The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-02
SPLITTING A NATION AT WAR

The protest which the Tribune predlcted on oaturud!
against the appeal of the president for the election OF only
democrats to congress has come. 1t has come from every
corner of what was a united Nation-a Nation at arms against
the very thing the president has asked the voters of America
to support. In Germany the war is a HOhenzolern war. In
America it is not a Wilson war, for the president was elected
under the slogan that "He kept us out of war"
And he kept us out until Russia with her army of mil
lions collapsed. 1t isn't a war of the democratic party, nor CT
the republican party, nor Of the prohibition party, nor OF the
socialist party. 1t is a war of the American people against
Prussianism, against one-man rule. And all party issues
and peace-time issues OF domestic pOllcy nave Deeh u
merged.
And no American president in time of war ever before
attempted to control the election of members of the legisla-
tive branch of the government. 1t is as unfair at this time to
charge Mckinley with having uttered such an appeal as it is
to charge President Wilson with having posted those placards
in the military environments asking soldiers of Wisconsin to
sustain the ommander-in-chief of the army by voting for
Davies against Lenroot for the United States senate.
The president has asked for the defeat of julius Kahn, in
California, to whom he turned for help and whom he asked to
take the lead for the bill which made an army possible after
the declaration of war had already gone forth. And in doing
this he asked him to oppose Champ Clark, the speaker of the
house: to oppose Claud Kitchin, the floor leader of the house;
to oppose Dent, the chairman of the only committee that could
formulate and report a military bill. He has asked for the
defeat of the 40 republican members who voted for that bill
and the election of the IS members of his own party who OPP
posed it, He uses his high office to oppose the wishes of mil
lions who took him at his word when he asked that politics
stand adjourned until after the war, and who poured out their
savings for Liberty bonds, war savings stamps, Red Gross
funds and other war necessities because it was a war of the
whole people.
He asks for the defeat of Johnson of South Dakota, who
resigned his seat in congress, enlisted as a private and lies
wounded today in a hospital in France. Johnson has been re-
nominated to serve his country again in congress after the
war.
He asks the defeat of Rogers, of Massachusetts,, who left
his seat in congress to enlist as a private.
He runs counter to every sacred pledge on which the
country was united to force the war to a victory.
He runs counter to the wishes of hundreds of thousands
of voters under arms in Europe, who by reason of their patri-
otto service are denied the privilege to vote.
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as Republicans have done; but it is likely to do to the Champ
Clarks and the Dents and the Claude Kitchins what it did to
La Toilette i'm Wisconsin-it will render them harmless to
hinder the war.
The president predicts disappointment among our allies
in the event of a republican congress. He says there they I'M
derstand the meaning of elections. Of course they do, but as
Senator Lodge has stated, They will know that if the republi-
cans have a majority in congress the war will be pressed with
greater vigor than ever before. They are quite aware that
the power of the senate is equal to that of the president in the
consummation of peace by treaty. They will know that the
republican party stands for a victorious peace and the over
throw of Prussian miitarism."
They will also know that Senator Lodge will be at the
head of the committee on foreign relations, the committee that
will have jurisdiction in the senate in matters affecting this