Republican farmer., 1918-11-01
WAR AIMS HURT BY SNIPINC OF
 POLITICIANS
Attacks on Administration Hinder Program for Car
 rying on the Government.
PATRIOTISM CALLS
 FOR FULL SUPPORT
HIS. Cummings Gives Opin. ion of Actions of oppon-
 ents of the Government.

Washington, Oct. 26--'"rhe resolute | spirit of the people at large requires a whole-hearted support of the Ad- ministration."
 The foregoing is the keynote Of l strong article in the September issue of The Forum. Written by Homer S, | Cummings, yice-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, this article tends to put the fall Congress sional campaign on a patriotic, rath- CT than a political basis.
 MT. Cummings says in part:
 There is a sound basis for the be- 1 lief that the Democratic party will be successful in the coming Congression- al campaign. Events seem to have made such result inevitable. The 1 leaders of the Republican party, be- l ing quite aware of this situation, have sought to forestall it by urging that l. l would be better for the country to elect a Congress adverse to the Ad- ministration, than to choose one iD harmony with it.
 "The mere fact that such a sug- gestion is seriously made is an indica- tion of extreme poverty of invention. i and a proof of the hopeless plight in which the Republican party finds it. self.
 War Chief Business.
 "Ianifestly the overwhelming busi- ness of America is to win the war. This is a purpose of which all other l considerations are subordinate. The outstanding fact is that President Wilson is not only President of the United States and Commander-in- Chief of the Army and Navy but he is the leader of his party, and is at the head of an administration which is actually conducting the war, and con- ducting it with success. The funda- mental difficulty which the Republi- cans confront grows out of the at tempt to justify a distinction be tween support of the President and such limited support of the President for war purposes only, as the Repub- lican leaders, in their wisdom, think proper.
 ITO persuade a majority of the American people that it is wise tc make such a distinction will require more plausibi1ity than the Republican leaders possess. It is a program which counsels domestic and politica confusion during a period Of war. l is pregnant with opportunities for DO litical 'sniping' and can serve no pur- pose of patriotism. The resolute spirit of the people at large requires . whole-hearted support of the Admin. istration Any attempt to equivo cate or to draw fine distinctions car lead only to the discontinue of the person or the party making the at tempt The great mass of people believe in the President and propose to stand by him.
 Surely the Administration would be in a better position to devote it energies to the problems of the war i supported, in Congress, by those wht have confidence in it, rather than b! s those who, openly or covertly, seek tc take advantage of it. Our Presiden j. has become the leading figure in tn n affairs of the world, his influence wa I never greater than it is today, hi ? words carry into every quarter of tn r globe and the statesmen of the allied e governments have accepted his lead
 ersh1p. It would be sorry com mentary upon popular government s the results in November should i'm s pair, in the least degree, the inf1uenc e of that illustrous and commandin. | figure.
 The Processes of Peace c Neither has the Republican party a as an organization, in any wise, purg a ed itself of its ancient vices or mad
 itself a trustworthy vehicle for thu
 expression of the best thought of thu
 American people. It is still narrow
 partisan and provincial. It ha neither fully grasped the significance
 ot the democratic ideal nor evincet ! any adequate appreciation of tn
 greatness or destiny of America.
 There is, today, a general recog
 milton that the great purpose t r which our people are committed ha
 been carried forward with expedition
 and success. To readjust the pro
 cesses of peace so as to serve the ac
 ivities of war has been an undertak q ing requiring leadership of unex
 ampled skill. So striking has beel T the response of the people, 50 ire e have our public affairs been from an n suggestion of scandal or inprope
 influence, that it scarcely lies in tn s mouth of those who conducted tn $ Spanish-American war to indulge l C the luxury of criticism.
 Who Win Be Leaders? V "Our purposes are not limited b if the war. What we have accomplish "A ed thus far, both in the matter c
 gar preparation and in domestic re
 form, serve as an indication of tn spirit with which we will undertak D. the great problems of reconstructio y which will follow the cessation C e hostilities. Vocational training, al ready undertaken, must be furthe
 developed, having in mind not onl In the training of the youth of the cour ic try, but also with a view to the need IS of those who have been injured c ot disabled in the war. We shall |
 confronted, in probably much chang 50 ed aspect with the question oE en
 ployer and employee. lc IS nighl C. essential that there shall be establisf CT ed basis which shall make the r, IT. curing conflicts between capital an Id labor no longer a disturbing eleme1 re in the life of America. The ultimat H. status of the public utilities and e AsANSial war industries taken over l