“I am glad Wilson has come out in the open. I fear Judas most when he can cloak his activities behind the treacherous make-believe of nonpartisanship.”
— Former President Teddy Roosevelt, writing to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, a month before the 1918 off-year elections, after President Woodrow Wilson had given a speech advocating voting for the Democrats over Republicans in order to assure a compliant Congress.