with unselfish patriotism nnd courage." |