The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-28
WILSON after
DICTATORSHIP
CHARGES HAYS
Statement Issued BY G. 0. P.
National Chairman Answers
President Political Appeal.


(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Oct 2s.-Will H. Hays
chairman Of the Republican nationa
committee. made public here tonight
. statement in which he replied In
behalf Of his party to President VIII
sons appeal to the nation to return
q Democratic congress. In his state
ment, Mr.. Hays said:
President Wilson has questioned
the motives Of your representatives
IN congress. He has thereby impung
ed their loyalty and denied their pa
trtotism. His challenge is to you. who
elected these representatives. You owe
to them. to the honor Of your great
party and to your own self respect to
meet that challenge squarely, not only
as Republicans, but as Americans. l.
as your chairman. call upon you t0
do It.
"Mr. Wilson accords the Republi.
cans no credit whatever for having
supported the war measures proposed
by his administration, although they
have done so with much greater unan-
Unity than the members of his own
party. Despite that fact, he accuses
them Of having tried to usurp his
proper functions.
"At no time and In no way have
they tried to take control of the war
out Of his hands. The president knows
that. The country knows it. You
know 1t.
"Mr. 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 because they
are for peace, though not without vic
tory; because they do not believe. a
lasting peace can be obtained through
negotiation; because they consider
that u. S. stands for unconditional
surrender as we'll as for the United
States and Uncle Sam. The Demo.
cratic congress does not. There is
the issue as clearly as the MONDAY
sun. The country will decide.
Wants Dietator's Power.
But President Wilson's real pur-
pose has nothing to do with the con-
duct of the war. He has had that
from the beginning. has it now, and
nobody dreams OF interfering with his
control. He wants just two things.
One Is full power to settle the war
precisely as he and his sole, unelected.
unappointed personal adviser may de-
termine. The other is full power, as
the unembarrassed spokesman in af-
fairs at home, as he actually demands
in his statement. to reconstruct In
peace times the great industrial az
fairs of the nation, In the same way.
in unimpeded conformity with what
ever Socialistic doctrines, whatever
unlimited government ownership no.
lions, whatever hazy whims may hap
pen to possess him at the time: but
1rst and above ALL with absolute COM
mitment to free trade with all the
world, thus giving to Germany out OF
hand the fruits of victory greater than
she could win by fighting a hundred
years. A Republican congress will
never assent to that. Do you want \
congress trat will? Germany does.
Read the testimony Of Henry c.
Emery. former head of the tariff COM
mission, just returned from several
months in Germany:
1.-The German people, he says,
seemed to realize that in President
Wilson lay their only salvation. They
nave turned to him in the belief that
ne is the one great political leader
Who can be trusted to make a per-
inenent peace which will permit equal
economic development He is. All
others demand that the Germans shall
pay the full penalty Of their crimes.
Mr.. Wilson is for unconditional
1urrender--yes, for the unconditional
-urrender to himself Of the Republi-
can party, Of the country, OF the al
ies--all to him, as the one sole arbiter
md master of the destinies OF the
world. Do you stand for that? An
jwer with your votes.
This is a call to all loyal Repub-
leans, proud in their patriotism, to
ttand by their country and the candi-
,lates and to let the world know that
america spurns autocracy no less at
ZONE than abroad. and will uphold
Ter allies In whatever reparation they
nay exact for the frightful outrages
inflicted upon them by the accursed
Huns.
I'VE are fighting in France to make
certain forever that men may have the
right to govern themselves. Here,
where we have the right, we shall ex-
,rcise II, now and always.
America was created for that very |
privilege.
America will answer with her
yote."