Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1918 — NEW YORK WORLD AGAINST WILSON [ARTICLE]

NEW YORK WORLD AGAINST WILSON

LEADING DEMOCRATIC PAPERS CRITICISE PRESIDENT’S PARTISAN PLEA.

The New York World, most powerful Democratic newspaper in the United States, in an editorial frankly admitted that President Wilson’s action in appealing for a Democratic congress was a mistake. “It is not surprising that Republicans vigorously criticise the President’s appeal for the election of a Democratic congress,” says the World. “His argument is powerful in all its bearings, but he is hot the man who should have made it Others have said in his behalf all that he now says for himself in an unexampled way, and, we believe, with much greater probability of influencing public thought in the right direction. It is one thing for orators and newspapers to say in time of war that the result of an election may be construed as a repudiation of the President. ' It is something emphatically different when the President himself so pronounces it.”. • The New York Times, independent, seriously questions the wisdom of the President’s statement. The (Times supported President Wilson in 1916. The other New York papers, including the Sun, Tribune and Herald, flay the statement from al Jangles. Cincinnati Enquirer We are strongly, enthusiastically, consistently for the loyal support of the present administration. We believe that an honest difference of opinion, represented either by individuals or great political parties, is, has been and always will continue to be the saving grace of this nation. We are firmly convinced, that when any grave question arises which involves patriotism, selfish partisan feeling will always be swept aside by the American people, as it has been during the war, and a solid front presente dto any and ever yenemy. President Wilson’s plea for support of the candidates of his party as a pledge of support of 'himself is ill-timed and ill-advised, if, indeed, advice was asked or received. AH America is supporting the administration regardless of politics. We believe that such support will still be accorded the President the outcome of the Whether they are .Democrats or Rpublicans, we believe in placing Americans and Americans only on guard. That is the test that should be applied to every man’s candidacy.