The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-26
ANSWER TO
WILSON'S APPEAL
Continued from page u

upon to support Mr.. Henry Ford
Notorious for his advocacy Of
peace at any price, for his con-
temptuous illusions 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 republicans 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 impor-
tant 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 in the government OF the
country or legis aticn for it.
II the republican party con-
trolls the house, we can point
out some Of the things they will
do. They will replace Mr.. Dent
of Alabama, at the head Of the
military affairs committee, with
Mr.. Julius Kahn, to whom the
administration was Obliged to
turn for assistance to take
charge Of and carry the first
draft bill against Mr.. Dents OPP
position.
They will put a republican at
the head of the ways and means
committee as leader Of the house
instead of Mr.. Kitchin Of North
Carolina, who voted against the
war.
They will give the country
speaker who did not oppose and
would never oppose a draft bill
and would never say, as Speaker
Clark did, that there is pre-
cious little difference between
a conscript and a convict"
Although the republicans of
the house are in the minority,
they cast more actual votes on
seven great war measures than
the democratic majority was
able to do What Is the record
of the senate?
On fifty-one roll calls ON war
measures Uel"ecu 1hpiAi U, io1p
and May 90, 1918, the votes cast
by republicans in favor of such
measures were IL per cent,
while only 81 per cent of the
votes cast on the democratic
side were In favor of such meas
ures.
Those were the presidents
-~,-,. nooc that rnPnr>d
look as if we had hampered
him? The republican party in
congress has supported the ad-
ministration policies since the
war with a unanimIty and an
absence of criticism unprece-
denied in party history.
There are some domestic ques-
lions where we should undoubt-
eddy differ from the course pur-
sued by the administration. We
should not, for example, fix
price on the farmers wheat and
leave the planters cotton un-
touched.
Another domestic question in
which the republican party be-
Iieves thoroughly Is economic
preparation for the coming OF
peace, and they are clearly OF
the opinion that the congress of
the United States should not be
excluded from that great task.
This is not the presidents
personal war. This is not the
war Of congress. 1t Is not the
war of the democratic or the re-
publican party. 1t is the war of
the American people. 1t is more,
It is the war of the United
States, of the allied powers, OF
the civilized world against the
barbarism Of Germany. In the
great burden and responsibility
the republican party, represent
ing more than half the citizen
shio of the country, demands its
rightful share.
If the republican party is iu-
trusted with power in either or
both houses, they will do every
thing possible to drive forward
the war and has.en the day CT
victory. The president speaks
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 money, To the
last dollar, necessary to sustain
our armies and our fleets, but
they will check the waste now