The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-31
Senator cummins of Iowa Gives Dis
passionate Analysis of Presi-
dents Recent
Appeal.
PROPERTY
DOUBTFUL
Says Greatest Desire Is to Elect
Democrats So That His Party
| Can Remain In
Control.

A1Ibo 1uoAANES, OCI. ol.--Socudloi
A. B. Cummins, in an interview, gave
the following dispassionate analysis
OF the latest political utterances OF
President Wilson:
1T is difficult to speak temper
ately about the situation presented
by the presidents appeal to vote for
democrats only at the approaching
election. For the president to inter-
fere at all in this direct way is OF
very doubtful propriety, but / do not
object to the fact of his interference
as ! do to the basis Of his interior
ence. When he says or suggests
that the election Of republican con-
gress would weaken him in the
prosecution of the war or in impos-
ing upon Germany the proper con-
ditions of peace, he not only insults
every loyal republican in the United
States, but he impeaches the intel
ligence Of both friends and foes
throughout the world. Everybody
knows, and the president especially
knows, that the election of repuo-
lican senate and house would be
interpreted as an imperative de-
mand for the unconditional surren-
der of the military forces of Germany
and her associates in the war; for
complete disability in the future, and
for adequate PREPARATION as well as
full restoration.
Defeated as she is, there Is at
this moment nothing Germany wants
so much as to settle on the terms
proposed in the fourteen articles of
the presidents program. The truth
is that republican victory just now
will make it reasonably sure that
Germany will have to do something
more in expiation for her brutal
crimes than the program Of the
president requires; and 1t is my
Judgment that, so far as the war is
concerned, the president wants
democratic congress to strengthen
him with Great Britain and France.
rather than to strengthen him
against Germany.
'It is to be feared that our allies
are somewhat embarrassed with the
scope of the program of universal re-
generation, and knowing that the
fourteen articles can be discussed
for fourteen years without reaching
any very definite result.
"His chief desire for democratic
supremacy, however, lies in the fact
that he is a democrat Of the most
partisan type, and he Is hoping for
a congress that will submissively
follow his will in all legislative mat
tiers. This is made evident by his
published letter to the voters of New
Jersey, issued on the day following
his general appeal to the country.
In it he asks the people of that
state TO vote against Senator Baird,
the republican candidate for the
short term, on the ground that he
recently voted against woman suf-
frage. AT the same time he is in
sisting that Senator Simmons Of
North Carolina, Senator Shields of
Tennessee, and others, all of whom
voted against the suffrage resolution,
shall be reelected. This is consist
ency with vengeance, and demon
strates the extremities to which the
president is willing to go in the
futile effort to hold his party in
power.
'As commander in chief, and for
the purpose of making this country
strong in war, and for the total
overthrow Of Germany and her CO.
republicans and demo /!
Gratis alike will stand by the presi-
dent and give him every man who
can Ilgul, every lioI WIZ Sctll WILL |
and every dollar that can be ex-
pended; and if there be degrees in !
the earnestness and enthusiasm with |
which they do it, the comparison |
will not be to the discredit of the
"It may be that when it comes to
the general reorganization Of the /
world and the agreements which it
JTnitad Ctntnc shall !
Undertake to maintain the revised !
political map of Europe, there will |
arise differences of opinion, but
.hese differences have nothing to do
With whipping Germany, and that is
our business just now.
Assuming that the war will be
prosecuted quite as vigorously with
!, republican senate and house Of
as under democratic
control, it seems to me that there
never was time at which it was