Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-16
ROOT ATTACKS WILSON AND
 POLICIES
 IF PARTY
Veteran Senator Opens New York State Republican Con- vention with Warning of Vii tai Importance of Election. AMERICAN DIPLOMACY
 NEEDS MILIIARlSM c. O. P. if Returned to Power Would Leave No Doubt As to This Country's Courage and Purposes. :.

NEW YORK. Feb. 15.-The policies of President Wilson and the Democrat ic Administration toward the interna- tional situation arising out of the Flu ropean war and the Mexican disturb ances and as relating to domestic con- ditions toward the tariff, were attacked bv former United States Senator Eli bu Root today in his address as tenn norarv chairman of the New York State Republican convention in as sembly here.
 No other presidential election since 1864 has been so fraught with conse- ouences so vital to national life as the one now approaching. MT. Root said, and all ordinary conditions which play so greet a part in presidential cam paigns "are and ought to be dwarfed into insignificance" He promised that if the Republican party is returned to mower inc neople may expect a for eien policy which will leave "no doubt anywhere in tho world of Americas ur-aoea and courage 10 protect end de- fond her importance, her territory and the lives and inst rights of her citi- .zers under the laws of nations" and that the people may expect also that "the government win stand for full and adeouate preparation by the Amer ican people for their own defense
 Mir. Root charged the present admin istration with "the lack of foresight to make timely provision for backing I'D of American diDlomacv by actual or assured military force" with the forfeiture of tho world respect for our assertion of rights by pursuing the nolicv of making threats and of failing fo r,ake the-u good" and with "a loss of inc moral forces of the civilized world through failure to truly inter- nret to the world the spirit of the Am erican democracy in its attitude to- ward the terrible events which accom- worried the early stages of the war" These. said Mir. Root. were the admin
 
 Discussing the domestic situation be- fore tre Eurnnear war began MT. Root declared that during the eighteen months of Democratic control there had heen "a stendv decrease in Amer ican production. in exnorts and in rev ennes and steady increase in imports a-S avnenditnres Enterprise had balted. he asserted and new undertak- ines m lonPer made their anpearance and the conntrv's productive indus t-;oe ''were laborine under misfit tar if devised hv tho Democratic party in 9 enirit of suspicion distrust and hos filitv towards American business en- ternrise" and transnortation and com merce had become "dpll and despond- ert
 Taking up foreign relations. MT. Root said that for the first time with in the memory of men now living re- Iatinns "are raropnized as vital" He fonk mn first the Mexican nroblem. de- cIarins that the United States "inter- vened in Mexico to control the inter nal affairs by threat. by economic nres sure. and bv force of arms" and that the eoverument ignored condoned nnurder of American men and the rape If American women and the destruc- ton Of American proDertv and insult nf American officers and defiIement of the American flag and joined itself to the men who were guilty of all these things to pull down the power of Huerta."
 "The results of this interference was most unfortunate" MT. Root con tinued "If our government had sent an armed force into Mexico to protect American life and honor we might have been onposed but we should have been understood and resnected by the neopIa of Mexico No flag is so dis honnred pnd m citizenship so little worth claiming in Mexico as ours"
 Referring to the Administrations foreign noIicv Mir Root said:
 "Our diplomacy has lost its suthori-
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