Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-16
SENATOR JAMES TRIBUTE.


was made permanent chairman of the
national Democratic convention at st.
Louis. He delivered a masterful
speech on the Wilson administration
and Democracy. Senator James is a
great man in statue, mind and thought,
and Kentucky has every reason to feel
proud of him, and Democracy is
stronger by having him identified with
It's cause. Would that there were more
men of the same calibre.
Senator James comment on pre-
paredness, peace and the Mexican sit
uation ware interesting. Newspapers
report his speech in reference to these
topics as follows:
Declaring that self defense and prep
a"ation for it is as necessary now as
ever before" Senator James pointed to
the administration preparedness pro-
gram as a proof that the party believ-
ed in preparedness without militar-
ISM"
I'm 1906" Senator James continued,
81 attended the great peace conference
held in London, thought that the mil
lenium of peace had come and such a
thing as the worlds war was impossi-
BILE; but that day when the Christian
heart shall rule the world is not in
sight. We must not mistake dishonor
for eace as We cannot mistake oppres-
sion for peace. Woodrow Wilson and
the democratic party advocate an ar
my big enough to make aggressors
think the second time before they
strike blow. Democracy wants an
army and navy in keeping with the
! dignity, preservation and worth of this
great republic. We do not want foot
OF anybody's soil, and by the eternal
God, they shall not take a foot of
ours
During this administration we have
done more to build up an army and
navy in three years that the Republi-
can party did in forty years of its ex-
istence, more has been done to give the
American people navy and army in
three months than Col. Roosevelt and
Mr.. Taft did in eleven years."
The Senator likened President Will
sons Mexican policy to that of Lincoln.
and quoted from declaration of the
latter to show that he had declined to
intervene when conditions were much
the same as now.
1T Is a perfectly easy thing" he
continued "for the President of the
United States to plunge his country in
to war if he is a politician before he is
patriot. He would seek his own re-
election as he came upon horseback
up the bloody highway of contending
armies. OF course our army could in
wade Mexican and march in triumph
to its capital, but after the war was
over other armies would MARKHAM
army of widows and orphans, an army
OF cripples and men broken in health,
an army Of pensioners, and an army of
tax collectors gathering up the earn
ings of the people to pay the great war
debt"
The President had acted quickly, the
Senator, said, when there was an in
vasion of American territory, and the
punitive expedition now was doing all
that this country could do with honor
in Mexico.
mo President during the life of this
republic said the Senator, has
ever had to deal with so many delicate
and dangerous problems as those
which have confronted President Will
son. With more than half of the
world in arms in Europe. with Mexico
IN revolution at our border, these diff
fcult and complicating problems have
him almost daily, and he
Ias handled them as becomes patriot
and a statesman. When the Lusitania
vas sunk the militant voice of Theo-
lore Roosevelt cried ont for war and