Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06
LEWIS ANSWERS
HUGHES ATTACK
Tells Senate That Republican
Structures on Administrator
Are Reasonable.
RESPONSIBLE FOR MEXICO
Not Until Party Assault on Will
son Did Outlaws Shoot
His Soldiers.
RESPONSIBLE FOR MEXICO

WASHINGTON. August 5.-Sona,or
Lewis. the Democratic whip. spoke in
the Senate to-day in reply to the at
tack upon the administration made bv
Charles f. Hughes in his speech ac-
ceptinE the Republican presidential
nominal ton
republican structures upon the ad-
ministration's Mexican policy Senator
Lewis denounced as "trcasonable" lie
charged that the clause of the Repub-
iican platform repudiatinE interference
In the internal affairs of Mexico was
responsible for the massacre of troops
at CarriZal.
Not until tho captains of the Repub-
lican party shot at the President of the
United States did the Mexican outlaws
shoot at the soldiers of the American
President" he said The platform dec
laration Senator Lewis characterized as
summons to Carranza and Villa to
revenge the entrance of American SOL
diers into Mexico and the interference
Of America in her internal affairs"
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
SLAYS CARRIZAL SOLDIERS
1T was the Republican convcntion."
said Mr.. Lewis. (which slew the SOL
dters at Carrizal." and he assailed
efforts of the Republican leaders to
make Mexico the issue without re-
gard to facts. equity or Justice"
Revolt against the government at
washington as to Mexico-that is. the
issue" he declared. "Denouncc the
president as to MeSico-for that is the
issue. Make contemptible your own
country before the world whenever YOU
can--for that is the issue Humiliate
fall
country and his President up before the
world as unworthy the support of his
countrymen or the respect OF for
eigners.
AT last the army is summoned The
mercenary; the conccssionairc who
poliutes the government in power to
wrest the rights from the defenseless
and the weak: the European bond
holder. demanding of the sovereign
United States that she shall send her
sons to die. that their blood NAV give
value TO those whose creation was born
or robbery, and whose existence is
neing maintained by fraud: the mining
buccaneers OF tho mountains, the land
pirates OF the plains, pillagcrs OF the
poems oppressorS of liberty, despoilcrs
OF homes, murdercrs of justice-come
All OF you: at last there is found for
you house in which YOU are wor-
SHIPPED as gods. and at whose altars
the lnnocents are to be sacrificed for
you to make an election holiday This
procession of blood-tarnished votaries
headed now by the newly appointed
chief OF this political hierarchy. the
nominee of a Republican convention
Tor President of the United States.
Charles Evans Hughes"
Senator Fall, Republican, said he
would like TO spend every cent of the
Republican campaign fund TO send the
Illinois Senator's address over .the
country.
SENATOR FALL. CALLS IT
REMARKABLE IIARSNGUE
Il have just listened to the most re-
markable harangue. the like OF which
l never heard on the stump, and which
l never expected TO hear in the halls
or Congress. To reply to IL would he
to dignity it," he said. The Senator
belongs to that recent school Of states
men. developed during the last three
or four years, who teaching the
doctrine that patriotism means servil-