New Britain herald., 1918-10-25
PRESIDENT APPEALS
 FOR PARTY VICTORY
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Ayour Judgment without cavil, but my #power to administer the great trust hssigned me by the constitution would be seriously impaired should your Judgment be adverse, and I must Frankly tell you so because so many cr$tical issues depend upon your yer dict. No scruple of taste must in grim times like these be allowed to stand in the way of speaking the plain truth.
 'I have no thought of suggesting that any political party is paramount In matters of patriotism. I feel too 1eeply the sacrifices which have been made in this war by all our cit zens irrespective of party affiliations Q harbor such an idea. I mean only hat the difficulties and delicacies of bur present task are of a sort that < nakes it imperatively necessary that he nation should give it's undivided support to the government under a nified leadership and that a repub- can congress would divide the lead rship.
 .''The leaders of the minority in the resent congress have unquestionably cen pro- war, but they have been ti-administration. At almost every urn since we entered the war, they ave sought to take the choice of pol cy and the conduct of the war out of ny hands and put it under the con- rol of instrumentalities of their own hoosing.
 "This is no time either for divided ouncil or for divided leadership. nifty of command is as necessary ow in civil action as it is upon the @1II Ar hot 1oA tt~1l of In ouse and the senate should be taken way from the party now in power an pposing majority could assume con- rol of legislation and oblige all ac- on to be taken amidst contest and bstruction.
 '9The return of a republican major M to either house of the congress ould, moreover, be interpretative on other side of the water as a re- Idiation of my leadership. Spokes- en of the republican party are urg- g you to elect a republican congress
 order to back up and support the esident, but even if they should, in is. impose upon some credulous ters on this side of the water they ould impose on no one on the other 1e. 1t is we'll understood there as pill as here that the republican lead s desire not so much to support president as to control him.
 "The peoples of the Allied countries tn whom we are associated against ermany are quite familiar with the # gniftcance of elections. They would hd it very difficult to believe that e--Vece cers of the United States had osen to support their president by betting to congress a majority con- oiled by those who are in fact not
 sympathy with the attitudes and lion of the administration.
 T need not tell you, my fellow untrymen, that I am asking your 6port not for my own sake or for sake of a political party, but for sake of the nation itself in order Rt it's inward unity of purpose may
 evident to all the world. In ordi- Try times I would not feel at liberty
 make such. an appeal to you. In 1inary times divided counsels can
 endured without permanent hurt to e country. But these are not ordi- krv times.
 If in these critical days it is your |# sh to sustain me with undivided x nds I beg that you will say so in Tay which it will not be possible to sunderstand either here at home or bong our associates on the other
 e of the sea. I submit my difficul
 Is and my hopes to you.
 WOODROW WILSON"