New Britain herald., 1918-10-26
REPUBLICANS HOWL
 AT WILSON'S APPEAL
This Is Not Democrats War,
 They Tell Nation

l. "aSh1nStOn, oct. Z0.~-ln anSW CT
 to the Presidents appeal to the peo-
 pie for the return of democratic
 majority to congress, the republican leaders of the senate and house issued
 this statement last evening:
 Some time ago the President said
 politics is adjourned.' Now, in the
 closing days of the mpaign-delayed
 by the united efforts of all parties for
 the Liberty loan-now,w when all public
 meetings have been given up owing
 to the influenza epidemic, the Presi- dent sends out a direct party appeal calling upon his countrymen to vote
 for democrats because they are demo- crats without any reference to Wheth- CT such democrats have been or are
 in favor of war measures and have 8 war record which deserves support. The voters of Michigan, to take a single example, are caled upon to sup port MT. Henry Ford, notorious for his advocacy of peace at any price, for his contemptuous allusions to the flag, for the exemption of his son from military service on the sole ground that he will blindly support the President. The President is quite ready to admit that reublicans are loyal enough to fight and die. as they are doing by the thousands; loyal enough to take up great loans and pay enormous taxes; loyal enough to furnish important men at no salary on some of the great war boards in Washington. But they are not loyal enough, in the Presidents opinion to be trusted with any share il the gov ernment of the country or legislation for it.
 If the republican party controls the house we can point out some of the things they will do. They will re- place MT. Dent of Ala bama at the head of the military affairs committee with MT. Julius Kahn, to whom the admisistra tion was obliged to turn for assistance to take charge of and carry l the first draft bill agaist MT. Dents opposition. They will put a republi- can at the head of the ways and means committee, as leader of the 1 house. instead of Mir. Kitchin of North Carolina, who voted against the war. 1 They will give the country speaker who did not oppose and would never 1 oppose draft bill and would never say, as Speaker Clark did, that there l is precious little difference between 1 a conscript and @ convict.
 Although the republicans of the house are III the minority. they ctLSC more actual votes on seven great 1 war measure than the democratic majority was able to do. What is 1 the record of the senate? On fifty l one roll calls on war measures be- 1 tween April 6, 1917. and the 29th of l May, 1918, the votes cast by repubIi- l cans in favor of such measures were ! 72 per cent, while ony 67 per cent. ! of the votes cast on the democatic l side were in favor of such measures 1 Those were the Presidents own 1 measures. Does that record look as ] if we had hampered him? The re- 1 publican party in congress has sup ! ported the administration policies l since the war with a unaninity and 1 an absence of criticism unprecedented ! in party history.
 l There are some domestic questions 1 where we should undoubtedly differ 1 from the course pursued by the Ad- ] ministration. We should not for ex- 1 ample, fix a price on the farmers l wheat and leave the planters cotton ! untouched. Another dome estic question
 in which the republican party believes ! thoroughly is economic preparation
 for the coming of peace, and they are
 clearly of the opinion that the Con-
 gress Of the United States should not
 !
 This is not the Presidents personal
 1 war. This is not the war of congress
 i It is not the war of the democratic or
 the republican party. It is the war of
 I the American people. It is more. It is , the war of the United States of the
 allied powers, of the civilized world against the barbarism Of Germany. In
 this great burden and responsibility the
 republican party, representing more
 than half of the citizenship of the
 country, demands it's rightful share.
 "1f the republican party is intrusted
 l with power in either or both houses
 they will do everything possible to
 ] drive forward the war and hasten the
 day of victory. The President speaks
 l of the necessity of telling the plain truth. That the republican party in control of congress would do, for they
 have no friends to shield. And they , will do more, they will give all the 1 money to the last dollar necessary to sustain our armies and our fleets. but , they will check the waste now going , on of the money given by the most , l generous people on the face of the
 ] earth.
 The President speaks of the effect l Of the election abroad. He says that
 there they understand the meaning of
 1 election. They do, and they will know ; 1 that if the republicans have a. majori- , ! ty in congress the war will be pressed with greater vigor than ever before. They are quite aware that the power of the senate is equal to that of the President in the consummatiOn of peace by treaty. They will know that
 the republican party stands for a vic
 torious peace and the overthrow of
 1 Prussian militarism. That knowledge will not depress the spirit of our allies r l or encourage the government of Ger