The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-02-17
SENATOR ROOT DECLARES
ADMINISTRATORS is WOBBLY

ADMINISTRATION is WOBBLY
New York City.-The policies of
| President Wilson and the Democratic
administration toward the interna-
tional situations arising out of the
European war and the Mexican dis
turbances, and, as relating to do
mestic conditions, toward the tariff,
We're attacked by former United
States Senator Elihu Root yester-
day in his address as temporary chair
man of the New York State Repub-
lican convention, in assembly here.
No other presidential election
since 1864 has been SO fraught with
consequences so vital to national life
as the one now approaching, Mr..
Root said, and all ordinary consid-
erations which play so great a part
in Presidential campaigns ARE and
ought to be dwarfed into insignifi-
cance.' He promised that if the Re-
publican party is returned to power
the people may expect foreign pol
icy which will leave mo doubt any
where in the world of Americas pur-
pose and courage to protect and de-
fend her independence, her territory
and the lives and just rights of her
citizens under the laws of nations;" ="
and that the people may expect, also,
that "the government will stand for
full and adequate preparation by the
Americn people for their own de-
fense.'
Wilson Lacks Foresight
Mir. Root charged the present ad-
ministration with 1.-The lack of fore
sight to make timely provision for
backing up of American diplomacy
by actual CIR assured military force"
with the forfeiture of the worlds
respect for our assertion of rights by
pursuing the policy of making threats
and of failing to make them good;"
and with "a loss of this moral forces
of the civilized world through failure
to truly interpret to the world the
spirit of the American democracy in
its attitude towards the terrible
events which accompanied the early
stages of the war" These, said Mr..
Root, We're the administrations S
three fundamental errors" +" The tenn
porary chairman said in part:
For the first time in twenty years
we enter the field as the party of op-
position. and indeed it is a much
longer time. for in 1896, in all re-
|spects save the tariff, the real oppo-
sition to the sturdy and patriotic
course of President Cleveland was to
be found by the party that followed
Mr.. Bryan. 1t is our duty as the op-
position to bring the Democratic
party to the bar of public judgment,
to put it upon its defense so far as
we see just and substantial grounds
to criticise its conduct, and to ask
the voters of the country to decide
whether that party. organized as it
lis, represented as it has been since
: it came into power, has shown, itself
competent to govern the country, as
lit should be best that the American
people can do in the way of popular
lf-government."
Enterprise Has Halted
| Discussing the domestic situation
before the European war began, Mr..
Root declared that during the eight
cen months of Democratic control
there had been "a steady decrease in
American production, in exports and
i'll revenues, and a steady increase
in imports and expenditures. Enter
prise had halted, he asserted, aud
new undertakings no longer made
their appearance, and the country s
productive industries were laboring
under a misfit tariff devised by the
Democratic party in a spirit of sus-
picion, distrust and hostility towards
American business enterprise" and
transportation and commerce had be-
come "dull ond despondent." The
tariff commission created under Re-
publican legislation to ascertain the
facts upon which tariff laws should
be based, Mr.. Root said, had been
driven out of business and no sub
stitute provided. At Washington, he
declared, there was & nervous
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