Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-26
Republican Leaders
Reply TO Wilson's
Appeal For Votes

Washington. Oct. e6--Republican
leaders last night issued this reply to
President Wilson's appeal to the ma
ton to elect only democrats to the
senate and house next MONTH:
Some time ago the president said
politics Is adjourned Now, in the
closing days of the campaign--delayed
by the united efforts OF all parties for
the liberty loan--now. when all public
meetings have been given up owing TO
the influenza epidemic, the president
sends out a direct party appeal call
ing upon his countrynen to vote for
democrats because they are democrats
without any reference to whether
such democrats have Doen or are in
favor OF war measures and have q
war record which deserves support
Assail Henry Ford.
THE voters of Michigan, to take
single example. are called upon ii
support Mr. Henry Ford--notorious for
his advocacy Of peace at any price,
for his contemptuous illusions to the
flag. for the exemption of his son from
military serviceIon the Sole grounu
that he will blindly support the pres
ident.
THE president is quite ready to
admit tina. 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 enous Il
TO furnish important men at no sal
airy on some Of the great war boards
in Washington. But they are not
loyal enough, in the presidents
opinion, to Re trusted with any
share in the government of the coun-
try or legislation for it.
will Replace Mr.. Dent"
IF the republican party controls 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
Julius Kahn. to whom the administra-
ton was obliged to turn for assistance
to take charge of and carry the first
draft bill against Mr.. Dents opposi-
tion.
They will put republican at the
mead 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 a speaker
who did not oppose and would never
oppose draft bill. and would never
say. as Speaker Clark did. that there
is precious little difference between a
conscript and a convict
"Outvote Democratic
Attic the republicans of the house
are in the minority they cast more
actual votes on seven great war meas
ures than the democratic majority was
able to do.
What is the record of the senate?
On ffty-one roll calls on war meas
ures between April 6. 1917, and the
18th of May. 1918, the votes cast by
republicans in favor of such measures
we're 70 per cent, while only 81 per cent
OF the votes cast on the democratic
side were in favor of such measures.
Those We're the presidents own
measures. Does that record look as if
we had hampered him? The republican
party in congress has supported the
administration policies since the war
with unanimity and an absence of
criticism unprecedented in party his
tory.
Wouldn't Spare Cotton.
There are some domestic ques-
tions where we should undoubtedly
differ from the course pursued by
the administration. We should not,
for example, fix a price on the farmers
wheat and leave the planters cotton
Another domestic question in
which the republican party believes
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 per-
sonal war. This is not the war OF
congress. IT is not the war Of the
democratic or the republican party.
It is the war of the American peo-
Pile 1t is more-it is the war Of
the United States. of the allied