The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1918-10-28
THE PRESIDENT
AFTER THEM
Quotes from Leading Republi-
cans Showing That Divi-
sions Now Will
HURT THE COUNTRY

Washington, Oct. 2S.-Secretary
Tumulty last night made public a
letter he has written at President
Wilson's direction to the Cuyahoga
county Republican committee at
Cleveland, Ohio, in which he replies
| to protests against President Will
sons appeal to the country to re-
turn a Democratic Congress by re-
calling quotations from utterances by
Colonel Roosevelt, former President
Harrison, Senator'S Lodge and Pen
rose and former Senator Foraker in
the campaign of 1898 at the close
of the Spanish War.
The Cuyahoga committee tele-
graphed the White House, taking is
sue with the Presidents statement
Secretary Tumulty, writing at the
Presidents direction, simply COM
mended the statements he quoted and
also various editorial appearing at
the time in leading Republican news
papers to the committees considera-
tion without comment.
TIL first quotations was from Colo
mel Roosevelt, identified as Republi-
can candidate for Govern or of New
York, in 1898:
Remember that, whether you
will it or not, your votes this year
will be viewed by the nations of Eta
rope from one standpoint only. A re-
fusal to sustain the President this
year will, in their eyes, be read as
refusal to sustain the war and to
sustain the efforts Of your peace COM
mission to secure the fruits of war
Such refusal may not inconce1v-
ably bring about rupture of the
peace negotiations. 1t will give
heart to our defeated antagonists; il
! will make possible the interference
of those doubtful neutral nations
who in this struggle have wished US
lll"
You could not get the benefits OF
the victories of Grant and Sherman
only by re-electing Lincoln and we
will gain less than we ought from
the war if the administration is noi
sustained at these elections"
| From former President Harrison.
pleading for the election OF a Re-
publican Congress;
If the word goes forth that the
people Of the United States are
standing solidly behind the Presi-
, dent the task of the peace commits
sioners will be easy, but if there is
a break in the ranks-if the Demo-
Gratis score telling victory, if Dem.
ocratic Senator's, Congressman and
Governors are elected-Spain will
see i'll it a gleam of hope; she will
take d fresh hope and renewal of
hostilities, more war may be neces
sary to secure to us what we have al
ready won.
From Senator Lodge:
But there is one question on
which ] wish to say a few words
and that seems to me to override(al1
others. 1t is whether we shall stand
by the administration and the PresA
, ident at this juncture. If we give
victory to his political opponents, we
say to the world, we say to the
Spanish commissioners in Paris.
that the people of the United States
repuidate its result and repudiate
the man who has led victoriously the
war and is now leading us back to
peace William MCKINLEY"
From Senator Penrose:
In his recent speeches the Presj-
dent has appealed not a partisan but
TO national spirit. He wants
Pennsylvania to remain the Key
stone State for the Republican par
ty. 1t is difficult to over-estimate the
supreme Importance of sustaining
the President of the United States
and the Republican party at the
present critical crisis in our foreign
relations"