Republican farmer., 1918-11-01
AUSTRIANS FLEE IN EVERY DIRECTION
Entire Italian Front Ablaze
 Disaster Threatens AuStrianS

guage does not suggest it. Still less has he power to bind our noble allies. We do not know that these points in- cIude all that our allies may justly demand. or do not concede something they may justly withhold. For what they have done for us, we owe our al- lies the highest good faith. It is of capital importance, therefore, that we now should elect Senate which shall be independent enough to interpret the will of the people and the matte" of this world peace, and not merely submit to the uncontrolled will of MT. Wilson.
 "Nor can the attitude of the House of Representatives be ignored in this peace Every affirmative obligation binding the United States in that treaty must be performed by the House as part of the Congress. The present Democratic majority in the House has been subserYient to the VIII of the President in every respect eX- cept when critical issues in the con- duct of the war have been involved The President has not hesitated pub licly to discipline those of his party who have disagreed with him, and the lesson has had it's effect. A new Democratic Congress, with its old leaders thus chastened, will offer no opposition to his will. They will not be consulted in the future more than in the past. In a Democratic Con gress the American people will not have the service of an independent, courageous, coordinate branch Of the government to moderate his un- controlled will. It is not safe to en- trust to one man such unlimited power. He is not in accord with the traditions of the republic.
 "Third, the Republicans voted with out objection billions to be expended by this administration. Six hundred and forty millions for aviation were given to the executive to build air planes, without a single limitation as to the manner or methods of it's ex- penditure senate committee has depbred the waste and failure in the use of that money. The debts which have been created by this war, the people will be paying to the third and fourth generation. They have right 1 to know how these enormous sums
 have been expended. Only a. Repub- Iican Congress will have the courage to exact a detailed and accurate. story of that stewardship.
 ] Fourth, the work of reconstruction must not be made by one man, or finally formulated according to his academic theories and ideals. The President was not elected when such issues were before the people. His
 mandate of power was not given in i the light of the momentuous questions which soon will force themselves for solution. He was elected as a peace President, and because he had kept us out of war The American people should therefore place in the branch of the government charged constitu- tfonally with adopting policies of re- construction a Congress which will not register the will of one man, but
 fresh from the people, will enact the
 will of the people.
 We earnestly deprecate extending the unifix controlled leadership of a
 commander-in- chief to the making of
 a permanent treaty of peace or to the framing of those measures of recon struction which must seriously affect
 the happiness and prosperity of the
 American people for a century. We
 urge all Americans, who are Ameri-
 cans first, to vote for a Republican Congress-"