The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-10-26
IF PEOPLE INDORSE HIS WAR
POLICIES THEN UPHOLD
HIM FURTHER, THE
PRESIDENT REQUESTS
MATTER is SERIOUS ONE
Republicans In Congress Have Been
Pro-War, But Anti-Administra-
ton, and Have Sought to Cripple
His Authority and Conduct, the
President Declares.

Washington, Oct. 25.--Presiden'
Wilson today issued an appeal to
the people to return a democratic
congress in the November elections
if they approve Of his course in this
critical period.
Return of republican majority
to either house of the congress, the
president said would be certainly
interpreted on the other side of the
water as Reputation of my leader
ship
The president said he would ac-
cept the country's verdict without
cavil, but that if it was adverse, the
power to administer the great trust
assigned to him would be seriously
impaired.
Text of Presidents Appeal.
Following is the presidents ap-
peal;
My Fellow Countrymen:
THE congressional elections are
at hand. They occur in the most
critical period our country has ever
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If YOU have approved of my leader
ship and wish me to continue to be
your unembarrassed spokesman i'll
affairs at home and abroad, | earn
eStly beg that YOU will express your
selves Enthusiastically to that effect
by returning democratic ma jority
10 both the senate and house OF
representatives.
II am your servant, and will ac-
cept your judgment without cavil,
but my power to administer the
great trust assigned me by the con-
stitution would be seriously inn
paired should your judgment be adj
verse, and ! must frankly tell you
so. because so many critical issues
depend on your verdict No scruple
OF taste must in grim times like these
be allowed to stand in the way OF
speaking the plain truth.
II 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
affiliations to harbor such an idea.
mean only that the difficulties and
delicacieS OF our present task are of
a sort that makes it imperatively
necessary that the nation should
give its undivided support to the
government under a unified leader
ship and that a republican congress
would divide the leadership
AS To Republican Minority.
The leaders OF the minority in
the present congress have unques
tionably been pro-war, but they
have been anti-administration. At
almost every turn since the war they
have sought to take the choice of
policy and the conduct OF the war
out OF my hands and put it under
the control of instrumentalties of
their own choosing.
This is no time either for divid-
ed council or for divided leadership.
Unity Of command is as necessary |
now in civil action as it is upon the
field Of battle. If the control OF
the house and the senate should be
taken away from the party now in
power an opposing ma lority could |
assume control of legislation and !
oblige all action 10 be taken amidst |
contest and obstruction.
The return of republican ma
ioritv to either house OF the con-
gress would. moreover, be interpret
ative on the other side OF the wat
er as a reputation OF my leader
ship. Spokesman of the republican
party are urging you to elect re-
publican congress in order to back
up and support the president. but
even if they should in this impose
some credulous voters on this side
OF the water they would impose on
no one on the other side. 1t is well
understood there as well as here
that the republican leaders desire
not so much to support the presi-
dent as TO control him.
Allied Peoples Are Informed.
THE peoples of the allied coun-
tries with whom we are associated
against Germany are quite familiar
with the significance of elections.
They would find it very difficult to
believe that the voters of the Unit
ed States had chosen to support
their president by electing to the
congress a majority controlled by
those who are not in fact in sympa-
thy with the attitude and action of
the administration.
Il need not tell you. my fellow
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