The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-06
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they had but one object: it was to
do and die II need be, but to serve.
| The action was that of an American
President and against a foreign foe.
1t was an American policy declared
A Democrat was a patriot; he asked
no further. He obeyed In honor. and
with the patriots from the Republican
plain ranks they served to sustain the
American President. Before the world
| they Endorsed by voice and action the
final decision of their country. Theirs
was but one voice, strength to our
President, victory TO our arms. How
different was the spectacle now pre-
scented when the punitive expedition
was sent into Mexico with the same
object as that of Mckinley into Cuba
though this into Mexico was under
a Democratic President. Now a po-
litical party in America speaks.
through it's leaders, its contempt for
it's President in its efforts to maintain
his country in peace, his countrymen
in life and honor. See how these Re
publican masters all over the nation
proceeded to arouse conflict at home
that they could awaken assaults upon
America from abroad--nll for votes
and for office. These masters sent
encouragement to the assailants of
America, calling to them to destroy
lea as penalty for obedience to the
orders of their President because he
was a Democrat.
If this Is called patriotism, God save
the name from ever being profaned
again by the mention in this temple.
May its name be forbidden to human
speech as were the names of the
despoilers of the temple of Ephesus.
Then, sirs, the Republican Conven-
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diers were in the field They were
moving to punish the Mexican soldiers
and the murderers of Americans.
CarranZa had been aroused to the
knowledge that the action of Wilson
did not meet the approval OFFS great
political party in the United States.
He saw that he could protest against
the action of sending the soldiers
across the border into Mexico and be
sustained by the Republican party of
America and strengthen himself with
his own forces in Mexico and arouse
sentiment of support, bringing the
possibility of unity of all other forces
TO him to the accomplishment of his
own object Ali Mexico turned to see
If America was with the action of tho
President Ii seemed now that the
soldiers were but the pickets and ad-
vance guard OF further following
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watched to note If we were supported
by a united country. If so. they would
not dare to oppose: they knew 1t
would mean death to their assailant
and prompt retribution upon their
country. But the Republican masters
were looking for the issue. The con-
vention assembled and, pursuing the
course that had been prescribed by
its leaders, wrote as its doctrine in
Ain world To read
its condemnation of America and her
course then being pursued in Mexico.
1t told CarranZa that 1t was against
our sending those troops, with every
word of its platform sounding to Mex
leo that 1t condemned our sending the
soldiers TO rescue American citizens.
The platform proclaimed that we
were interfering. and wrote an lndict-
ment of their country in that critical
hour in the statement
We denounce the indefensible meth
DDS of interference employed by this
administration in the internal affairs
of Mexico and refer with shame TO
it's failure to discharge the duty of
this country as next friend to Mexico.
G. o. L. DENOUNCES DEFENSE
OF OUR OWN PEOPLE
What could this mean except to
certify to CarranZa and to Villa that
the Republicans asserted that our en-
tering into Mexico with the soldiers
at that date was wholly for the pur-
pose of rescuring our own children
was ible"-that 1t was "in4
reference? ELECTROMAGNETIC we
were proceeding to punish the BAN
dts; INSTRUMENTATION we were
seeking to rescue our own sons; In
INSTRUMENTATION we were seeking to
punish the murder of our own citi-
zens. And then Carranza. drawing
his, license and his encouragement
from this Indictment of the Repub-
lican party giving evidence and tes-
timony that the combined Judgment
was that our conduct was. "indefen-
sible" and "interference''--that we
were invaders--felt his opposition
justified. 1t revived Carranzas
charge. 1t gave approval to his ac-
cusations and invited him TO treat us
as convicted of interfering in the In
ternal affairs OF Mexico in manner
indefensible and in violation OF what
it charged to be our duty as the next
friend of Mexico. Thus Carranza
and his people were aroused to their
sense of Justification for any assault
they would make upon our people or
upon our soldiers by this, the decla-
ration OF the Republican party in its
platform, announcing to the world it's
impeachment OF It's own country
this summon OF its country's enemies
to kill her children az interfering in
vaders, indefensible and in violation
OF their duty before the world as the
friend to Mexico. Now, to add to
this, that they might summon Villa
and his band of murderers to join
secretly and In common cause with
Carranza, they added with adroitness
and skill-the calculating demons
that our other offense for which they
justified any assault upon us was
BY lending influence
through recognition of one of the
factions
What ala that mean except to in
form villa that our recognition of
Carranza was, to the Republican par
ty, an offense untustified and which
anyone had right to resent, and
against which a great political party
in America was resenting and pro-
testing? Thus. Villa had his new
license to renew his assaults upon
our people. multiply his outrages up