Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-22
APPEALS TO. VOTERS TO SKATER
 WILSON'S DREAM OF ACCOMPLISHMENT
A Reply to tho President.

CTS. Witn nm IS drrogantly charged with substituting Prussia for America. Those who disagree, with him are guilty of 'falsehood'' or gross ignorance and 'impudent audacity"
 This is the tolerant state of mind we find sending forth it's sweeping indict- ment. from the white house at Washing ton. This is the temp slte, tolerant ex- ecutiye who pleads for the unbridled e1- ercise of power in shaping our destiny.
 This is the mind and the viewpoint with which MT. Cox finds himself in en- tire accord
 The president concludes his recent statement regarding political issues that there is nothing in the covenant of the league of nations which impairs the right of congress to declare war according to it's own independent judgment as our | Constitution provides.
 But he forgets to state that we are | asked to sign a contract which in hon or binds us to abide by the decision of a | foreign body, and that once that body | declares. for war the American congress | has the unhapy choice of obeying its or ders or repudiating an obligation i'm l posed by a contract to which the Amer | tcan government Las been made a par | ty.
 No. Mir. President, the American peo- 1 pie are still titcir own "unembarrassed 1 spokesmen" and they refuse to surrender
 that privilege to a foreign council any where at aIy time
 Did the Democrats win the War:
 But the presidents message is no more 1 startling than the democratic text book On page 1s4 they make the amazing dec
 laraticn that "the democratic admins | tration won the war"
 The democratic administration had no
 more to do with winning the World war
 than it had to do with winning the Civil war.
 In the midst of the Civil war when the
 nations life was hanging in the balance.
 1t cheered the enemies of the republic by ennoancing that he war for the preser-
 walton Of the Union was a failure
 From the hour the pen of a republican
 senator-Ph,lsnoer c. l<nox-put in h-
 nal form, the resolution through which we
 declared the existence of state of war
 with Germany to the hour the arniistice
 was signed. the republicans of America
 front the cabln nome to the capitol wrote
 one of the most glorious pages of unsel- fish sac ,,c an1 devotion to country
 that ever tdorneE a nations history.
 Tel the sturdy Etigians. led by the
 heroic figure of Albert and the saintly figure of Mercier as they fought. amid ? their burning n1lnes that the democratic
 party won the war and hear ye their re- ply
 | T 1etl lRe neTclC men NhO Eetl DY -fne
 millions under British colors tell the ] Irish, the Scotch. and the canaiians. } and their companion heroes who fought
 side by side. that the democratic party won the war, and near ye their reply. . Tell the daring itrocs of Italy who hled amid t,le snows and fought amid the clouds tha- the democratic party won the war and hear ye their reply Tel the Blue Devils of France who - H-I [ of Paris ald In Inc blood stained hills ol ) Nerdun. ele ctrffied the world with thu : watcnword They shall not pass :" Tel l them tha- the democratic party won tn,
 war and hear ye their reply.
 Tell the millions ot Americans vh, sold and saved and borrowed to buy say ings stamps and Liberty bonds to mee a their nations needs tell the Salvation 4 Army. the '. N. C. A. the Y. Nj. H. A. the Knights of Columbus. and the. mil l. lions of white aproned angels of mere,
 who under the banner of the red eros - toiled at home or bound up the wound t of our boys at the front; tell the boy 1T who died of disease and neglect in tn s rotten camps, and those who died lik
 heroes 5,00e miles from home in the un e form of the American soldier-turnin a the tide. of battle in the most critics Y hour of all tragic hours of hstory-te s them it was not they but the denocrati if party won the war and Ged of Justic ,e hear ye their reply.
 And yet my countrymen. that is or 1 of the claims by which the most braze # party in history seeks to perpetuate i = self with your approval.
 .r In the name of the living and th in dead repudiate that claim and condem r. the party that attempts to bring a hol o- cause to such purpose
 Tell the republican party in the co, 1t trol of the American congress. tell u " distinguished Pennsylvania senator, M Id Knox, whose pen put in legal and fin of form the resolution by which the exis
 ence of a state of war with German ie was first declared. Tell Julius Kahn to California, the republican leader on mi tn itary committee who took charge ar
 put through congress the army billSwh, ,h the democratic chairman refused to re his duty in the hour of the worlds De Id il Teil the republicans in both hou of of congress who voted forty billions DC dollars into the hands of Woodrow W he son and conferred upon him power u he equalled by any monarch in the world
 history-tell these men that the dem mt cratic party won. the war and hear of their reply. b. Tell Leonard Wood who did more re prepare us for real military service tn lis any living man. . Tell the. tn :ree gala
 sons of Theodore Roosevelt. who fro as the hour of enlistment to the hour tn nd one went to his death amid the skies, ( K emplifying the militant spirit of { gh greatest American since the days of l. Ike coln-ten the spirit. of Theodore Roo. nd welt that the democratic party won [ lg- war. and hear ye his reply.
 1e- Tell the hundreds. of crippled soldi, ad- in tn hos oitals and homes of Ameri i've tell the wives and mothers who bs
 their cross as 9) 900 esssges told he the death of their loved ones beyond ith seas-tell them that the democratic p to ty won the war and hear ye their rep i'm Tell the people of America who gre of ed with indignant protest Woodrow v te sons veiled offer to Germany 10 :br ow tke war Co ln end in a -ontemptible co promise and hear ye their reply nee And yet, my friends, we sre asked fly tfis campaign to sanction that Sta er- rrent by voting that party ittc power m- four more sears. The verdict of N, of enlbsr 2 lies between approval of u his statement or the vindication of cur SD i.f of Arnerican fair play. is' the Shall We re1roach the living and
 of suit the memory Of the dead. or shall ,rld do justice to them both and sanct,fy hat cause in which they made their. h hes sacrifcef
 his ,u-. s4.w--+ M.k ,. The first speaker of the evening W
 Miss Mary Stewart of New York, V o made an ardent appeal to the women
 Norwich to support the republican par , as history has shown that it is the pal .S5 of wisdom and that it is the party Il