Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-29
c. 0. ?. RUE URGED
BY COL. ROOSEVELT
Former President Answers
President Wilson's Appeal
for DEMOCRATIC Congress.

NEW YORK, October 29.-Col.
Theodore Roosevelt. answering Presi-
dent Wilson's appeal for return OF a
democratic majority in Congress-
urged voters Of the nation in an ad-
dress here last night to transfer con-
troll to republican leadership. such
an outcome OF the election, ne de-
clared, would assure "our allies that
America is determined to speed up
the war and insist on unconditional
surrender Of the enemy, and would
serve notice on Germany land her
vasal states that they would have
to deal henceforth with the reso-
lutte and straightforward soul OF the
American people and not merely win
the obscure purposes and Waver1ng
will of Mr.. Wilson"
Declaring that half the leaders OF
the Presidents own party oppossu
him when he had committed himself
to war measures" Mr.. Roosevelt as
serted that heads of the republican
organization in Congress supported
the administration when declaration
of war was needed, when there was
demand for the draft, when the
Army was sent overseas ana When
money was required by taxation or
by loans.
Col. Roosevelt's Retort.
Col Roosevelt said in part:
Now, what does Mr.. Wilson mean
when he speaks of these leaders as pc
ing, although :pro-War, yer antl-ao-
HE naans that when the War De
partment ssas administered with utter
inefficiencJ they Investigated the mat
ter and insYeted upon efficiency.
He means that when they found
that nothing effective was being done
in shipbuilding they insisted that the
work be speeded up.
.'He means that when they found
that 600,000,000 had been spent Tor
airplanes and yet that not an airplane
had reached our soldiers at the front
they insisted that our soldiers should
get the airplanes for which the people
had paid.
THE entire offense of the republican
leaders in Mr.. Wilson's eyes is that
they have demanded that ineMciency,
waste and extravaganza be remedied.
Such demand he treats as anti-ad-
ministration.' In other words, the at
titude which patriotic people regard as
pro-United States he regards as anti
administration"
Addresses Republican Club.
The former President spoke at a
meeting under the auspices Of the
Republican Club at Carnegie Hall to
advocate the election 'of the repub-
lican state ticket here in ew York and
of the congressional ticket throughout
the Union"
Rebuking what he termed the
"servi1ity' of democratic leadership,
the colonel said it was small wonder
that in the cloakrooms of the House
the bitter jest circulates: Here's to
our car, last in war. first toward
peace, long may he wave""
Mr.. Roosevelt criticised the gen
eral course. of the administration
IF Mr.. Wilson had really meant to
disregard politics he would at once
tisan cabinet, calling the best men Of
the nation to the highest and most
important officers under him, without
regard to politics. He did nothing OF
the kind. In the positions most vital
to the conduct of the war. and In the
nection with negotiating peace, he
retained or appointed men without
the slightest fitness for the perform
ance of the tasks, whose sole recon-
mendation was a supple eagerness to
serve Mr.. Wilson personally and TO
serve MT. WILSON pdISy III ~ A0A 90
such service benefited Mr.. Wilson.
Quotes President Lincoln.
Contrasting the Presidents appeal
with Lincolns outright refusal, even
in the darkest days of the civil war.
to apply any party test to fitness for
Office" the colonel said that Lincoln
appealed to all loyal men of all par
ties and asked that candidates for