Bisbee daily review., 1914-01-29
DlSARMlNG CRITICISM
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 Some Republicans who are bent on continued criticism, are hard put for material with which to attack the Will son Administration. Until short time ago. they tried
 10 assai the tariff law by shouting calamity but they were so quickly rebuked by public opinion that they dropped the pan and the prosperous course of subse auent events has rooted them fore firmly in their silence While the currency bill pending there were oc. casiona outbursts but that bill was enacted into law it's merits compelling and were so widely acknovedsed, that the rabid of partisan Republ cans have ceased their growing
 It is because they without ammunition that the
 ype of the od-tashioned Republican politician like Gil. lett of Massachusetts feels his party loyalty is fad
 ing unless he attacks the Democrats every so oten has charged the Administrations Mexican policy as the only weak point in an otherwise impregnable position
 The character of Glets assault only emphasizes the forlorn conditoin of the Republicans He accuses MT. Bryan of rare oraorcal gifts an accusation which Mi Bryans friends will admit without rejoinder But when Mir Gillet intimates that the Wilson Administration re-
 fused to recognize Huerta merely to follow course op pose to that of the preceding administration he forgets the fact that Madero killed and Huerta had seized control of the Mexican government while Mir Taft was still President True it at the flag end of the Taft administration but there was plenty of time to have recognized uera and had President Taft been as pre- cpitate as his minister to Mexico recognition to Huerta would have been accorded It is credabe to Mir Taft that such action not taken and 1t makes Gietts aspersons as to the motives of President Wilson's a
 Jude the falsest and cheapest kind of Bourbon politics
 The Righteousness of President Wilson's Mexican pol icy has never been questioned sincerely And Mexican history since the midnight murder n, vaaono t l., creasinsiy vindcaed the wisdom of that policy The career or Huerta first and last present moment las shown him to be treacherous subordinate and an incompetent leader There is nothing to indicate that
 e would have as dictator of Mexico even if me wilson Administration had blinded itself to the hor TOT of his accession and recognized him as the const tionai head of the Mexican Government man has to be something than a skful traitor to his superor to be successful dictator Something more is headed than the formay of international recognition Mexico has had number of dictators-a century or more n, them-but alone of them could Diaz be called success Was Diaz power because other governments recognized him? He was power because he was a man of stupen dous ability possessing perhaps every quality that makes Tor supreme statesmanshp save that of real pa uosm He maintained his rule but at the price of the Mexican peoples impoyershment in lands ideals and ihe invaluable experience of selfgovernment Had he Teen patriot there been Washington on the ober side of the Rio Grande too Hut he was not-Diaz was only dictator
 i'uerta is the feeble echo of the Diaz Would our recognizion have saved Huera and restored tran quility to Mexico? It did not save Madero regularly elected President circumstance him in peace It did not save Diaz when impaired the strength that had Kept him in command It is the tawdriest kind of po tics that pretends that if had recognized Huerta MeSico today would be happily at peace and work Such an au, would be happily at peace and work Such an ,sE Y9Ylg ,Aye bsep compromise with assassinatioa jlnasse sgp F 9tYa! !ge.a PssAsase ipels end iess drdcult andp longer tenure of power might -aye been juertas, but that is all he would have gained had we acknowledged his bloody claims.