Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-10-31
REPUBLICANS CITE
THEIR RECORDS IN
REPLY TO WILSON
Gave Greater Support Of War
Measures Than Did
Democrats
is THIS \ PRIVATE WAR?
Can Republicans DO Anything
Except Fight, Die and Pay
Taxes for South to
Spend


WASHINGTON. d. C.--In answer
to President Wilson'S public request
for the election of Il democratic con-
Cress upon the ground the safety of
the nation demanded the defeat of
the republican candidates for con
gTess, the following statement is is
sued by the republican leaders in
congress:
Some time ago the president said
politics is adjourned Now. in the
closing days of the campaign de-
layed by the united efforts Of all
parties for the Liberty Loan--now.
when all public meetings have been
given up. owing TO the influenza cpl
demic the president sends ont d.
rect party appeal, calling upon his
Countrymen to vote for democrats.
because they are democrats, without
any reference TO whether such demo-
Gratis have been. or are. in favor of
war measures. and have a war record
which deserves support.
"The voters of Michigan, TO take
single example. are called upon to
support Mr.. Henry Ford-notorious
for his advocacy of peace at any
price. for his contemptuous illusions
10 the flag, for the exemption of his
son from military seryice-on the
sole ground that he will blindly sup
port the president.
"The president is quite ready to
admit that republicans are loyal
enough to fight and die. as they are
doing by the thousands; loyal enough
to take up great loans and pay enor-
nous taxes; loyal enough 20 furnish
| important men. at no salary on some
| of the great war boards in Wash
| ington. But they are not loyal
enough in the presidents opinion. to
| be trusted with share in the gov
eminent of the country or legislation
for it,
III the republican party controls
the house, We can point out some
of the things they will do. They will
replace Mr. Dent, of Alabama. at the
head of the military affairs commit
tee, with Mr. julius Kahn. to whom
the administration was obliged TO
turn for assistance, TO take charge
of and carry the first draft bill
against Mr.. Dents opposition.
They will put a Republican at
the head of the ways and means
committee. as leader of the house.
instead of Mr.. Kitchin. of North Car
DINA, who voted against the war.
"They will give the country a
speaker who did not oppose, and
would never oppose, a draft bill,
and would never say, as Speaker
Clark did, that there is precious
i 1T n n
and a convict
although the republicans of the
house are in the minority, they cast
more actual votes on seven great war
measures than the democratic ma
jority was able to do.
What is the record of the SEN
ate.
ION fifty-one roll calls on war
measures between April 6, 10Y, ana
Nav 20, 1918, the votes cast by re-
publicans in favor of such measures
were ~ per cent, while only 81 per
cent of the votes cast on the demo
cratic side were in favor of SUCH
measures.
"Those were the presidents own
measures.
Does that record look as if we
had hampered him?
1.-THE republican party in congress
has supported the administration
policies since the war with a unani-
nifty and an absence of criticism un-
precedented in party history.
WHERE THEY DIFFER
There are some domestic ques-
lions where we should undoubtedly
differ from the course pursued by
the administration.
1--WE should not. for example, Tx
price on the farmers wheat and
leave the planters cotton untouched.
Another domestic question in
which the republican party believes
thoroughly is economic preparation
for the coming of peace, and it is
clearly of the opinion that the con-
gress of the United States should
not be excluded from that great task.
This is not the presidents per
sonal war.
"This is not the war of congress.
at is not the war of the demo-
cratic or the republican party.
1T is the war of the American peo-
pie.
1T is more. 1t is the war of the
United States, of the allied powers