The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-11-05
WILLIAMS DEFENSE
| OF PRESIDENT
| WILSON
MISSISSIPPI SENATOR MAKES wa
oRous SPEECH IN pENouNc-
ING cuMMINs.
Tired OF CHEAP TACTICS
Challenged Republicans To Cite Single
Bit of Evidence to Uphold State
! ment. That Patronage is Misused by
Chief Executive.
TIRED OF CHEAP TACTICS
(By F. d. Lander, Jr.)

(By F. d. Lander, Jr.)
Washington, D. c., Nov. 5.-The at
tempt of Republican senators to make
political capital out of the interest
President Wilson is taking in congress
sional legislation, was the occasion Of
a defensive outburst on the part Of
Senator John Sharp Williams Of Mis-
sissippi Monday that resulted in one
of the most vigorous and convincing
speeches he has made in his long con-
gressional career.
Senator Williams threw down the
gauntlet at the feet of Senator Cum
minis and other republicans who have
been pursuing these cheap tactics for
the past few weeks, and declared he
was tired of them. He challenged
the Republicans to cite single bit Of
evidence to uphold their statements
that the patronage power of the Gov
ernment is being misused by the Pres
ident, and said if there is any criti.
cism to be made of President wilson's
patronage course, it Is that he has ap-
pointed too many people who are not
Democrats,
He paid the President a glowing
tribute, comparing him with NO man
since Thomas jefferson in scholarship
and learning.
Senator Williams spoke following
Senator Cummins, and said:
''Mr. President, think it would be
sad day for the American Republic
If ever the executive, Legislative and
judicial powers were merged in one,
but deny that under this administers
ton there has been any merging of
them, any desire to merge them, or
any tendency to merge them.
"Any Senator has a right, whether
. upon the stump or upon, the floor Of
this chamber, to criticfse the Presi.
dent of the United States and to crit
sise him with precisely the same lin.
its he has & right to criticise other
people--the limits of truth and fair.
a ness and justice. The right to oriti-
:, else no man. whether President or he'd,
arrier, goes farther than that nor does
y it go farther anywhere where man
T. can state his opinion.
"The Senator from Iowa. a Mr., Cum
,s Minis, said he had arraigned the ten
dency' of the Executive to invade the
- legislative departments of the Govern
:. ment while speaking in New Jersey
!. but If the language here in quotation
- be correct-and of that, of course,
:. know nothing because l was not pres
ent-that is not a correct description
of what the Senator from Iowa did sa
on that occasion. The language rt
10 ported to have been used by the Ser
ator from Iowa is this:
+sa There is no moral difference
tho mark the use of the word moral
an. there is no moral difference betwee
,rs' the act of Huerta, President of th
ion Mexican Republic, who caused the in
,ng prisonment of members of Congre.
kel- who failed to repeal resolpti(
t. which he wanted repealed.
,du- acts of President Wilson ra
of the passage of the preseLs ta
led THE Senator this morning says,
sity justification of it, to use his own la
r of guage:
eral L would just as soon have my "
overcome by a soldier as in any, 9th
way
/. "Is this within the bounds of just
and fairness and truth? Where Is
mer- man who has had his will overcor
here by the President OF the United Stat'
Bar How has the President of the Uni
esen- States induced any man to do a
J and thing except by appealing to his rea
1. c.. or to his party loyalty?
er an Il do not blame the Senator fl
Zane Iowa for being a. little bitter tow
re E- the President of the United Sta
o. to upon the stump in campaign. L
being see how perhaps the only thing
ne OF could have done was to 60 clear
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