The Sentinel=record., 1918-10-26
PRESIDENT WILSON
 STlRS REPUBLICANS
CONTINUED FRoM PAGE OWED


 in the government of the county ol , legislation for 1t.
 "lt the republican party controls the Ihouse we can point out some of the
 things they will do They will re- lplace Mir Dent. of Alabama, at the lhead of the military affairs commit
 tee with Mir, Julius Kahn, to whom the
 administration was obliged to turn for assistance to take charge of and carry
 the fist draft bill against Mir Dents Opposition They will put a republican lat the head of the ways and means committee, as leader of the house, in- stead of Mir. KitChin of North Carolina, N ho voted against the war. They will | give the country a speaker who did not oppose, and would never oppose q draft bill, and would never say, as Speaker Clark did that there Is prec- ious little difference beween a con- script and a convict
 Although the republicans of the house are in the inority, they cast more actual votes on seven great war meas ures than the democratic majority was able to do. What is the record of the senate? On 5i roll calls. on war meas, .ures, between April 6, 1917, and the 29th of May 1918. the votes cast by re-, .publicans ii favor of such measures were = per. cent while only e per, cent of the votes cast on the demo-l cratic side were in favor of such meas - ures. Those were the presidents own measures Does that record look asI if we had hampered him. the republican, party in Dnsress has supported thel administration policies since the Warl with unanimity and all absence of criticism unprecedented in party his tory
 There are some domestic questions where we should undoubtedly differ from the course pursued by the admin istration We should not, for example fix price on the farmers wheat and leave the planters cotton untouched Another domestic question in which, the republican, party believes thor oughy Is economic preparation for thel coming of peace and they are clearlyl of the opinion that the congress of thsl United States should not be exelud-,' ed from that great task
 'This is not the presidents person. al war. This is, not the war of con- gress. It Is not the war of the dem ocgatic or the republican party It isl the war of the American people It is more It is the war Of the Unitedl States, of the allied powers, of thel civilized world against the .barbarism Of Germany. In this great burden andl responsibility the republican party rep, iesenting more than half the citizen-l ship ot the country, demands its right 1 ful share If the republican partyl is entrusted with power in either orl both houses they will do everything tol drive forward the war and hasten thel day of victory The president speaksl of the necessity of telling the plaini truth That the republican party inl control of congress would do for they have no friends to shield And theyl will do more They will give all thel money to the last dollar necessary tol sustain our armies and our feet butt tHtN W III 1Ait1h tAt NdNlt HUN SUAlI on of the money given by the mostl generous people on the face of thel earth
 "The president speaks of the effectl of the election abroad He says thati there they understand the meaning off elections They do and they will know that if the republicans have a ma jority in congress. the war will bel pressed with greater vieor than everi before They are quite aware that thei pofer of the senate is equal 10 that of the president in the consumdtiou Of peace by treaty They will know that the republican party stands forl a victorious peace and the overthrow Of Pruosiau militarism That know leddge will nut depress the spirit of our allies or encourage the goyern-I ment of Germany
 'The republican party believes thatl the question of surrender should bel left to Marshal Foch, to the generalsl and 10 the armies in the field WhenI they report that Germany has ladI down her arms the United States andi the allies should then impose their' terms Will that oNledge cause de iection 10 those who are fighting lorI us' All the world knows that the rel publican party k opposed to negotia- tions and discuss ion carried on in dip-I iomatic note addressed to the German government. The republican party There Is no republicon creed so short, that there is not room in it for those two words
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 Henry Cabot Lodge.
 Reed Shoot. chairman re-
 publican senatorial com
 Frederick II Gillette,
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