Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1916-04-28
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WILSON'S VACILLAT|0N
United Republican Party Need.
ed to Restore Self-Respect
and Honor TO U. S.


presented by Theodore E. Burton,
Ohios candidate for the Republican
nomination for the Presidency.
Mr.. Burton, who Is ex-United States
Senator from Ohio, spoke under the
auspices Of the Oregon Republican
Club. His address was essentially
political in its nature, but in view Of
the present difficulties confronting the
Nation 1t was touched throughout with
highly patriotic tone
The audience manifested its unequi-
vocal approval by a tremendous ova-
ton when he said:
AT times like this we are not Re-
publicans nor Democrats, Socialists or
Prohibitionists, we are American citi-
zens."
But Senator Burton was emphatic IN
his declaration that the very presence
Of these international complications
calls for firmness and experience in
handling the affairs of the Nation.
Under such conditions and under
such circumstances, he asserted, the
thoughts of the people instinctively
turn to the Republican party-the
party of experience, the party of capa-
bility, the party of accomplishment.
THE one fact more obvious than
any other in all the conflicting current
OF events" he said, "is that the pres
ent ignoble status of the United States
In relation to other countries has been
brought about by the halting, the va
cillation and the hesitancy Of the pres
ent Administration"
He then took up in detail discus
sion of the present Administrations
conduct Of international affairs. say
ing:
Now the President makes the most
extravagant speeches for prepared.
ness he says we must have the larg-
est Navy in the world; he says that no
man can tell what day or an hour
may bring forth. 1t was surely just as
obvious when the first gun was fired
in Europe that the United States must
be ready to protect itself as 1t is TO
day. There Is such thing as being
too late to prepare, but when danger
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