The sun., 1918-10-27
CALDER SHOWS RULE
BY SOUTH IN APPEAL
Senator Bitterly Resents Presi-
dents Efforts to Shelye
the Republicans.
COMPARES WORTH OF MEN
Cites Kitchin, Dent and Clark
as Real Opposers Of Win
the War Methods.

President wilson's appeal asking the
country to indorse his Administration al
the coming election by returning q
Democratic majority to Congress. was
made the subject Of a special address by
Senator Calder. speaking last night at
the Twenty-hrst Assembly district Re
publican Club In Brooklyn. lie said in
part
II have been much Interested in OBJ
serving the effect Of the Presidents APP
peal to elect no one but Democrats 10
Congress and have wondered IL the
people of this nation will forget the at
tltude of kitchin. Dent. Clark and others
OF the Presidents party in the House Of
Representatives on the important war
measures.
THE President in his letter to the
American people admits that the Re
publican party Is pro-war. but Is anti
Administration. II he means by that
that we will not blindly follow wherever
he leads he is correct in his statement.
and we accept the Issue. During war
times It Is the duty Of every patriot to
stand by his Government, to do nothing
90 hamper or hinder Its war programme.
It Is not the duty OF minority party
during a period OF war to criticise for
partisan reasons, but II Is their duty TO
point out errors OF policy, 10 try and
have them remedied.
shelving Not Forgotten.
"In the first months of the war the
Democratic party took the position in
Washington that we had no right 20
make suggestions. and only members OF
their party were placed in positions OF
trust and responsibility. We do not
forget those earlier days and the almost
complete breakdown OF our military es-
Establishment.
at WAS not until the President. moved
by the investigation of the Military Com
mittee of the Senate calling the attention
Of the country to our lack OF munitions.
guns, clothing and aircraft, that the re-
organization OF the War Department
was undertaken. The President asked
Stettinius. Ryan and McRoberts to help
in the War Department, and Schwab to
build our ships and Goethals to look
after the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES office.
We have been speeding UP since then
and to-day our great war machine is or
eaIliSeu' put Win tne heip VI iepuo-
leans.
IT doubt II the people Of Brooklyn
realize the sort of control we have in
the House OF Representatives to-day and
that the President Is anxious TO perpet-
uate. Do YOU know that in the present
House of Representatives. which has 43j
members. there are 124 from the thir-
teen Southern States. and among these
1874 are to be found the Speaker and
every single important Craftsmanship,
and while New York has forty-three
Representatives, twentY-six OF whom are
Republicans. sixteen Democrats and one
Socialist, not only have we no important
Craftsmanship. but we have not even a
member Of the Committee on Appro-
priations.
Power of Two states.
do YOU realize, too. that the States
OF North Carolina and Tennessee to-
gether, with but twenty-one members Of
the House have the craftsmanship OF the
Ways and Means. Interstate and Foreign
Commerce. Naval Affairs. Post Offices,
Rivers and Harbors and Judiciary COM
mittecs. In addition to the all powerful
Committee on Rules? Do you know that
these two States together paid into the
Federal Treasury this year in direct
ldAcs Nllt SUM VI tnlEty-lOur uo'-
lars, and that our State paid in six hum
dred and eighty million, Just twenty
times as much as North Carolina and
Tenn sssee together?
THE President asks that this sec
ttonal control of Congress shall con-
tinue. He is willing to have Clark as
Speaker. who on opposing the draft
act said that In Missouri conscripts
and convicts were considered OF tho
same class The President also wants
Mr. Kitchin OF North Carolina reelected
as Chairman OF the Ways and Means
Committee. This man voted against
most OF the Presidents important war
measures. and In discussing the rev.
enue bill OF last year said New York
and New England had brought about
the war and that he was going to make
them pay for II.
THE President wants Hubert Dent re-
elected to Congress and made Chairman
of the Committee on Military Affairs
You will recall that he was the man
who opposed the draft bill and the Re-
publican party in the House of Repre-
sentatives rallying around julius Kahn
were compelled 10 take the leading part
In passing this measure. All these men
the President wants reelected. hut he
wants our loyal Representatives de-
feated because perhaps in the recon-
struction days 20 come our Representa-
tlves may not be willing to do absolutely
as they may be directed. Can there be
any other reasonT"