Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1918 — STAND BY THE PRESIDENT. [ARTICLE]

STAND BY THE PRESIDENT.

Democratic politicians everywhere are crying stand by President Wilsonr They say the only way to do this is to elect Democratic congressmen. Is that the fact? What about the suffrage vote in the United States Senate Tuesday? President Wilson went before that body and urged the senate to pass the suffrage resolution. He wrote personal leters to Democratic senators urging them to support the measure. The vote stood: For—Democrats, 26; Republicans, 27. Against—Democrats, 21, and Republicans, 10. Indiana’s two Republican senators, Harry S. New and James E. Watson, voted f.or the measure'.