The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1915-01-07
Texas Governor Brands Wilson Regime
Greatest Failure

governor Coiquit oi leXas has made
public sighed statement in which he
aTalgnes the Wilson administration as
the greatest failure in the history Of
the presidency" and predicts the over
whelming defeat Of the national demec'
racy in 1916. Colquit retires from the
governorship January 18th, and is a
candidate for the democratic nomina'
ton to succeed Culberson in the SEN
ate. Following are some striking ex'
tracts from his statement:
The south has made one OF the
biggest and best crops in its history,
yet because Of the utter incompetence
Of the men in charge Of the govern
ment its business is pros,rated, it's
credit is impaired and thousands OF its
people are starving. The administra-
tion's foreign policy has been imbecile.
England stopped American cotton
shipments until the English spinners
bought their supply at 6 IL cents a
pound and stored it in Texas and other
southern warehouses. Our government
weakly submitted to England's dic,a'
ton, playing into the hands Of the
English spinners and betraying Amer
ican cotton growers as completely as
II the county were an English vassal
state.
III I had been president would
have served notice on England's pre-
mier that our foreign trade in cotton
and other con 'aband commodities
was going forward with or without
England's consent, and il necessary
I would have sent American ironclads
to England's door to enforce the notice.
The Wilson Bryan management Of
the Mexican affair has been an eyre
gious failure. They have stood by,
encouraging one gang Of bandits alter
another, while people were being
butchered all over Mexico aud while
the vast American interests in that
country were being coniiscated and
shot to pieces, and today the Mexican
chaos is worse than at any time since
Madero was sssassinated. Our gov
eminent has kep! England and Ger
many from restoring order in Mexico,
and has itself done nothing but con
tribute to the disorder and lawlessness
by their watching and waiting policy.
The propertied interests OF Mexico
and the big American exploiters OF
Mexican resources have got control OF
the situation absolutely, and these
same interests have got the ear Of our
government at Washington.
The administrations tariff lag vas
pledged to lower the cost C! living,
and has had the contrary effect. The
American farmer gets less for his raw
materials, the American workingman
pays more for the finished product,
and both are robbed 70 further enrich
the protected manufacturing trusts and
combines. The administrations anti
trust laws are bareiaced fakes, so far
as protecting the people from trust
oppression is concerned.
! am fully convinced the national
election Of 1916 will end the demo
cratic regime. The policies Of the
democratic national administration
have wholly failed either to curb
monopolies or to lower the cost OF
living for the people, and have ma
terially contributed to deprive millions
Of wage earners Of employment.
The administration valorized $20,'
100000, 600 worth Of corporate secur'
tiles owned in the north and east BY
a treasury department order to national
banks TO lend money on listed secur-
tiles at not less than the closing
quotations OF July 80, 1914. The
same administration, when asked to
allow the people to use a quarter Of a
billion dollars Of their collective credit
for two or three years to save them
selves from losing $500, 900 on
their cotton crop, regarded valorization
as violative Of sound government.
The president stood 10 the road
and condemned the south, which made
him, to heavier loss and more vide
spread misery than it has known in
three generations. He vindicsted an
obsolete theory Of political economy.
but he mighty near ruined the country
doing it,
While Scotland gave US John Muir,
America educated him and furnished
him the raw materials with which he
made his fame.
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