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The Redwood gazette., 1918-04-17

Have you noticed how attracti
the Third Liberty Loan buttons lool
Harold Aune is at home for q y
days visit with his parents, Mr. p
Mrs. H. M. Aune. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Erie McPhersorr
Monday for visit of severalIs
in the Twin Cities.
Fred Murset last week sold
mers cars to R. A. Cooper and-
gust Hagen of Belview.
Mrs. Lillian Lamberton andr
family spent Sunday with ths.
H. Ball family at Morgan.
Fred McAllister left MondaJo
start training in the naval sse
for which he enlisted sometime
Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. McRaele
Sunday guests at the home Of.
and Mrs. F. E. Gleason at Wabs
A number Of Fairfax resident
tended the morning service ale
Redwood Falls Methodist CE1
Sunday.
John Schilt returned Mondaya
Bingham Lake where he has the
tract for the erection of a l.
school building.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. w. Hence. \
ceived word Monday from their, \
Norman Henze, that he had 81 X
arrived in France.
y Special sale on Pyrene Fire E
tinguishers this week. Every hor
should have one. Stensvad garage. {
After eight years of continuol
service with the State Bank, B.
Schmid will soon tender his resign;
ton and will pull for the "Golde
West" and will locate at Orofn
Idaho, where he will have charge /
bank owned by the Watermans fo
merly Of Lamberton. The western bu
has been buzzing in Ben's ear II
the past year and it was not unt
of late that the plan has been full
worked out.-Milroy Echo.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04

democrats without attaching any i'm
p%ortance whatever to the result. as an
endorsement or condemnation of the
administration"
Just why the president was not will
ing to permit this satisfactory condi-
tiOn to continue is not plain and vari-
Gus constructions are placed upon his
actions. For itself the Freeman-Jour-
nal believes the president wants abso.
lutely a free hand to commit the cOun-
try to any policy after the war is over
that he may see fit. He has admitted
that the republicans in congress are
pro-war and have done their duty in
the national crisis. Now that the war
is about to end, apparently, republican
assistance in governmental affairs is
obnoxious and the president wants to
surround himself with a ccnglOmera.
ton of rubber stamps like Henry Ford
of Michigan and J. Ham. Lewis of
Illinois.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04

WHAT DAVIS LACKED.

Col. Geo. Harvey. ''the man who
discovered Wilson," and the man who
did much in 1912 to nominate the
present chief executive, is NOW opposed
to Mr.. Wilson's attempt to discredit
the loyalty of the republican party
in congress by implying that the cleo
ton Of a republican house or senate
would encourage the Hun and diScOur-
age our. associates in Europe. Mr..
Harvey. while not questioning the
patriotism of the president, thinks the
pen picture of Jefferson Davis drawn
by Mr.. Wilson in his History Of the
american People" is n pretty fair
| picture of the president himself, as
follows:
HE had the pride, the spirit of in
itiative, the capacity in business which
qualify men for leadership, and lacked
nothing of indomitable will and i'm
perious purpose to make his leadership
| effective. What he did lack was wis
dom in dealing with men, Willingness
to take the Judgment of others in criti-
cal matters of business, the instinct
| which recognizes ability in others and
trusts it to the utmost to play it's in
dependent part. He too much loved to
rule. had too Overwccning a confidence
i'm himself, and took leave to act as II
he understood much better than those
did who were in actual command what
| should be done i'm the field. He sought
TO control too many things with too
feminine a Jealousy Of any rivalry IN
authority"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04

Speaker Champ Clark, who opposed
the CONSUMPTION bill with all his
strength, is a candidate for reelection
to congress and President Wilson says
he should be reelected to prove to our
allies in Europe hat this country is not
divided on war measures. Clark didn't
mildly oppose CONSUMPTION, but left his
chair as presiding officer and made a
speech against the measure. He even
said that down my way in Missouri
they see very little difference between
a conscript and a convict" Has Pres
ident Wilson rebuked Clark? Hardly.
On the contrary, he asks the people to
vote for Clark and defeat the real pa
triotic candidate against him. Yet
some people look upon President Will
son as a man too big and too great to
play small politics. But he is playing
that kind of politics and is using this
war to make the hand he plays more
effective. Having descended from The
high pedestal upon which he vas plic-
ed by the American people to tile meth
DDS of ward politicians, he and his
friends have no right to complain at
the kind of criticism he is getting Ie-
cause he invited it.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04
"NAR WITH WHICH WE HAVE
NOTHING TO DO"

President Wilson, in his message to
congress, Dec. 8, 1911: More than
this preparedness for national de
Ifense) proposed at this time, permit me
to say, would mean merely that we had
lost our self-possession: that we had
been thrown off our balance by IL war
with which we have nothing to &c,
whose causes cannot touch us, whose
very existence gives Us opportunities
for friendship and disinterested s2r'ic"
which should make impossible I rs
any hostile preparation for rouble.'
Vice President Marshall, however,
would now have us believe that tie
statement made by the president N
1914 should not be taken to mean what
it clearly indicates. In an address in
New York on the 2Sth of October, 1873.
MI. Marshall said:
Il came here partly to make an apol-
ogy-an apology for any attitude dur
ing almost two years and a half OF
that fateful conflict. an apology that
a God fearing man in the twentieth
century of civilization could have
dreamed that any nation, any people OF
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04

The pen may not be mightier than
the sword, hut President Wilson's type
writer is likely to put the For Rent
sign on all the arsenals in the world
Manson Democrat.
Now, really, Jack, don't you think the
allied armies in the field, together with
our own. may have a little something
to do with these for rent" signs?
And may it not be possible that the
billions of dollars this country has
poured into the war Golfers to strangle
Moloch will have some hearing on re-
suits? President Wilson, as everybody
knows. is strong with the typewriter,
but it is straining a point a wee bit,
it appears to us, to assume that the
little machine is doing it all. There
are the machine guns on the battle
front. They have done something.
The British navy, too, has not been
wholly idle. Even if the typewriter is
so wonderful it can hardly claim all
the credit.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04

The Marshalltown Times-Republican,
after scoring President Wilson for try
ing to use the war for partisafy nurpOs-
es, turns it's guns on republic. Is in
Des Moines for pointing to the war ac-
~tivities of Gov. Harding as reasons
why he should be reelected. But the
situation is entirely different. Nobody
of consequence had accused President
Wilson of a lack of patriotism, but
Claude Porter, candidate for governor
of Iowa. had SO accused Gov. Harding,
and in order to fully refute the state
ment, which might influence some I'M
informed soters. republicans at Des
Moines' poi6ted to the record as repu-
dating the sla,.aers of Porter. Hence,
President Wilson is wrong, and Cover
nor Harding is right in the matters
under consideration. There was no *
cuse for the presidents letter, while
the governors was amply justified. In
fact, it was his duty to write 1t.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04
TO REPUBLICANS.

President Wilson has questioned the
motives and fidelity of your repre-
sentatives in congress. He has thereby
impugned their loyalty and denied
their patriotism. His challenge is to
YOU who elected those representatives
You W it to them. to the honor OF
your great party and TO your W sell
respect to meet that challenge square
ly, not only as republicans, but as
Americans. I, as your chairman. cal
upon you to do twill III. Hays.
Chairman Republican National Com.
mittee.
The Freeman-Journa most heartily
endorses the foregoing. Loyal republi-
cans all over, the nation who have done
all they possibly could to assist in war
work have a right to feel deeply the
aspersions cast upon them by President
Wilson and they ought to resent it at
the polls. The presidents statement,
which implies that the election OF Il
republican congress would give joy 20
Potsdam and sorrow to Paris. Il
mighty near being a direct insult to
everyone of the 5000, 600 republican
voters in the United States who have
stood SO Loyalty by the country in the
hour of its peril.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04
MIR. HUGHES PEAKS

Judge Charles +. Hughes, republican
candidate for president two years ago.
addressed a political meeting in New
York a few evenings z and the dis
patches give the following account of
what he said:
Mr.. Hughes declared that 10 poIiti-
cal party IA paramount in patriotism
and that republicans had a right to ex-
press their political preferences.
Must we republicans" he declared,
''patriotically toll and give without
seeking a voice in the national as
sembly, yielding our representation TO
democrats, not as more worthy or more
loyal. not as more sacrificing or more
intelligent, but as such simply because
they are democrats"
After declaring the issue was trans
cendent, Mr.. Hughes emphasized the
need for complete victory in the war.
the crushing of arbitrary aid tyran-
ious power in preparation of the new
era OF peace and justice.
Did | not think the republican par
ty would, through its representatives,
aid in the efficient conduct of this war
and in the settlement of a righteous
peace, / should leave the party. 1t is
because i believe the republican party
is an important and necessary agency
in the winning of this war and in
establishing a just peace that rs a
republican. but not in a narrow. parti-
san spirit, l join with you in the earn
est support of the republican candi-
dates.
Let there be fair and open discus
sion and free consultation and then we
can trust the future. With the com
try almost equally divided between two
parties. the freest expression and
choice of representatives should be
welcomed.
But it is said that the return Of a
republican majority will be misuuder-
stood abroad.
I'VE shall not he misunderstood.
We shall support the president. no; as
the president of n party, not as the
president of half the nation, but as
the president of the entire nation. as
he acts according to the genius Of our
institutions. and We shall save him
from the lesser dignity and influence
of mere pDrty leadership"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04

ministration war measuresEand the par
ty out of congress has responded to
every call. 1t is, little wonder that re-
publicans who buried politics for the
general good and who eagerly endorsed
every var activity should feel deeply
the uncalled for and humiliating note
from the White House that brands
them as unfit to participate in the at
fairs of the government they have
sought in every possible way to up
hold.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04

Not long ago Gen. Foch tele-
graphed Lloyd George, the great WEIGH
and British leader, as follows
II do not forget that it is to your in
~sistence that ! owe the position l oc-
cupy today" 1t is quite evident that
Gen. Foch is laboring under a mis-
apprehension Of the facts, for Secre-
tary McAdoo says so. He says lit was
among President Wilson'S first acts
after the United States entered the
war to force a unity of command under
Gen. Foch."
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04
IN AGREEMENT.

There should have been 10 midterm
election during this war. But con
s%titutional changes are not so readily
affected as that would signify. The
election was inevitable. But there
should have been nc campaign, and the
men who are responsible for forcing a
campaign are putting the greatest
cause America has I'VE had in grave
peril. Republicans should have gone
to the polls and voted as republicans
and democrats as democrats without
attaching any importance whatever TO
the result. as an Endorsement or con-
demnation of the Observation-Disclosures
Moines Register.
The Freeman-Journal is surprised to
see the foregoing in the Des Moines
paper, with which it is in complete
accord. But for the uncalled for and
ill-adrised appeal Of the president to
the country the election would have at
tracted little attention and no special
lIllDpItdhtt Nohs't nav pNth
To the result, either here or in Europe.
Our allies across the sea know the peo-
pie of the United States are united and
il would never have occurred To them
that republicans could not he trusted
in congress, even in the Judgment OF
the president, if the president himself
had not SO strongly emphasized his
views to the contrary.
True, the republican and democratic
national ciairmen. with a few other
leaders of the respective parties, were
trying to create sSme interest in poll
tics. hut the great majority OF the
people were not ABUSED. Republicans
would have gone b the polls and vot.
ed as republicanst and democrats as
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04

do. If President Wilson were sincere
ly trying to elect a congress, regardless
of politics, that would stand by him, he
would boldly advocate the defeat of
Speaker =. Champ. Clark, Chairman
Kitchin and Chairman Dent. These
men opposed the administrations most
important war measures and If CON
duct in congress has anything to do
with the qualifications Of congressman
to serve the country well in times like
these, these men have lost the right to
reelection. The president has opposed
the nomination of some democrats who
opposed him, in states like Texas, Miss
issippi and Alabama, knowing that on
ly democrats would be elected in those
states anyhow, but he has not opposed
a single democrat in any state or dis
trict where there IA the slightest
chance of the election of a republican
over a democrat.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04

II the republicans gain control OF
congress, they will discover that the az,
rangement does not include control OF
President Wilson. and so there may
come another Andy johnson excite
ment.-Sioux City Tribune.
Republicans will have no desire to
control President Wilson if they get
control Of congress. The president is
his own master and congress ought to
be it's own boss. But Woodrow Wilson
not only wants to control President
Wilson but he also wants to control
congress, not in the interest of winning
the war. for he admits that the repubIi-
cans are pro-war. but in the interest
of my administration We hope the
Tribune is not undertaking to compare
President Wilson with former Presi-
dent johnson.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04

It's to be determined whether Colo
mel Roosevelt or President Wilson is
70 be represented at the peace table
Sioux City Tribune.
The Freeman Journal was not aware
that such al issue was up. However,
if the colonel should get a commission
to represent this country mt the peace
table, he would not have to offer any
apologies for intimating That the Amer,
lean people were too proud to fight OF
for saying that this is a war of no in
tercst to us. Moreover, he would not
he accused of having kept us out OF the
war for nearly two years when we
should have been iu-Tle cQlQpel Ger.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04
WOODROW WILSON'S VIEWS ON
THE PEOPLE AND THE PRESIDENCY
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune
A high authority on our government methods, Wood
row Wilson, wrote as follows in his work Constitutional
Government in the United States, chapter Ill:
There are illegitimate means by which the president
may influence the action of congress. He may bargain
with members, not only with regard to appointments, but
also with regrad to legislative measures. He may use his
local patronage to assist members to get or retain their
seats. He may ~interpose his powerful influence, in one
covert way or another, in contests for places in the senate.
Such things are not only deeply immoral, they are
destructive of the fundamental understandings of consti-
tutional government, and therefore of constitutional gov
eminent itself. They are sure, moreover, in acountry of
free public opinion, to bring their own punishment, to de-
.stroy both the fame and the power Of the man who dares
to practice them" +
"A reader of "The Tribune w. I. Hewetson of Free
port, writes: ut seems to me the best answer to President
Wilson'S recent appeal to elect a Democratic congress is to
be found in sentences from one Of his many books, The
New Freedom"
In this book Mr.. Wilson said:
81 don't want a SNUG lot Of experts to sit down behind
closed doors in Washington and play Providence for me.
!. Ihave never met a political savior in the flesh and
never expect to meet one. If any part of our peo-
pie want to be wards, if they want to have guardians put
over them, if they want to be taken careof if they want to
be children, patronized by the government why, / am
sorry, because it will sap the manhood Of America.
America is never going to submit to guardianship. Amer
lea is never going to choose thralldom instead Of freedom"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04
six republican members of the p

Six republican members of the pres
ent congress resigned to join the army
and fight the Huns. One Of them, til,
Hon. A. c. Gardner, has forfeited his
life. He was one of the strong friend.
of preparedness during the early days
of the war in Europe, but was unable
to make any impression on congress
SO far as the Freeman-Journal has
observed not Il democratic member OF
congress has resigned to take part in
the war. although there may be some
such. Mr.. Gardner was pro-war but
anti-administration, as are all the
other republicans who resigned. In
the judgment of President Wilson they
should be defeated this year if candi
dates for congress.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04

other president in the history Of the
country in time of national peril ever
stopped to such methods. True, repub-
licans and democrats, alike have in
dulged in such partisan appeals in the
past, but no president ever has.
The Freman-.Journal is gratified to
be able to quote former President
Taft's declaration, made in an address
at Portsmouth, N. H., on the first OF
this month, in which the ex-president
makes statements coinciding with the
expressions of this journal anent the
unprecedented p~artisanship of the
present occupant of the white house.
Mr.. Taft said:
The example of Lincoln in calling
his political opponents, who syWpa-
thized with the war. into his councils.
was specifically rejected Lby President
| wilson, and a course pursued which
justities the statement that never in
peace or war have we had a more par
tisan administration than during this
critical period in the Nations life. The
Republican party was represented only
1by the Republican minority III the
House and the Republican minority in
ority have been moved in their con-
certed action by no partisan purpose.
The country owes much to them for the
stimulus to better war preparation by
forcing public attention upon it's de
fects. Without them and their votes
and the leadership of such men as
Julius Kahn in. the House, the Draft
Act would have failed and the raising
of our armies would have been i'm
possible. What we have had of the
Democratic majority and its leaders
is a fair basis for Judging what we
may expect of another Democratic
majority il that he returned. With
these lessons of the past before the
people of the United States, how can
there be II hesitation in returning
ia Republican majority to each House
so far as the war is concerned and
maintaining the proper fighting trim
of our gallant armies!
Second. l have already said that
the war is likely soon to end. even
though we demand. as we must de.
mand, an unconditional surrender.
And then will come the terms of peace
which are to be settled by the Presi-
dent and two-thirds of the Senate, but
which should be much influenced be
fore their final form and acceptance
are reached, by the attitude of the
House of Representatives, for that
House must play an important part i'll
performing such obligations as the
| United States will assume in the treaty
of peace. In order that the treaty OF
peace may be What il should be we
must have unconditional surrender.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04

To give justification to President
Wilson's late partisan appeal. the Des
Moines Register is now quoting what
Roosevelt and Lodge said twenty years
ago about standing by the administra-
ton of President Mckinley at the close
of the Spanish-American war. Why
does the Register quote these men2 1t
has no confidence in what they say and
from its viewpoint, the fact that they
urged the country to return IA republi-
can congress is ample proof that the
country should have done nothing of
the kind. Moreover, Woodrow Wilson,
Champ Clark, Secretary McAdoO and
all the rest of the leading democrats
twenty years ago voted the democratic
ticket, proving that they took no stock
in the claim of the republicans that
democratic success at the polls would
give encouragement to the enemy
across the sea. Republicans might now
follow the example of Woodrow Wilson
twenty years ago and vote their party
ticket.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04

The Freeman-Journal has not kept
close tab on the records made in con-
gress by Representatives Haugen and
Hull, whose attitude in the house on
war measures is being assailed by dem
ocrats. However, it is the duty Of the
voters of their respective districts to
inquire into the records and vote ac-
cordingly. Yet the president OF the
United States has said in substance
that democrats should vote for demo
Gratis, regardless of the loyalty record
of the candidate, and it is likely demo.
Gratis will follow that advice. 1t re
mains to be e what republicans will
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04

The Righteousness of President VIII
sons partisan plea for a democratic
congress, regardless of the personnel OF
|such congress and the attitude OF its
members on war activities, is empha-
sized by his course in Michigan. He is
urging the election of Henry Ford. pa
lcifist in the early stages of the war
but later for the war and willing 10
help with his money. But he has sue
lceeded in getting his son exempted
from service. Mr.. FOrd's opponent in
the contest is Truman H. Newberry'
He was secretary of the navy under
Roosevelt and served in the navy dur.
ling the Spanish American war. He is
lnow q lieutenant commander and has
been in the war against Germany from
the start. He has two sons and both
are in the seryice-one in the army
and the other in the navy. Yet the
president Of the United States is using
the influence of his great Office to de
feat Mr.. Newberry and elect Mr.. Ford
is presumptious enough to say that he
is doing it for the welfare of the coun.
try instead of for purely political rea-
sons.