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DEMOCRAT CONGRESS
ASKED By PRESIDENT
Appeal Issued h, Executive For sup
port OF His sarty in Both Houses
Wants Nations Approval.

Washington, Oct 20 President
Wilson today issued an appeal to the
people to return Il Democratic Con-
gress in the Noy ember elections, ii
they approve OF his course in this
critical period.
Return of a Republican majority
to either House Of the Congress, the
President said, would be certainly
interpreted on the other side Of the
water as a reputation Of my ledaer-
Ship
The President said he would accept
the country's verdict without cavil,
but that if it was adverse, the power
to administer the great trust assign
ed to him would be seriously impair
ed.
Following is the Presidents APP
peal:
My Fellow-Countryme The Con-
gressional elections are at hand.
They occur in the most critical peri
cd our country has ever faced, or is
likely to face in our time. Ii you
have approved of my leadership and
wish me to continue to be your I'M
embarrassed spokesman in affairs at
home and abroad, / earnestly beg that
you will express yourselves unmis-
takably to that effect by returning a
Democratic majority to both the Sen
at eand House OF Representatives
l am your servant and will accept
your Judgment without caviI, but my
power to administer the great trust
assigned by the Constitution would
be seriously impaired should your
Judgment be adverse, and l must
frankly tell you so because so many
critical 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.
1 have no thought of suggesting
that any political party is paramount
deeply the sacrifices which have been
made in this war by all our citizens,
irrespective of party affiliations, to
harbCr 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
unified leadership, and that Repub-
lican Congress would divide the lea
dership.
The leaders of the minority in the
present Congress have unquestion-
ably been pro-war, but they have
been anti-Administration At almost
every turn since we entered the war
they have sought to take the choice
of policy and the conduct of the war
out of my hands and put 1t under the
control of instrucmentalities of their
own choosing.
This is no time either for divided
council or for divided leadership.
Unity OF command is as necessary
now in civil action as it is upon the
field of battle II the control of the
House and the Senate should he ia
ken away from the party now IN
power, an opposing majority could
assume control of legislation and OBJ
lige all action to be taken amidst con
test and obstruction.
The return of a Republican ma
jority to either House of the Con-
gross would, moreover, be interpreted
on the other side of the water as
reputation of my leadership.
Spokesman Of the Republican pa
ty are urging you TO elect a Repub-
lican 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
no one On the other side. 1t is we'll
understood there as well as here that
the Republican leaders desire not so
much to support the President as to