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LIKE
RIP VAN Wrinkle
SHERMAN AYERS
ILLINOIS SENATOR WANTS TO
KNOW IF WILSON HAS SLEPT
THIRTY YEARS.

THIRTY YEARS.
Indianapolis, Ind, Feb. 2-Senator
Sherman Of Illinois replied to Presi-
dent Wilson's recent Jackson day
speech here tonight in an address be-
fore the Indiana Republican Editorial
association. He arraigned the Presi-
dent and his administration, criticised
the work Of the present congress and
promised the country an early IRE
turn to prosperity" under Republican
rule and a restored protective tariff.
Quoting the Presidents declaration
that the Republican party had not
had a new idea in 80 years, the sen
ator asked:
"Where has this Rip Van Wrinkle
slept the last 80 years, who now rubs
his eyes and says the Republican
party has not had a new idea in all
that time? The great national stat
utes of 80 years have sprung from
the councils Of that party. He can
not distinguish between the morning
light of Republican sunrise of things
doing and done, and the dusk that is
falling on the Democracy"
"The President recently admitted
in Indianapolis" Senator Sherman
said at the outset, "that the Demo-
Gratis are a minority party and that
they are still on trial. The returns
Of the last November election indi-
cate that he is unable to distinguish
between a trial and a verdict against
the defendant"
Referring to President Wilson's
election "by a minority, when the
majority was divided, the senator
said:
eff three men be in a race and two
stop and quarrel, the third can walk
to the goal and win. But let not the
victor exult in his speed for he wo,,
! not on his own swiftness, but by the
quarrel of his adversarjes. The less
shall he invoke his deceptive strength
to justify legislation to which his ad-
~versaries sre both opposed. For,
when his adversaries shall see what
has been wrought by President Will
son, they will rise together and over
throw him.
"The President must and does as
sumo the responsibility for both the
legislative and executive acts of his
administration. Congress, until re-
Gently, has only registered his execu-
tive DEGREES. The first sign of legisla-
tive independence evokes q threat
against congress that disobedience t.
his orders will bring deep bitterness
to them.'
"These are not the words.of a con-
stitukional president, sworn to per.
form his duties. They are the lawlesl
ppeclanations of a man who has
thrown aside the o<der and procedure
of government by law and substituted
the unregulated will, of the arbitrary
d;and. accidental man.
"The president assaults the Unitee
States in language Che senators are
forbidden to use toward each ether
even in the acrimony of personal de.
hate. While his attack is on the Re:
publican minority it reaches all sena.
tors whs do not agree with him.
l"In dealing with men nothing Is
gained by peremptory orders 10 shut
up. This language may be used II
the Kindergarten. An executive WHIT
applies it to the United States senate
betrays his inability to craps the dit.
ference between an Independent leg.
islative power in the conduct Of hui.
man affairs and the absolute dominion
of his arbitrary impotence.
Cease your talking he says
You are misguided, blind; ignorant.
have settled everything. I hav,
cleared the decks He has said hov
the business of the country shall b.
done, how the PHILIPPINES shall b.
governed, how our water-powers shall
be handled, how the resources of tn
public domain imprisoned by excessive
conservation shall be unlocked, hov
the government freight boats shall b.
run by the government at a cost o
profit and then sold out to the minor
ity share holders or somebody els
and not be guilty of a subsidy con
demned by the Democratic party TO
half a century. He can do everything
except keep the deficit from stalking
through the treasury building.
"Still, the Republicans are ignoran
: and have not had a new idea in 8
years. Republican senators wer
elected by a direct vote Of the peopl
. /. in Connecticut, Vermont, New Hamr
shire, New York, Pennsylvania, OH,
Iowa, North Dakota, Kansas, Utal
Washington, Idaho and Illinois. Wh
should the chief magistrate stigma
, tie them as ignorant? They repre-
3 sent their constituents
/ Call the roll Of 80 yearsw cor
!, tinuedg Senator Sherman. 'Iabe
, punctuated only by the idleness I