The Detroit times., 1916-08-05
Republicans Blamed by
Senator Lewis For
Killings
ANSWERS HUGHES
IN BITTER SPEECH
Says Wilson Foes Have
Prevented
Peace
BY UNITED PRESS.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.--On the
heads Of the generals" OF the Re
publican party lies the responsible
ity for lives lost in Mexico, Demo
cratic Whip Lewis charged today In
a senate speech.
Lewis announced his speech as
an answer TO the Mexican issue
raised by Charles z. Hughes in his
acceptance address.
He declared that irresponsible
Mexican bandits had become en-.
couraged 10 commit acts of horror
because Republican leaders, in their
anxiety TO embarrass the president
and create a campaign issue, had
given the impression that the coun-
try was not united in support OF its
executive head.
Here this day, put the RESPONSE.
billty for the death OF every Ameri-
can soldier killed on the border OF
Mexico in 1916 upon the heads OF
the generals OF the Republican
party" Lewis declared. II charge
that not until the captains OF the
Republican party shot at the presi.
dent 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
expediency only after the prosperity
had made the favorite Republican
doctrine, the tariff, impracticable.
THE cry has gone forth, Mexico
is the issue The issue. mind you,
Not that there is principle TO be
indicated, justice to be asserted
NO But that Mexico is 10 be the
political issue
The army Is summoned--the mer.
cenary. the concessionaire, the Eu.
ropean bondholder. the mining buc.
cancers, the land pirates. the pill
layers OF the poems, the oppressors
Of liberty; and all this procession OF
blood furnished votaries led by the
Republican nominee, Charles Evans
Hughes.
Mr. Hughes declares that Wilson
had nothing TO do with the morals
OF Huerta; that II was the obliga.
ton OF diplomacy TO recognize him.
With the numbering Borgias, Hughes
would eXclaim:
Stand not on morals, but on
power-'tis bloody but hath re-
wards
"Huerta having been eliminated,
peace could have been restored with
either villa or Carranza at the gov
ernment's head, Lewis said, had not
American financial forces and Re.
publican leaders determined TO keep
boiling the pot OF Mexican disorder
But by a false display OF the
nations sentiment toward Mexico"
he continued, 1.-The Republican mas
tiers encouraged every outlaw and
cut-throat to feel privileged to as
sail whatever represented Wilson
or his policy. These knew they
would have the support OF great
party in America which for years
had been successful In electing pres
idents.
Thus It was that just month
after Senator Root had struck his
keynote OF opposition to a Demo
cratic president, the murderers
dashed into Columbus. y. NJ.
The bandits OF villa found their
allies In the leaders OF the Repub-
lican party. All were for the de-
struction OF an American policy. and
Democratic American president
by the doctrine OF the law which
holds responsible those who set in
motion the machinery which ends
In the murder OF a man. the Repub
lican platform builders who de-
nounced their president. were the
perpetrators OF the death of these
Americans. When they shot at the
president OF the United States, they
summoned also the outlaws OF villa
and Carran1a to kill his soldiers"