The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-27
PRESIDENT HOPES
TOK[[P P0RK0Ul
OF PREPAREDNESS
Speeches This Week VIII BdI
Aimed at Effort Of Congress
to Build Political Mill
tary Machine.
IGNORE BRYAN AND TEDDY
Wilson Regards Assailants u
Plans as Less of Menace
Than Pork Hunting Con-
tingent of Law Makers.
&.ElaNE
IGNORE BRYAN AND TEDDY.

Wilson, apparently refreshed
by his two days trip Town the Poto-
mac, aboard the naval :yacht May
flower, today began b task Of iea
Ing up all pending routine business
preparatory to starting Thursday on
q speechmaking trip to New York and
the middle west to lay his plans for
preparedness before the coun-
try.
cial engagements which were expected
to keep him busy from now until he
leaves for New York.
They called for conferences today
with members of congress. a cabinet
meeting tomorrow and several dinner
engagements.
To Attack Army Pork.
OF v greater menac than the at
tacks of Mr.. Bryan and his fellow paci-
fists is a project that Is finding favor
among congressman who seek to con
vert the presidents plan Of patriotic
precaution into pork barrel patron
age
The president undoubtedly will
throw some light upon this effort in
his Forthcoming appeals to the eun
try for support of his national de-
Tense recommendations. He will
make it plain to the voters that he
does not fear SO much the Influences
Of the men who base their opposition
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nre of congress itself to appreciate ne
universal necessity for it.
ignore Roosevelt and Bryan.
There Is excellent Isl to believe
that the president will not devote any
of his speeches to answering the at
lacks made by either Colonel Roose-
welt. who charges him with being too
proud to fight" or Mr.. Bryan, who says
he is toe warlike. 1t is the purpose
Of the president to place before h
people a calm. dispassionate review OF
conditions as they appear to him n
the reasons that inspired him to rec
ommend to congress an Improvement
While he is away from Washing
ton the members Of his cabinet and
his circle of supporters. in congress
will center their efforts upon the task
of frustrating the plan to transform
his military program into what is said
would be q political machine for the
benefit of members of congress.
Opposed Continental Army.
1t found it's inspiration in the hos
tilities developed at the start toward
Secretary Of War Garrison's continen-
tai army made up of state units in
accordance with he general plan of
state militia organizations. but having
a closer relation to the federal govern
ment.
Members of evidenced their
disapproval and Offer ed as a substitute
a proposition to transform the present
national guard into a paid volunteer
the .ee,apate of Am a00 man recono-
mepded hv the secratar ~ of war
While no nrovision for this Man has
haen even tentatively WRITTEN into the
hil1 which tho House roilitarw no,nmit-
fee is drafting the s,Iseestion Of # is
,nmistakablv finding fayor with CON
gressmen and anon officers az the
rational guard.
military committees has ALREADY indi-
Gated h;s a~nrrovaI ar r. and is be;rp
tad with demands of copprass-
mon that tho scheme he nut thro1ph
AS . vorkinp basis fha cnmmittea
has before If a schedule that calls for
the ma vment IN militia cantajns of s500
a wear: first lieutenants. s40O: second
~Iie1,tenants 5000: sergeants $500. cor
noraIs' 500 and nriyates. s5o0in gov
eminent money.
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and an sn9 ,,pen9iU taLen = ont af tha
bands Of fha state eovarnments
In tha view IF the friends Of this nm
! dertakinp-and a vast majority of con
eressrnen favor fit nossesses noliti-
| cal vanta to themselves eclipsing
in magnitude and influence any nat
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