The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-10-30

RETURN OF DEMOCRATIC
alAJo oRITl REQUESTED
President Declares Return Of Repub-.
lican Control Would be lnterprs- "
tod Abroad s Reputation. |; !.
Washington, Oct President
Wilson today issued an appeal to. the
people to return a Democratic cong
ress in the November elections il
they approve Of his course in this
critical period. .-sg1. ~ 3:s- 5s. r. :: IL "
Return of Republican majority to
either house of> the congress-. the
president said, would be certainly
interpreted on the other side Of the
water as a reputation Of my leader
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The president said he would accept
the .country's verdict without cavil,
but that if it was adverse the power
to administer the great trust assign
ed to him would be seriously impair
ed. " -
Following is the presidents ap-
peal: . .
my Fellow Countrymen: The con-
gressional elections are at hand.
They occur in the most critical per-
iod our country has ever faced or is
likely to face in our time. If you
have approved of my leadership and
wish me to continue to be your un-
embarrassed spokesman in affairs at
home and abroad, ! earnestly beg
tath you will express yourselves un-
mistakeably to that effect by return,
ing a Democratic majority to both
the senate and house of representa-
tives.
II am your servant and will ac~
cept your judgment without cavil,
but my power to administer the
great trust assigned me by the Con-
stitution would be seriously impair
ed should Judgment be adverse and
l must frankly tell you so because
so many critical issues depend upon
your verdict.
mo scruple of taste must in grim
times likes these be allowed to
stand i'm the way of speaking the
plain truth:
II have no thought of suggesting
that any political party is para
mount in matters of patriotism. I
feel too deeply the sacrifices which
have been made in this war by all.
of our citizens, irrespective of paneFs
affiliations, to harbor such an idea.
l mean only that the difficulties and
delicacies of our present tasks are
of sort that makes it imperatively
necessary that the nation should
give it's undivided support to the
government under a unified leader
ship and that Republican congress
would divide the leadership.
1.-THE leaders of the minority in
the present congress have unques-
tionably been pro-war, but they have
been anti-administration. At almost
every turn since we entered the war
they have sought to take the choice
of policy and conduct of the war
out Of my own hands and put it un-
der the control of instrumentalities
of their own choosing.
"This is no time for either divided
counsel or for divided leadership.
Unity of command is as necessary
now in civil action as it is upon the
field of battle. If the control of the
house and the senate should be TAX
en- away from the party now in pow
er an opposing majority could as
sumo control of legislation and OBJ
lige all action to be taken amidst
contest and obstruction.
'The return Of Republican ma
ority to either house of the con-
gress would moreover be interpret
ed on the other side of the water as
a reputation of my leadership.
Spokesman of the Republican party
are urging you to elect Republican
congress in order to back up and
support the president, but even if
they should in this impose upon
credulous voters on this side of the
water they would impose on no one
on the other side.
1T is we'll understood there as
we'll as here that the Republican
leaders desire not so much to sup
port the president as to control him.
"The people Of the Allied coun-
tries with whom were are associated
against Germany are quite familiar
with the significance *;of elections.
They would find it very difficult to
believe that the voters of the Unit
ed States had chosen to support
their president by electing to the
congress . majority controlled By
those who are in fact not in sym
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