Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-29
ROOSEVELT BREAKS LOOSE AGAINST THE
 POLICIES OF WILSON

New York, Oct. 2S.-Colone. Theo- dore Roosevelt, answering President Wilson's appeal for return of Dem ocratic majority in congress, urged voters of the nation in an address here tonight, to transfer control to Republican leadership
 Such an outcome of the election, he declared would assure "Cur al lies that America is determined to speed up the war and insist on un- conditional surrender" of the enemy, land would serve notice on Germany and her vassal states," that they would have to deal henceforth with the resolute and straightforward soul of the American people and not merely with the obscure purposes and wavering will Of Mr.. Wilson"
 Declaring that "ha1f the leaders of the presidents own party opposed hi mwhen he had committed himself to war measures" Mir Roosevelt as- serted that heads of the Republican, organization in congress supported the administration when d declara- tion of war was needed when there
 
 the army was sent overseas and when money was required by taxa- tion or by loans.
 The former president spoke at d meeting under the auspices of the Republican Club at Carnegie Hall to advocate the election of "the Repub- lican state ticket here in New York and of the Republican congressional ticket throughout the union.'
 Rebuking what he termed the ser vility" of Democratic leadership, the Colonel said it was small wonder that ill the cloak rooms of the house the bitter jesa circulates Here's to our czar, last in war, first toward peace, long may. he waver'"
 Mr. Roosevelt criticized the general course administration throughout the war, deciaring:
 eff MT. Wilson had really meant to dicregard politics, he would at once have constructed d coalition, non- partisan cabinet, calling the best men of the nation to the highest and most important offices under him, without regard to politics.
 He did nothing of the kind
 'ln the positions most vital to the conduct of the war, and ill the posi- tions now most important in connec- ton with negotiating peace, he re- tained or appointed men without the slightest fitness for the performance of the tasks whose sole recommen- dation supple eagerness to serve MT. Wilson personally and to serve rty service benefited Mr. Wilson,
 Contrasting the presidents appeal with Lincoln's outright refusal, even ins the darkest days of the civil war, to apply any party test to fitness for office" the Colonel said that Lincoln appealed to all loyal men of all parties and asked that candidates for congress be judged, not by the stand ard of adherence to his personal ad- ministration by their unconditional support of the war
 Election of a Republican congress, the Colonel continued, would be un- derstOod abroad as meaning that the pro-Germans and pacifsts and Bol- shevists and Germanized socialists could be no longer counted upon as efficient and torturous tools that the fightin men and not the rhetoricti- oians were uppermost."
 MT. Roosevelt interpreted the Pres idents reference to the "anti-admin- istratiOn" attitude of Republican members of congress as based on their demand that inefficiency, waste and extravagance be remedied," in the war conducting departments.