The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-05
REPUBLICANS
AND MEX|CANs
Senator Lewis Says They Are
Pals and Are Fighting
Wilson Side by
Side.
AN ANSWER TO HUGHES
When Huerta was eliminated, Peace
Could Have Been Re
stored Very
Speedily.
AN ANSWER TO HUGHES

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-On the
heads OF the generals OF the re-
publican party lies the responsibility
for lives lost In Mexico. Democratic
Whip Lewis charged today in SEN
ate speech.
Lewis announced his speech as an
answer to the Mexican issue raised
by Charles E. Hughes in his accept
ance address.
Mexican bandits bad become encour-
cause republican leaders, in their
anxiety to embarrass the president
and create a campaign issue. had
given the Impression that the coun-
try was not united In support OF its
executive head.
Here this day, ! put the respon-
sibility for the death of every Ameri-
can soldier killed on the border OF
Mexico in 1916 upon the heads Of the
generals of the republican party"
Lewis declared. 81 charge that not
until the captains OF the republican
party shot at the president OF the
United States, did the Mexican out
laws shoot at the soldiers OF the
American president"
The Mexican Issue, he asserted, had
fbeen picked dp Tor purposes OF ex-
pediency, only after the prosperity
had made the favorite republican
doctrine. the tariff, impracticable.
"The cry has gone forth Mexico is
the issue The issue, mind you! Not
that there is 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 Europ-
can bond holder, the mining buccan-
neers, the land pirates, the pillagers
Of the poems, the oppressors of lib
erty; and all this procession of blood
tarnshed votaries led by the republi-
can nominee, Charles Evans Hughes.
''Mr. Hughes declares that Wilson
had nothing to do with the morals
of Huerta; 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 gov
ernment's head, Lewis said, had not
American financial forces and repub.
lcan leaders determined to keep
boiling the pot of Mexican disorders.
But by a false display of the ma
tons sentiment toward Mexico" he
continued, 1.-The republican masters
encouraged every outlaw and cut
throat to feel privileged to assaii
whatever represented Wilson or his
policy. These knew they would have
the support of great party in Amer
lea which for years had been success
full in electing presidents.
Thus it was that just a month
after Senator Root had struck his
keynote, his opposition of a demo-
cratic president, the murderers dash
ed into Columbus, N. NJ.
"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 law which holds
responsible those who set in motion
the machinery which ends in the muir
der of a man. the republican plat
form builders who denounced their
president, were the perpetrators Of
the death of these Americans. When
they shot at the president of the
United States they summoned also
the outlaws of Villa and Carranza to
kill his soldiers"