The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1918-10-26
president APPEALS
TO COUNTRY
Gives His Reasons Why Dem
ocratic Congress Should
be Returned.
ANSWERS BULL MOOSE

Washington. Od. 26.-PelSident
Wilson makes the following appeal
Ito the country to return Democrat
ic Congress.
Following is the Presidents ap.
)peal:
My Fellow Countrymtn:-The
:, Congressional elections are at hand.
They occur In the most critical pc
riod our country has ever faced or is
likely to face in our time. If you
have approved of my leadership and
wish me to continue to be your un-
EN- barrassed spokesman in affairs at
home and abroad, earnesaly beg
THAT you will express yourselves uk"
lmistakably to that effect by return
ling Democratic majority to both
1.-THE Senate and the House Of Repre-
lsentatives.
Il am your servant and will ac-
cept your judgment without cavll
but my power to administer the
|great task assigned me by the con-
lstitution would be seriously impair
led should your Judgment be adverse
and ! must frankly tell you so be-
cause so many critical issues depend
upon your verdict. No scruples OF
: taste must in grim times like these
be allowed to stand in the way OF
; speaking the plain truth.
Il have no thought of suggesting
that any political party is para
mount in matters Of patriotism
feel too deeply the sacrifices which
have been made in this war by all
our citizens irrespective of party af.
lfiliations to harbor such an idea
II mean only that the difficulties
and delicacies of our present task
are OF sort that makes it impera-
lively necessary that the nation
!, should give its undivided support to
the government under a unified
leadership. The leaders of the mi
, nority in the present Congress have
unquestionably been prowar, bue
Il icy have been anti-administration
At almost every turn since we enter
ed the war they have sought to take
i, ,hechoice of policy and the conduct
of the war out of my hands and put
;, tit under the control of instrumen.
,t4lities Of their own choosing.
This is 10 time either for divid-
i ed council or for divided leadership.
, United command is as necessary
l. now in civil action as it is upon the
. field of battle. II the control Of the
g House and the Senate should be TAX
~ en- away from the party now in DOW
/ er an opposing majority could AS
! sumo control of legation and oblige
y all action to be taken amidct con-
10 test and obstruction.
lhC Ctuih Va a ltCPuOtASuu Ahd
n jority to either House of the Con-
! gress would moreover be interpret
II as a reputation of my leadership.
D. Spokesman of the Republican part5
are urging you TO elect Repunli'
can Congress in order to back UP
and support the President but even
If they should in this impose upon
some credulous voters on this side OF
. the water they would impose on nc
y one on the other side. 1t is well un.
derstood there as well as here thai
y much to support the President as to
the Republican leaders desire not 81
Is control him.
Means Vote of Confidence
- The peoples of the allied coup
tries with whom We are associated
: against Germany are quite familiar
:" with the significance of elections
- They would find il very difficult t
: believe that the voters of the United
- States had chosen to support theil
~ President by elecing to th eCongres
~ a majority controlled by those whit
a are in fact not in sympathy with th'
at attitude and action OF the admins
le tration.
III Not For Party, But for Nations salS,
ne II need not tell you. my fellow
at countrymen, that am asking you
en- support not for my own or for th
ny sake of political party but for tn,
te sake OF the nation itself in orde
that its inward unity of purpos
may be evident to all the world Il
N. ordinary times would not feel a
n liberty to make such an appeal Q
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