Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-22
TUESDAY %, 1918
SUPPORTING THE PRESIDENT,

SUPPORTING THE PRESIDENT.
The Chicago Tribune. IN a recen:
editorial under the caption Support
ing the President" said:
Democrats in congress have thor
ouShly exposed themselves in trick
which might have had serious con-
sequences, a trick upon the sentiment
of the country, one which sought to
confuse patriotic motives and impulses
and partisan motives and impulses
Eve believe that republican con-
sress will serve the country better
than democratic congress, and that
belief arises from a conviction that
the republican party is more free
from sectional defects, more ma
tional party, less parochial and less
sectional than the democratic.
This il demonstrable The repub-
lican party does not find its nucleus
in q section. The democratic party
does find its nucleus in the south
The republican party does not inherit
the antiplthies and prejudices of a
section. 1t is not dominated, or at
least frequently controlled, by this
parochialism.
I'm the largest sense the republican
party in national party, and because
1t is we think that even a democratic
government in nation facing the
largest national and international
questions, would be better served by
a congress dominated by a national
party than a congress dominated by a
parochial party.
'"That is good, sound national sense.
Against il arises the sentimental o.
lection that a republican congress will
be a partisan congress, set against the
administration because the adminis-
tration is democratic. An utter fall
lacy. we are sure. Men are not the
less Americans because they are re-
publicans. They are not the more
Americans because they are demo-
Gratis.
For efficiency in times of great
national need we look beyond these
partisan sentimentalities and conslderl
the essential qualifications of the
dominant parties. In the essential
qualifications we find the republican
party the better instrument OF nation
al government because it has the
greater comprehension of the nation
as whole.
against what We think are the
facts has been opposed what the DEM
ocrats sought to make a prevailing
sentiment A man in congress cannot
be expected to support the govern |
ment unless he is democrat. II he
is a republican he will be an opponent
of the administration. and thus an OPP
ponent of the nation.
"The record of the republicans in
congress stands absolutely against this
assertion. No democrats have given
quicker and more ready support to
national measures than the repub-
licans. They did adjourn politics and
they kept it adjourned whenever
national issue arose. They also
showed their steady Amercanism
"But the democrats destroy their
own issue. How can they tell the
people that for the support of the
president democratic congress Ia
needed when upon an issue such as
woman suffrage. which the president
presents as imperatively and insistent-
1y demanding legislation, the parochial
south, democratic, deserts him entire'
ly?
How can this be an issue in the
election when the democrats destroy
1t as an issue in congress? How can
It be important to elect democratic
members of congress upon such an
issue when the democrats in congress
will not support the president?
'Mr. Wilson asked for this legisla-
ton with suitable gravity. He de-
fined its internationalist significance
In the plans which the American ma
ton is forwarding and to which it is
committed The answer of his own
party, moi, of the republican party,
was that he should be embarrassed to
the extent that he said he would he
embarrassed by the failure Of demo-
cratic congress to support democrat
fc president.
Il 1.-THE case of supporting the presi-
dent--as a case indicating the peculiar
and exclusive ability Of the democrat
IL party--is closed, we think. We dol
not see how an issue which has so
failed in congress could survive In
the congressional districts or how It