The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-10-31
TEXT OF PRESIDENT. WILSON'S
APPEAL so

Washington-Specia =. Following
is the text of President Wilson's ap-
peal to the nation to support his ad-
ministratiOn by the return of a Demo
cratic majority to Congress:
My Fellow-Countrymen: The Con-
gressional elections are at hand. They
occur in the most critical period our
country has ever faced Or is likely to
face in our time If you have APPROX
ed of my leadership and wish me to
continue to be your unembarrassed
spokesman in affairs at home and
abroad, earnestly beg that you will
express yourselves Enthusiastically to
that effect by returning a Democratic
majoritYat0 both the Senate and the
House OF Representatives. .t-5
/ am your servant and will accept
your Judgment without cavil. Put my
power to administer the great trust
assigned to me by the Constitution
would be seriously impaired should
your judgment be adverse, and I must
frankly tell you so because so many
critical issues depend upon your YER
dict. No scruple or taste must in
grim times like these be allowed to
stand in the way of speaking the
plain truth.
have no thought of suggesting that
any political party is paramount in
matters of patriotism. feel too deep
ly- the sacrifices which have been
made in this war by all our citizens, If
respective of party affiliations, to har
Dor such an idea. l mean only that
the difficulties and delicacies of our
present task are of sort that makes
it imperatively necessary that the ma
oh re
to the government. under a unified
leadership, and that Republican Con-
gress would divide the leadership.
The leaders of the minority in the
present Congress have unquestionably
been pro-war, but they have been
INSTRUMENTATION. At almost every
turn since we entered the war they
have sought to take the choice OF pol
icy and the conduct of the war out of
my hands and put it under the control
of >instrumentalities of their own
choosing.
This is no time either for divided
council or for divided leadership.
Unity of command is as necessary now
in civil action as it is upon the field of
battle. If the control of the House and
the Senate should be taken away from
the party now in power an opposing
majority could assume control of leg
islation and Oblige all action to 5e
taken amid contest and obstruction.
The return of Republican majority
to either House of Congress would
moreover, DE interpretative on the
other side of the water as a repudia-
tion of my leadership. Spokesman of
the Republican party are urging you to
elect a Republican Congress in order
to back up and support the president,
but, even if they should in this i'm
pose upon, some credulous voters on
this side Of the water, they would i'm
pose on no one on the other side. 1t
is well understood there as we'll as
here that. Republican. leaders desire
not so much to support the President
as to control him. 54s#
The people of the allied countries
with whom we are associated against
Germany are quite familiar with the
significance of elections. They would
find it very difficult to believe that the
voters of the United States had chosen
to support their President by electing
to the Congress a majority controlled
by those who are not in fact in sym
pathy with the attitude and action of
the administration.
I need not tell you, my feIlow-coun
trymen, that am asking your support
not for my own sake or for the sake
or political party, but for the sake
OF the nation itself in order that it's
inward dirty of purpose may be evident
20 all the world. In ordinary times.
dlvloed counsels can be endured with
out permanent hurt to the country. But
these are not ordinary times.
" IN these critical days it is vo11r
wish to sustain me with undivided