Fergus County Democrat., 1916-10-05

gentlemen who spell their name with
capital are keeping. They are engaged
IN the interesting enterprise of trying
to capture party which is fortified
against them, and refusing to enter
party which is already captured
by those who believe in their princi
pies. the intellectual processes by
which they arrive at their conclusions
are entirely obscured to my intelli
gence.
But you will notice that party
that merely wants control does not
nave to have any principles. That is
the reason why surprise that pro-
gram has not been announced is un-
reasonable. Look over the ranks of
the supporters of the republican party.
DID you ever see more motley com
pany in your life? Did you ever see
elements SO absolutely contradictory
OF each other as the elements of the
party? II they moved in any direction.
they would have to move in many di.
rections; and ii / am trying to get in
power by the support of people that
do not agree with one another it is
very dangerous for me to profess my
own opinion.
"Back of that party are those who
want to inject into our politics the
policies of Europe. Some want to in
ject those policies in order to move
in one direction and others want to
inject them in order to move in ex-
actly the opposite direction. Under
these circumstances it is not wise to
announce your direction. Some of
them are progressives or were, and
profess themselves dissatisfied with
the present leadership and guidance
Iof the party, and others are so we'll
satisfied with it that they are afraid
that the entrance of this new element
will disturb some OF their favorite
plans and SO, looking at each other
with suspicion, they have only one en-.
thusiasm, and that is the enthusiasm
TO get in | see in my minds eve,
this great motley company enthusi.
astically united in a great drive for
possession.
'One thing has become evident, not
because it is Enthusiastically implicit in
nothing has been explicitly stated, but
because it is unmistakabl yimplicit in
almost everything that has been said
Am ! not right that we must draw
the conclusion that If the republican
rarty is put into power at the next
election, our foreign policy will be
radically changed? l cannot draw anv
other intelligence. All our present for.
eign policy is wrong, they say, and
| ii 1t is wrong and they are men OF
conscience, they must change It, and
III they are going to change it, in what
direction are they going to change it,
ss'Thnr0 ia nn1v oy,n oh n{,,c -
peace, and that is war. Some Of the
supporters OF that party, very great
body Of the supporters of that party,
outspokenly declare that they want
war, SO that the certain prospect OF
success of the republican party is that
we shall be drawn in one form or an.
other into the ENVIRONMENTS of the
European awr, and that south of us
the force of the United States will be
used to produce in Mexico the kind of
law and order which some American
investors in Mexico consider most to
their advantage.
| II do not find that anybody else's
counsel is taken in respect Of the
policy that this country should pursue
with regard to Mexico, except those
who have hitherto acted as the coun.
sellors for the vested interests in Mex,
lea. The whole country is acquainted
with the gentlemen who have been
consulted. There is no concealment
even by themselves, whose attorneys
they are. They have talked to me.
know exactly what they want. l have
declined to give it to them and now
they are going where they think they
can get it. And there is every indica
tion that their calculation is well
founded
There is a more serious aspect
even than that. From this time until
the seventh of November is going to
be very impossible for the administra
tion to handle any critical matter con
cerning our foreign relations because
all our foreign statesmen are waiting
to see which way the election goes
and in the meantime they know thai
settlements will be inconclusive.
"The conference which is being held
with regard to Mexican affairs is EN-
barrassed every day by the apparent
evidence which is being produced that
hostility to Mexico is bein gtrade upon
by one of the great political parties
these gentlemen may reconcile these
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