Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-05
LAYS BLAME FOR
BORDER TROUBLES
ON REPUBLICANS
Senator Lewis Is Vitrioic In
His DenunciatiOn Of
Methods
MEXICANS ENCOURAGED
BY ATTACKS ON WILSON
Claims Troubles Were Stirred
Up to Make Political
Capital

of the generals" of the republican
party lies the responsibility for live.
lost in Mexico, Democratic Whip Lewis
charged today in senate speech.
Lewis announced his speech as an
answer to the Mexican issue raised by
Charles Il. Hughes in his acceptance ad
dress.
He declared that irresponsible Mex
lean bandits had been encouraged tC
commit acts of horror because republi
can leaders, in their anxiety to embar
rass the president and create a cam.
paign issue, had given the impression
that the country was not united in sup.
port of its executive head.
Here this day, l put the response.
bility for the death of every American
soldier killed on the border of Mexico
in 1916 upon the heads of the generals
Of the republican party" Lewis declar.
ed. 81 charge that not until the cap.
tains of the republican party shot al
the president of the United States did
the Mexican outlaws shoot at the sol
diers of the American president:
The Mexican issue, he asserted, had
been picked up for purposes of ex
pedlency only after the prosperity had
made the favorite republican doctrine
the tariff, impracticable.
Mexico the Issue.
"The cry has gone forth Mexico i,
the issue. The issue, mind you. Not
that there is principle to be vindicat
ed, Justice to be asserted. No. But
that Mexico is to be the political issue
1.-The army is summoned-the mer.
cenary, the concessionarie, the European
bond holder, the mining buccaneers. tnt
land pirates, the pillagers of the poems
the oppressors of liberty; and ali thi.
procession of blood tarnished yotarie,
led by the republican nominee, Charlie,
Evans Hughes.
Mr.. Hughes declares that Wilson
had nothing to do with the morals OF
Huerta; that it was the obligation OF
diplomacy to recognize him. With the
numbering Borgias, Hughes would ex
claim:
:" Stand not on morals, but on powe,
It's bloody but hath rewards. ~
Huerta having been eliminated, peace
could have been restored with either
villa or Carranza at the government ,.
head, Lewis said, had not American fin
aneial forces and republican leaders de
termlned to keep boiling the pot of Mex
lean disorders.
Encouraged Outlaws.
| But by false display of the ma.
ton s sentiment toward Mexico he
continued, "the republican masters en-,
couraged every outlaw and eutthroat tC
feel privileged to assail whatever rep.
resented Wilson or his policy. These
knew they would have the support of q
great party in America which for wears
had been successful in electing presi.
dents.
"Thus it was that Just a month after
senator Root had struck his keynote of
! opposition to democratic president.
the murderers dashed into Columbus,
N. NJ.
1.-THE bandits of Villa found their al.
lies in the leaders of the republican
party. All were for the destruction of
an American policy and American presi-
dent.
By the doctrine of the law which
holds responsible those who set in mo.
tion the machinery which ends in the
murder Of man, the republican plat
from builders who denounced their
president were the perpetrators of the
death of those Americans. When they
shot at the president of the United
States, they summoned also the outlaws
of Villa and Carranza to kill his sol
diers.
Senator Fall, of New Mexico, refer.
ring to Lewis as more like n court
jester than n senator and his address
more worthy of political stump than
the halls of congress, assailed President
Wilson's Mexican policy in sharp re.
ply.
ave have listened to the remarkable
political haranguc / have ever heard, -
said Senator Fall, "and the like of
which / never expected TO hear in the
halls Of congress. Were / in charge
OF the republican campaign would
spend every sum and resource to dis
seminate il.
"The senator belongs to the new
school of patriotism which believes pa
triotism means servility. He would
place us on the same plan as a Mexican
who never uses the word patriot but
says Il am for Villa or am for Car
ranZa.' NO
"The senator would have us say moi
that we are for America but that W.