The sun., 1916-10-15
OLD GUARDS GHOST
RAISED BY WILSON
President Tells Keystone Visi-
tors It Controls Republic
can Party.
ATTACKS SENATE ACTION
Says Private Conferences Con-
trOl-Fears War IL Rival
Is Elected.

trOl-Fears War IL Rival
Is Elected.
LONG BRANCH, N. j., Oct. 1A-Presi-
dent Wilson to-day reiterated his charge
that the Old Guard is in control Of the
Republican party and that II the Demo-
Gratis are defeated 1t means a return to
Invisible government" He asserted
again that the triumph Of tho Repub-
leans means a disturbance of policy
all along the line. new conditions. new
adjustments, underlined alterations Of
policy"
Further. he pointed out hat a major
ity Of the Republican membas Of the
House OF Representatives voted that
Americans have no right to travel on
the high seas" That. he said. is incon-
sistent with the policy expressed by the
party leaders.
The Presidents speech was delivered
at Shadow Lawn to 1000 Pennsylvania
Democrats. who came to the place in
eight special trains. In part the Presii
dent said
You know that the elements that are
now behind the candidates of the oppo-
sition party are exceedingly varied. but
they are easy OF analysis. The most In
.eresting element 10 that which 10 most
vocal. The representatives Of that ele-
ment are confidently telling us. though
none OF them 10 a candidate for ONCE.
what the party will do II II Is given the
power to do anything. But those who
are nominated for office are carefully
avoiding saying whether they will do
what the vocal element promises. In
other words. they are putting up as
their spokesmen of policy those whom
they do not even pretend to trust with
power.
Sees the Old Guard.
And now. after the smoke has cleared
away. after the atmosphere has yielded
TO the influences Of time, we see stand
Pg out before us that familiar old guard
that has never for a moment been dis
turbed in Its possession Of power or
turned aside In Its exercise OF the con-
troll which II has used.
at IL a very interesting circumstance
that the House of Representatives Is less
docile than the Senate. In the House II
has sAain and again happened that the
Republican minority has broken away
from the control of its leaders and
WYNN ~ - Us
members. sometimes almost unanimous
ly, for the measures which have dis
tinguished The action of the presen;
Democratic Congress. They came from
the people. They knew when these
things were suggested in Congress that
they would be held i~nexcusable II they
did not sustain them.
'Only upon one conspicuous occasion
did the contrary happen. when the Re-
Vtthlt.snV machine uunA ahIa 20 .,nv,, V.t IN
majority Of its members In the House
OF Representatives to vote that Ameri-
can citizens had no right to travel on the
high seas.
attacks Seaate's Action.
But II Is another story In the Sem
ate. There n serene confidence obtains
In the private conferences of the Sem
ate. ! ave never been admitted to
their privacy, but I hav seen their per-
Torrance. and the most re~actionary men
In America have absolutely controlled
the action OF the minority In the United
States Senate. except for n few examples
OF independence by distinguished indi-
viduais who did not care to be mastered
and owned by anybody.
But their number was 80 small as
TO he negligible. They nave been un-
easy and II little unshepherded ever since
Mark Hanna and Senator Aldrich passed
from the stage. II was so much easier
10 be told what to do. 1t vas SO much
simpler to get orders.
Now these gentlemen are In obvious
and undisputed control Of the organiza-
ton OF the Republican party. II Is they
who are counselling their leaders to say
as little as possible and to say 1t in as
confused a way az possible, so that
nobody may know how 10 calculate their
orbit from day TO day.
80 that It all comes down to n very
simple proposition. Are you eOing TO
leave your Government under the con-
troll OF people who do know and who
will tell you what they are going to do.
or are you going to put II In the hands
Of men who will not tell you what they
are going to do and will serve their
private interests?
THE choice Is bigger than that. I
understand from the leaders Of the Re-
publican party hat nothing that has
been done has been done right. They
do not say that the thing that was done
was always wrong. but the way In which
II was done was always wrong. They
do not venture to say, that Is to say tho
private counse does not venture to say.
that we wanted anything but peace. but
they would have preferred some other
way, not disclosed. OF obtaining peace.
The vocal part says. we wanted war
The silent part intimates that we want
ed peace but waited another kind OF
peace. They never can get over that
Fundamental uneasiness that America 10
in charge Of somebody else than them
selves.
"But America knows that tho things
that were done did obtain peace. and
IL does not know that the things that
might have been done would have OBJ
tanned peace, so hat America knows thai
II Is faced with this choice: Peace. the
continuance of the development OF busl'
ness along the lines which II has now
established and developed and the main
tenance OF well known progressive lines
of action, on the one hand or. on the
other, q disturbance Of policy all along
the l,ne-new conditions. new adjust
ments. underlined alterations of policy
and back OF 1t all invisible government.
Foreign Affairs Impossible.
THAT Is the temper Of the people o,
handsome certainty for an unhandsomt
uncertainty. See how big the time Il
with possibility. At this present mo-
ment il Is almost impossible to do any
thing positive In the field of foreign az
fairs because foreign nations have beer
led to suppose that there may be q
change In our foreign AFFAIRS.
"Foreign nations have been led to be
lteye that a dominant element In thu
Republican party Is In favor Of dra wins
the United states into the European war
and they have been told, with abundant
evidence, that 1t II probable that II thu