The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-10-30

signed me by the constitution would
be seriously impaired should your
judgment be adverse, and I must frank
~ tell you so because so many critical
issues depend upon your verdict. No
scruple Of taste must in grim times
like these be allowed to stand in the
way Of speaking the plain truth.
Divided Leadership.
II have no thought of suggesting
that any political party is paramount
in matters of patriotism feel too
deeply the sacrifices which have been
made in this war by all our citizens
irrespective Of party affiliations to har-
Dor such an idea. / mean only that
the difficulties and delicacies Of our
present task. are of sort that makes
it imperatively necessary that the ma
ton should give its undivided support
to the government under unified lead
ership and that Republican Congress
would divide the leadership.
Unity Of Command.
'"The leaders of the minority in the
present Congress have unqueStiOnably
been pro-war, but they have been anti
NJ dlhkOSt CvC1y
since we entered the war they have
sought to take choice Of policy and the
conduct of the war out Of my hands
and put it under the control Of insru-
mentalities Of their own choosing.
'sThis is no time either for divided
council or for divided leadership.
Unity of command is as necessary now
in civil action as it is upon the field
of battle II the control of the House
and the Senate should be taken away
from the party now in power an OPP
posing majority could assume control
Of legislation and oblige all action to
be taken amidst contest and obstruc-
ton.
interpretation Abroad.
1.-THE return Of a Republican major
ity to either House of the Congress
would, moreover, be interpretative on
the other side Of the water as re-
pudiation of my leadership. Spokes-
men Of the Republican party are urg-
ing you to elect Republican Con-
gress in order to back UP and support
the President, but even if they should
In this impose upon some creduleus
voters on this side of the water, they
would impose On no one on the other
side. 1t is well understood there as
well as here that the Republican lead
ers desire not 50 much to support the
President, as to control him.
'1The people Of the allied countries
with whom we are associated against
Germany are quite familiar with the
significance Of elections. They would
find it very difficult to believe that the
voters of the United States had SO
chosen to support their President BY
electing to the Congress q majority
controlled by those who are in fact
not in sympathy with the attitude and
action OF the administration
II need not tell you, nay fellew-coun-
trymen, that / am asking your support
not for my own sake or for the sake
Of a political party, but for the sake
Of the nation itself IN order that its
inward unity Of purpose may be evi-
dent to all the world. In ordinary tines
divided counsels can be endured with.
ct permanent hurt to the csnRy.
But these are net ordinary times.
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WOODROW WILSON,