Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1918 — FOE MUST SURRENDER OR FIGHT [ARTICLE]

FOE MUST SURRENDER OR FIGHT

IS EXPECTED TO BE WILSON’S REPLY TO LATEST GERMAN PEACE BID. Washington, Oct. 8. —The national capital waited patiently today for President Wilson’s reply to the Hun peace proposals. Officialdom and the diplomatic corps, having accepted the belief that the reply must be an unqualified rejection of an armistice anc a discussion of terms based on the President’s public utterances, confined itself to speculating whether the reply would make plain to the central powers 'exactly what guarantees are necessary before the United States and its allies will talk peace.

Unofficial Washington, the. man and woman in the street, was content to leave the whole affair in the hands of the President, and not speculate, being perfectly satisfied that the reply would uphold the honor and dignity of the nation. The President has been in consultation with London, Paris and Rome. The general outline of what he plans has been communicated to the governments there. They have been asked for statements of their positions. The decision in the present case, while that of President Wilson, will have the indorsement in every word, of the nations that are aiding 1 in the struggle to “make the world safe for democracy.*''