The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-11-02
Roosevelt LT0iTTlcESIVES0E.
CRrTICIsEs DEMOCRATS AND
URGES POWER FOR RE-
PUBLICANS.
Colonel Erupts in Carnegie Hall and
Denounces Everything Democratic.

New York.. Oct. 2S.-Col: Theo-
lore Roosevelt answering President
Wilson's appeal for return Of Dem
,cratic majority in congress, urged
voters Of the nation, in an address
aere tonight, to transfer control to
Republican leadership. Such an out
come of the election, he declared
would assure ..our allies that Amer
:ca is determined to speed up the wa
md insist on unconditional surrender
# the enemy, and would serve notice
On Germany '.and her vassal States"
hat they would have to deal hence
orth with the resolute and straight
onward soul of the American people
and not merely with the obscure pur-
noses and wavering will of Mr.. Will
son." ~ ~N# as:
Declaring that "ha1f the leaders Of
he presidents own party opposed
1iro when he had committed himself
war measures" Mr.. Roosevelt as
serted that heads of the Republican
organization in congress supported
he administration when declara-
ion of war was needed, when the
.rny was sent overseas and when
,oney was required by taxation or by
:oans. i. = SO e}:iassSf fklRf
me former president spoke at a
t Meeting under .he auspices of the Be
,ublican club at Carnegie Hell, to
tdvccate the election "of the Repub-
lean State ticket here in New York
md of the congressional ticket
bro11phOI1t tho TJnion." J"
\ Rebuking what he termed the
+ "servility'' of the Democratic leader.
I hip, the Colonel said it was small
p ronder that in the cloak rooms Oh
> he house the bitter jest circulates:
Here's to our Car, last in war, first
i :oward peace, long may he wayer-
= Mr.. Roosevelt criticized the genera I.
course of the administration througi
] ,ut the war, declaring:
eff Mr.. Wilson had really mean
S~o disregard politics he would at once
] isan cabinet, calling the best men OF
he nation to The highest and most
4 important Offices under him, without
i egard to politics. He did nothing Of
I he kind. In the positions most vital
I the conduct of the war and in the
positions now most important in con-
lection with negotiating peace, he re-
aimed or appointed men without the
;lightest fitness for the performance
/ # the tasks whose sole recommends
I ion was a supple eagerness to serve
T dr. Wilson personally and to serve
J Mr. Wilson's party insofar as such
;ervice benefited Mr.. Wilson.
Contrasting the presidents appeal
With Lincoln's outright refusal, even
+ n the darkest days of the civil war,
O apply any party test to fitness OF
,ffice, the colonel said that Lincoln
appealed to all loyal men of all par
les and asked that candidates for
or gress be judged. not by. the stand
ninistration, but by their. uncondi-
ional support of the war.
| Election Of a Republican congress.
!! he colonel continued, would be un-
| ,erstood abroad as meaning that the
T ,ro-German and paciists and Bolshe-
iikists and Germanized Socialists
I could no longer be counted upon as
/ .aicient and tortuous tools, that the
| ighting men and not the rhetoriciar :
| we're uppermost.'
Mr.. Roosevelt interpreted the pres
| lenfs reference to the t.anti-admin-
| 'stration" attitude Of Republican.
nembers of congress as based on their
demand that ineficiency, waste and
| ,xtravagance be rennedied,' in the
| var conducting departments. s
The former president asserted that
what we need is an American con-
| 5ress, a congress Of straight out
Americans and not a congress Of
/ .ubber stamps