New-York tribune., 1920-02-21

CURED to register once a year, Qt
designated Offices, while they remain
IL. the country without becoming
citizens. The question of immigra
administration that will lead to the
exclusion of undesirable persons
and promote the proper distribution
and quick assimilation Of those
able-bodied and clcan-minded men
and women who come to America 10
seek new opportunity for usefulness.
with determination to be loyal TO
the government and institutions Of
the United States.
Party Stands Firm
On Its War Record
REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE
VAR: The Republican party NAV
take the greatest satisfaction in its
record during the war. While wc
should have welcomed action by the
President which would have climi-
mated all questions OF party policy
in the conduct of the war and in
the conclusion of the terms Of peace.
nevertheless we gave willing and
patriotic cooperation in every effort
to carry on the war to triumphant
success.
The Republicans in Congress made
the winning of the war possible
by providing both the leadership
ana the necessary votes to pass the
original selectve draft act and its
supplementary legislation. Without
this act. which was vigorously on
posed by the Speaker, the majority
leader and the chairman Of the Com.
mittcc on Military Affairs Of the
Democratic House Of Representatives.
we could not have raised. trained
and landed in France the great
armies which finally assured victory
over the German Empire and its
allies.
No appropriations, however extrav-
agant, and no schemes Of taxation,
however novel and burdensome to
industry and enterprise, have been
opposed by Republicans when urged
by the President as necessary to Win
the war. We have given patriotic
and uAstintcd support under every
possible encouragement from an au-
tOcratic, narrow minded and purely
partisan Administration.
The United States alone. Of all the
countries at war, presented the spec
tacle of an opposition party having
the support of at least one-half Of
the electorate, deprived of all share
In the conduct of the war and in for
mulatng the terms Of peace.
Democratic Majority
In Senate Overturned
When, on October "a, 1918, the
President appealed to the country to
return Democratic majority to
both the. Senate and the House of
representatives, he assured the peo-
pie that he was their servant and
would accept their judgment without
cavil
He insisted that conditions made it
lmperatively necessary for the ma
ton to give its undivided support to
the government under unified
leadership, which was his own.
In response to this appeal the
people, by an immense ma jority of
the popular vote, returned a large
Republican majority to the House Of
representatives and overturned the
DEMOCRATIC majority in the Senate.
Still the President persisted in his
partisan course. Both in his conduct
of the peace negotiations abroad and
in his advocacy here at home of the
ratification by the Senate Of his own
lndlvldual work, he has assumed a
purely personal and partisan attitude.
He has forced the Republican party
to take an attitude Of sharp opposi-
ton to his recommendations In order
to protect the independence and to
promote the highest interests of the
people of the United States, as we'll
as to open the way to the adoption
Of real, instead Of an illusory. plan
for securing the peace of the world.
We shall appeal to the people to
support policy of liberal and con-
structlve progress both at home and
abroad. one which will secure in
ternatlonal cooperation for the pre-
vention Of war and the reduction of
armaments without sacrificing love
OF country and American ideals to a
false and harmful form of interna-
tionalism.