The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-10-29
POLITICAL PLEA HOTLY
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when money was required by taxa
ton or by loans.
The former president spoke at a
meeting under the auspices of tho
advocate the election OF the Repub-
lican state ticket here in New York
and of the Republican congressional
ticket throughout the union"
Here's to Our Car
Rebukine what he termed the
"servility" of Democratic leadership
the Colonel said it was small won
der that in the cloakrooms OF the
house that bitter jest circulates:
Here's to our Car. last in war, first
in peace, long may he waver!'
Mr.. Roosevelt criticized the gen
throughout the war. declaring:
If Mr. Wilson had really meant to
disregard politics he would at once
have constructed a coalition, non
partisan cabinet, calling the best
men of the nation to the highest and
most important offices under him,
without regard to politics.
He did nothing of the kind. In the
positions most vital to the conduct
OF the war and in the positions now
most important in connection with.
pointed men without the slightest
fitness for the performance of the
tasks, whose sole recommendation
was "a supple eageTness to serve Mr..
Wilson personally and to serve Mr..
Wilson's party insofar as such sery-
ices benefitted Mr.. Wilson"
Contrast With lLipooIn
Contrasting the Presidents appeal
with Lincoln's outright refusal,
even in the darkest days of the civil
ness for Office the Colonel said
that Lincoln appealed to all loyal.
men Of all parties and asked that
candidates for congress be Judged,
not by the standard OF adherence to
his personal administration, but BY
their unconditional support of the
war"
Election of a Republican congress.
the Colonel continued, @would be un-
deTstood abroad as meaning that, the
pro-German and pacifsts and bolshe-
visits and Germanized Socialists could
no longer be counted upon as efficient
and tortuous tools, that the lighting
men and not the rhetoricians are
uppermost"
Mr.. Roosevelt interpreted the Pres
ident's reference to the anti admin
istration" attitude of Republican
members of congress as based on
their demand that inefficiency, waste
and extravaganza be remedied," in the
war conducting departments
Colonel Roosevelt declared that it
was 'tfe veriest nonsense that even
partisanship can conceive" to states
that failure to return a Democratic
congress this fall would be interpret
ed by the allies and Germany" as be-
ing a reputation of the war aims OF
this country"
The former. president asserted that
what we need is an American con-
gTess, a congress of straight out
Americans and not congress of
rubber stamps" II
I'VE Republicans pledge ourselves
to stand by the President as long as
he stands by the American people and
to part company from hfn1 at any
point where in our judgment he does
not stand by the people" he said.
lie Peoples War.
''This is the peoples government,
that is the peoples war, and the peace
that follows shall be the peoples
peace.
Quoting a press dispatch To the e.
feet that Republican senators such
as Mclsumber Nelson and Lodge are
as highly thought OF In France today
as are the American generals, Col
oneI Roosevelt declared that mine
times out of ten this administration
has never led the people" has been
reluctantly forced forward into action
BY the criticism against which it has
violently protested" and has sullen
~ and sometimes intellectually sought