Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-26
NOT WILSON'S
PERSONAL WAR.
c. Q. P. REPLY

obliged to turn for assistance to
take charge of and carry the first
draft bill against Mr.. Dents oppo-
sition. They will put republican
at the head of the ways and means
committee, as leader of the house,
instead of Mr.. Kitchin of North
Carolina who voted against the war.
They will give the country speak
er who did not oppose and would
never oppose draft bill and would
never say. as Speaker Clark did, that
there is precious little difference
between a conscript and a convict.
Although the republicans of the
house are in the minority, they cast
more actual votes on seven great
war measures than the democratic
majority was able to do. What is
the record of the senate? On 81
roll calls on war measures between
April f, 1917, and May %, 1918, the
votes cast by republicans in favor
of such measures were u per cent
while only 81 per cent of the votes
cast on the democratic side were in
favor of such measures. Those
were the presidents own measures.
Does that record look as if we had
hampered him? The republican
party in congress has supported the
administration policies since the
war with unanimity and an abb
sence of criticism unprecedented in
party history.
War Of American People.
There are some domestic ques-
tons where we should undoubtedly
differ from the course pursued by
the administration. We should not.
for example, fix a price on the farm
er's wheat and leave the planters
cotton untouched. Another domes-
tic question in which the republican
party believes thoroughly is econ
omic preparation for the coming of
peace and they are clearly of the
opinion that the congress of the
United States should not be ex-
cluded from that great task.
This is not the presidents per-
sonal war. This is not the war of
congress. 1t is not the war of the
democratic or the republican party
1t is the war of the American peo-
pie. 1t is more. 1t is the war of
the United States, of the allied pow
ers, of the civilized world against
the barbarism of Germany. In this
great burden and responsibility the
republican party, representing more
than half the citizenship of the
country, demands its rightful share.
If the republican party is entrusted
with power in either or both houses
they will do everything possible to
drive forward the war and hasten
the day of victory. The president
speaks of the necessity of telling
the plain truth. That the republican
party in control of congress would
do for they have no friends to
shield. And they will do more.
They will give all the money to the
last dollar necessary to sustain our
armies and our fleets, but they will
check the waste now going on of
the money given by the most gen.
erous people on the fact of the
earth.
For. Peace of Victory.
"The president speaks, of the eff
feet of the election abroad. He
says there they understand the
of elections. They do, and
they will know that if the republi-
cans have majority in congress
the war will be pressed with great
er vigor than ever before. They
are quite aware that the power of
the senate is equal to that of the
president in the consummatiol of
peace by treaty. They will know
that the republican party stands for
a victorious peace and the over
throw of Prussian militarism. That
knowledge will not depress the spir-
it of our allies or encourage the
of Germany.
"The republican party believes
that the question of surrender
should be left to Marshal Foch. to
the generals and to the armies in
the field. When they report Ger
many has laid down her arms the
United States and the allies should
then impose their terms. Will that
knowledge cause detection to those
who are fighting with us? All the
world knows that the republican
party is opposed to negotiations and
discussion carried on in diplomatic
notes addressed to the German gov
eminent. The republican party
stands for unconditional surrender.