UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 November 1918, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

THE SENATE ELECTION. COUNTER APPEAL TO PRESIDENT'S BY TAFT AND ROOSEVELT. Received Nov. 1, 1Q.30 p.m. New York, Oct 31 Ex-Presidents Roosevelt and Taft have issued a joint appeal for the election of a Republican majority in Congress. They would have welcomed the elimination of all politics by the President, but instead, partisan lines had been most strictly drawn During the period of the next Congress the war must be fought to unconditional surrender and terms of peace must be settled. Democratic administration must give an account of its stewardship. Changes from Avar conditions to peace must be effected with the least disturbance, and the Republicans were better suited for this task than the Democrats. Peace terms will not lie settled by one man only, but by a two-thirds vote of the Senate. Americans are fighting against one-man control. Why allow it at home? President Wilson had indicated his readiness to make peace hy negotiation, but he did not demand what Americans wanted, namely, unconditional surrender. The exchange of notes with Germany, had caused deep concern lest they should concede to Germany peace around the council table instead of as. a sentence from a court. The eleven points were so vague in general that a peace based on t'heni would be no peace at all. The present Democrat majority was subservient in every way to the presidential will. President Wilson did not hesitate publicly to discipline those disagreeing with him. If the new Congress were merely a replica of the old in this respect, it would not he safe to trust 'such unlimited power in presidential N.Z. Cable- Assoc. AIRCRAFT SCANDALS uEPORT OP INQUIRY; Received Nov. 1, 0.30 p.m. Washington, Oct. 31. Mr. Charles Hughes' report on aircraft investigation does not reveal any glaring defalcations, hut it recommends a criminal prosecution of three officers for having dealings in business concerns while acting as Government officers; also a court-martial on the officer who is alleged to have acted as confidential adviser to former business associates.—Aus pZjffable.'AsMß.: f '•"•