Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-11-01

signed me by the constitution would
he seriously impaired should your
Judgment he adverse, and must frank
~ tell you 50 because 81 many critical
issues depend upon your verdict. No
Scruple of taste must in grim times
like these he allowed tn stand in the
way of speaking the plain truth.
Divided Leadership.
~ have no thought Of suggesting
that any political party is paramount
in matters Of patriotism. / feel too
deeply the SACRIFICES which have been
made in tbs war by all our citizens
irrespective of party affiliations to har-
Dor such an idea. | mean only that
the difficulties and delicacies Of our
present task are Of Il sort that makes
il impcratvely necessary that the ma
tion should give its undivided support
to the government under q unified lead
erShip and that Republican Congress
would divide the leadership.
Unity Of Command.
1.-THE leaders of the minority In the
present Congress have PROFESSIONALLY
heon pro-war, but they have been anti
administration. At almost every turn
since we entered the war they hay.
sought 10 take choice of policy and the
conduct of the war out of my hands
and put il under the control of iDstru-
mrntalities of their own choosing.
This Is no time either for divided
council or for divided leadership.
Unity of command is as necessary now
i'm civil action as it is upon the field
Of battle. II the control of the House
and the Senate should be taken away
from the party now in power an OPP
posing majority could assume control
of legislation and DIlige all action to
be taken amidst contest and obstruc-
ton.
Interpretation Abroad.
"'rhe return of Republican major
ity TO either House of the Congress
would. moreover, be interpretative On
the other side Of the water as II re-
pJ diation of my leadership. Spokes-
m,n Of the Republican party are urg-
g." YOU Ia elect n Republican Con
'.,-. IN Cr'Cr TO back up and support
... f. '.. 'vi even II they should
I mon some crcdulOus
.u... vI Lis de- of the water, they
WcIld impose on no one on the other
klOt. II IN wen NIhtISlt"ll UNITY hS
well as here that The Republican lead
prS desire not so much To support the
President, as 10 control him.
The people of the allied countries
with whom we are associated against
Germany are quite familiar with the
sign 'icunce Of elections. They would
find n very difficult 10 believe that the
voters - The United States had 80
s'uport their President by
cI,c' - to the Congress a ma Jority
controlled by those who are In fact
not in sympathy with the attitude and
action of the administration
Il need not tell YOU, my fell0w-coun-
trymcn, that am asking your support,
not for my own sake or for the sake
of a political party, but for the sake
Of the nation itself in order that Its
inward unity OF purpose may be evil
dent to an the world. In ordinary times
divided counsels can be endured with
out permanent hurt 10 the country.
But these are not ordinary times.
IF in these critical days IL Is your
wish 20 suAain me with undivided
minds. | beg that YOU will say SO In
a way which Il will not be- possible 10
misunderstood either az home %
among our associates ON the other sade
az the SEA. | submit my difiicslties
and aly hopes ia YOU.
"vnNnPOW WILSON,