Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-29

New York, Oct 2S.-Colonel Theo- dore Roosevelt, answering President Wilson's appeal for return of a demo- cratic majority in congress, urged voters of the nation, in an address here tonight, to transfer control to leadership. Such an out come of the election, he declared, would assure "our allies that America is determined to speed up the war and insist on unconditional surrender of the enemy, and would serve notice on Germany and her vassal states that they would have to deal henceforth with the resolute and straightforward soul of the American people and not merely with the obscure purposes and wavering will of MT. Wilson"
 Declaring that half the leaders of the presidents own party opposed him when he had committed himself to war measures" MT. Roosevelt asserted that heads of the republican orgarliza- tion in congress supported the admin istration when declaration of war was needed when there was a demand for the draft, when the army was sent overseas and when money was re- quired by taxation or by loans
 The former president spoke at a meeting under the auspices of the Re publican club at Carnegie hall to ad- vocate the election of the republican state ticket here in New York and of the republican congressional ticket throughout the union"
 Rebuking what he termed the Ser vility" of democratic leadership, the colonel said it was small wonder that in the cloakrooms of the house the bitter jest circulates: Here's to oul cZar, last in war, first toward peace 1 long may he waver!'"
 | MT. Roosevelt criticized the genera
 course of the administration through.
 out the war, declaring:
 If Mir. Wilson really had meant tt disregard politics he would at onc' have constructed a coalition, non par tisan cabinet calling the best men o the nation to the highest and mos important offices under him, withou
 regard to politics. He did nothing 0 the kind In the positions most vita
 to the conduct of the war, and in tn
 positions now most important in con
 nection with negotiating peace, he re
 tained or appointed men without tn slightest fitness for the performance of the tasks, whose sole recommends
 tion was a supple eagerness to serv
 Mir Wilson personally and to serv
 Mir. Wilson's party insofar as sue
 service benefited MT Wilson"
 Contrasting the presidents appes
 with Lincoln's outright refusal eve
 in the darkest days of the Civil wa
 to apply any party test to fitness fc
 office" the colonel said that Lincol appealed to all loyal men of all pal ties and asked that candidates for COT gress be judged, not by the standa1 of adherence to his personal admins tration, but by their unconditional SUI port of the war;
 : Election of a republican congress the colonel continued, would be UT derstood abroad as meaning that I pro Germans and pacifists and Bolsht vists and Germanized socialists cou no longer be counted upon as efficiel and tortorous tools, that the fghtir
 men and not the rhetoricians were III permost."
 MT. Roosevelt interpreted the pres dents reference to the "anti-admini: tration" attitude of republican men bers of congress as based on the demand that inefficiency, waste ar
 extravagance be remedied" in the wa l conducting departments.