New Britain herald., 1918-11-04

of the forces of the republican party, l and the president has been heavily ] attacked at this point, but the offen- ! sive has been slowed down to a great : extent by the counter offensive of the l democrats--that the president of tho
 United States and his party in 1918
 are asking no more than the presi- ] dent and the republican party did in
 1898 at the time of the Spanish , American war. The issues today are l infinitely greater than the issues of ] 1898, and for that reason the argu- l ment5 used then can set forth today l with correSpondingly greater effect. ] The republican politicians have ! endeavored to cnnlouiIaEc their politi-
 cal artillery by shouts Of "uncondi- l tional Gurrcnder", "setting up autoc- 1 racy in America", waving the flag 1 lover the ruins of Berlin and all 1 that, but the American voters can see l through the mist and smoke of the ! political battle, and will accord the l president and his party of 1918 the
 same liberty of appeal that they al- l lowed the president and the republi- ! can party in 1898.
 Going back to 1898, we hear Sena- 1 tor Lodge crying out that the Ques- !
 "whethcr VIC shall stand by the ad- ! ministration and the president" that
 there are only two parties in the ] country when there is a great ques- 1 tion Hko this to settle; one is the par ! ty that sustajns the American presi- ] dent, who will do his work well and 1 those who do not" How applicable ] this argument is tOdayi
 Tn writing of the presidents appeal Colonel Harvey said: "It came as blow in the face that a president of the United States could, for any con- ceivahle reason, descend so far from ! his high cstate." Let us see. In the campaign of 1904 President RooSe- welt issucd an appeal from the White House The appeal was for a contri- button of $50, 900 to the republican campaign fund and was made to E. l H. Hartman the great railroad man. 1 This was an additional contribution, if my memory is correct, and was to be used in the state of New York, where the campaign managers thought things were not going well for the re- publicans. The campaign fund in that political contest was enormous. Mir. Hartman "Came acrOss". One of the striking sentences in this appeal !
 was: You and l are practical men," ! They were. After disagreement with MT. Roosevelt later on MT. liar riman gave the letter to the public. Note the difference m the appeals. MT. Wilson speaks right out in meet
 in in the good old New England way. Asks for the support of his fellow countrymen only if they have ap- proved Of his leadership. He does not try to buy them. He explains the sit 1 uation frankly. He can sustain every point he has mado in his appeal. He tells us that the peoples of the allied countries "Would find it very difficult to believe th@, the voters of the United States had chosen to support their president by electing to the con- greSS a majority controlled by those who are in fact not in apathy with the attitude and action of the admin istratiOn."
 EX-President Eliot of Harvard col lege says that the replies of the re- publican leaders to President Wilson's appeal prove that the president Is right in his judgment of the probable effects Of giving the control of con- gress to the republican party. pr. Eliot says that the people of the United States are under the deepest obiga tions to President Wilson for the manner in which he has conduct ed the military and civil affairs of the government. that the president has given the United States a position in human affairs that no other nation has ever possessed. pr. Eliot further says that the republicans are propos- ing to force the advocacy of a partic- ular policy called "unconditional sur render" on the present administration
 and that they assume without war;
 rant that those two words do not de-
 scribe the ultimate policy Of the dem
 ocratic administration.
 The United States has always found
 a great man for every crisis in it's
 history, and the people have always
 supported him. They have support
 ed Washington and Lincoln In the
 past. Wilson is the man of destiny
 today. Will the people support him?
 The great reserve army of indcpend-
 ent voters is forming. They are Ro-
 ing into the line on Tuesday, to sup
 port the great democratic and hu-
 manitarian principles of Woodrow
 Wilson,
 ROBERT E. LINDSAY.
 Novemb ber 4, 1918.