Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-31
Three Cabinet Members
Tell Why Democratic
CONGRESS Is ESSentia

Contributions to the political dis
Cussion were made yesterday by
three members of the Presidents cab
met, Secretaries Lane. Wilson and
Redfeld. Statements from them were
given out by the democratic national
committee.
Secretary Redfeld's Views.
Secretary Redfeld's statement said,
in part:
Ordinary common sense shows that
the interest of the country requires
the election Of a Congress Cloth
houses) in political sympathy with the
administration. One does not swap
horses while crossing the stream save
IN an emergency. Nc emergency CALI
ing for the swap exists. The present
team is well matched. pulling to-
gether and doing the job we'll One
cannot say how the new horse would
behave. Let it be admitted, for the
sake of argument, that he has Off
cially pulled fairly straight much,
perhaps most, of the time thus far.
There are exceptions and often a Wis
ible tendency to kick over the traces"
MI. Lane Expresses Himself.
Secretary Franklin X. Lanes state
ment, said in part:
eat the head of our state is the
man whom the world looks to for
guidance in this contest. To back
him to the limit and enable him to
look the kaiser in the eye and tell
him what the conscience of the world
commands is our duty. Irrespective of
party. He must not be discredited,
weakened or worried by any appar-
ent hesitation on the part of the
people generously to support him.
I'VE must have the impulse of SYM
pathy for the strugglers, for those
who are fighting their way up, and
this must be controlled by steady
brain which will not sacrifice fiber to
sentimentaiity. The democratic party
should and must take the lead in the
evolution of a more intensely social
lied life. It has the right sympathies,
and it has the sympathetic and bal
anced leadership"
Secretary Wilson's Statement.
Secretary of Labor William B. Will
sons statement was, in part, as fol-
lows:
THE statement of Mr.. Hays. chair
man of the republican national COM
mittee, that the Presidents appeal
to be mentioned to reveal it's abb
surdity. Autocracies make no ap-
peals to the people.
NO one questions the fact that
many republicans. voted for war.
voted for the selective draft and voted
for additional taxation and bond
issues. but the partisan spirit was
SO strong in some of them that they
had no sooner voted for war. for
men and money than they began to
r. he Iyoi ictr
duct of the war.
"The real reason for the partisan
activity of the reactionary republican
element is that more legislation bene-
fetal to the great mass of the COM
mon people has been placed upon the
statute books and more sympathetic
understanding of the rights and re-
sponsibilities of labor. has obtained
during the administration of Presi-
dent Wilson than in all of the pre-
of the civil war. and. Furthermore.
that. Notwithstanding the terrific
strain placed upon the workers in in
dustry to produce the necessary
equipment and supplies for the
nsen Of or amy t and si Na1y
ards of work and of living of men,
women and children have not only
been maintained, but have been i'm
proved"
Mr.. Cannon Answers Mr.. Tumulty.
Representative Cummin of Illinois,
issued statement by way of reply
to Secretary Tumulty, which said in
part:
IF Mr. Tumulty will read all the
speeches of President Mckinley in
1898 he will find that there was no
partisan politics in them and that no
where did he ask the people to elect
republican Congress to support him
and his policies, but. on the contrary,
showed absolute confidence in the
people of the whole country with
out regard to partisan politics or sec
ton, the democratic south as we'll as
the republican north.
THE historic fact is that President
Mckinley made his tour of the coun-
try in the fall of 1898 to sound pub
lie sentiment regarding the retention
of the Philippines. and that he sur
rendered to that sentiment. He left
Washington feeling that we should
retain only a coaling station in the
Philippines. and he returned to Wash
inston convinced that the people OF
this country would insist that he keep
all the islands; and he so advised his
peace commissioners in Paris. The
treaty. waS so written and was SUP