The Omaha ' Daily Bee
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VOL. 48. NO. 118.
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OMAHA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1918.
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' TWO CENTS.
NOMGOTIA TED
PEACE DECLARES
TAFT IN ADDRESS
Ex-President of United States Urges Election of Re
publican Congressmen as Check Upon Weak
Political Policy of Wilson in Treating With
Huns; Cites Instances From History.
NEW GOLD STAB ADDED TO
OMAHA SERVICE FLAG.
in deep anxiety lest the president
would attempt to close the bargain
then, and assume to bind the United
States and the allies to that which
must be a negotiated peace in the
interval following this German
answer. There came a ground
swell of protest from the American
people thit penetrated the seclusion
of the White House and compelled
i halt.
Fear Public Opinion.
"As in the case of sending Per
shing and the first divisions to
France, as in the case of the trans
portation of our 2.000.000 to France,
as in the case of delegation of suf
ficient authority to competent
trained and executive subordinates,
as in the-case of the second draft,
opinion pushed the administration
into a reply to the German note
which it wa-s hoped would be such
as to make further acceptance by
that nation impossible.
"But the German and Austrian
governments, anxious for peace,
held on to the 14 points of January
8, with all the tenacity of a puppy
pulling at a root. The president has
now retreated from the position in
dicated in his first note and has
transferred responsibility of an
arT,,:stice to the military authorities
Portsmouth, N. H., Nov. 1. The unconditional surren
der of Germany was demanded and the election of republi
can congressmen and senators was urged as a check upon
"peace negotiation" and post-war mistakes, by former
President W. H. Taft in an address here tonight.
The former president derided President Wilson's state
ment that the election of a republican majority in either
house would indicate a lack of confidence abroad in his
prosecution of the war.
"This Aar has not been fought by
the president only; it has not been
fought by the secretary of war only;
'.t has riot been fought by our armies
ilone; this war is the war of the
. lolid American nation," said Mr.
Taft.
"It is theni, and their growing in
tensity and indignation, soul-stirring
unanimity in the spirit of sacri
fice, who have carried this war, so
far as the United States is con
cerned, to its present satisfactory
itage.
"Will a democratic congress be
more likely really to help than a re
publican congress? How can we
judge? Only by what the demo
cratic majority has done in this war
in congress, and what the repub
lican minority has done. Which in
view of its record in the present
congress is more likely to stand
back of the president effectively for
the winning of the war and holding
him to an unconditional surrender:
Republicans Greatest Aid.
"The example of Lincoln in call
ing his political opponents, who
sympathised with the war, into his
councils, was specifically rejected
and a course pursued which justified
the statement that never in peace or
war have we had a more partisan
administration than during this crit
ical period in the nation's life.
"The republican party was repre
sented only by the republican min
ority in the houss.and the republican
minority in the senate; the members
of that minority have been moved in
their concerted action by no parti
tan purpose. The country owe
much to them for the stimulus to
better war preparation by forcing
public attention upon its defects.
Without them and their votes and
the leadership of such men as Julius
Kahn. the house draft act would
have failed and jhe raising of our
armies would have been impossible.
What we have had of the demo
cratic majority and its leaders is a
fair basis for judging what we may
xpect of another democratic major
ity if that be the result.
"With the lessons of the past be
for the people of the United
States, how can there be any hesita
tion about returning a republican
majority to each house so far as
the war is concerned and maintain
ing the proper fighting trim of our
gallant armies?
"Unconditional Surrender."
"Second, I have already said the
war is likely soon to end, even
though we demand, as we must de
mand, an unconditional surrender,
and then will come the terms of
peace which are to be settled by the
president and two-thirds of the sen
ile, but which should be much influ
enced before their final formal ac
ceptance by the attitude of the
house of representatives, for that
house must play an important part
in performing such obligations as
the United States will assume in
the treaty of peace.
"In order that the treaty of peace
may be what it should, we must
have unconditional surrender.
"To achieve this object uncondi
tional surrender is indispensable.
A peace by negotiation with a crim
inal like Germany is utterly at var
iance with the high purpose of the
allied powers in this war. It is not
unfair to the administration ta say
that it has always been in favor of
a settlement of this war by negotia
tion between the powers. This was
its position before we entered the
war, when the president proclaim
ed a just settlement of the war to be
"peace without victory," announced
that we were not concerned with
its terms, and called upon the belli
gerent powers to state their terms,
with a view of a settlement through
open diplomacy after we had en
tered the war, the same idea of
peace by negotiation and open di
plomacy seemed to persist.
Negotiations Invited.
"Without consulting the allies,
without any conference with the co
ordinate branch of the government
entrusted by the constitution in the
making with him of treaties, the
president, in the first German note,
containing three queries intended to
test the sincerity of the German
proposals. It was not unnatural
for the Germans to interpret these
queries as an implied intimation that
if the queries were satisfactorily an
swered the proposal of the Ger
mans would be accepted and a peace
made on the basis of the message of
January 8.
"The Germans promptly made as
full and complete answer as the
writer of note of inquiry could
fairly have asked. The heart of the
great American people stooa
LINUS L. WALTERS.
Killed in Action.
Word has been received by Mrs.
I. C. Walters, 543 South Twenty
fourth avenue, of the death of her
son, Linus L. Walters, who was
killed in action in France on Oc
tober 4. Young Walters was em
ployed by the Union Pacific railway
before the war, and enlisted on
August 4. 1917, with the One Hun
dred Thirty-fourth Nebraska in
fantry and was later transferred to
the Fifty-eighth infantry. He. sailed
for France on June 28, and was
18 years of age at the time of his
death.
LJoyd Walters, a brother of Linus,
who is in Camp Lee, Virginia, has
heen sick with the Spanish influenza,
but is reported better.
in the field and terms of peace to a
council of all the allied powers.
"This he should have done in the
first place. In a very few short sen
tences the president, answering the
first German note, might have
expressed the solid will of the
American people by demanding an
unconditoinal surrender, but he has
not done so. Until he does, the
American people .will not be re
lieved of the concern we now feel
deeply.
Meantime we have not heard the
(Continued on Tagc Foortetn.)
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