Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-26
DEMOCRATS APPEAL.
FOR PARTY
"Straight-Out Americanism" Is
Declared to Be Over
shadowing Issue
LINCOLN'S SLOGAN is CITED
Also Quote Portion of Theodore
Rooscvelt's Statement
of 1898.
LINCOLN'S SLOGAN is CITED

WASHiNGTON. September 2j.-As.
serting that an active political contest
, is unavoida bic. the Democratic party,
through it's national campaign organ
ization. has. issued it's official appeal to
the American public for tho return OF
a Democratic Congress to firmly back
UP President Wilson and his war ad :
min nistration.
The Democratic policy in the ap-
preaching senatorial and congressional
elections. and the keynote issues upon
which the party's candidates will go
before the voters are detailed in "A
hftv-page campaign textbook. prepared
under the joint direction Of the Demo
cratic National Committee and the
Democratic Congressional Committee
Help Wilson Win the War" is the
slogan adopted by the party managers
The Republican appeals of McKinlcy's
day arc as appropriate now as they
we're then. the Democrats contend. and
the arguments then used may row bc
applied with equal force in support OF
the election of n Democratic Congress
10 hold up the hands OF President Will
son. Commenting OF this aspect of the
issues. the textbook says:
IN past wars the people of America
invarianly have stood by the party in
nowcr during the heat of the conflict.
\ They supported Lincoln in the irving
days Of the War Between the states in
response to his historic appeal not to
swap horses while crossing n river
they supported Mckinley during the
/ SPANS sh-American war and ,hev viii
support Wilson during this grcatcs, of
An analysis or the Textbooks show c
mat the Democrats will base their re-
naming PRINCIPAL arguments upon
three general subjects which ,n.r -
summarized as follows:
nc prcwar period Tho great ma :
inonai achievements accomplished dur
ing INC Presidents first term are cs
sentially der. ocra,ic. Those Of ,hc
present and next two and n half yearas
are pound to be tho same as tho cy
ecn.ive branch Of the government win
den, WtiI.e unoer the guidance OF Presi-
Muson. regardless Of the outcome
o' 'nIS years congressional electtons
nend me present war period. The stu
es'hoIt cd hv ,hd tasks now being daily perform
y! lhe ADMINISTRATION have ma stnrod
"a ne war problems and arc heinz w,,ni,
u ~" win grateful appreciation ana
th'uermsnt tho nan,s by the civilized nations of
s,S;,,TIhe >; The postwar period. The rosno,
the 1thln'r1,,es nra and duties of tho nation In
will be rnm,,in;i cir,;Sisi as grca. as they arc.
DeInocratic constructive record of ,nc ho
past pa siS years. both in peace and ,,ar ,ne
o"si ..S, IN. me most to the people
HtraiSht out America nisn aud ,o,.
,h'S 70 inc government is declared "a
10 ,hn onershadowinG issue presented
DEItAHE UNITY Or ACTION
IS VITALITY ESSENTIAL
Declaring that unity of ,c,ion a,
asniheton Is as vitality csscntiaI n
VIC success or tho war as unity OF com,
nand on f:uropc's battle fields SIM
norttrs OF the administration are urged
70 conduct an aggressive and activc
can1 paiEn Tor tho election OF Senators
anu ,tonEressmen who will not only
!oyally support the President in the
prosecution of the war but ali who
arc IN fully sympathetic accord win
ms policies in both peace and war.
CONSPICUOUS position is given in
i,emocratic document to Theodore
kooSevelts appeal for the re- collection
nl Mckinley in lS9s-durinc the Span-
ish-AmeTican War. when the Colonel
vas candidate for Governor of New
York: unon which occasion he is quoted
as having said: "Ecmembcr that
whether YOU will or not. your votes this
year VIII he viewed by the nations of
Europc from one standpaint only They
VIII draw no fine distinctions 4 re-
fusal to sustain the President this year
Will in their eyes be read as a refusal
= to sustain tho war and 10 sustain the
: efforts of our peace commission to Sc
cure the fruits of tho war. Such n
refusal may not inconceivably bring
about a rupture of the peace negotia-
tons. 1t will give heart to our de-
feated antagonists: il will mako pos
sible the interference Of those doubt
ful neutral nations who in this strug-
gle have wished us ill