The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-06
Cummins, Kenyon and LaFOl-
lette Strung Up in Idaho.
Much Feeling Turnout Country
Over Senate FilibuSter.
ALTON B. PARKER SPEAKS UP
He Says Bryan Should Have
Gone to Heaven Years Ago.
Wilcox, Says Whole Nation
Should Back Up President.

Boise, Ida, March 6.-United
States Senators Cummins and Kenyon
of Iowa and LaFollette of Wisconsin
were hung in effigy in the town of
Caldwell. twenty miles west of this
city, Monday night by former Iowans,
who resented their filibustering tao
tics in the United States senate, when,
with others, they succeeded in block
ing the president by holding up the
bill to arm merchant vessels.
Many of the Iowans who took part
in the ceremony, which was witnessed
by many people, are personally ac-
quainted with the two Iowa senators.
The Idaho legislature has passed
resolutions condemning in 'unmeas-
ured terms the filibuster of the twelve
senators at time when the nation
faces an International crisis.
Parker to Bryan.
/ New York, March 6.-Alton B.
Parker sent the following telegram to
William Jennings Bryan, at Miami,
Fla:
IF you and your friends, Senator
LaFollette and your joint followers
and sympathizers had gone to heaven
three years ago, Germany would not
| have attempted to drive the United
oldtSS lfOHl TIE seas OF 10 cOISplTe
with other nations to make war upon
her, for we should by now have been
well prepared to defend ourselves.
nor would you have had occasion to
sneak out of Washington upon dis
covery of the German plot
| While you can never undo the mis-
chief you have planned, yet if you act
quickly. you may be able to persuade
those now ambitious to become Bene-
4 DICT Arnolds of congress to end the
shameful scene now being enacted
William r. Wilcox, chairman of
the national Republican committee
said of the filibuster:
! Every senator should have stood
by the president in this time of try
ing crisis. 1t must have been a dis
appointment to the patriotic people
| of this country that twelve senators
should flibuster on a measure so i'm
portant to the honor of the nation
/ Other Denunciations
Pensacola. Fla. March 6.-Resolutions
endorsing President Wilson's programme
of armed neutrality We're adopted here at
] a public meeting, at which speakers scath-
/ ingly attacked the senator's who were
i charged with blocking the armed neutral
4 ity bill in the United States senate.
I Columbus, o., March 1.-THE Ohio senate
adopted a resolution eriticising the nation
al senate for refusing to pass the armed
Wilson.
The resolution offered by Senator
MllieF Licking county ana
dered sent to congress.
The house by unanimous vote also ad-
opted the resolution condemning the eIev-
| en- United States senators. who held up the
presidents request for authority to arm
merchantmen.
Peoria, ILL.,, March 6-Denouncing the
activities of senators who blocked passa ge
of the armed neutrality bill in the senate,
members of the Peoria board of trade
their objections. Copies of the resolutions
declaring that in our judgment. this is
emphatically the time for the whole coun-
try to stand by the president and we know
that all loyal citizens do so stand" were
forwarded to President Wilson and sena-
tors Sherman and Lewis of Illinois,
Little Rock, Ark. March 6.-Both houses
of the Arkansas legislature unanimously
/ adopted resolutions indorsing the course
of President Wilson in the present inter
national crisis and reaffirming confidence
United States Senator Robinson of Arkan-
sas for his attitude in standing squareIy
1 the fPor de the and for his
resolution in the United States senate.
df the Mareh
cial session here first passed. then recon
sidered. and finally referred to commit
tee resolution condemning United States
senator's who were charged with blocking
enactment of the armed neutrality bill in
stand of the United States senator's from
Kentucky and those Republican senator's
During the debate on the measure flag
was waved the floor of the house and
the members stood and cheered
Senators Minimize "Offense."
Washington, March 6.-Senators
Vardaman, Democrat, of Mississippi.
and Kenyon, Republican of Iowa, two
of the twelve senators who did not
sign the senate manifesto in favor of
the armed neutrality bill and who
were included in the group referred to
nv praSidant ~,
/ of wilful men who had rendered the
country helpless ard contemplate be-
fore the world" explained to the SEN
ate today that they had not been in
completely to prevent action on the
bill
/ Senator WilliamSs reply, particular
iy to his colleague, declared emphat-
ically that President Wilson was right
in his criticism of few senators who
made legislation by an overwhelming
majority impossible in the nation
crisis and that whatever might have
been their motive they and not con-
gress were responsible for the United
States being helpless and contempt
ble'' before the world.
Iowa Reprimands Senators.
Des Moines, Ia. March "a con-
current resolution condemning the
action of United States Senators Cum
minis and Kenyon of Iowa. in the fill
buster which killed the armed neu-
trality BILL was introduced in the Iowa
legislature today by Representative E.
D. Rayburn. The resolution, which
was laid over until the rules without
debate, "repudiates the act in impos-
ing the rule of the minority upon the
senate as wholly unauthorized by any
considerable sentiment of the people
of Iowa.
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Sentence Soldier to Years.
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