The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-09-23
WITH WILSON IN THE FIGHT
REPUBLICANS ARE ELATED
Look Upon 1t AS Last Desperate At
tempt to Avert Landslide to Har-
ding and Coolidge.

ding and Coolidge.
Republicans in Congress are elated
over the prospect, as announced by
Democratic leaders, of injecting Pres
ident Wilson into the campaign in the
hope that he may stem the swiftly
rising tide of Democratic defeat.
Both the President and his pet
league of nations covenant have be-
come so unpopular, as evidenced by
the vote against them in Georgia, that
his active participation in the fight
for a pact which he has declared will
do more than anything else could do
to keep US out of war will complete
the impending overthrow of his own
party.
Hannis Taylor, former minister to
Spain, and one Of the leading author
tiles on the Constitution, says:
"The leaders at San Francisco who
fancied they had finally disposed of
Mr.. Wilson's ambitions and intrigues
for third term, now preceive that
they entirely underestimated his re-
sources. In Bulwer's play of Rich
elieu' the crafty old Cardinal at crit.
ical moment, when he was about to
be swept out of place and power, turn
ed to Joseph and said that the time
had arrived when we must piece out
the lions skin with the fox's.' At Just
such a moment Mr.. Wilson, with con-
summate holiness and craft, has baf-
fled his adversaries in the same way
by Selling upon the ostensible nomi-
nee and making of him his abject vas
sal and mouthpiece. The iron-bound
terms of the oath of fealty were re-
duced to writing, registered and pro-
claimed to the people on that fatal
Sunday morning before the guardians
of Governor Cox could save him from
the shirt of Nessus' now firmly fixed
upon him. Cold must be the heart
that has witnessed without pity his
desperate effort to escape from such
a situation through the ludricous out
cry just made in his speech of ac-
ceptance-l thank God l take up the
stand Democracy free man, unfet-
tered by promise.
"1f that be true, then, as a free
man, he has solemnly pledged himself
to drag us, as soon as he possibly
can, into the whirlpool of European
wars by a ratification of the unholy
and anti-American Wilson Covenant
which will force perpetual bond issues
from the treasury burdened already
to the breaking point and perpetual
conscription of American youths to
die upon foreign battlefelds in causes
not their own. The time has arrived
when all American patriots regard
less OF party-men and women, father
and mother-must stand together
for the protection of their firesides
against such deadly menace design
ed by Mr.. Wilson and now promoted
by Mr.. Cox"
Taylor continues:
Worn out by the excuses and il
LOCALITIES of the political Dictorship.
constructed upon the ruins of the
Presidency through a complicated net
work of war statutes entirely applica
bic to state of peace, the American
people now demand the immediate re-
peal of the same. They perfectly
understand that the real motive
for the absurd prolongation of a tech
meal state of war, for years after
1t has ceased to exist in fact, is to
enable the Executive Power to per
form many abnormal acts, under the
cover of war statutes, manifestly il
legal in time of peace. They resent
the grave and scandalous assaults up
on the sacred writ of habeas corpus
made by the Executive Power; the
harsh enforcement of un-American
sedltion laws generally regarded by
all calm and non-partisan jursts as
unconstitutional; the many violent
and lndefensible encroachments that
have been made upon our system of
representative government, and upon
the, right of freedom of speech. BY
such unbearable conditions, which are
rapidly undermining our entire fabric
of constitutional morality" we are
demolished that the time has arrived
for US to advance by falling back. Let
us return to the faith of our fathers:
let US re-establish the constitution as
they made it."