Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-14
ATTACK ON PRESIDENT
BRINGS QUICK DEFENSE
Williams Replies to Partisan Filings
Made by Cummins and Borah
In Senate.
CAN'T "BEFOOZLE" THE PEOPLE
Mississippi Senator Foresees Renomi-
nation and Reelection OF Wilson.
Borah Claims He Prefers Party
Politics to Welfare of Country.

WASHINGTON. January l3.-An at
tack on President Wilson'S use Of his
constitutional powers. criticism and
support of his Mexican policy and no.
iitical specchraakinS mingled to-day
IN Senate discussion of Senator Cum
minss resolution asking what the
United States intends to do with the
taxes collected during the occupation
Of Vera Cruz.
John Sharp Williams, defending the
administration, said 1t was we'll known
the money was to be turned over to
any government In Mexico eventually
recognized.
You cannot embarrass the admins
tration nor befoozle the American peo-
pie with any such resolution" said he.
launching into n defense of the Presi-
dents policy. He declared IL "a GER
tain American had been in the White
House. there would have been stern
messages to Congress climaxed with
Come on boys. charge!
WILLIAMS FORECASTS
WILSON'S REELECTION
Woodrow Wilson will be renomi-
mated for tho presidency" said Sena-
tor Williams, and reelected. not as
minority, but as a majority candi-
date. This is SO because the Ameri-
can people have found him not only
good enough to take tho place OF men
about whom they were quarrellng, but
also good enough to stand In his own
stead"
Senator Cummins insisted that Con-
gress, not the President. should decide
what shall become of the Vera Cruz
money. and then, paying tribute to
President Wilson'S integrity and abil-
ity, added:
II am simply objecting to his posi-
ton that he is trying to run the United
States. 1t appears in every uttcrance
that falls from his lips. He assumes
that under the Constitution he Is the
final arbiter of all these things. ! have
no doubt he assumes 1t with perfect
honesty and with the most careful con-
stderation, and, knowing this, he prob
ably believes he may dispose Of this
money, and the Senator from Missis-
sippi seems to agree with him"
Senator Borah assailed the Presi-
dents indianapolis speech. character
zing IT as an admission by the Presi-
dent that he had arrived at the con-
clusion that he preferred to be the
icduel pl his party, Tatner IMAM Inc
chief executive OF the whole people.
II wish to quote the most significant
statement ever made by President
with regard to Il coordinate branch OF
the government" he said. II quote
the Presidents statement as follows:
III any group OF men should dare
to break the solidarity OF the Demo-
cratic team for any purpose or from
nj fIya ,,,jl ho
enviable notoriety and n responsibility
which will bring deep bitterness to
them
The President did not say for any
evil purpose or an unwise principle,
but for any purpose or any reason.
Such is the sole and central principle
upon which any corrupt political ma
chine was ever organized or put into
existence"
To refutc the Presidents statement
that the Republican party had not had
q new Idea in thirty years, Senator
Borah instanced the Sherman antitrust
law, the interstate commerce, parcel
post. postal savings, pure food and d.
rect election OF Senators acts.
The cost OF living on August /, 1914,
he said. was higher than at any other
time In the countrys history, yet, no
declared. an emergency war tax bill
had exacted $'oo.000.0O5 additional from
the people.
THINKS VERA CRUZ POLICY
MEANS FUTURE TROUBLE
Attacking the Presidents Mexican
policy at length. Mr.. Borah declared
that one result OF taking Vera Cruz
was notification to foreign powers to
keep hands or. which, he insisted,
would bring trouble in tho future, be-
cause this government had assumed
moral, II not legal responsibility for
foreign citizens In Mexico.
Insisting that tho time had come
when American citizens In Mexico
should bo protected the Senator as
serted that mo nation ever retains re-
spect among other nations which will
not protect Its citizens and Its women
from murder and ravishmcnt upon her
very doorstep.
II believe that had We exertcd tho
same Influences against tho other fac
tions In Mexico we did against Huerta
we would have restored ordorm