The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-08
IF THE REPUBLICANS WIN

Suppose the Republicans should win in the fall elections, and send a Republican Congress to Washington to help President Wilson. Suppose the G. P. should win the House, and control the Senate, what then?
 Remember the Old Guard, crushed in 1912 because 1t stood in the way of progressive and democratic princi- ples. In the short six years that have elapsed, the country has travelled fur ther in the direction of decent and scientific political development than 1t travelled in the preceding sixty years. Bear this progress in mind, do not forget that it was a democratic administration and a democratic Con- gress that made it possible, and then look ahead to a possible Repuc:can victory this fall.
 James R. Mann, of Illinois, minor ity leader would become majority leader or. Speaker of the House of Representatives. He voted against three revenue bills, the Shipping Board bill, the Espionage Act against tabling the McLemore resolution. His attitude toward President Wilson's foreign policy was criticised even by Republican newspapers in 1917. Jos- eph W. Fordney, of Michigan, who voted against the Shipping Board bill, against tabling the McLemore resol- ution. and against two of the last three revenue bills, would head the Ways and Means committee. Fred erick H. Gillett, of Massachusetts, would head the Appropriation com- mittee. He opposed the Shipping Board and Food Survey acts, and merely voted present bn the last great revenue bill.
 Henry Allen Cooper, of Wisconsin, who would have headed the Foreign | Affairs committee, lost in the primar l ies because he voted against the war resolution, against tabling the Mo Lemore resolution, and tried to nullify the Armed Neutrality Act. Stephen | G. Porter, of Pennsylvania, now in line for chairman in a Republican Congress, aided Cooper's fight on 1 Armed Neutrality. John J. Esch, an- other Wisconsin Republican, voted | wi~n Cooper on the three measures named above. He would become chairman of the Interestate and For l eiga Commerce committees. Gilbert N. Haugen, of Iowa, another who voted against the war resolution, against the Food Survey and Espion- age acts, and against tabling the Me Lelaore resolution, would head the Agriculture, committee. Philip P. Campbell, of Kansas, who voted with Cooper against Armed Neutrality, and aga inst the Espionage and Food Sur vey acts, would head the Rules com mit.ee. Everis A. Hayes, of Califor- ni another anti-war Republican, would head the Banking and Curren- cy committee.
 f that outfit of anti-war, stand pat Republicans at the helm in the House could not help President Wilson sufficiently perhaps this CO., terie in the Senate could be of some | assistance"
 Boies Penrose, of Pennsylvania
 would become chairman of the Fiji
 nance, Postoffices and Post Roads
 or Naval Affairs committee, taking
 his choice. Think of Boies Penrosc
 reactionary and arch standpatter that
 he IS helping a Democratic admins trat!on, or any progressive admins tratioh, through these three power, full committees.
 '1Tle President thinks he Is Presi
 dent of the whole world" according ! to Senator Francis E. Warren, o1 Wyoming, who would "help" the Ad ministration as chairman of the Alp
 proprtation or Military Affairs com
 mittees. He has "helped" in the pas by votes against the Federal Reserv'
 act, the eight hour law, the Shipping Board bill, Armor Plate bill, etc. Blu it appears that Warren will be defeat
 cd by progressive Wyoming voters
 i2 which case Reed Shoot, of Utah
 would head the Appropriations com
 mittee of Republican Senate, witt
 John W. Weeks, of Massachusetts, a
 the head of Military Affairs
 Weeks is the man who said, on tn floor of the Senate:
 g "Evereybody knows that the sal
 of the Liberty Bond has been a grea failure.' and who conducted the fiji B buster that delayed the. ship bill on
 year. He should ''help" even nor as chairman of a powerful commit !. tee.
 | Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachu Il sets, would head g. Republican Sen = ate committee on Foreign Relation,
 which. in war time, must work closet u and confidentially with the Pres e dent. How cordially he could "help
 the President might be inferred fror
 Lodges personal attack on Presider
 Wilson in 1916, charging him, on tn d authority of smoking car gossip, wit Q having privately notified German
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