The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-01
ROOSEVELT IN BITTER TRADE
AGAINST WILSON.
T. r. Would ''Emphatically Repudiate'
IA Peace Terms World Has n
Accented. 1.

New York, Oct. 28.-Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, answering President Wilson 8
appeal for return Of Democratic ma
| iiority in Congress, urged voters Of the
| nation, in an address here tonight, to
transfer control to Republican leader
ship.
Such ar outcome Of the election, he
declared would assure ''our allies that
| America is determined to speed up the
| war and insist on unconditional sur
render Of the enemy, and would serve
notice on Germany "and her vassal
states'' that they would have to deal
+, henceforth with the resolute and
straightforward soul of the American
| people and not merely with the obscure
purposes and wavering will of Mr.. Will
son.
Declaring that sshalf the leaders of
the presidents own party opposed him
when he had committed himself to war
measures Mr. Roosevelt asserted that
heads of the Republican organization in
Congress supported the administration
when declaration of war was needed,
" hen there was demand for the draft,
when the army was sent overseas, and
when money was required by taxation
or by loans.
The former president spoke at a
meeting under the auspices of the Re-
publican Club at Carnegie Hall to advo-
cate the election of "the Republican
state ticket here in New York and of
the Republican congressional ticket
throughout the Union. -
Rebuking what he termed the 'ser"
Witty Of Democratic leadership, the
colonel said it was Z" small wonder that
in the cloakrooms of the House the bit
ter Jest circulates: Here's to our Car,
last in war, first toward peace, long
may. he waver! -
Mr.. Roosevelt criticized the general
course Of the administration through
out the war, declaring:
W IF Mr.. Wilson had really meant to
disregard politics he would at once have
constructed coalition, nonpartisan
cabinet, calling the best men of the ma
ton to the highest and most important
Offices under him without regard to poll
tics. He did nothing of the kind.
Says Appointees Were Unit.
In the positions most vital to the
conduct of the war and in the positions
now most important in connection with
negotiating peace, he retained or ap-
pointed men without the slightest fit,
ness for the performance of the tasks,
whose sole recommendation was a sup
pie eagerness to serve Mr.. Wilson per-
senally and to serve Mr.. Wilson 8 party
insofar as such service benefited Mr..
Wilson. :,
Contrasting the presidents appeal
with Lincoln,s outright refusal even
in the darkest days Of the civil war, to
apply any party test to fitness for Of.
fice,' the colonel said that Lincoln 'sap-
pealed to all loyal men Of all parties
and asked that candidates for Congress
be judged not by the standard Of adj
3herence to his personal administration,
but by their unconditional support Of
the war.
Election Of a Republican Congress,
the colonel continued, would be under
stood abroad as meaning that the pro-
Germans and pacifists and Bolshevists
and Germanized socialists could no long
er be counted upon as efficient and tor
tuous tools, that the fighting mon and
not the rhetoricians were uppermost. a
Mr.. Roosevelt Interpreted the presi.
dent 8 reference to the rs anti sadminis-
tration attitude Of Republican mem
beers Of Congress as based on their n de-
mand that inefficiency, waste and ex-
travagance be remedied q in the war
conducting depart ments.
We Republicans pledge ourselves 20
stand by the presid emf 81 long as he
stands by the AmAricsn people, and to
part, ccmpany TIL AZ ri point