The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-03-03

voice in defense of that stolen Ohio
national delegation in 1919 before Sen.
ator Burton had chance to face the
audience and expound his record,
which consists primarily of voting ia
times with Senator Aldrich. Foraker,
even, was given preference to Senator
Burton, and when the latter arose to
speak, the audience, tired by several
hours of sitting in hard backed chairs,
was in great confusion, with hundreds
leaving the hall.
Shabby as was the treatment accord
ed Senator Burton, Congressman Fess
and Willis, the only Republicans who
have been pleading for a compromise
with the Progressive element in their
party, were treated with even less re-
spect Both we're tackled on to the
tail end of the speaking program, and
their words were heard by but few.
The day in Columbus did not lack in
producing other evidence that the as
semblage was "war-fest," not "love
feast" Here are some shots hurled
that no one will say were love taps:
Charles L. Thurber, secretary of the
Bull Moose state executive committee,
for many years Republican and form
er correspondence clerk to a former
Republican governor said
"The Republican meeting In Colum-
bus Thursday Is not getting together
of Republicans and Progressives, but
merely getting together of the old,
stand-pat Republican crowd that was
SO overwhelmingly repudiated at the
polls in 1912. Among their number are
a few men who espoused the Progress
sive cause in 1912, but In practically
every case their return to the Republi-
can fold was the result of disappoint-
ment in not landing appointments for
themselves or their friends"
Continuing, Thurber declared that
the Bull Moosers made it plain at their
Columbus conference, Jan. 3, and at
their Lincoln day banquet in Lima that
they are opposed to amalgamation with
the Republicans. "The rank and file
of the Progressive party are standing
firm for the principles adopted In their
national and state conventions in
1872" his statement concluded.
Senator Borah raped former Sena-
tor Beveridge, Bull Moose candidate
for vice president in 1912, and George
w. Perkins, the financial angel of
the Bull Moosers in that campaign.
Prosecutor Eddie Turner, of Frank
lin county, called Walter Brown, Pro-
gressive party leader who was an ac-
tive Republican when Turner was go
ing to school, a lobbyist and asserted
the Republicans ought to feel glad
they were rid of him.
Senator Burton told Harry M. Daugh-
erty, chairman of the Republican state
executive committee, and w. l.. Par
menter, of the state central commit
tee that he does not care for their sup
port.
Notwithstanding the advertisement
of such an event, there was no over
flow meeting, despite the fact that hun
dreds OF admission tickets were dis
tributed free to persons in the lobies
of the downtown hotels.
Immediately after the adjournment
of the meeting, H. Il. Mengert, the
Columbus Cincinnati Enquirer cores
pondent, wired the following obserya-
tions to his paper;
"pjectlng national issues into the
equation he (Senator Borah) asserted
that the executive control of which his
fellow partisans had complained as
being the crying evil of the state gov
ernment and the inevitable issue of
the Buckeye campaign, was not less
marked in Washington. In word, he
accused President Woodrow Wilson of
having taken TO himself the control of
legislation just as the other speakers,
including ID. Meade Massie. Of Chilli
cothe, charged that Governor Cox had
done in the state"
with the holdness for which he is
well noted Senator Foraker broadened
Tue scope Of the political issues in OHIO
when he attacked the Mexican policy
of President Wilson and challenged his
position with respect to Panama can
nj tolls. Giving the President credit
for constant activity he said Il don't
like anything he does on the job
Never In tine history Of American
diplomacy has so Pussilanimous' a
been made hy an American
President as that Americans In Mexi-
co should come home
"Toastmaster Kerr read letters and
kilograms from absent leaders. He
likewise brought out the greatest oya-
tion of the day when he referred TO
Hanna and Foraker as the
greatest triumvir Ohio Republicans
have over had i'm thp Senate" "