The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26
LODGE AND SMOOT
HIT AT PRESIDENT

Senators Lodge and smoot and Rep
resentatives Gillstt and Fess, repre-
senting the leaders in both houses Of
Congress, and the chairrnen of the
Senatorial and Congressional Cam
paign Committees, held q conference
yesterday regarding President Will
sons appeal for the election OF q
Democratic Congress, and then issued
the following formal statement:
Some time ago the President said
politics adjourned Now, in the
closing days OF the campaign-de-
layed by the united efforts OF all
parties for the Liberty loan--now,
when all public meetings have been
given up owing 70. the influenza
epidemIc. the President sends out a
direct party appeal caliiaE-Upon his
'eountrymen to- vote for Democrats
any reference to whether such Demo-
Gratis have been or are IN favor of
war measures, and have q war record
which deserves support.
THE voters of Michigan, to take
q single example. are called upon
to support Henry Ford--notorious for
the advocacy OF peace at any price.
for his contemptuous illusions to the
nag, for the exemption of his son
from military seryice-on the sole
ground that he viii blindly support
the President The President Is
quite ready to admit that Republicans
efloyal enough to night and die, as
they are doing by the thousands:
and pay enormous taxes; loyal enough
to furnish important men at no sal
airy on some OF the great war boards
in Washington. But they are not
loyal enough, in the Presidents opin-
ion, to be trusted with any share IN
the government OF the country or
legislation for it
Purposes In the House.
of the Republican party controls
the House we can point out some OF
the things they will do. They will
replace Mr.. Dent OF Alabama. at the
head of the Military Affairs Commit
tee, with Julius Kahn. to whom the
Administration was obliged to turn
for assistance to take charge OF and
carry the first draft bill against Mr..
Dents opposition.
They will put a Republican at the
head OF the Ways and Means Com
mittee as leader OF the House, in
stead Of Mr.. Kitchin OF North Caro-
They will give the country q Speaker
who did not oppose and would not
oppose q draft bill, and would never
say. a. Speaker Clark did, that "there
Is precious little difference between
e conscript and q convict"
Although the Republicans of the
House are In the minority, they cast
more actual votes on seven great war
measures than the Democratic ma
jority was able to do.
Record In the Senate.
what is the record OF the Senate?
On hfty-one roll calls on war meas
ures between April 9. 1917, and May
20. 1918. the votes cast by Repub-
licans in favor OF such measures were
~ per cent. while only 81 per cent OF
the votes cast on the Democratic side
were in favor OF such measures.
Does that record look as IL we had
hampered him? The Republican party
in Congress has supported the Ad-
ministrAtion policies since the war
with q unanimity and an absence Of
criticism unprecedented in the party
history.
There are some domestic questions
where we should undoubtedly differ
from the course pursued by the Ad-
mInistration. We should not, for ex-
ample, fix q price on the farmers
wheat and leave the planters cotton
untouched. Another domestic dues-
ton In which the Republican party
believes thoroughly is economic pre-
paration for the coming Of peace, and
they are clearly OF the opinion that the
Congress OF the United States should
not be excluded from that great task.
Not His SPeFsOnaI War;
This is not the Presidents personal
war. This Is not the war OF Congress
It is not the war OF the Democratic
nor the Republican party. 1t Is the
war OF the American people. 1t Is
more. II Is the war OF the United
States, Of the allied powers, OF the
tcivIIized world against the barbarism
Of Germany. In this great burden and
responsibility the Republican party
representing more tAAA AAlf the citi