New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-10-28
HAYS CALLS ON COP.
TO TAKE CHALLENGE
Declares President Has lmpugned
Loyalty Of Republican Party

nail OIL Ills parry 10 TIeS1uehI NiA0o-i I"
appeal to the nation to return o
democratic congress. In this state
ment MIR. Hays said:
president Wilson has questioned
the motives and fidelity of your repre-
sentatives i'll congress. He has there
by impugned their locally and de-
MED Their patriotism. His challenge
is to you who elected those represen-
tatives. You owe it them, to the
honor of your great party and to your
own self-respect to meet that chal-
lenge squarely, not only as republicans
but as Americans. l. as chairman,
call upon you to do it.
"Mr. Wilson accords the republicans
no credit whatever for having sup
ported the war measures proposed by
his administration, although they
have done SO with greater unanimity
than the members of his own party.
Despite the fact, he accuses them of
having tried to usurp his proper
functions.
"Af no time and in no way have
they tried to take control of the
war out of his hands The president
knows that. The country knows
it. You know it. A more ungracious,
more unjust, Wanton, more menda-
cious accusation was never made by
the most reckless stump orator, much
less by a president of the United
States for partisan purposes. It is in
suit, not only to every loyal republic
can in congress, but to every loyal
republican in the land 1t fully
m erits that resentment which right
fully and surely will find expression
at the polls
Mr.. Wilson grudgingly admits that
the republicans have been 'pro-war';
then why does he demand their de-
feat? Because they are still pro-
war? hardly that. No. 1T is because
they are for peace, though, not
without victory; because they do not
believe lasting peace can be obtained
through negotiations; because they
consider that u. S. stands for I'M
conditional surrender as we'll for the
United States and Uncle Sam The
dem ocratic congress does not. Mr.
Wilson does not. There is the issuer
clear as the MONDAY sun. The country
will decide.
MIR. Wilson wants only rubber
stamps, his rubber stamps. in con-
gress. He says So No one knows it
| better than democratic congressemna
He calls for the defeat of pro-war re-
war democrats. He, as the execu-
tive, is no longer satisfied to be one
branch of the government as pro-
vlded by the constitution. Republic
can congressman must be defeated
and democratic congressman, must as
they would, yield in everything. That
is evidently his idea.-the idea of an
autocrat, calling himself the servant
but bidding for the mastery of this
great free people.
Republicans in Congress have SEEM
ed to him good enough when they as
santed, as they did assent with high
est patriotism and sometimes against
their best Judgment to his proposals.
Republicans at home have seemed to
him good enough to send fully a mill
lion of their sons into battle, to fur
nish at least half of the army and
far more than half of the money for
the winning of the war; but they are
not considered good enough to have
a voice in the settlement of the war.
But Mr.. Wilson'S real purpose has
nothing to do with the conduct of the
war. He has had that from the be-
ginning, has it now and nobody
dreams of interfering with his con-
troll. He wants just two things. One
is full power to settle the war pre-
cise1y as he and his sole, unelected,
unappointed, unconfirmed personal ad-
wiser may determine. The other is
full power as the 'unembarrassed
spokesman in affairs at home as he
actually demands in his statement, to
reconstruct in peace time the great
industrial affairs of the nation in the
same way, in unimpeded conformity
with whatever socialiStic doctrines,
whatever hazy Whims may happen to
possess him at the time. but first and
above all with absolute commitment to
free trade with all the world, thus
/; giving to Germany out of hand the
fruits of a victory greater than she
could win by fighting a hundred years.
"a republican Congress will never
assent to that. Do you want a Con-
gress that will? Germany does. Ger
many looks to Mr.. Wilson to get if for
her, as he pledged himself to do in
one of the few of his famous articles
which is explicable.
Germany understands that. See
the New York World spokesman of
the administration, of last Saturday
and read the testimony of Henry O.
Emery, former head of the tariff COM
mission, just returned from seven
months in Germany. The German
people, he says, seemed to realize
| that in President Wilson lay their only
salvation. They have turned to him
| in the belief that he is the one great
| political leader who can be trusted to
| make q permanent peace which shall
| permit equal economic development
| He is. All others demand that the
| Germans shall pay the full penalty of
| their crimes.
What worse than nonsense, then is
| the democratic campaign cry that the
| election of q republic Congress,
| pledged to unconditional surrender
| and protection of American industries
| and American workingmen instead of