Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-19
Two Parties to Push Cam
1 paign Vigorously During the
Brief Space Intervening Be-
tween Now and Election.
REPUBLICANS SURE TO
OVERTHROW DEMOCRATS
"Stand by the President" SIo-
gan Has Fallen Down; Fight
in the Senate Chiefly Gen.
terS Around Hitchcock,

IspgciAL coHsssrorpsNcr TO MORNING JouRNAL'
Washington, oct. 1S.-With the Lib
erty Loan campaign out of the way
and the alleged adjournment of poll
tics now adjourned. the fight for the
election of majorities in both the
house and the senate is on in full
swing and will be pushed feverishly by
both parties during the brief space in
tervening between this and the cleo
ton.
The contest everywhere, except
where the personalities of the candi-
dates make something of local issue,
is centerng on the efforts of the re-
public leaders to overturn the demo-
cratic committee organizations which
dominate both houses of congress.
The fight in the senate chiefly GEN.
ters around Hitchcock, chairman of
the very important senate committee
Oh foreign relations, and simmons OF
North Carolina, who Is chairman of
the finance coranlittee, corresponding
in power to the ways and means COM
mittee of the lower house which is also
headed by statesman from North
{ raao te1ss. Cengressmaseslltc
Campaign Slogan Discredited
The attempt of the democratic or
ganization to win the campaign on the
slogan, stand by the President" has
fallen down everywhere. This was
particularly an unfortunate battle cry
in view Of the fact that Senator Hitch
cock, who has a very large constitu-
ency in Nebraska composed of voters
who were strongly pro-German at the
beginning of the American entry into
the war, was practically the only sem
ator who favored acceptance of Ger
many's proposals for peace. The pres
idenfs position was disclosed to be alb
solutely in harmony with that of Sem
ator Lorge, the leading republican
member of the foreign relations COM
mittee, who spoke for every other rec
ogn'zed republican in the United
States senate.
Appeal to the Hyphen.
Also a very bad impression has been
created by the democrats in the cam
paigns in three states. Those states
have very large German populations
and the fight in them is being waged
strenuously. They are Illinois, Mis-
souri, and South Dakota. In the Ger
man districts the voters are being
urged to support the democratic can
didates, Cor were being so urged be-
fore the presidents rejection of the
German peace terms). to vote the
democratic ticket on the ground that
Germany would receive better terms
when peace is made from o democratic
senate than could be hoped for If the
republicans should be in control of
that body which must ratify all trea-
ties made by the administration.
Vallandingham Recalled.
The democratic literature, urging
the voters to stand by the president
has also been punctured and now is In
n state of complete collapse. The
first phase of their literature was the
quotation from Lincoln in the civil
war, "That we should not swap horses
in the middle of a stream IT was
promptly shown that when Lincoln
made that statement the democrats or
the north had declared the war fail
IRE and in the subsequent election in
the great state of Ohio more than 100
votes were cast for Vallandingham'
who was opposing the war and It's
prosecution as strenuously as Senator
La Follett, who for years has acted
with the democrats on all matters ex-
cept tariff legislation, started to OPP
pose this war and impede its prosecu-
ton.
Roosevelt and Harrison.
The next feature of their literature
were quotations from Colonel Roose-
Welt and then form President Benja-
min Harrison, spoken in the campaign
of 1898. The democrats attempt to
carry the impression that their mem
hers of congress had Loyalty supported
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