The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-26
Attacks on Administration Hinder Program for Car
 rying on the Government.
PATRIOTISM CALLS
 FOR FULL SUPPORT
HIS. Cummings Gives Opin- ion of Actions of Oppon-
 ents of the Government.

The foregoing is the keynote of ] strong article in the September issue of The Forum. Written by Homer $. Cummings, vice-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, this article tends to put the fall Congress sional campaign on patriotic, rath- CT than political basis.
 MT. Cummings says, in part:
 There is a sound basis for the be- lief that the Democratic party will be successful in the coming COngression- al campaign. Events seem to have made such a result inevitable. The leaders of the Republican party, Se- ing quite aware of this situation, have sought to forestall it by urging that it would be better for the country to elect a Congress adverse to the Ad- ministration, than to choose one in harmony with it.
 "The mere fact that such a sug- gestion is seriously made is an indica- tion of extreme poverty of invention, and a proof of the hopeless plight In which the Republican party finds it. Nelf.
 War Chief Business.
 "Manifestly the overwhelming busi- ness of America is to win the war. This is purpose of which all other considerations are subordinate. The outstanding fact is that President Wilson is not only President of the United States and Commander-in- Chief of the Army and Navy, but he is the leader of his party, and is at the head of an administration which is actually conducting the war, and con- ducting it with success. The funda- mental difficulty which the Republi- cans confront grows out of the at tempt to justify a distinction be- tween support of the President and such limited support of the President for war purposes only, as the Repub lican leaders, in their wisdom, think proper.
 ITO persuade a majority of the American people that it is wise to make such distinction will require more plausibility than the Republican leaders possess. It is a program which counsels domestic and political confusion during a period of war. Il is pregnant with opportunities for DO litical 'sniping' and can serve no pur- !, Iose" "of patriotism. The resolute spiri of the people at large requires 2 whole-hearted support of the Admin istration Any attempt to equivo cate or to draw fine distinctions car lead only to the discontinue of the person or the party making the at tempt The great mass of people believe in the President and propose to stand by him.
 Surely the Administration would be in a better position to devote it' \ energies to the problems of the war i supported, in Congress, by those wht Ahave confidence in it, rather than b! Moose who, openly or covertly seek tc tAke advantage of it. Our Presiden hAs become the leading figure in tn affairs of the world, his influence wa never greater than 1t is today, hi words carry into every quarter of tn globe and the statesmen of the alliet governments have accepted his lead ership. It would be a sorry com mentary upon popular government the results in November should i'm pair, in the least degree, the infuenc of that illustrous and commandin figure.
 ,-,----~.. The Processes of Peace "Neither has the Republican party as an organization, in any wise, purg ed itself of it's ancient vices or mad itself a trustworthy vehicle for tn expression of the best thought of tn American people. It is still marrow partisan and provincial. It ha neither fully grasped the significanc 51 any adequate appreciation of tn greatness or destiny of America.
 'There is, today, a general recos milton that the great purpose which our people are committed h. been carried forward with expeditio and success. To readjust the pro cesses of peace so. as to serve the al tivtties of war has been an undertal ing requiring leadership of unel ampled skill So striking has bee the response of the people, so frt have our public affairs been from al suggestion of scandal or impropj influence, that it scarcely lies in Il mouth of those who conducted u M Spanish-American war to indulge the luxury of criticism.
 Who Will Be Leaders?
 "Our purposes are not limited the war. What we have accomplish ed thus far, both in the matter war preparation and in domestic r form, serve as an indication of Il spirit with which we will undertal the great problems of reconstructiC which will follow the cessation
 hostilities. Vocational training, g ready undertaken, must be furth developed, having in mind not on the training of the youth of the cou try but also with a view to the nee of those who have been injured
 disabled in the war We shall
 confronted, in probably much chan ed aspect with the question o1. el ployer and employee It IS higt essential that there shall be establis ed a basis which shall make the ] curing conflicts between capital a labor no longer a disturbing eleme in the life of America The ultima status of the public utilities and , sential war industries taken over the government during the war D, iod must be fixed and their relati to the life of our people must be termined.
 Foreign trade must be develoI and the methods of taxation m
 come under the closest scrutiny.
 the activities of our country must
 freshened and renewed after this D
 iod of sacrifice and stress. It m
 be a stimulated, not an exploited
 .velopment. The best thought
 America must be concentrated