Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-28
CALL FOR DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS
FREE TRADE is THE
PURPOSE OF PRESIDENT
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT

/
viii II. HAYS, chairman Of the Re-
publican National Committee, issued
an address To the Republicans Of the
country calling upon them to take up
what he termed the challenge uf the
President of the United States in "ques-
tioning the motives and fidelity" of the
| Republican members of Congress in his
| appeal to the people of the country To
return Democratic Congress at the No
| vcmber election.
The appeal reads:
/ President Wilson has questioned the
motives and fidelity of your representa-
tives in Congress. lie has thereby i'm
puened their loyalty and drniel their
E, patriotism. His challenge is to you who
| elected tfoee representatives You owe
| it to them, TO the honor of vour great
] party and TO your own sef-respcct 10
meet that challenge squarely, not only
| as Republicans, but as Americans. l.,
as your chairman. call upon ymi 10 do il.
| "Mr Wilson accords the Republicans
no credit whatever for having supported
The war measures proposed by his
! administration. although they have done
so with greater unanimity than the
members of his own party Despite that
/ fact, he accuses them of having tried to
usurp his proper functions. That charge,
as Mir. Taft declares IN carefully meas
! ured words, is not true, Al no time and
| in no wav have they tried To take CON
! troll of the war out of his hands. The
| President knows that The country
! knows it, You know lt.
| AN INSULT TO REPUsLIcASs
"A more ungracious more unjust,
more wanton, more fnendaci0Is accusa-
| tion was never made by the most reck
! less st ump orator. much less by Pres
! ident of the United States, for partisan
purposes. II is an Insult, not only 10
| every loyal Republican IN Congress, but
To every loyal Republican IN the land.
] II fully merits the resentment which
| rightfuly and surely Will find express
! sion at the polls
"AIr. Wilson grudgingly admits that
| the Republicans have been 'pro-war.
| Then why does he demand their defeat
! Because they are still pro-war2 Hardly
| that No It is because they are for
! peace through, not without, victory. be-
| cause thcv do not believe lasting peace
can be obtained through negotiation. be-
! cause they consider that u. :. stands
| fer unconditional surrender as well "a
| for the United States and Uncle Sam.
| The Democratic Congress does not MIR.
| " iIson docs not There Is the issue
clear as the noonday sun The country
will decide.
WANTS ONLY ~ RRUR STAMPS.
MIR Wilson wants only rubber stamps.
! his rubber stamps IN Congress He
saws SO No ono knows Il better
than Democratic congressman lie
calls for the defeat Of pro-war Rcpnb-
lcanS and the election Of antl-var Dem
ocrats Tic. as The Executive. IS no
longer satisfied 10 bc ono branch of the
government. rs provided bv the Consti-
tuition Republican congressman must
be defeated and Democratic Congress
men. must as they would, weld IN every
thing That j. evidently his idea
tho idea Of an autocrat calling himself
tho servant, but bidding for the mastery
Of this great free people
Republicans III Congress have seemed
u HIM good enough when thcv aS>cutcd.
as thcv did assent with highest patriot
ism and sometimes against thcr best
Judgment. ID his proposals Republicans
at home have seemed 10 him good enough
to send fully million Of their sons into
battle. To furnish AZ least half of the
army and far more than half Of the money
for the winning Of the war, but they are
not considered good enough TO have a
voice in the settlement Of the war Why
Are not their sacrifices as great as others?
Have not they as much at stake IN the
futurc3 MIR Wilson says he has no
thought OF suggesting that amy political
party is paramount IN matters OF pa
trioj ism. hut nc does suggest II, and he
suggests further that he alone Is para
mount in intelligence.
THE PRESIDENT 5 REAL PURPOSE.
'But Mr. Wilson's real purpos has
nothing TO do with the conduct Of the
war He has had that from the begin
ming, has 1t now, and nobody dreams Of
interfering with ms control He wants
plst two things Onc Is full power to
settle the war precisely as he and his
sole uneIected, unappofnted uncOn-
firmed personal adviser may determine
The other ls full power as the .unem-
barrasscd spokesman in affairs AT
home. as he actually demands m his
statement, Ia reconstruct n peace times
the great industrial affairs Of The ma
tion IN the same way IN Uuinpeded
conformity with whatever sociallstic
doctrines. whatever unlimited govern
ment ownership notions whatever haHy
whim~ maV happen 10 possess nun at
the time but hr>t and above all with
absolute commitment 10 free trade with
all tho world thus giving To Germany
out Of hand the fruits 81 Il victory greater
than she could win by fighting a hundred
wears. \ Republican Congrcss will never
assent 10 that DO vou want CongTes
that will? Germany docs
Germany looks 10 Alr Wilson TO get
It for her, as he pledged himself 10 do
III one Of the few Of his famous articles
which is explicabe Germany under
stands that sec the New York World,
spokesman OF the administration. of last
Saturday and read the testimony Of
Henry G. Emery, former head Of the
Tariff Commission. just returned from
seven months III Germany. The Ger
man people, he says, seemed 10 realize
that in President Wilson lay heir only
salvation They have turned to him IN
he belief that he Is the one great po-
htlcal leader who can be trusted to
make permanent peace which shall
permit equal economic Development He
is All others demand that the Ger
mans shall pay the full penalty al their