The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-11-01


signed me by the constitution would
be seriously impaired should your
Judgment be adverse, and must frank
ly tell you 50 because so many critical
issues depend upon your verdict No
Scruple Of taste must in grim times
like these be allowed to stand in the
way of speaking the plain truth.
Divided Leadership.
81 have no thought Of suggesting
that any political party is paramount
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 har-
Dor such an idea. I mean only that
the difficulties and delicaeies of our
present task are OF a sort that makes
it imperatively necessary that the ma
ton should give it's undivided support
to the government under unified lead
ership and that Republican Congress
would divide the leadership.
Unity Of Command.
present Congress have unquestio0ably
been pro-war, but they have been anti
administration. At almost every turn
since we entered the war they have
sought to take choice Of policy and the
conduct of the war o0t 81 my hands
and put it under the control Of instru-
mentalities 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. If the control of the House
and the Senate should be taken away
from the party now in power an OPP
posing majority could assume control
of legislation and ohlige all action to
be taken amidst contest and obstruc-
ton.
Interpretation Abroad.
1.-THE return of a Republican ma Tor
ity to either House of the Congress
would, moreover, be interpretative on
the other side of the water as q re-
pudiation Of my leadership. Spokes-
men Of the Republican party are urg-
ing you to elect a Republican Con-
gress 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 well understood there as
we'll as here that the Republican lead
ers desire not so much to support the
President, as to control him.
1.-The people of the allied countries
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 United States had 50
chosen to support their President by
electing to the Congress a majority
controlled by those who are in fact
not in sympathy with the attitude and
action Of the administration. III
II need not tell you, my fellow-coun
trymen, that I am asking your support,
not for my own sake or for the sake
OF political party, but for the sake
Of the nation itself in order that its
inward unity Of purpose may be evf-
dent to all the world In ordinary times
divided counsels can be endured with
out permanent hurt to the country,
But these are not ordinary times.
1T in these critical days 1t is your
wish to sustain me with undivided
minds, 1 beg that you will say so in
a way which it will not be possible to
misunderstood either at home or.
among our associates on the other side
OF the sea. / submit my difficulties
and my hopes to you.