Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-11-02
INVITE CAREFUL INSPECTION OF THEIR AIMS

Trenton, Oct. 29.-President Wilson
has asked the New Jersey voters to
back him up by sending to the United
States Senate George M. La Monte
and Charles OConnor Hennessy. He
followed this up by a special appeal
to the country to leave his hands free
to deal with the Hun government of
Europe by sending back to Congress a
Democratic majority in each branch of
the legislature. Both of these appeals
have added greatly to the candidates.
of both Mr.. La Monte, who is running
for the long term nomination, and Mr..
Hennessy, who is seeking the short
term at Washington. The Presidents
appeals have accomplished more than
that in New Jersey. They have added
remarkable impetus to the campaign
which each of the Democratic candi.
dates has been waging in the - con-
gressional district in this state.
There was more behind the Presi-
dents letter for support for La Monte
and Hennessy than appeared on the
surface. 1t was not merely an appeal
for the election of two Democratic
senators to support shis policies. 1t
was request for vote of confidence
from the people of New Jersey, whom
he knows better than the people OF
any other state in the Union. Fur
ther than that, it was call for sup
port for two men who, by their past
performances, he knew he could rely
upon at Washington. True, Governor
Edge has supported the national adj
ministration in all it's war policies.
He would probably have been i'm
peached had he not done so. But was
he known as so marked supporter
of the Presidents progressive policies
when the latter was governor OF New
Jersey and the present Executive
senator from Atlantic county? This is
the test of Governor Edge.
On the other hand, both Mr.. La
Monte and Mr.. Hennessy are known
and tried Wilson men. 1t needed no
war time situation to compel them to
get behind the principles and ideas OF
Mr. Wilson. In the legislatures OF
1911 and 1918, which were both Demo-
cratic, and in which Wilson was grap-
ping with the reactionary forces, he
had no stauncher hackers than Messrs.
La Monte and Hennessy. Hence,
when he asks the New Jersey voters
to support them because they will sup
port him in winning the war he knows
that past associations with them justi-
fies his appeal.
Republicans of the state profess to
see in the Democratic appeal for sup
port at this time the taking of an I'M
fair war advantage. Yet 20 years ago
they raised the same cry when it came
to electing a Congress. On that occa-
sion they argued that return of
Democratic Congress would be re-
garded by the Spanish peace commits
sioners and the world in general as
Reputation of President McKinley's
peace program. The situation now Is
IDENTICAL but, if anything, more acute,
and despite this, the Republicans re-
fuse to stand by their own precedent.
81 remember in 1885," said George
NJ La Monte, in recent statement,
sat the time of the Spanish-American
War, such leaders as Roosevelt, ex-
President Harrison and many others
called upon the country to give Presi-
dent Mckinley the same kind of sup
port, saying that at that time 1t was
necessary to return to Congress those
who were of the Presidents political
faith in order that the, world might
understand that the nation was fully
back of him and that failure to do
this might have hampered the peace
commissioners and have caused mis-
trust as to whether the people of this
country sustained the President or
not and have meant more war; in
other words, he was entitled to vote
of confidence Those same conditions
prevail a thousand fold today"
Following is the quotation from Col
onel Roosevelt in 1898, when he was
a candidate for governor of New York:
"Remember that whether you will or
not, your votes this year will be
viewed by the nations of Europe from
one standpoint only They will draw
no fine distinctions. A refusal to sus-
tain the President this year will, in
their eyes, be read as refusal to sus-
tain the war and to sustain the eff