Gilpin observer., 1916-08-10
BY Edward Keating

Washington, L. c., Aug. 4-The Re.
publicaHs have dec'd to undertake
to make Mexico the leading issue
In this campaign. Candidate. Hughes
fired the first gun In his speech of
| acceptance and from now on Repub-
lican orators and Republican papers
Will endeavor to befuddle the public
mind.
Back of the campaign of slander
and misrepresentation are the self
ish interests which are intent On ex-
plotting Mexico. They secured vast
concessions" from the Dictator Diaz.
and they are determined that a sta
BILE government shall not be ,estab-
lished unless tteir rights" are Of
ficially recognized.
bribed Huerta into betraying and
assassinating his chief, Madero. and
they have been responsible for most
os the sanguinary disturbances along
the Rio Grande.
They hate Wilson because tine
president has refused to be party to
their schemes, and they will stop at
nothing to d!scredit and destroy him.
The president and his friends will
net shirk from consideration of the
Mexican issue. They have confidence
in the intelligence of the American
people and they are willing to place
all the facts before them and abide
by their verdict
The "Liars' Squad"
An important part of the 3epub
licans' Mexican campaign" is the
publication of newspaper stories cal
cu,ated on the Rio Grande and that
the guardsmen are being subjected
to- adj kinds of hardships.
This newspaper taking has been
carried to such extremes that Gen
eral ''Fight:ng Fred" Funston has an
nounced that he will drive the lying
corresponds nts out of his camp.
Funston is a western man who has
fought his way from the ranks to the
position of major general. His SOL
diers Worship him, and like all good
officers he leaves nothing undone
which will contribute to the health,
happiness and safety of his men. He
has always been courteous to news
paper men but the Liars Squad" has
gotten on his nerves.
The other day lie wired the secre-
tary of war as follows:
Il wish to call attention OF war
department of tie carnival of. lying
being induiged in by many of the cor
respondents who accompanied IL e
s.e.e trcCps to the border. l have
never seen or heard of anything that
approached it for sheer mal.ciousness
end shamelessIess.
while there are honorable excep-
tions. many of th,se correspondents
are men of no judgm ent or balance,
or have no sense of balance or pro-
portion. Ord nary inconvenie noes, or
deprivatiCns, that to a man with real
sold.erly instincts are merely sub
jects for jokes, are magnified by
item into the most distressing stor-
les.
They persistently neglect to say
anything about the excellent and
c?editable things that they see, and
il tfey can see nothing to find fault
with manufacture Les out of whole
cloth. The effect is to distress need
lessly the families and friends of
members of the state organizations
and make people of other nations
think we are a degenerated race of
sisstes and mollycoddles incapable Of
being made into soldiers. l have en-
dured these pests as long as l pro-
pose to, and shall hereafter bar Of
tenders from camps and prohibit
them from accomI any'ng troops on
the march,
Republican paIers are beginning to
print editorials demanding an answer
to the question: "Why is the Guard
en- the Border?"
These are tie same papers which
a few weeks ago were clamoring for
war with Mexico.
Every Republican in congress vot-
ed for the appropr atoms which PAID
tie expenses of sending the guard TO
the border. Most of them delivered
patriotic" speeches explaining that
they refused to be partisans' VIXEN the
honor and safety cf the nation were
ut stake.
Put Wilson in Hole.
They knew tfen why tie guard