Bisbee daily review., 1918-11-01
LEADERS ISSUE
 STATEMENT FOR
 REPUBLICAN SIDE
Roosevelt and Taft Join in Public Statement, Setting Forth in Logical Terms Their Position
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NEW YORK, Oct 31.-Theodore Roosevelt and Wm. H. Taft issued here today a joint appeal for cleo tion of a republican majority in con gross. The statement was said to be the first ever composed and signed by two former presidents of the United States.
 Seated at a table in the Union League club, they prepared the state ment which follows:
 We approach this subject as Ameri- cans and only as Americans. When this war broke out we would have welcome action by the president which would have eliminated all questions of party politics. Instead of this, par tisian lines have been strictly drawn from the first and now the president announces that only democrats can be entrusted with future power and only those democrats who do his will. Because of the reflection on other pa triotic Americans We appeal for faiP play
 "The next congress will serve from Marches, 1919, to March 4. 1921. In that period the war must be fought to unconditional surrender, unless this is achieved before.
 "The terms of world peace must be settled.
 "The democratic administration, after expending billions of treasure and exercising more absolute power than any administration in our his tory must give an account of it's stew ardship.
 "The change from war conditions to peace must be brought about with the least disturbance and the work of re- construction must be broadly begun.
 "A republican congress will be much better qualified than one controlled by democrats to aid the country in adopt ing the measures needed for these four great tasks. First, even as a min ority party the republicans made the winning of the war possible by pass ing the original draft bill. Without this We could not have trained and landed the two millions of men now in France. As a minority party the republicans forced upon a reluctant president and secretary of war. after an injurious delay of four months the amended draft act, without which we could not put two more millions at the front next July. The speaker, the leader and the chairman of the mili- tary committee of the democratic house opposed the original draft with all the vigor possible.
 "The new senate must approve, by two-thirds vote. the terms of peace. These terms should be settled not by one man only It is one man con- trol we are fighting in this war to suppress. The peace treaty must be approved by the great body of the American people. The president has indicated a willingness to make peace by negotiations. He has not de manded as he might have done in three notes that which the American people demand. an unconditional sur render. His exchange of notes with Germany has caused a deep concern among our people lest he may by his parlying with her, cOncede her a peace around a council table instead of sentence from a court. The fourteen points which the president and Ger many assume that they have already agreed upon are so general and vague that such a peace would be no treaty at all, but only a protocol to an in- terminable discussion. The president Is without final power to bind the United States to those fourteen points although his language does not sug- gest it. Still less has he power to bind our noble allies We do not know hat these pomts include all that our allies may justly demand. CT do not concede something they may justly withhold For what they have done 'or us, we owe our allies the highest good faith. It is of capital import ance that we should now elect sen
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