The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-26
REPUBLICANS IN
CONGRESS- POINT
TO WAR SUPPORT
Answer Statement Of Wilson
Asking That Democratic
Congress be Returned.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 26 After
President Wilson's appeal to the coun-
try to support the Democrats in the
coming congressional election had
been made public. the Republican
leaders in Congress issued the follow
ing statement:
Some time ago the president said
politics is adjourned. Now. in the
closing days Of the campaign-de-
layed by the united efforts of all par
ties for the Liberty Loan-now. when
all public meetings have been given
up owing to the influenza epidemic.
the president sends out direct party
appeal calling upon his countrymen to
vote for Democrats because they are
Democrats. without any reference to
whether such Democrats have been,
or are, in favor Of war measures and
have war record which deserves
support.
THE voters Of Michigan, to take a
single example. are called upon to
support Henry Ford-notorious for his
advocacy of peace at any price. for
his contemptuous illusions to the
flag. for the exemption Of his son from
military service-on the sole ground
that he will blindly support the presi-
dent. The president is quite ready to
admit that Republicans are loyal
enough to fight and die as they are
doing by the thousands; loyal enough
to take up great loans and pay enor-
nous taxes; loyal enough to furnish
important men at no salary on some
OF the great war boards in Washing
ton. But they are not loyal enough.
in the presidents opinion, to be
trusted with any share in the govern
ment Of the country or legislation for
it.
Will Change Leadership.
II the Republican party controls
the house We can point out some Of
the things they will do. They will
replace Mr.. Dent of Alabama at the
head of the military affairs committee
with Mr.. julius Kahn. to whom the
administration was obliged to turn
for assistance to take charge of and
carry the first draft bill against Mr..
Dents opposition. They will put
Republican at the head of the ways
and means committee, as leader of the
House. instead of Mr.. Kitchin Of North
Carolina. who voted against the war.
They will give the country a speaker
who did not oppose and would never
q
say. as Speaker Clark did, that there
Is precious little difference between a
conscript and a convict
Although the Republicans of the
house are in the minority, they cast
more actual votes on seven great war
measures than the Democratic major
ity was able to do. What is the rec
ord of the Senate? On fifty-one roll
An I'll
6. 1917, and the Goth of May, 1918,
the votes cast by Republicans in favor
of such measures were 72 per cent,
while only 81 per cent of the votes
cast on the Democratic side were in
favor Of such measures. Does that
record look as II we had hampered
him? The Republican party in con-
gress has supported the administra-
ton policies since the war with a
unanimity and and absence Of criti.
cism unprecedented in party history.
There are some domestic questions
where we should undoubtedly differ
from the course pursued by the ad.
ministration. We should not, for ex-
ample, fix a price on the farmers
wheat and leave the planters cotton
untouched Another domestic ques-
ton in which the Republican party
believes thoroughly is economic pre-
paration for the coming Of peace and
they are clearly of the opinion that the
congress of the United States should
! not be excluded from that great task.
/ This Is not the Presidents person
| al war. This is not the war of con-
| gress. 1t is not the war Of the Repub-
lican or the Democratic party. 1t Is