The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-10-29
COL. ROOSEVELT
URGES ELECTION
Of REPUBLICANS
Says Republicans Leadership
Means Unconditional Surrender
HE REBUKEs sERvILITy
Germany Henchforth Should Have to
Deal with Resoute and Straight
ward Soul Of American People.

New York, Oct. 2S.-Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, answering President Will
sons appeal for return of Demo
cratic majority in Congress. urged vot
ers of the nation, in an address here
tonight to transfer control to Re-
publican leadership. such an outcome
Of the election, he declared, would as
sure "our allies that America is de-
termined to speed up the war and in
sist on unconditional surrender Of
the enemy, and would serve notice on
Germany and her vassal states" that
they would have to deal henceforth
with the resolute and straightfor-
ward soul of the American people and
not merely with the obscure purposes
and wayering will of Mr. Wilson,
Declaring that half the leaders Of
the Presidents own party opposed
aim when he had committed himself
10 war measures Mr.. Roosevelt as
serted that heads of the Republican
organization in Congress supported
he administration when a declaration
If war was needed, when there was a
demand for the draft, when the army
was sent overseas and when money
vas required by taxation or by loans.
The former President spoke at a
meeting under the auspices of the Re
publican club at Carnegie Hall TO ad.
vocate the election Of "the Republi-
AN state ticket here in New York
md OF the Republican congressional
icket throughout the Union.
Rebuking what he termed the ser
ility' OF Democratic leadership, the
olonel said it was small wonder that
n the cloakTooms Of the House the
litter Jest circulates:
Here's to our czar; last in war
frst toward peace, long may he
gayer'
Mr. Roosevelt criticized the general
curse OF the administration through
nut the war, declaring:
III MIR Wilson had really meant tC
disregard politics, he would at once
have constructed coalition. non
artisan cabinet, calling the best mef
II the nation to the highest and mos
| important Offices under him, without
regard TO politics He did nothing o,
| he kind In the positions most vita
the conduct of the war. and in the
| positions now most important in con
| lecti0n with negotiation Of peace. h(
I retained or appointed men without tht
| ilightest fitness for the performance
| II The tasks, whose sole recommenda
ion was a supple eagerness to serve
| Mr. Wilson personally and TO sery,
Nr Wilson's party in SO far as sucl
eryice benefited Mr.. Wilson"
Contrasting the Presidents appea
With Lincoln's outright refusal, ever
N the darkest days of the civil war
0 apply any party test to fitness fo
lflice.' the Colonel said that 'LincolI
appealed to all loyal men of all par
ies and asked that candidates fo
Congress be judged. not by the stand
1rd of adherence to his personal nd
ninistraiion. hut by their uncondit0r
n support of the war"
| Election Of a Republican Congress
he colonel continued would be un
lerstood abroad as meaning that tn,
| Ilro-Germans and pacilists and Bolsh
vists and Germanized socialists, coul'
10 longer be counted upon as efhcien
and tortuous tools. that the hghtin
men and not the rhetoricians were III
permost."
| Mr. Roosevelt interpreted the Pres
| ients reference 10 the "anti-adminis
ration" attitude OF Republican mem
| hers Of Congress as based on thei
demand that ine1iciency, waste an
| extravaganza be remedied' in tn
| Nar-conducting deDartments.