The Sentinel=record., 1918-10-29
ROOSEVELT URGES
 CHANCE OF LEADERS
DECLARES REPUBLICAN CON GRESs WOULD ASSURE THE ALLIE OF OUR SINGER.
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Former President Asserted That Heads of Republican Organizations in Congress Gave the President Greater Support Than Democrats.

New York, Oct 2S.-Coloacl Theo
 doIe Roosevelt, answering President
 Wilson's appeal for a return of a
 democratic majority m congress urg.
 cd voters of the nation in an addres here tonight, to transfer control to
 republican leadership.
 Such an outcome of the election.
 he declared, would assure our allies that America is determined to speed up the war and insist on uncondition- al surrender of the enemy, and would serve notice on Germany and her vassal states, that they would have to deal henceforth with the resouteI and straightforward soul of the Amer ican people and not merely with theI obscure purposes and wayermg will of MT. Wilson"
 Declaring that half the leaders oil the presidents own party opposed him when he had committed himseliI to war measures" Mr. Roosevelt as serted that heads of the republican, organization in congress supportedl tEc administration when a declaration ot war was needed onen there was demand for the drart. when the arml was sent overseas. and when money was required by taxation or by loans.
 The former president spoke at ai meeting under the auspices of the re- publican club at Carnegie hall to ad | vooate the election of the republican state ticket here in New York and of the republican congressional ticket tarohehout the nation.
 Rebuking what he termed the serVility" of democratic leadership. the colonel said it was small wonderl that in cloak rooms of the house the | bitter jest circulates here's to ourl czar, last in war. first toward peace, l long may ne waver'"
 Mr. Roosevelt criticised the general | course of the administration through out the war declaring: If Mr. Wilson had really meant 10 disregard politics | he would at once have constructed a | coalition, non partisan cabinet. cal 1 ling the best men of the nation to the | highest and most important 0fuccsI under him, without regard to politics l He did nothing of the kind In the positions most vital to the conduct of the War and in the positions now mo3tl important in connection with negoti- | ating for peace he retained or ap-l pointed men without the slightest fitness for the performance of thel tasks whose sole recommendation vas q supple eaeerness to serve, Mr. | Wilson personally and to serve Mr | Wilson's party insofar as such ser vice benefited Mr Wilson"
 Contrasting the Presidents appeal with Lincons outright refusal, even in 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 par | ties and asked that candidates for | congress be judged, not by the stand | ard of adherence to his personal ad ministrauon. but by their uncondi- 1 uonal support of the war"
 Election of a republican congress, the colonel continued, would be understood aboad as meaning that the pro-Germans and pacficists and Rolshcvists and Germanized social | ists could no longer be counted upon as efficient and tortuous tools. that the fighting men and not the rhetorl- clans were uppermost" A
 Mir Roosevelt interpreted the pres idents reference tu the "anti-admin-I istration attitude of republican mcm- i bers of congress as based on their | demand that inefficiency, waste and l eXtrayance be remedied," in the war conducting departments.
 The former president asserted caat what we need is an American con gress, a congress of straight out Americans and not congress of rub Der stamps.
 We republicans pledge ourselves 10 stand by the president so long as he stands by the American people and to |
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