Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-29
MILAN SAYS VOTERS WILL REBUKE WILSON

Upon his arrival in Hartford from Washington Senator George P. Nc Lean of Connecticut was asked his opinion of President Wilson's messa ge asking the electorate of the country to vote for a democratic congress. Senator Mclean replied in no uncer- tain fashion, and he expressed the sentiments of the majority Of the co= publican legislators in Washington. The senator believes that the presi cent has made most disastrous move in sending out such q message. He said that the voters of +he country would repudiate such statements on election day. His remarks follow: C
 President Wilson has done what Abraham Lincoln did not ant would not do in 1868 when the very life of the nation hung in the balance and the democratic party had declared the war failure and demanded the inl-' mediate cessation of hestilities. Pres ident Wilson forgets that the rapub- jcan party was born to have the union and did it in spite of President Wilson's party. He forgets that re- publicanism and patriotism have meant the same thing since 1860 and never more declaratively than today. President Wilson while refusing to
 
 the German people have no control | over the executive branch Of the uoy- ernment, is bolding telling the Amer ican people that they have no right 1 to vote their convictions on election day. Is this the way he proposes to l make the world safe for demo oeraey He forgets that the framers Of inc Constitution wisely provide that the executive cannot conclude treaties of 1 peace with nations with which we are at war without the advice and con- sent of two-thirds of the senate. lie 1 should have added to his astoundin9 exhortatien, demand that enough republican senators resign to give him the ownership of two-thirds of thai body
 ' What has become of his boastet 1 confidence in the American people What has become of his recent dec laration that four years is too Ions a term for a president who is not ths true spokesman Of the people? IIt frankly says that he is not afraid lla republicans will be disloyal. What i; he afraid of?
 His fear that the election of a re. publican congress will be construct by our enemies as indicating our dis satisfaction with his prosecution 0 the war is well founded only so far al iis inexcusable and humiiiating delay
 and mistakes have failed to meet tn desire and determination o< the Amer iiean people to hasten at ell cost, tn
 utter defeat and destruction or tn
 military forces of Germany.
 If he thinks Germany would rathe
 deal with ex-President Roosevelt 0
 Senator Lodge than with MT. Bake land Colonel House. there is cause .fo
 alarm but not otherwise.
 l MT Asquith wisely held his r&ac when the people of Great Britain cnos
 a more competent leader in the mos
 critical period of the war. Tn
 French executives. deposed since tn
 war began, held their peace when tn people dropped them for man equa
 to the emergency. Unfortunately fo ti3e country President Wilson's seere
 taFy of war is not responsible to tn
 l,eople and his own tenure of office
 secure for more than three years.
 iMr. Wilson forgets that this is nc Eliis war and he impeaches the integ
 rity and intelligence of the America
 reople when he tells them that non
 but democrats can be trusted to a(
 wisely and patrietieally in the presef
 crises.
 President Wilson has repeated , substance his appeal to the senate c I the Woman Suffrage Amendment September last. an appeal which i'm l paaehed the loyalty of the women America; an appeal. which subsequeI s events have already demonstrated. WE I unnecessary as it was improper an I unwise.
 Tn 1912, President Wilson sai T "When we resist. when I as a. demo 4 crat resist the concentration oI. powe s resist the processes of Geath." ! he was right then he violates ever 4 sound principle of democracy nov The war may last three months ar T it may last five years. His appeal & Q bold assumption that until he Al 4 eides to the contrary, government
 tie people. for the democratic part T and by Woodrow Wilson. shall n rerish from the earth,