The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-10-31

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ppeal to the people to return a DEM
'cratic majority to congress, for he
iirectly imputes the loyalty and pa
riotism of the republican party. This
in his appeal admits of no
,ther constructions:
IF the control of the house and
and the senate should be taken
away from the party now in power
an opposing majority could assume
control of legislation and oblige
all action to be taken amidst con-
test and obstruction. 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 some
incredulous voters ON this side of
the water they would impose on
no one on the other side. 1t Is
well uClStOOu llClC WCli 90
here that the republican leaders
desire not so much to support the
president as to control him.
"The peoples of the allied coun-
tries with whom we 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
United States had chosen to sup
port their president by electing to
the congress a majority controlled
by those who are not in fact in
sympathy with the attitude and
action of the administration
Never before in our country's his
tory has a president so prostituted
his high position for partisan advan-
tage, in spite of the fact that never
before did a war president have the
united support of the opposition party
in carrying out his war policies. Every
great war measure which the presi
dent deemed necessary for success, tn,
republicans have supported will
greater unanimity than the democrats
Defenders of President Wilson'S appea
for democratic votes attempt to justif.
it on the ground of precedent in tn,
campaign of 1898 during the peace
conference following the war will
Spain. In the first place no such ap
peal was ever made by President Nc
Kinley, and no word ever passed hi
lips that could be construed as al
imputation Of the loyalty and patriot
ism of democrats in congress or out
Speakers in behalf Of the republican
party did contend that the election o
democratic congress at that tim
would be regarded by Spain and coun
tries in sympathy with her as a re
pudiation of the president and his wa
policies. Why? Because the demo
Gratis in both houses of congress, witt
few exceptions, had voted against
bond issue to finance the war an,
other great and essential war meas
ures, and were even then making
campaign against what they terme,
the imperialistic policy of the presi
dent, the furtherance of which the,
claimed had been the real purpose o
the war with Spain. In that situation
it is evident that democratic success
meant reputation Of the president AM
his war policy.
Today, when the republicans in an,
out of congress are supporting tn
president with a loyalty exceeding tina
o. his own party, President Wilson
himself, not his partisan speakers an
newspapers, makes the same charge
going so far as to say that republican
leaders desire not so much to supper
the president as to control him.
Never was a more unwarranted insul
offered to loyal people. Over hal
the population of this country is re
publican. Republican brains hav
brought order and efficiency out o
chaos and an inaction in war prepare
tons; republican money has bough
bonds to the amount of billions with
out asking what the democratic ad
ministration proposed to do with tn,
rooney; republican fathers and moth
ers have given their sons to fight an
die for the land they love. But tn
pi esident says these must have n,
voice in the conduct of the war, II
naming the terms Of peace, or in fran
ing the laws upon which depend GU