Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-01

LOndon, one Of the two Conneetlcut men in the U. $. senate, has answered the appeal of President Wilson for the election of a 6emocfatie congress. Senator Brandegee sent out his re- joinder through the republican state central committee at Hartford as fol- lows:
 On May 27. e1s1S. the president, ad- dressing the congress of the United States in joint session assembled in the hall of the house of representa- tives, said:
 Politics is adjourned. The elections will go to those who think .east of it; to those. who go to the constituent cies without explanations or excuses, with a plain record of dury faithfully and disinterestedly performed I, for one, am always confident that the peo- pie of this country will give a just yer dict upon the service of the men who act for them when the facts are such that no man can disguise or conceal them. There is no dangar of deceit HOW. An intense and pitiless light beats upon every man and every ac- ton in this tragic plot of war that is flow upon the stage"
 Now. within five months after this statement, the president Of the United States repudiates his advice to con
 
 statement that "the elections will so to those who think least of it" he has hurled into the political arena a bigot- ted partisan appeal which maKes it impossible for the people to think any thing but politics until after the cleo tions are over, The president stated that the elections would go 70 those who go to the constituencies without explanations or excuses, with plain record of duty faithfully and disin- terestedly performed. Now he ap- peals to the country to defeat such men if they happen to be republicans. The president stated that The is al- ways confident that the people or this country will give a just verdict upon he service of the men who act for them when the facts are such mat no man can disguise or conceal them" Or course the president was correct in i that statement but now he asks each constituency not to give a just yer dict upon the service of it's represen- tative in congress based upon his ser vice, but asks them in every instance to defeat that faithful servant if he happens to be a republican. He now l demands the election of a congress democratic in both branches. He an- n0unces that unity If command is as necessary now in civil action as it 1 is upon the field of battle" He is not content with his constitutional powers as president of the United States and IS commander in -chief O. the army and navy. He insists that he shall be oheyed as commander in chief of the congress of the United States, He is not satisfied with the absolute control ! of the executive branch of the gov ernment. He insists upon dominating | f fela Te reason existed for prohibiting further correspondence with the imperial Ger man chancellor, the attituoe or the president and his method of conveying i his wishes of his countrymen would i suffice. In effect the presidents propo- sitiOn is that until March I, 1921. which Will mark the termination of his pres ent term of office. all the electors ot this country, unless they happen to be | democrats, are to be placed under po- | litical disabilities. so far as their abil- 1 i1y for membership Tn congress is con | ceTned
 The republicans compose at 3east 1 half and probably much more than half of the population of the country They have subscribed for the larger portion of the Liberty bonds; they pay the major portion of the staggering taxes necessitated by the war; they l compose at least one-haif Ot our ar my and navy: and yet the president of the United States makes open proc lamation to the country that no mat
 Tor how much they have sacrificed. nJ matter what their ability to nefp wtr
 the war, no person of the republican faith must be elected to congress dur
 ing his term of office. Every other
 country which is in a death grapPlt
 with Prussiansm is forming non-par-
 tisan. coalition cabinets and utiliZins all the brains. all the patriotism ayr all the enthusiasm of all the peopIe II
 the one overwhelming issue of win
 ming the war and obtaining q vrcCorf-
 ous and enduring peace
 The president asks that he he al lowed to "Continue to be your ,s1ern
 harrassed spokesman in affairs 1m' and abroad" and earnestly oe@s Sha the people express themselves unmis
 takaby to that effect by returning
 democratic majority to both the sen
 ate and the house of representatives
 What Mir. Wilson means by being sal
 'ttnembarrasse SpokesmaIS in affair
 at home anG. abroad IS that Ee shal he allowed to dc both at home 9n'
 abroad exactly as he pleaSes. In hi opinion the congress of the Unite'
 States is an 'embarraSsgnent' unles
 upon every single occasion, upon eacl
 EIatter that may arise. either at hom
 or abroad, each member of congress thinks exactly as he thinks ard vote as he is ordered.
 Are the self respecting independen
 freemen of Connecticut while sacrific
 ing their boys on the battlefield to in
 sure liberty in other parts of tn , world, prepared to establish unity o
 command in civil action at home
 While they are giving their last della
 and their last man to make the worl
 safe for democracy abroad. are the tc institute Prussianism in their ow country?
 Everybody knows what q defnocrati majority means in both branches c 9 congress. It means that whenever tn , president can get democratic caucu I called for the consideration of an matter in either house. 8 majority C 3 that caucus binds the action of tn 3 entire membership. Whenever ther :, is a democratic majority in congres - it is controlled by the representative , from the south Therefore, a ner . majority of a majority coming froT l the southern states is enabled to ep l act any lgislation it chooses. Th
 members Of the house of represents
 tives to be elected on the 5th day ( |, November next will remain in offic = during the entire term of Presider a | Wilson that is. until March 4. 192 I The senators, of course, will be electe | for a. period of six years. Presume e bly, the war will end within year ( V two. though the great question is nt 1 so much when it ends as how 1t end Q During this period and after the WE a shall have ended. the tremendous prot IemS of reconstruction will arise UT
 der a democratic congress an thes c questions will be decided upon tf = new theory advanced by the presiden
 to wit, unity of command in civil at