The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-31
APPEAL A BIG AID
Murphy Says Voters Will Heed
Call of President.
Republicans Show by Attacks
They Are Not Behind Him.
WILSON KNOWS ALL The FACTS
Powerful Greedy Groups Don't
Want Him To Dominate.
Undivided Government Neces.
sary To Insure Proper Peace.

sary To Insure Proper Peace.
That President Wilson's direct ap-
peal TO the people to endorse his adj
ministration of the war and give him
their whole-hearted backing is going
TO swing thousands of votes to the
Democratic candidates at the election
next Tuesday is the belief expressed
today by L. f. Murphy, chairman of
the Democratic state committee and
director of the campaign in Kansas.
The longer the people consider the
presidents appeal. the more they APP
preciate its significance, Murphy be-
lieves. In the statement he gave out
today he said:
Thee attacks the Republicans are
making on President Wilson now are
the best evidence that if he is to be
supported at all the people will have
to give him a Democratic congress 1t
is prepoSterous to say that the Repub-
hcan candidates who are SO bitterly
denouncing him now will follow his
leadership If they are elected.
People VIII Not Fail Him.
but do not believe there is much
chance for the Republicans who are
now running either to support or hin
der and embarrass him. The American
people have shown clearly that what
ever General Pershing asks for MS
army he shall have. They have shown
rying on of the war must be 1orth-
coming, no matter what the personal
sacrifice. And the American people
are more consistent than to give the
commander of the armies IN france
etervthing he says he needs and at
the same time refuse to give the com
1Y1ander of all the armies and of the
nation itself a thing he says is vitality
necessary to the successful CONCLUSION
Of his task-a Democratic congress
that he knows will back him up ana
aid him in every way 1t can.
THE worst thing the Republicans
can saw about the presidents appear
is that he has cast aside the dignity
OF his office long enough TO make
direct appeal to the people ne Is serV-
ing. Feeling the necessity Oh mann
tanning united government that Is
free from friction and discord. cou!d
President Wilson have been the pls
man of the world that we all kno"
he is il he had allowed mere 1latler
OF dignity to have kept him silent:
ut is recognized by every FAIR nlinu-
ed man that Wilson spoke with
Knowledge of conditions abroad which
no other American can possess anu
that the responsibilities of MS nigh
office alone were sufficient TO ma
him Law the facts squarely before the
neonle The effect abroad of electine
an opposition congress which the pres
ident fears is not merely the erect
lipon Germany, but the effect upon
England France and Italy.
"America is the only nation To-Day
that presents an undivided front The
leaders and the populations of the al
lied nations are divided into two OPP
posing camps. just like MI. RooseVeH
and Mr.. Lodge and their followers
want to see the American people dl-
vided There are the extremists VINO,
usually safe from the battle line, are
made up of people who want no peace
except that of determination and VINO
hate to see President Wilson and the
United States taking the lead in the
conduct of the war and ready TO take
the lead in the conference which shall
settle the terms of peace. On the 9TH
er hand there are in England ano
France and Italy, and even in Ger
many millions of plain people VINO
look with hope and longing for peace
formulated upon the terms laid down
by the president. compelled by the
predou1iuating influence of the pres1-
dent and guaranteed by the president
and the United States. These people
are soIidly behind the president and
behind every policy he proposes to the
Allies.
Powerful Opposing Interests.
There Is no doubt that there
are powerful interests in every allied
country that are opposed to the presf
dent and the permanent peace of jus:
tice that he insists upon. The diplo
mats. the aristocrats, the schemins
politicians, the military castles and tbs
expectant profiteers have their hearts
set upon the abuses of victory. They
know that President Wilson with hi
high ideals of justice and his determi
nation to make the world safe fol
democracy as a result of this wal
will stand in their way and will blocl
their plans for personal gains at thu
expense Of nations. 1t is that he maj
have the power to deal with thest
elements of all the nations, in tn,
United States we'll as in the CO un
tries of our allies. that President VIII
son asks the voters to give him thei
unqualified backing ana to show tn
world that they are going to stant
behind him and support him in ever.
possible way.
Realizing that the people SHOULD
know the Importance of his position
it was the imperative duty of TIL
president to brush aside any scruple
of taste or any tradition of etiquett
and make a straight appeal to them
am sure the people of Kansas fee
this way about it and I am confiden
they will answer the political critic
next Tuesday with an avalanche o
votes that will make the presiden
feel assured for all time that the Kan
sans at home arc as loyal and patriot.
and as much to be relied upon as tn
Kansans who are bleeding and dyin
heroically on the battlefields O
France and Belgium for the ideals TO
which he stands"