The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1916-06-29
SAYS DEMOCRATS
NEED A RECEIVER
c. B. Moores In Call for
State Committee Scores
Administration.

"If this is the best the democratic
party can do, aided as II has been
by $4,000. 900 worth of war or
ders I'm the last 1 months, II should
have the decency to acknowledge its
utter want OF constructive capacity
and ask for the appointment of a
receiver to take charge Of the coun-
try until the republican party can
assume control. as II will, on the
coming 4th of March,"
This II the call to arms sounded
to. all republicans by Charles b
Moores, chairman OF the state CEN
trail committee, In announcing "A
meeting of the newly elected mem
bers OF the committee In the Imper-
ial hotel at 1 p. m. Saturday, July
8. Organization of the work OF the
campaign will begin that day.
In his announcement Mr.. Moores
reviews the financial and commercial
condition of the country under the
Wilson administration, and points
out that while n comparative few are
getting rich by selling goods TO
Europe through the accident of war,
the people OF the United States as
whole are constantly paying war
tax" TO make up the deficit in federal
revenues caused by democratic de-
parture from the republican prin-
clples OF tariff protection. Regard
Ing second term for Wilson, he
says:
Woodrow Wilson told us in his
1919 campaign: Our platform Ia not
molasses TO catch flies. II means
business. II means what II says
Among other things II pledged
Woodrow Wilson 10 the principle OF
single term, and Woodrow kept
! his pledge by writing confidential
letter three months after his election
TO Representative A. Mitchell Pal !
NOR, urging him TO defeat the reso- !
luton OF Senator Cummins calling |
for n constitutional amendment pro-
yIding for a single term"
Chairman Moores quotes Senator
Borah. OF Idaho. concerning the
"profiigate waste of money and the
lavish appropriations OF recent re-
rubllcan congresses" mentioned in
the democratic platform in 1912.
Borah said;
1--WE are spending $500. 900, 900
annually In excess OF the expendi-
lures OF those years which the demo-
cratic platform criticises as profli-
gate. We have created more offices
and provided for more salaries dur
ing two and a half years OF the Will
son administration than during any
10 years In the history OF the gov
ernment for the last so years. We
already have over 100000 federal
employees, and this administration
has passed laws that In their ulti-
mate working will call for $4,000
more. We could save $500, 100 900
annually and get better service"
That Wilson has kept us out OF
war" is a rank pretense." is an
other OF the calls statements against
the democratic party. "Who has
kept out Sweden. Norway. Holland.
Switzerland. Spain. Greece and Rou-
mainia2 Beleaguered upon every
side. the kaiser has all the business
he can attend TO at home and he has
neither the power nor the disposl-
tlon to make war upon us. Wilson
has had as much to do with keeping
us out OF war with Germany as
Bryan or Henry Ford. No president
could have done less than he has
done in his vacillating and equiyocal
course. Bernstorff. the German am
bassador, and Secretary Lansing
have been the real factors in the
whole controversy. Conditions
which none of them could control +.
have made war with US impossible"
Moores declares Mexico's last
chance for a stable government dis
appeared when Wilson practically |
forced out Huerta. and that the pres
ent Mexican situation is due to the
course Wilson has pursued.
A flat claim is made that the in
come tax. federal reserve act and
other so-called democratic achieve
ments are in reality republican
measures. and that the present ad-
ministration is not entitled to any
credit therefrom.