Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-28
Gives RepuhIIcnns SO Credit

"Mr. Wilson accords the Republi-
cans no credit whatever for having
supported the war measures pro-
posed by his administration. although
they have done so with greater unan-
unity than the members of his own
party. Despite that fact he accuses
them of having tried to usurp his
proper functions. That charge, as
Mr.. Taft declares in carefully meas
ured words. is not true.
.At no time and in. no way have
they tried to take control of the war
out of his hands. The President
You know it,"
"a more ungraciOus, more unjust,
more NantOn. more mendaciOus accu-
satiOn was never made by the most
reckless stump orator, much less by n
president of the United States for par
tIsan purposes.
1T is an insult, not only to every
loyal Republican in Congress, but to
every loyal Republican in the land
1t fully merits the resentment which
rightfully and surely will find ex-
preston at the polls.
why Wilson Is Partisan
MIR. Wilson grudgingly admits that
the Republicans have been 'pro-war,
Then why does he demand their de-
feat? Because they are still pro-
war? Hardly that. No. 1t is be-
cause they are for peace through,
not without, victory, because they do
not believe lasting peace can be OBJ
tanned through negotiations; because
they consider that u. S.. stands for
unconditional surrender as well as for
the United States and Uncle Sam.
The Democratic Congress does not.
There is the issue as. clean as the
MONDAY sun. The country will de-
eide.
! Mr.. Wilson wants only rubber
stamps, his rubber stamps, in Con-
gress. Mr.. Wilson says he has no
thought of suggesting that any poll
tical party is paramount in matters of
patriotism, but he does suggest it,
and he suggests further that he alone
is paramount in intelligence"
Continuing, Mr.. Hays declared one
of the Presidents purposes is to Sc
cure power to settle the war pre-
unappointed, unconfirmed personal
adviser may determine Another
purpose he attributes to the Presi-
dent jr commitment to free trade
with the world, thus giving to
Germ. out of hand the fruits of
victory. greater than she could win
by fighting a hundred years"
"A Republican Congress, says Mr..
Hays, will never assent to that. Do
you want a Congress that will? Ger
many does. Germany looks to Mr..
Wilson to get it for her. as he pledg-
ed himself to do in one of few of his
famous articles which is eXplicable.
Germany understands that.
"See the New York World, spokes-
man of the administration, of last
Saturday and read the testimony of
Henry c. Emery. former head of the
tariff commission just returned from
seven months in Germany. The Ger
man people, he says, seemed to rea-
lize that in President Wilson lay
their only salvation. They have turn
ed to him in the belief that he is the
one great political leader who can
be trusted to make permanent
peace. which shall permit equal eco
nomic development
Plea That Is Absurd
What worse than nonsense, then,
is the Democratic campaign cry that
the election of a Republican Congress-
pledged to unconditional surrender
and protection of American industries
and American workingmen, instead
of a Democratic Congress, ready to
assent to a negotiated peace and free
trade, would bear cheer to Germany.
Such claims would be ludicrous If
they were not so seriously unpatrio-
tic.
"Mr. Wilson calls upon the Repub-
licans of the country to repudiate
their representatives in Congress,
who have proved true and loyal pa