Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-28


 committee, made public here tonight a statement in which he replied in be- | haE of his party to President Wilson's | appeal to the nation to return a demo- l cratic congress. In his sta <ement Mir. | Hays said:
 President Wilson has questioned the motives and fidelity or your rep resentatives in congress. He has thereby impunged their loyalty and denied their patriotism. Hi; challenge IS to you who elected those represen- tatlVes. You owe it to them,. to the honor of your great party and to vour own sef respect to meet That chal- iese squareiy, not only as republicans but as Americans. 1, as your chairman call upon you to do it.
 MT. Wilson accords the reDublicans no credit whatever for having sun ported the war measures proposed bv his administration, although they have uoi'e so With greater unanimitv than the members of his own Dartv. De spite that fact, he accuses them of having tried to usurp his proper func- tioSn
 At no time and in no way have they tired to take control Of the war out of his hands. The president knows that. The country knowns it. A more ungracious, more unjust, more wan ton more mendacious accusation was never made by the most reckless stump orator, much less by a president or the United States, for partisan pur- 1 poses. It is an insult, not only to every l ioHal republican in congress, but to l every loyal republican in the land. It flllly merits the resentment which r1ghtfully anl surely will find ex- pression at the pollo.s
 MT Wilson grudgingly admits that the republicans have been 'pro-war' 1 men why does ne demand their de- leat Because they are still pro- war Hardly that. No. It is because they are for peace through, not with Uut, out victory; because they do not be- heNe lasting peace can be obtained uhrough negotiations; because they consider thai U. $. stands for uncon conditional surrender as well as for the Unlted States and Uncle Sam The democratlc congress does not. Mr 1 Wilson does not. There is the issue clear as the monday sun. The coun- try will decide.
 I MT Wilson wants only rubber stamps, his rubber stamps in con gress. lie says so. No one knows ii Getter than democratic congressman lie calls for the defeat of pro-war re. puDlcans and the election of anti-wal democrats. He, as the executive. i. no longer satisfied to be one branch a the government. as provided by tn, constitution, Republican congressme, must be defeated and democratic con gfessmen must, as they would. yiel , m everything. That is evidently hi : ioea-the idea of an auSocrat calIin, hlmser the servant but bidding fo the mastery of this great free Deonle
 Republicans in congress have seem Cd to him good enough when they as , sented, as they did assen. with high est patriotism and sometimes agains tnelr pest Judgment to his appeal. Re pupilcans at home have seemed to hin Sooa enough to send fully q million O lhelr sons into battle. to furnish a
 least half of the army and far nor
 tnan half Of the money for the win : ming of the war, but tkey are no , considered good enough to have q yoic : Tn the settlement of the war.
 put MT. Wilson's real purpose ha
 nothing to do with the conduct of tb
 war. He has had that from the begin
 nlng, has it now. and nobody dream
 ot interfering with his control. Fl
 wants just two things. One is flu '' power to settle the war precisely as + and ms sole, unelected, unappointe
 uHcolHr1ned personal advisor may de ? tefmlne9; The other is full. power z : the unembarrassed spokesman in al >' fairs at home as he actually demand
 In his statement, to reconstruct
 peace times the great industrial affai l. of the nation in the same way. in ur
 lmpeded conformity with whatev, = soclalstlc doctrines, whatever unlin
 lted government ownership notion j. Whatever unlimited government oIl l. ershlp notions, whatever hay whin J. may happen 10 possess him at Il l. tune, but first and above all. with al n solute commitment to free trade wi ei all the world thus giving to German
 out Of hand the fruits of a victol
 greater than she could win by fgh
 ing a hundred years. A republican col | gress Will never assent to that Do V,
 want congress that will? German does. Germany looks to Mir Wilson H. get it for her, as he pledged hinse D' D to do in one of the few of his famo D articles which is applicable. German ,A understands that. See the New Yo h World, spokesman of the administr HI tlon of last Saturday and read f ei testimony of Henry o. Emery, form HI mead of the tariff commission, just r
 turned from seven months in Ge
 mmany The German people, he sa, a. seemed to realize that in Preside
 Wilson lay their only salvation. Tn ", turned to him in the belief that
 IS the one great political leader W III can be trusted to make ;i permane t. peace which shall permit equal eco n- on1ic development He is. All othe
 demand that the Germans shall D
 the pull penalty for their crimes - What more than nonsense then
 the democratic campaign cry that t
 election of a republican congre
 pledged to unconditional surrend w and protection of American industr
 and American worEingmen. instead
 a democratic congress ready to asse T. to a negotiated peace and free tra, es would bear cheer to Germany. Su e. claims would be ludicrous if they wt in not So seriously unpatriot:c
 A''Mr. Wilsoni calls upon the repu
 licans of the country to repudiate tn
 representative in congress who ha , proved true and loyal patriots. 4 ln' you going to do it? Aanswcr with yc co, votes!
 "Mr. Wilson forces the republic eI party to lie down or fight. say. figl
 Answer with your votes'
 It. "3Ir. Wilson is for. urconditior w surrender-yes. for the unconditiol m surrender to himself of the republic IT, party, of the country, of the allie
 all to him, as the sole arhiter a
 master of the destinies of the wol j. Do you stand for that? Answer w ids your votes!"
 'So rltMIu rV nEEENDS