The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-10-10
SECRET POWFRSEEAS
CONTROL OF NATION
President Wilson SPEAKS Plain
Words at Shadow Lawn
"MEN WHO KNOW WHAT THEY
WANT" WORK FOR INTERESTS
"One of the Most Sinister COmbina-
lions American Politics Ever Saw"
Declared to be Active.

Declared to be Active.
ASBURY PARK, n. J.-Shot through
with every form of bitterness, every
ugly form of hate and every debased
purpose of revenge" the Republican
party, President Wilson declared late
in his Saturday afternoon speech, is
working only with covert desire to re-
cognize secret power"
1T has drawn no Diagrams" of
what will be its national policy 1t has
only questioned every line of that pur-
sued by the administration, he said.
The presidents address. delivered
with repeated outbursts of score and
humOr, kept a crowd of 2500 Demo-
Gratis, progressives and Independents
in constant state of cheering. Will
son obviously was feeling good as re-
suit of the reception rendered him on
his recent western trip.
"On one hand he said "is a party
united, which has determined its direc-
tion by its performances and not by its
promises. On the other hand, what
have we-it battles description-men
of every sort and variety of purpose
associated for an unavowed purpose"
Roosevelt the Leader.
The president plainly stated, though
not mentioning the colonel by name,
that Theodore Roosevelt was the real
leader of the Republican party and
that his counsel would guide the di-
rection of a large part of it, should it
succeed in November
"If l were leader of that party I
would be afraid to get elected" the
president declared 81 would know
that nothing but futility and disap-
pointment awaited me. Because, odd
ly enough, the only distinct definitions
of purpose come from the collateral
branches of the family.
"The only articulate voice processes
opinions and purposes at which the
rest in private shiver and demur When
the whole country is clamoring for de-
finition, it is legitimate to take it
where you can get it, and the defini-
tions are backed by certain things that
have already happened in our politics.
One branch of the party, the collateral
branch, to which 1 have just referred,
backed as a candidate for the United
States senate in the state of New York
a man whose avowed position in re-
spect to International affairs was un-
neutral and whose intention was, if he
became a member of that great council
upon international affairs in Washing
ton, to promote the interests of one
side IN the present war in Europe
From Peace To War.
Therefore, we are warranted in be-
leving that if the Republican party
should succeed, one very large branch
of it would insist upon what its lead
er has insisted upon a complete rever-
sal of policy, and in view of the sup
port that the candidate l have referred
to in New York received, that reversal
Of policy can only be a reversal of
from peace to war"
But back of the scenes, in the Re
publican party, the president said.
quiet, self-confident. knowing the
game better than any one else, are the
men who really have organization and
control in their own possession, the
old guard, the men who at any rate af-
ford us this advantage in controversy
we know where to find them. They
are always in the same old place.
They always intend the same thing.
They always have the same-I was
about to say ideals, but 1 will not mis-
use a handsome word-the same con-
ception Of what politics is for, and
who know, to make well known quo
tation, exactly what they want They,
amidst the confusions of counsel, will
he the only ones who can concert ac-
ticn and the only ones who will know
how to carry it through"
He defined the Republican "combin-
alton of men of every sort and variety
of purpose" as "one of the most sin
lister combinations American politics
ever saw"
"The United States has to choose
whether it will have a government for
the people or a government for special
interests. The mask is off, it always
was there, apparent. 1t never reached
below the lips and you could see the
cynical smile underneath. Under pleas
: of righteous patriotism in the eye, but
a cynical hardness about the lips, they
want possession of the government.
They want control of the treasury Of
the United States. They want direc-
tion of the business of the United
States. They want determination Of
the foreign connections and policies of
the United States they want possess
sion Of the legislatures of the United
States in order that the comfortable