The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-11-01
CHAIRMAN HAYS
COUNSELS Fight
Says Presidents Letter
Hits Freedom OF
Ballot

following statement relative 10 the
approaching Congressional elections:
president Wilson has questioned
the motives and fidelity of your rep
resentatives in Congress. He has
thereby impugned their loyalty and
denied their patriotism. His chal-
lenge is TO you who elected those
representatives. You owe it to them,
to the honor of your great party and
to your own self-respect to meet that
challenge squarely. not only as Re
publicans. but as Americans. |, as
your chairman, call upon you to do
It.
MIR. Wilson accords the Repub-
Leans no credit whatever for having
supported the war measures propos-
ed by his administration, altho they
have done so with greater unanimity
than the members of his own party.
Despite that fact. he accuses them
of having tried to usurp his proper
functions. That charge, as Mr.. Taft
declares in carefully measured words,
is not true.
AT no time and i'm no way have
they tried to take control of the war
out of his hands. The President
knows that. The country knows it.
You know It,
"A more ungracious. more unjust.
more wanton, more mendacious ac-
cusation was never made by the most
reckless stump orator, much less by
a President of the United States, for
partisan purposes.
ct is an insult. not only to every
loyal Republican in Congress. hut
TO every loyal Republican in the land.
1t fully merits the resentment which
rightfully and surely will find ex-
preston at the polls.
Mr.. Wilson grudgingly admits
that the Republicans have been pro
war Then why does he demand
their defeat? Because they are still
pro-war? Hardly that. No. 1t is
because they are for peace thru, not
without, victory; because they do not
believe lasting peace can be obtain
ed through negotiations; because
they consider that u. s. stands for
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER as
well as for the United States and I'm
Gle Sam. The Democratic Congress
does not. Mr.. Wilson does not. There
is the issue clear as the MONDAY
sun.
The country will decide.
MIR. Wilson wants only rubber
stamps-his rubber stamps-in Con-
gress. He says so. No one knows
it better than Democratic Congress
men. lie calls for the defeat of pro-
war Republicans and the election of
anti-war Democrats. He, as the ex-
ecutive, is no longer satisfied to be
one branch OF. the government as
| provided by the constitution. Re
| publican Congressman must be de-
feated and Democratic Congressman.
must as they would, yield in every
thing. That is evidently his idea
the idea of an autocrat calling him
self the servant but bidding for the
mastery of this great free people.
Republicans in Congress have
seemed to him good enough when
they assented. as they did assent with
the highest patriotism and sometimes
against their best judgment, to his
proposals.
Republicans at home have SEEM
ed to him good enough to send fully
million of their sons into battle. to
furnish at least half of the army and
far more than half of the money for
winning Of the war, but they are not
considered good enough to have a
voice in the settlement of the war.
why? Are not their sacrifices as
great as others? Have not they as
much at stake in the future? Mr..
Wilson says he has no thought of
suggesting that any political party
is paramount in matters of patriot
lism, but he does suggest it, and he
/ suggests further that he alone is
paramount in intelligence.
But Mr.. Wilson's real purpose has
nothing to do with the conduct of
the war. He has had that from the
beginning, has it now, and nobody
dreams of interfering with his con-
troll. He wants just two things. One
is full power to settle the war pre-
| cisely as he and his sole, unelected.
unappointed, unconfirmed personal
adviser may determine. The other
T. is full power as the 'unembarrassed
spokesman in affairs at home as he
actually demands in his statement,
to reconstruct in peace times the
great industrial affairs of the nation
in the same way, i'm unimpeded con-
formity with whatever socialistic doe
trines, whatever unlimited govern
workmanship notions, whatever
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