Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-28
WILSON 8 APPEAL
To PARTISAN5HIP
IS |NSULT--HA HAYS
Republican Chairman Says
That President Has In
pugned Loyalty of RepubIi-
can Members Of Congress,
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committee, made public here tonight
q statement in which he replied in
behalf of his party to President Will
sons appeal to the nation to return a
democratic congress In his state
ment Mr. Hays said:
president Wilson has questioned
the motives and fidelity of your rep
regentatives in congress He has
thereby impugned their loyalty and
denied their patriotism. His chall-
enge is TO you who elected those rep
resentatives. You owe it to them, to
the honor of your great party and to
your own self-respect to meet that
challenge squarely, not only as re-
publicans, but as Americans. |. as
your chairman, call upon you TO do
it.
MIR. Wilson accords the republi-
cans no credit whatever for having
supported the war measures pro-
posed by his administration although
they have done so with greater unan-
unity than the members of his own
party. Despite th2t fact he accuses
them of having tried TO usurp his
proper functions.
Declared an Insult.
AT no time and in no way have
they tried to take control of the war
out of his hands. The president
knows that, The country knows it.
You know ii, \ more ungracious,
more unjust. more wanton more
mendacious accusation was never
made by the stump orator, much
less by president of the United
States, for partisan purposes. 1t is
an insult, not only to every loyal re-
publican in congress, but to every 10y
al republican in the land 1t fully
merits the resentment which right
fully and surely will find expression
at the polls
Mr. Wilson grudgingly admits
that the republicans have been pro
wal Then why does he demand
their defeat? Because they are still
pro-war? Hardly that. No 1t is
because they are for peace through,
not without victory; because they do
not believe lasting peace can be OBJ
tanned, through negotiations; because
they consider that II. s. stands for
unconditional surrender as well as
for the United States and Uncle Sam.
The democratic congress does not
Mr.. Wilson does not. There is the
issue clear as the MONDAY sun. The
N1hllIiS Will utCiut.
Mr. Wilson wants only rubber
stamps, his rubber stamps in con
gress. He says so. No one knows il
better than democratic congressman.
He calls for the defeat of PROV war re-
publicans and the election of anti
war democrats.
Would Re Autocrat.
lie. as the executive. is no longer
satisfied to be one branch of the gov
crnment as provided ~ the Constitu-
ton Republican congressman must
be defeated and democratic congress-
men must, as they would, yield in
everything. That is evidently his idea
the idea of an autocrat calling him
self the servant but bidding for the
mastery o. this FREQ people
Republicans in congress have
seemed to him good enough when
they assented. as they did assent with
highest patriotism and some times
against their best Judgment, to his
proposals Republicans at home have
seemed TO him good enough to send
fully million Of their sons into bat
tie, TO furnish at least half of the
army and more than half of the mon
ey for winning of the war, but they
are not considered good enough to
have voice in the settlement Of the
war.
But Mr.. Wilson's real purpose has
nothing to do with the conduct of the
war. He has had that from tho be-
ginning, has it now, and nobody
dreams of interfering with his control.
He wants Just two things ore is full
power to settle the war precisely as
he and his sole, unelected, unappoint-
cd. uncOnfirmed personal adviser may
determine. The other is full power
as the .unembarrasscd spokesman in
affairs ut home as he actually de-
mands in his statement. to reconstruct
in peace times tho great industrial af-
fairs of the nation in the same way
| In unimpeded conformity with what
ever aociallstic doctrines. whatever
unlimited government ownership no
tions. whatever hazy whims may hap
zen to possess him ut tho time. but
first and above all with absolute com
mitment to free trade with all the
world, thus giving to Germany out OF
hand the fruits of a victory greater
than She could win by lighting hun
dred years A republican congress will
| never consent to that DO you want a
congress that will. Germany does
! "Mr. Wilson forced the republican
! party to lie down or fight. ! say fight
/ Answer me with your votes!
mir. Wilson is for unconditional
! surrender--yes for the unconditional
| surrender to himself of the repubi-
! can party of the country, of the al
! lies, all to him, as the sole arbiter and
master of the destiuies Of the world
| DO you stand for that? Answer with
! your votes"
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