The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-10-26
UNITED STATES SENATE
WASHINGTON
October 81, 1918.
TO THE PEOPLE OF NEVADA:


TO THE PEOPLE OF NEVADA:
What are the issues between the
Democratic party and the Republican
party in the present momentous cam
paign? 1t is the duty of every man
and woman to determine this question
before they cast their votes at the
coming election. The decision upon
the issues will not only affect the
progress of our own people, but will
largely determine the fate of the Presi-
dents efforts for lasting peace and
democracy throughout the world.
The issues cannot involve questions
of loyalty; both parties have been
loyal. They cannot involve questions
relating to the preparation for and
the conduct of the war; there is no
complaint with regard TO this matter.
Both parties were loyal in their sup
port of the President and each is
equally proud of the wonderful
achievement
The war has been practically won
and the great and vital task OF read
justice and diplomacy of the statesmen
of the world, led by our own Presi-
dent. The German people will how TO
the ultimatum of Woodrow Wilson,
depose the Hohenzollern family, rele-
gate TO obscurity the militarists. and
establish a democracy based upon uni
versal suffrage. They will accept such
armistice as Foch. Haig and Pershing
may prescribe. This will place Ger
many at the mercy of the allies and
will in effect be an unqualified sur
render. The greatest. most brutal and
destructive war in all history will then
be over The conduct of the war
therefore cannot be an issue.
What then are the. issues? They
have been made by the Republican
leaders upon the floors of congress
and in the public forum. They relate
10 the future conduct of our govern
ment in peace readjustments abroad
and at home They arise from the
opposition of Republican leaders TO
the Presidents program for lasting
worlds peace after this war, and to
his attitude towards reconstructive
legislation in our own country when
peace shall have been declared and
conditions become normal.
These two dominant issues may be
stated as follows: Do the American
people approve of the Presidents pro-
gram for democracy and lasting peace
throughout the world and will they
give him the support necessary to en-
force such program?
Second, do the people of the United
States approve of the progressive ppin-
ciples of democracy established under
Woodrow Wilson's administration, and
will they support him in maintaining
such principles in the reconstruction
that must follow in the United States
after the war?
The same Republican leaders who
supported the President in the SEN
ate and House of Representatives in
the preparation for and the conduct
of the war are opposed to the Presi-
dent upon the foregoing two great is
sues. Senator Lodge, the leader of the
Republican minority in the United
States Senate and the ranking member
of the minority on the Foreign Rela-
tons Committee, in his speech in the
United States Senate on October Z.
1918, spoke with contempt of the
Presidents program. and in such at
tack said: "Mr President. it is not a
question OF the II points, or the 4
points. or 8 points. or whatever they
are" On October 7th. as on previous
occasions, he took issue with the pro
gram of the President providing for a
League of Nations. The Senator's
theory is the old militaristic theory
that has been the cause of wars from
the beginning of time. the alliance of