The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
Politics is Adjourned" Woodrow Wilson
The Reply of Republican
| eaderS

Some time ago the President said
.spolities is adjourned" Now, in the
closing days of the campaign, which
has been delayed by the united efforts
of all parties for the Liberty Loan
now, when all public meetings have
been given up owing to the influenza
epidemic-th President sends out a
direct party appeal calling upon his
countrymen to vote for Democrats be-
cause they are Democrats, without any
references to whether such Democrats
have been or are in favor of war
measures and have war record which
deserves support.
The voters of Michigan, to take a
single example, are called upon to-
support Henry Ford, notorious for his
advocacy OF peace at any price, for con
temptuous illusions to the flag, sfoi
the exemption of his son from military
service, on the sole ground that he will
Dlindly support the President. The
President is quite ready to admit that
Republicans are loyal enough to fight
and die, as they are doing by the thou
sands; loyal enough to take up great
loans and pay enormous taxes; loyal
enough to furnish important men at
no salary on some of the great boards
IN Washington. But they are not
loyal enough, in the Presidents
opinion, to be trusted with any share
| in the government of the country or
| legislation for it.
III the Republican party controls the
House we can point out some things
they will do. They will replace Mr..
Dent, of Alabama, at the head of the
| Military Affairs Committee with
julius Kahn, to whom the Admin
stration was obliged to turn for assist
ance to take charge of and carry the
| first draft bill against Mr.. Dents oppo-
sition. They will put Republican at
the head of the Ways and Means Com
mittee as leader OF the House instead
Of Mr.. Kitchin of North Carolina, who
| voted against the war. They will give
the country Speaker who did not OPP
pose and would never oppose a draft
| bill, and would never say, as Speaker
Clark did, that there is precious little
difference between conscript and
convict.
Although the Republicans of the
House are in the minority, they cast
more actual votes on seven great war
measures than the Democratic MAORI
w was able to do. What is the record
IOl blc oCudbC-4 vi nlby-ttlo IOllCdllS
on war measures between April 6, 1917
and the 10Th of May, 1918, the votes
cast by Republicans 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. Those were the Presidents
own measures. Does that record look
as If we hampered him? The Republi-
can party in Congress has supported
the Administration policies since the
war with unanimity and an absence
of criticism unprecedented in 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-
lample, fix price on The farmers
wheat and leave the planters cotton
untouched. Another domestic ques-
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.
This is not the Presidents personal
war. This is not the war of Congress.
1t is not the war of the Democratic or
the Republican party. 1t is the war
of the American people. 1t is more
1t is the war of the United States, of
the Allied Powers, of the civilized
world against the barbarism OF Ger
many. In this great burden and re-
sponsibility the Republican party, re-
presenting more than half the
citizenship of the country, demands
its rightful share.
If the Republican party is intrusted
with power in either or both houses
they will do everything possible to
drive forward the war and hasten the
day of victory. The President speaks
of the necessity Of telling the plain
truth. That the Republican party in
control of Congress would do, for thew
have no friends to shield. And they
will do more. They will give all the
money to the last dollar necessary to
sustain our armies and our fleets, but
they will check the waste nov going
on of the money given by the most
generous people on the face of the
earth.
The President speaks OF the effect of
the election abroad. He says that
there they understand the meaning of
elections. They do. and they will
know that if the Republicans have
majority in Congress the war will be
pressed with greater vigor than ever be-
fore. They are quite aware that the
power of the Senate is equal to that of
the President in the contamination
of peace by treaty. They will know
that the Republican party stands for
victorious peace and the overthrow of
Prussian militarism. That knowledge
will not depress the spirit of our allies
nor encourage the Government of Ger
many.
The Republican party believes that
the question OF surrender should be left
to Marshal Foch, to the generals and
to the armies in the field. When they
report that Germany has laid down
her arms the United Estates and the
Allies should then impose their terms,
| Will that knowledge cause detection to
those who are fighting with us? All
the world knows that the Republican
party is opposed to negotiations and
discussion carried on in diplomatic
notes addressed to the German Govern
ment. The Republican party stands
F, for unconditional surrender. There is
no Republican creed so short that
there is not room in it for those two
words.
HENRY CABOT LODGE.
REED SMooT,
! Chairman Republican Senatorial Com
| mittee.
| FREDERICK HI. GILLErT.
! SIMEON ID. TESS
Chairman Republican Congressional