Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-09
Vice President Marshall Finds
Nothing New in Republican
Nominees Arguments.
REFLECT OF THE VIEWS
OF STAND-PAT SENATORS
Speaker Answers Criticisms of Viii
son Administration in Speech
at Winchester, Ky.

WINCHESTER. Ky. September g.
Republican criticism of the Wilson ad-
ministration was reviewed by Vice
President Marshall in speech.here to-
day, with the conclusion that the main
reason offered the country for turning
out the democrats was the desire of the
republicans to get in. and that former
Justice Hughes campaign speeches were
but echoes of often heard partisan ora
tions in the Senate.
Not only the keen-eyed newspaper
man, but the everyday citizen" Mr..
Marshall said. lis wondering what is
the matter with the speeches of the
administration. Those most charitably
inclined in their Judgment toward
others suggest that, perhaps, he has
not yet struck his gait. Eut in this
blue grass region I need not remind
you that a horse that doesn't strike his
gait during the first quarter never fin
ishes under the wire winner.
Just now, chief interest in the re-
publican candidate for President con-
sists in ascertaining whether he be-
longs to the progressive face or the
| stand-pat neck of his party. The line
of demarkation between the two wings
of the party is clearly defined. but he
has not found his bearings.
Says "There Is a Reason"
"Manifestly, it is a difficult task to
talk in tones sufficiently vague and
uncertain to please both Roosevelt and
Barnes. both Penrose anad La Toilette.
The candidate is really to be more COM
miserated than criticised. AS to why
he says what he does and in the way
| that he does, there is a reason. III
explain. For three years and more it
| has been my fortune or misfortune to
| of the United States. The republican
candidate is now repeating these
speeches in abbreviated form from the
stump. AS his tour progressed ! COM
menced to recognize speeches I had
heard in the Senate, but l detected a
| soft-pedal tone, which was intended,
no doubt, for the ears of the progress
sive face Of the party.
When the candidate announced the
| infallibility of the protective tariff I
| Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire.
When he declared that we were dwell
| ing in fools paradise 1 heard an echo
| of the voice Of Reed Smoot of Utah.
When he talked about Mexico l could
| shut my eyes and see before me the
| figure of Senator ALL. When he con-
| demned pork in connection with riv-
ers and harbors bills / tasted, in ho-
meopathic doses. the speeches. weary
hours long, of former Senator Burton
| Of Ohio. who was chairman of the
House committee on rivers and harbors
SO many years that newell knew about
/ ths ''porl<e in the bills he had fathered
And VIXEN the candidate assaulted the
civil syService record of the administra-
| tion. ! realized that he had heard from
ttxt politscal put1sf: Bo1sSsfeenrose 0i
Rennsylvania. %a
I But One Source Of Inspiration.
But in the speeches which have been
80 recognizable as repeating what had
been. heard in the United States Sen
ate have found nothing that ever fell
from the lips of such senat ors as Cum
Minis. Kenyon. La Toilette. clappt Nor.
| ris or Gronna.s The candidates Mspira-
ton springs from the speeches Of Pen
rose. Gallinger. Smoot. Fall and sena1
| tors Of the stand-pat wing of the party
I In deciding how he shall vote this
tyear the voter must decide whether he
| wants to turn all the important, com
| mittees Of the Senate--the committees
Through which the adrr1inistraton must
flegislate-over to men who were
| brought UP in the. Aldrich school OF
statesmanship and are, welded to its
policies.
Up to this time, reasons why .dsno-
Gratis should be. ppt out Of ppWer are
lief, to the imagination. The main rAa-
son seems to be that the republicans
lust want control again. The country
is satisfied with trade conditions and
with business. which is unprecedentedly
large: the people are satisfied with the
record Of achievements. which includes
more remedial legislation than ever
was written by any two administra-
tfons; our opponents fail in. their
speeches and in their platform to prom
Use anything in the way of repeal or
Substitution.
Artificial Standards, He Says.
For purely partisan purposes. the re-
publican orators are proclaiming that
the President is an infrm American
and that Americanism and republican
ism are synonomous. thereby continu-
ing the practice, abandoned by most
men. of setting up artificial standards
and criticising every one who does not
accept them. But the people at large
realize now, more than ever before
THAT American citizenship Is made up OF
lonIy two grades of citizens Citizens
for my country while citizens of the
second grade ask. What can l get my
country to do for me"
Day by day our people are becoming
more and more convinced of the genu.
inc purpose of our President to main
ltain strict neutrality and more and
tmore confident are they becoming of mis-
ability to preserve an honorable peace
The hyphenated citizens. who though,
they could gather into one force those
of every race and every faith for a
Icombined assault against the .Presiden,
|of the United states for keeping Ameri-
ca at peace, have been disilIusioned."