The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-10-17
ADAMSON LAW IS
NOT INNOVATION
/. A. Walters Says Similar Law
Was Passed In 1868
WILLIAM MCKINLEY ALSO INTRO
DUCED SIMILAR MEASURE.
Democratic Candidate For Attorney
General Brilliant 0ratOr-Club Is
Organized.

That the Adamson law is substanti-
ally the same as measure passed by
Republican congress in 1868, except
that penalty is attached to its viola
ton, and is almost in identically the
same words as a bill introduced in
1890 by William Mckinley; that the
present banking law is a measure of
such high character that it has never
been seriously criticised; that the
rural credit law will emancipate the
farmer; that the great program of
progressive legislation inaugurated by
Woodrow Wilson and enacted into law
by Democratic congress has never
been previously equalled in the history
of the country, and that the people
should elect legislative and state offic-
ers to assist Governor Alexander in
carrying out his plans in state affairs,
were thoughts advanced in an elo-
quent address at the Parish hall Fri
day night by T. A. Walters, candidate
for attorney general on the Democratic
ticket. The hall was filled and at the
close of the meeting a Wilson and
Marshall club with more than 100
members was organized. Chairman
n. H. IllChc VI lllt COuuI1
central committee introduced the
speaker, in a short speech in which he
pointed out the inconsistent attitude
? of the Republican party, asserting that
the bosses, retaining control of the or
ganization from which they had driven
the progressive and thinking people
had feared to place in nomination a
man openly connected with their own
Iod q Of
the supreme court, whose views we're
not known, and are not yet known, to
head their ticket
After a brilliant opening statement,
Mr.. Walters plunged into an eloquent
discussion of the issues of the cam
paign He said that the administra-
tion of Woodrow Wilson was distin-
guished by great diplomatic victories
in furthering the cause of neutrality
The United States was the first great
neutral nation. George Washington,
the first president, issued in 1893, a
declaration of neutrality in regard to
the war then raging in Europe. Short
ly afterward, John Jay, the first chief
justice Of the United States, defined
the term as applied to this country.
; Since that time all American presi-
/, pies and those who did so had always
been censured for so doing, by people
who leaned toward one side or the
other. George Washington was de-
; nounced by 10000 war mad citizens,
who threatened to rebel in order to
get an opportunity to participate in the
European struggle. Jay was burned in
; effigy for his decision Hamilton was
l irto cd btra Wach-
ington, of whose cabinet he was a
member Jefferson was abused and
called a spineless poltroon for assist
, ing in the maintenance of neutrality
Later on Lincoln was denounced as a
coward because he refrained from go
; ing to war with foreign nations These
D men stood for the same principles foI
which Woodrow Wilson stands today
, in maintaining neutrality in war mao
D world.
, 81 do not come before you tonight tc
q denounce the position of our politica
opponents" said Mr. Walters, "foi
I when l go into a store to buy mer
G chandise, if the merchant begins by
a telling me the alleged bad qualities G
1 the wares presented by his competi
tor, I at once begin to think that HI
T cannot find much good to truthful!
i say for his own. l desire to speak t.
? you about the great legislative pro
gram that has been carried into eff
feet under the present Democratic ad
ministration. More than twenty i'm
portant measures demanded by tn
Z Progressive national platform hav
been enacted by the Democratic con
gress and are now laws. And l wan
to call your attention to a remarkabl
e inconsistency on the part of our op
n ponents. They will tell you in on
breath that the president is a weak
vacillating person and on the othe
that he is czar, who dominates al
l. with whom he comes in contact. Bot
: of these things cannot be true. The
r are not true. Why, a distinguishe
e statesman from another state took u
: nearly two hours at Jerome the othe
/ night, denouncing the president in thi
6 way, but not word did he utter i
l. regard to the policy that the Republi
e can presidential candidate would pur
/ sue. In fact, he did not so much a
X utter his name.
"Take up the Republican platforr
e this year and read it over and you vii