Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-28


 terances by Colonel Roosevelt, former PredGant Harrison, Senators Lodge and Penrose and former Senator, Foraker in the campaign of 1898 at the close of the Spanish war
 The Cuyahoga county committee teleSraphed the White House taking issue with the presidents statement. Secretary Tumulty, writing at the presidents direction, simply commend ed the statements he quoted and also various editorials appearing at the time in leading republican newspapers to the committees consideration with out comment
 The first quotation was from Col | onel Roosevelt, identified as republi- can candidate for governor of New | ! ork in 1895:
 i Remember that, whether you will or not, your votes this year will be viewed by the nations of Europe from one standpoint only They will draw i no fine distinctions. A refusal to sus-
 tain the president this year will, in l their eyes, be read as a refusal to
 sustain the war and to sustain the
 efforts of our~peace commission to se-, l cure the fruits of war. Such a re- fusal may not inconceivably bring
 about a rupture of the peace negotia- i tions. It will give heart to our de- feated antagonists; it will make pos
 sible the interference of those doubt ful neutral nations who in this Strug- gle have wished us ill. You could not get the benefits of
 the victories of Grant and Serman
 only by re-electing Lincoln, and we
 will gain less than we ought from the war if the administration is not sus-
 tained at these elections
 From former President Harrison,
 pleading for the election of a repub-
 lican congress-:
 If the word goes forth that the
 people of the United States are stand
 ing solidly behind the president, the task of the peace commissioners will
 be easy, but if there is a break in the
 ranks-if the democrats score a tell ing victory, if democratic senators,
 congressman and governors are elect
 ed-Spain will see in it a gleam of F hope; she will take a fresh hope and . a renewal of hostilities, more war may
 be necessary to secure to us what we have already won.'
 From Senator Lodge; "But there is
 one question on which I wish to say a
 few words and that seems to me to override all others. . It is whether we f shall stand by the administration and
 the president at this juncture. If we i give a victory to his political oppo-
 nents, We say not only to the United | States, but we say to the world we z say to the Spanish commissioners in | T Paris. that the people of the United e States repudiate it's result and repudi- Il ate the man who has led victoriously ', the war and is now leading us back tc U peace-William Mckinley"
 s From Senator Penrose "In his re- $ cent speeches the president has ap- II pealed not to a partisan but to a na- 7' tion lspirit. He wants Pennsylvania l. to remain the keystone state for the '- republican party. It is difficult tc l. overestimate the supreme importance st of sustaining the president of the '- United States and the republican par n ty at the present critical crisis in om 't foreign relations
 It From Senator Foraker: 'The wal e came while republican administra. l. tion was ill power and must now b. 1t settled by that administration. I d. ;e not believe any fair minded democra
 would question the fitness of the re Is publican party for the discharge 0 le this duty, but, however it might b. l. otherwise the work is already in tn, IS hands of President Mckinley. Wha Ie he wants is the support of the house o III representatives"
 le Secretary McAdoo tonight issued ed statement supplementing the presi e. dents appeal, declaring that the onl as way to secure continued unity Of com f. inand in America is to return con ds gress in full sympathy with the presi in dents views, policies and ideals. rs Before America entered the war, h. Mir. McAdoo said "the allies had suf CT fered repeated reverSes because ther n- was no unity of command. They wer IS. divided among themselves in authori n- ty. The first act of the president wa ms to compel a unity of command unde he General Foch. Ever since that tim b. America and her allies have been win tn ming victories and a triumphant con nv clusion of the war is in sight as lon ry as unity of command and of action It. preserved. Unity of command h. Europe must De pack up with unit ou or command and acton III Amerlca