The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-11-01
CAN DEMOCRATS WIN ELECTION
BY DECEIVING THE VOTERS
The War Situation Was Twice Saved
With Republican VOtes-Draft Law
And Increased Draft Law Carried
By Republicans.

ANA Increased DraIt Law carried
By Republicans.
As the campaign for the control of
the next congress gets into full swing
it is more apparent than ever that
the democratic leaders trying to
deceive the voters into believing that
a democratic congress should be elect
ed in order that President Wilson
should not be hampered. This is
made evident both by the speaking
campaign and by the very extensive
advertising campaign directed by the
democratic national committee.
1t is equally evident, however, that
in trying to make this the campaign
issue, the democrats are going to run
up against stone wall, as by such
argument they are only condemning
the leaders and the majority of their
own party in congress, as shown by
the records.
When the Commander-in-ch
President Wilson, wished to raise
an army to back up our declaration
of war with Germany he proposed a
plan of raising an army which was
also the plan of the war depart
ment. The democratic leadership of
the house opposed this plan by voice
and vote in April, 1917. Speaker
Clark led in hampering the president.
He was aided by Chairman Dent, of
the house military committee; Chair
man Padgett, of the committee on
naval affairs; Chairman Kitchin, of
the ways and means committee, and
also floor leader of the democrats, and
nineteen other democratic chairmen of
the leading committees, all of whom
voted against the bill. Three other
leading democratic chairmen did not
vote, although present. This made
total of twenty-seven of the demo
cratic leaders who led their own party
in hampering the nations comman-
der-in-chief on this first vital war
measure.
Democrats again hammer Wilson
On August 20, 1918, when the Com
mander-in-chief, President Wilson,
asked for a modification of the draft
law that would enable America to
raise the army of victory, which is
now Foch's strong right arm, prac-
tically all the democratic leaders, from
Speaker Clark down, and an actual
majority of the democrats in the
house, fought and voted against the
request of President Wilson. In this,
a war crisis, when Foch and Haig
were calling upon America for more
man power, and Wilson was trying
to give them the help they asked,
SO democrats voted against increas-
ing the army as the president and
commander-in-ch requested, and
only 80 voted in favor of it. Under
the leadership of Representative Kahn
the Republicans gave III votes to
help out the President-or 81 more
votes than the Democrats gave him.
These were the two most vital war
measures of the present congress, for
without the passage Of either of these
bills Americas participation in the
war would have been impossible and
the Huns by this time would have
been in Paris and have dictated VIC
torious peace, no tonly to Europe, but
to the United States and the rest of
the civilized world.
What Democrats Really Want
The stubborn tenacity with which
the democratic leaders cling to the
deceptive argument that it is neces-
sary to re-elect them in order that
the president may receive proper sup
port to prosecute the war to a sue
cessful close only indicates they real
ize that unless they can make the
people believe they have a monopoly
of loyalty in the country their cause
is lost. To those who read between
the lines it means more than this. 1t
means they are using this deception
not in order to assist the president to
win the war, but in order to keep the
present democratic organization in
control of all committees and COM
missions so that when peace does
come the democratic party will be in
position to play the same game of
favoriteism to the south that it has
played throughout the war