The Washington herald., 1916-01-25
"A DISGRACEFUL PAGE"
Chairman of National Com
mittee Believes G. o. P. Will
Win on Democrats Record.
CALLS MADOO FLIM-FLAMMER
Republicans and Bull Moose Have
United in Every State Except y
One. Is Report Made.
Special to The Washington Herald.

| Special to The Washington Herald
Chicago. Jan. 24.-An unsparing de-
nunciation of President Wilson, even
to an accusation of personal respon-
sibility for carnage in Mexico, marked
the Republican party's keynote
speech. uttered today before the Ham
ilton Club by Charles D. Hilles. chair
man of the national committee.
Mr.. Hilles indicated categorically
the lines upon which the Presidential
campaign will be fought. He drew
his indictment in plain words and men
toned the President by name. He ao-
cused Mr.. Wilson of having sacrificed
desire to be revenged upon Huerta.
ITO his blind pursuit of that ha-
tred," said the speaker, SIS to be
charged the loss OF countless Ameri-
can lives"
Again he said: 'In all the fair his
tory of the United States there was
never written so disgraceful a page
as that which must contain the record
of Woodrow Wilson's conduct of our
relations with Mexico"
Secretary McAdoo was accused by
Mr.. Hilles of employing the "odious
Treasury statements" and of insult
ing and film flaming the American
people. s'~ss. -es-r'- 80. ~ >
Official weight as a @. o. p. pro-
nouncement was given to Chairman
Hilles' address from the fact that 1t
received to a questionable submitted
to 5000 State and county committee
men in the various States. All save
one State, he said, had reported re-
union with the Progressives.
Partisan Appointments.
That the Republicans could win on the
record of the Wilson administration was
the common opinion of the party leaders.
The luncheon at the Hamilton Club was
in honor of the subcommittee of the Ma
tional Committee. which is in Chicago to
confer with the local committee, headed
by Fred W. Upham. on the convention ar
| rangements- Secretary James B. Rey-
nolds also attacked President Wilson. He
declared that the appointments to the
Federal Reserve Board. the Federal Trade
Commission and other bodies showed
rank and low partisanship on the Pres
ident's part and declared that the ap-
rointmene of a tariff commission by the
present administration would be a calam-
ity.
Tres surer George r. Sheldon caused
Laughter when he explained the astonish-
ment Of the treasurer of the English
conservative party when told that Ameri-
can tressurers are compelled to give
public accounting.
We knight the big contributors and
you indict them." was the Briton's COM
ment.
Charles B. Warren. of Michigan, said
the party had not welcomed the Pro-
gressives back" but that the two ele-
ments had shaken hands"
Chairman Not Selected.
All the national committeeman insisted
that no thought had been given in to-
udy . SeSSlOn 10 tne Oh temporary
officers for the convention. This I'M
portant subject involving the selection Of
a temporary chairman, whose political
affiliation may decide the fate of the
party in 1916, as 1t did in 1912, when
Elihu Root was given the gavel, will
be taken up at a meeting of the subcom-
mittee in Chicago March Is.
Chairman Hilles said it was too carly
to discuss the temporary chairmanship,
that it was something to be considered
at a later session. Many politicai
changes may be rung before the selec-
tion becomes an absolute necessity, and
It is believed that the subcommittee will
hold off it's recommendation until the
last moment. Senator Borah and Sena-
tor Lodge have been mentioned as a
possibility acceptible to the returned
Progressives and to those whose rat,fica-
ton of the G. o. P. ticket in a separate
convention Is sought.