The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05
SHOT AT C. 0. P,
]. "Ham" Lewis Opens Up Walls
of Campaign Oratory.
Reply to Hughes Puts Mexican
Blame on Republicans.

Washington, Aug. Son the heads
of the generals of the Republican
party lies the responsibility for lives
lost in Mexico, Democratic Whip
Lewis charged today in the senate
speech.
Lewis announced his speech as an
answer to the Mexican issue raised by
Charles E. Hughes in his acceptance
speech.
He declared that irresponsible Mex
lean bandits had become encouraged
to commit acts of horror because Re-
publican leaders. in their anxiety to
embarrass the president and create
campaign issue, had given the impress
sion that the country was not united
in support of it's executive head.
Here this day. L put the response
tility for the death of every American
soldier killed on the border of Mexico
in 1916 upon the heads of the generals
OF the Republican party" Lewis de-
clared. Il charge that not until the
captains of the Republican party shot
at the president of the United States
did the Mexican outlaws shoot at the
soldiers of the American president"
Mexico, Political Issue.
The Mexican issue, he asserted, had
been picked up for purposes of ex-
made the favorite Republican doc
trine. the tariff. impracticable.
1.-The cry has gone forth, Mexico is
the issue the issue, mind you. Not
that there is a principle to be vindi-
Gated, justice to be asserted. No, but
that Mexico is to be the political
issue
The army is summoned-the mer-
cenary, the concessionaire. the Euro
pean bondholder. the mining bucca-
neers, the land pirates. the pillagers
of the poems, the oppressors of Hbsr-
tv. and all fhiS DroeeSs{op of bloody
furnished votaries led by the Repub
lican nominee. Charles Evans Hughes.
Mr.. Hughes declares that Wilson
had nothing to do with the morals of
HuerEa, that it was the obligation of
diplomacy to recognize him. With
the numbering Borgias. Hughes would
exclaim: Stand, not on morals, but
on power-'tis bloody but hath re-
wards"
Huerta having been eliminated, peace
could have been restored with either
Villa or Carranza at the governments
head. Lewis said. had not American
financial forces and Republican lead
ers determined to keep boiling the pot
of Mexican disorders.
But by a false display of the ma
tons sentiment toward Mexico" he
continued, the Republican masters
throat to feel privileged to assail
whatever represented Wilson or his
policy. These knew they would have
the support of a great party in Amer
lea which for years had been success
full in electing presidents. Thus II was
that just a month after Senator Root
had struck his keynote of opposition
to Democratic president the murder
ers dashed into Columbus, n. NJ.
Allies of Villa.
1.-The bandits of Villa found their
allies in the leaders of the Republican
party. All were for the destruction
of an American policy and American
president. By the doctrine of the law
which holds responsible those who set
IN motion the machinery which ends
in the murder of a man. the Republi-
can platform builders who denounced
their president were the perpetrators
of the death of these Americans. When
they shot at the president of tn Unit
ed States they summoned also the out
laws of Villa and Carranza to kill his
soldiers"