Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-29
ROOSEVELT CRITICISES
 PRESIDENT
Former President Takes Issue
 With Wilson on His Return to Partisian Politics and Urges Republican Majority
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NEW YORK, Oct. 2S.-Col. Theo-
 dore Roosevelt, answering President Wilson's appeal for return of a demo
 cratic majority in congress, urged voters of the nation, in an address here tonight, to transfer control to republican leadership. Such an out come of the election, he declared, would assure "our allies that America is determined to speed up the war and insist on unconditional surrender" of the enemy. and would serve notice on Germany "and her vassal states" that they would have to deal hence forth with the resolute and straight forward soul of the American peO- pie and not merely with the obscure purposes and wavering will of MT. Wilson"
 Declaring that half the leaders of the presidents own party opposed him when he had committed himself to war measures" MT. Roosevelt asserted that heads of the republican organiZa- tion in congress supported the admin istratiOn when a declaration of war was needed, when there was a demand for a draft, when the army was sent overseas and when money was re- quired 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 republican state ticket here in New York and of the republican congressional ticket throughout the union"
 Rebuking what he termed the ser vility" of democratic leadership, the colonel said it was small wonder that in the cloak rooms of the house the bitter jest circulates: Here's to our czar. last in war, first toward peace. !. long may he waver' '"
 Mir Roosevelt criticised the general l course of the administration through ! out the war. declaring:
 "If MT. Wilson had really meant | to disregard politics. he would at once constructed Q coalition, non-partisian I cabinet, calling the best men of the | nation to the highest and most i'm | portant offices under him. without re- gard to politics He did nothing of the | kind. In the positions most vital to | the conduct of the war. and in the pO- | sitions now most important in con nection with negotiating peace. he re- tains or appoints men without the | slightest fitness for the performance | of the tasks. whose sole recommen- dation was a supple eagerness to serve Mir. Wilson personally and 10 serve Mir. Wilson's party insofar as such Tr
 Contrasting the presidents appeal with Lincoln's outright refusal. even in the darkest days of the Civil war. to apply any party test to fitness for office" the colonel said that Lincoln appealed to all loyal men of all par ties and asked that candidates for be judged. not by the stand ard of adherence to his personal ad- but by their unconditiOn- al support of the war"
 Election of a republican congress, the colonel continued. would be un- derstood abroad as meaning that the and pacifists and Bolshe- vilkis and GermaniZed socialists could no longer be counted upon as effici- ent and tortUous tools, that the fight Ing men and not the rhetoricians were 
 Mir. Roosevelt interpreted the presi- dents reference to the "anti-admin- , istration" attitude of republican mem demand that inefficiency. waste and be remedied' in the war department.