The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-11-01
CAN DEMOCRATS
WIN ELECTIONS
BY DECEPTION?
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the plan of the War Department.
The Democratic leadership of the
House opposed this plan by voice and
vote in April, 1917. Speaker Clark
led in hampering the President. He
was aided by Chairman Dent, of the
House Military Committee; Chairman
Padgett, of the Committee on Naval
Affairs; Chairman Kitchin, of the
Ways and Means Committee, and also
floor leader of the Democrats, and
nineteen other Democratic chairmen
of the leading committees, all of whom
voted against the bill. Three other
leading Democratic chairmen did not
vote, although present. This made
a total of twenty-seven of the Demo-
cratic leaders who led their own par
ty in hampering the nations Com
mander-in- Chief on this first vital war
measure.
Democrats Again Hamper Wilson
On August 20, 1918, when the Com
mander-i in Chief, President Wilson,
asked for a modification of the draft
law that would enable America to
raise the Army of Victory, which is
now Foch's Strong right arm, practi-
cally all the Democratic leaders, from
Speaker Clark down, and an actual
majority of the Democrats in the
House, fought and voted against the
request of President Wilson. In this,
a war crisis, when Foch and Haig
were calling upon America for more
man-power and Wilson was trying to
give them the help they asked, Sc DEM
ocrats voted against increasing the
army as the President and Command
er-in-C Chief requested and only 80 vot-
ed in favor of it. Under the leader
ship of Representative Kahn, the Re-
publicans gave Ill votes to help out
the President-or 81 more votes than
the Tamocrats gave him.
Thes. were the two most vital war
measuN'e of the present Congress, for
without the passage of either of these
bills Americas participation in the
war would have been impossible and
the Huns by this time would have
been in Paris and have dictated VIC
torious peace not only to Europe but
to the United States and the rest of
the civilized world.
What Democrats Really Want
The stubborn tenacity with which
the Democratic leaders cling to the
deceptive argument that it is neces-
sary to re-elect them in order that the
President may receive proper support
to prosecute the war to a successful
close only indicates they realize that
unless they can make the people be-
lieve they have monopoly of loyalty
in the country their cause is lost. To
those who read between the lines it
means more than this. 1t means they
are using this deception not in order
tosist the President to win the war but
in order to keep the present Demo
cratic organization in control of all
committees and commissions so that
when peace does come, the Democra.
tic party will be in a position to play
the same game of favoritism to the
South that it has played throughout
the war;
The Record of the Republican party
and of Republican leaders in Congress:
from the moment this country declar
ed war with Germany has been the
record of loyal Americans. They
have stood by their country. The,
have stood by the war. They hav,
placed their nation above their party
They have withheld no measure O.
power, no resources of money or mer
needed to wage war to the limit.
They have not only stood by tn,
President in his every effort to win tn,
war, but they have stood, and ar,
standing, by the American people il
their determination not to lose tn,
war now that it has been won, by open
ing negotiations with Germany OF
any other terms than those of uncon
ditional surrender.
Republicans Strength to Allies
I In the capitals of Europe, the Re
publican leaders in Congress ar
looked upon as being very Gibralta
OF strength to the Allied cause, be
cause at no time since Americas en-
trance into the war have the Republi
can leaders faltered in placing at tn
disposal of the Allied cause all of tn,
resources of America, and at no tim
have the Republican leaders suggest
ed any truce or compromise with Ger
many or her allies. On the contrary
they have insisted from the very be
ginning upon policy of force to tn
utmost and peace based only upo1
| complete victory of srmies in tn
field. They did! this months befor
Democratic congfessicnal leaders rea
lized that such a policy was necessar.
if the Allies were to win the war
They were doing this at the very tim
the Democratic Secretary of War wa
complacently declaring that the wa
was 5000 miles away. They were pub
licly demanding in the press, on tn
platform and before the Congressiona
committees the raising of an army O
not less than 100000 men to be sen
to France, months before the Demo
, cratic congressional leaders becam