The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-29
teddy HAS A SAY
Answers Democratic Appeal
for Congress Control.
Urges Voters To Elect Repub.
licans to the Offices.
WANT ONLY SURRENDER NOW
Election of Republicans Would
Speed Up the War.
Says Democrat Leaders OPP
posed Wilson by Votes.

| New York, Oct. 2S.-COl. IheoGOre
Roosevelt, answering President Will
| sons appeal for return of a Demo-,
cratic majority in congress, urged vot-
ers of the nation, in an address here
! tonight, to transfer control to Repub-
lican leadership. Such an outcome of
the election, he declared, would assure
! "our allies that America is determined
| to speed up the war and insist on I'M
conditional 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 mere
| ~ with the obscure purpose and way
ering will of Mr.. wilson,
Own Party Opposed Wilson.
| Declaring that half the leaders Of
the presidents own party opposed him
when he had committed himself to,
| war measures" Mr. Roosevelt assert
| ed that heads of the Republican or
ganiza ton in congress supported the
administration when a declaration of
| war was needed, when there was a de-
mand for the draft, when the army
was sent overseas and when money
was required 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
| turnout the Union"
| Rebuking what he termed the ser
Witty" of Democratic leadership, the
| colonel said it was Small wonder that
| in the cloak rooms of the house the
! bitter jest circulates: Here's to our
GEAR. last in war, first toward peace,
! long may he waver!'
| Mr.. Roosevelt criticized the general
course of the administration thruout
the war. declaring:
A Coalition Cabinet.
'If Mr.. Wilson had really meant to
disregard politics, he would at once
| have constructed a coalition, non-par-
tisan cabinet. calling the best men of
the nation to the highest and most
| important offices under him without
regard to politics. He did nothing of
the kind. In the positions most vital
to the conduct of the war. and in the
positions now most important in con-
nectfon with negotiating peace he re-
tanned or appointed men without the
slightest fitness for the performance of
| the tasks, whose sole recommendation
was supple eagerness to serve Mr..
| Wilson personally and to serve Mr..
| Wilson's party insofar as such service
benefited Mr.. wilson,
| Contrasting the presidents appeal
with Lincoln'S outright refusal, even
|
to apply any party test to fitness for
| Office the colonel said that Lincoln
| appealed to all loyal men of all par
| ties and asked that candidates for con-
gress be judged not by the standard OF
adherence to his personal administra-
ton, but by their unconditional sup
port of the war;
Use No Pro-Germans.
Election Of a Republican congress,
the colonel continued. would be un-
derstood abroad as meaning that the
pro-Germans and pacifists and Boil
shevists and Germanized Socialists
could no longer be counted upon as eff
| ficient and tortuous tools, that the
fighting men and not the rhetoricians,
were uppermost.
Mr.. Roosevelt interpreted the presi-
dents reference to the anti a dminis-
| hers of congress as based on their
! demand that inefficiency, waste and
| extrava gance be remedied," in the war
conducting departments.
Behind the People.
I'VE Republicans have pledged our
selves to stand by the president so
| long as he stands by the American
| people and to part company with him
! at any point where, in our judgment,
he does not stand by the people" he
said. This is the peoples govern
ment this is the peoples war and the
I
pies peace"
Quoting a press dispatch to the ef-
! feet that Republican senator's such as
McCumber. Nelson and Lodge are as
| highly thought OF In France today as
are the American generals" Colonel
| Roosevelt declared that mine times
out of ten this administration has new
CT led the people," has been reluc-
family forced forward into action by
criticism against which it has violent
i
sometimes ma!iciously sought to pun
ish the men who. by their truth tell
| ing. have forced it into action.
I'm a word" the colonel said. "the
! Democratic party under the leader
LOT the administration, has carried
partisan politics during the last eigh~
teen months to an extreme never be-
fore known in this country in a time of
war as among loyal upholders of the
war, it has come dangerously near
creating a condition of ne-partyism.
Test of Adherence TO Wilson.
THE test insisted upon has been
not loyalty to our allies and hostility
to Germany, but adherence to the ad-
ministration." he declared. adding
that President Wilson's request of o.
tober II that citizens should subscribe
| to the loan but leave to the govern.
ment of the United States and of the
allies the momentous discussions ini-
I tiated by Germany could be inter-
preted as meaning that they should
both put up and shut up"
Colonel Roosevelt asserted that if
the administration had used with
moderate efficiency the results of the
lavish generosity of congress, "our
army and the allied army would have
been doing last March what they are
actually doing in October
After asserting the war must be put
thru Ito our last man and our last
| dollar the colonel declared that I'VE
should accept no peace not based en-
the unconditional surrender of Ger
many and her vassal states"
I Wilson in Bad Place.
He asserted that the presidents
latest note had placed him in such a
position that he had either TO "sacri-
flee America and humanity or to
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