Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-08-11
Lewis Answers Hughes.

Saturday last that the Senate has listened
TO in decade.
Addressing himself to the "sham and
shames of pretended patriotism. " the Sena-
tor boldly placed the responsibility for the
death Of every American soldier killed on
the border upon the heads of the Republi-
can organization. He charged that the
determination Of Republican leaders to I'M
dermine the President OF the United States
had emboldened the Mexicans to make
their murderous raids upon American cti-
zens and American property.
The Senator said that Mr.. Hughes had
made Mexico the leading issue Of his cam
paign and that the Democrats did not hest
tate to accept their challenge. He declared
that they would stand firmly upon the |
policy which Lincoln adopted dealing with !
Mexico, the policy which Taft adopted and |
the policy which Wilson had made his own
LET the country know that the state
ment is that Mexico is the issue" de- !
clared Senator Lewis mot that there is |
to be a principle enforced in behalf of
Mexico not that there is justice to be as
serted in behalf Of Mexico; not there is
an American right needed to be INDICATED
in behalf Of the United States as to Mexico.
mol The statement is. Mexico is to be the
political issue. Prejudices are to be awak-
ened America. resentments aroused in our
citizenships. hatred awakened against De-
mocracy, instruction to be invoked and
denunciations to be called down upon the
head OF the Democracy. merely that an
issue is to be brought forth.
THE cry has gone forth. Let Mexico
in some phase, in any aspect, without re-
gard TO facts, equity or Justice. and in de-
fiance of truth or honor-be the issue
Summon the citizenships of the United
States to war against its constituted au-
thority-that is the issue. Denounce the
President as to Mexico-that is the issue,
Make contemplate your country before the
whole world whenever you cantor that
is the issue.
htphA diyOhC WIN
by any scheme. any device. any charge,
any Islander can make an issue against his
own country as to her policy in relation
to foreign countries Summon the public
enemies from every darkened place, from
every deserted spot. from every unhallOwed
ground. Bring them forth-those with
hopes to reward, those who itch for noto-
riety, those with dreams Of place and po-
sition and those who would vent their re-
venge upon their own country because they
could not use it to enrich guilty purse
and to debase the principles Of freedom to
reward robbery.
AT last the army is summoned The
mercenary-the concessionaire who pol
lutes the government in power to wrest the
rights from the defenseless and the weak
the European bondholder who cast his
water-eng0rged securities in the face of
America, demanding of the sovereign Uni
ted States that she shall send her sons to
die that their blood may give value to that
whose creation was born in robbery and
maintained by fraud; the mining bucca-
neers of the mountains. the land pirates
Of the plains. pillagers of the poems, OPP
pressors Of liberty, despoilers Of homes,
murderers Of justice-come all of you, this
procession Of blood-tarnished votaries.
headed now by the newly anointed chief
of this political hierarchy. the nominee of
a Republican convention. Charles E.
Hughes"
The Senator then showed that the Re-
publican campaign had nothing to stand
upon; that il was bereft of issues and in
danger Of collapse. Picturing this, he ex-
claimed:
Something must be done An issue
must come forth. 1t must be born Of some
thing from somewhere. somehow. That IL
should be the offspring of truth or false
hood is immaterial. That it should be
created from fact or fancy is Indifferent.
That il should be fair or foul would not
matter. All is beside the necessity An
issue an issue is the cry. Office is the
desire. power the gain"
Referring to the effect upon Mexico Of
the Republican denunciation of the Presi-
dents Mexican policy. Senator Lewis de-
clared:
Then every interest that calculated
revenge upon the United States for APP
proving those who they felt would no
longer give privilege to pillaee her helpless
land was awakened anew. Every bandit
on the mountain side. every murderer from
the gorees. every creeping assassin in the
shadow Of the cactus awakened to the
knowledge that something had happened
in America.
Again, by this false display to Mexico
the Republican masters licensed every
marauder, every cutthroat. every assailer.
every murderer. every interest small or
powerful, to feel privileged to assail that
which represented Wilson or his policy.
Those knew that they would have the
confidence and support Of a great party
in America. They felt now justified in
these assaults, II such assaults could but
serve TO defeat Wilson and to destroy his
policy Of peace in Mexico.
Then say" shouted Senator Lewis,
lit was not until these Republicans shot
at the President Of the United States did
the murderers in Mexico shoot the soldiers
of the President and kill the Americans in
America. On the heads Of these Repub-
licans put the blood Of every soldier who
has suffered and bled in Mexico at the
hands Of Carranza and Villa. On the heads
Of these Republicans ! launch the curse