The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-11-01
T, R. SAYS &. 0. P.
TO Speed UP WAR
Will Stand By President
Only When In The
1 Right.

New York, Oct. 2S,-Col. 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 &c
Republican leadership. Such an out
come of the election, he declared
would assure our allies that America
is determined to speed up the war and
insist on unconditional surrender" OF
the enemy, and would serve notice
on Germany land her vassal States
that they would have to deal hence
forth with the resolute and straight
forward soul of the American people
and not merely with the obscure pur-
poses and wavering will of Mr.. Will
son"
Declaring that half the leaders of
the Presidents own party opposed
him, when he had committed him
self to war measures" Mr.. Roose-
welt asserted that heads of the Re
supported the Administration when
publican organization I'm Congress
q declaration of war was needed,
when there was demand for the
draft. when the army was sent over
seas and when money was required by
taxation or by loans.
The former President spoke at a
meeting under the auspices of the Re-
publican Club at Carnegie hall to adj
vocate the election of the Republi-
can state ticket here in New York and
of the Republican congressional tick
ct throughout the Union"
Criticiscs General Course.
Rebuking what he termed the ser
Witty" of the Democratic leadership,
the Colonel said it was small wonder
that in the cloakrooms of the House
the bitter Jest circulates: Here's to
our Gear, last in war, first in peace,
long may he waiver!"
MIR. Roosevelt criticized the gener-
throughout the war. declaring:
III Mr.. Wilson had really meant
to disregard politics he would at once
have constructed a coalition, non-par-
tisan cabinet, calling the best men
OF the nation to the highest and most
important Offices under him, without
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of the kind. In the positions most
vital to the conduct of the war and
in the positions now most important
in connection with negotiating peace,
he retained or appointed men with
out the slightest fitness at perform
ance of the tasks, whose sole recon-
mendation was a supple eagerness to
serve Mr.. Wilson personally and to
serve Mr.. Wilson's party insofar as
such service benefited Mr.. wilson,"
Contrasting the Presidents ap-
peal with Lincoln's outright refusal.
even in the darkest days of the Civil
War, to apply the party test to fit
ness for Office, the Colonel said that
Lincoln appealed to all loyal men
of all parties and asked that candi-
dates for Congress be judged, not by
the standard of adherence to his per-
sonal administration, but by their
unconstitutional support of the war. "
What Europe viii Think.
Election of a Republican Congress,
the Colonel continued, would be un-
derstood abroad as meaning that the
pro- Germans and pacifists and Boil
shevists and Germanized Socialists
could no longer be counted upon as
efficient and tortuous tools; that the
lighting men and not the rhetoricians
were uppermost."
Mr. Roosevelt interpreted the Pres
ident's reference to the "anti-admin-
attitude of Republican
members 70 Congress as based on
heir demand that inefficiency, waste
and extravaganza be remedied," in
the war-conducting departments.
Col. Roosevelt declared that II was
the veriest nonsense that even par
tisanship can conceive" to state that
failure to return Democratic Con
gress this fall would be interpreted
by the Allies and Germany "as be-
Ing a Reputation of the war aims
Of this country" The former Pres
Ident asserted that what we need |
Is an American Congress, Congress
Of straightout Americans. and not a
Congress of rubber stamps"
"Stand For People"
We Republicans pledge ourselves
10 stand by the President so long as !
he stands by the American people.
and to part company from him at
any point where, in our judgment, he