The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-12-05
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ACCEPTMR. Will SONS REQUEST
TO RUN THINGS ALONE

fof lis presidential term, and the peo
pie were adjured by him to exclude
from the House and Senate all mer
who might have the temerity to diffel
with him or to criticize either him OF
his political agents.
John T. Morgan said once in the
Senate Whenever the clock strikes
in the White House there are cuck
oos here who stick out their heads and
tell US what time of day it is' Mr.
Morgan was a statesman of the old
school. From his place in the Senate
he watched presidents come and go
Their tenure was evanescent com
pared with his. and. imbued with the
traditions of the era when the Senate
really dominated the government, he
could not imagine on what meat a
president could feed that he should
aspire to convert the halls of Congress
into his whispering galleries.
President Cleveland always sought
to dominate Congress. He sneered at
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self publicly that he had two houses
ION his hands," But by the time he
ended his second term he found him.
self completely isolated in the solemn
silences of the White House.
The theory of our government re-
quires cooperation between the Pres
ident and two branches of Congress.
They are equals. One is not the mas
ter and the other the servant A SEN
ator or a representative is as much
entitled to freedom of opinion and ac-
tion as the President is. But because
Republican senators and representa-
tives have recently exercised legiti-
mate independence of judgment re-
garding legislation necessary to carry
on the war the President set out to
prescribe them and to persuade the
country, as a matter of patriotic duty.
to ostracize the entire Republican
party.
And on what irreyelant and sratuit
GUS groundsi The Republican party
in Congress has supported the war
with the. utmost zeal and enthusiasm.
1t has an unassailable record as a war
party. Even the President was obliged
to admit that tthe leaders of the mi
nority in the present Congress have
been pro-war." Whot
was their mortal Offending? Simply
that "they have been anti-administra-
ton"
Had Mr.. Wilson had the broad and
tolerant spirit Of Lincoln he. would
have said to the country: "War is
now the single absorbing business of
the nation. Give me a pro-war Con-
gress and l don't care whether it is
decentralization or anti-administra-
tion.''
In the Allied countries Of Europe
there has been from the beginning a
sacred union" parties to support and
sustain the war. That was natural
and logical. But here in the United
States the war has been visualized by
the White House as an '.administra-
tion" enterprise. There has been q
patheticalIy misguided attempt to con-
vert patriotism into Democratic as
set.
The American people resent the cap
italization of great national emotions
and impulses for factional advantage.
Mr.. Wilson's electioneering appeal
struck perhaps the shabbiest note that
has yet been struck in this war. Its
proscriptive animus was an affront 10
the American spirit of fair play and
tolerant common sense.
The voters have answered that ap-
peal as 1t deserved to be answered.
They have divided according to their
natural inclinations. altogether regard
less of the Presidents argument that
his prestige would be shattered and
his leadership impaired by the election
of an opposition Congress. In most
of the states in which he interfered
with epistolary and other indorse-
, ments OF candidates for the Senate
those candidates were defeated.
The electors voted their own minds.
They restored the Republican party to
power in Congress because that party
constitutes the normal majority in the
leoantry II has been unwarrantably
and jealously excluded fro ma proper
participation in the conduct Of the
war Those who have been response
Bile for that exclusion have been appro-
priately chastened.