New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-10-29
BOSWELL PLEADS
)RG. 0. ?. SUPPORT
reSseS Belief Republican Con-
ltrOl Would Speed Up War

Few York, Oct. 29.-Colonel Theo-
e Roosevelt, answering President
Sons appeal for return of a demo-
Die majority in congress, urged
ers of the nation, in an address
e last night, to transfer control
republican leadership. Such an
eone of the election, he declared,
Ald assure "our allies that Ameri-
rs determined to speed up the war
insist on unconditional surren-
II Of the enemy. and would serve
ce on Germany and her vassal
ses'. that they would have to deal
gceforth with the resolute and
Aightforward soul of the American
Nple and not merely with the OBJ
re purposes and wavering will of
Wilson"
Declaring that half the leaders of
presidents own party opposed
NJ when he had committed himself
WAR measures" Mr. Roosevelt as
Fed that heads of the republican
Rnization in congress supported
II administration when declara-
of war was needed, when there
a demand for the draft, when the
Ny was sent overseas and when
hey was required by taxation or by
is.
The ex-president spoke at d meet
q under the auspices of the Repub-
Mn Club at Carnegie Hall to advo-
e the election of 1.-The republican
#C ticket here in New York and of
4 republican congressional ticket
sbughout the Union"
Aebuking what he termed the
&evility" of democratic leadership,
il colonel said it was small wonder
in the cloakrooms of the House
bitter Jest circulates. Here's to
Gar. last in war, first toward
Ice, long may he waver!'
Er. Roosevelt criticised the general
#rse of the administration through
Il the war, declaring:
#If Mr.. Wilson had really meant to
Regard politics he would at. once
Se constructed q coalition, non
#tisan cabinet, calling the best men
#ehe nation to the highest and most
bortant offices under him, without
lard to politics. He did nothing of
0 kind. In the positions most vital
&he conduct of the war, and in the
itions now most important in con-
tion with negotiating peace, he re-
bed or appointed men without the
#htest fitness for the performance
&.he tasks, whose sole recommended
y was a supple eagernes to serve
y Wilson personally and to serve
z Wilson'S party insofar as such
8Vice benefited Mr.. Wilson"
the presidents ap-
III with Liacoln's outright refusal,
In in the darkest days of the Civil
to apply any party test to fitness
aoff1ee," the colonel said that Lin
b appealed to all loyal men of all
#ties and asked that candidates for
gress' be judged, not by the
Hhdard of adherence to his personal
ninistration, but by their uncondi-
pal support of the war"
Election of a republican congress,
colonel continued, would be un-
@stood abroad as meaning that the
4 Germans AID pacifists and Boil
Visits and Commanded socialists
8fd no longer be counted upon as
#B1GnI IOI LuohS LOOIS, tIicI IiiC
8ting men aid not the rhetorician
Ia uppermost."
ahr. Roosevelt interpreted the
#sident's reference to the anti-ad-
histration attitude of, republican
mbers of congress as based on their
emand that ineff1ciency, waste and
8rava gance be remedied," in the
NJ conducting departments.
1--WE republicans pledge ourselves
stand by the president so long as
stands by the American people
Il to part company from him al
Il point where in our judgment he
rs not stand by the people" he
d. This is the peoples govern
! MT, this is the peoples war and
n peace that follows shall be the
Aple's peace"
Ruoting a press dispatch to the
bet that republican senator's such
McCumber, Nelson and Lodge "art
\ highly thought of in France today
\ are the American generals" Col
81 Roosevelt declared that mine
es out ten, this administration
never led the people," has beer