The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-05
Baker trapped by
Hitchcock in Senate
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ator Hitchcock said II consider it
reckless terrible mistake to 50 mis-
lead the country OF course the sec
rotary did not do it Intentionally, bu,
formation, because there was no coOr :
dination OF the shipping board VITA
ether government agencies.
Hoping to get 100000 men to Eu
rope without sufficient SHIPS to trans
port them was characterized by Sem
ator Hitchcock, as living in a foors
paradise" Unless something was done
the United States will face the worlds
greatest disaster, he said
IT can't believe the secretary in
tended it as a gigantic bluff, or in
tended to deceive the people" Mr.
Hitchcock continued, but he didn't
know: he was out of touch
In fiery fashion, Senator Williams,
instantly replied to Senator Hitchco, k.
He declared the Nebraska senator had
made "a very strong Indictment,
against the executive department =:
the government.
Referring to Senator Hitchcock's
statement that he did not tell all he
knew because he might be charged
with giving information to the enemy,
the Mississippi senator declared:
HE did tell almost all he knew,
and he did give information very val
Table to the enemy"
Senator Williams referred to agitL-
ton before the war of legislation to
prohibit shipment of munitions to the
allies.
THAT was almost as foolish" he
said, "as this war cabinet proposal.
That legislation. to keep the allies
from having American munitions, was
the German game then. The German
game now is Undertaking this admin
:stration.
IF what the senator from Nebraska
says is true, we are out Of the war.
If his indictment is true, we are al
ready defeated
The continental congress, he added,
came very near running General Wash
ington, land all the asses that ever
existed came very near running Lin
coin and Grant in the Civil War" This
was also true of the Southern congress
towards Jefferson Davis, he added
Congress or a council cannot car
on the war and cannot furnish the
Trains for any body else to do it," said
he.
IF the president hasn't got brains
enough to perform the functions ,
his great office, he can't be lent brains
by council
mo other people ever turned from
peace establishment and within nine
months converted themselves so -ea.-
ly complete into a war ma chine" Sen
ator Williams shouted. THE senator
says the president and secretary of
war don't know the fats, can't find
out. IN Gods name, how it is possible
for him EnOw1
Here are 100,o00.00O people ready 20
fight Germany by themselves and can
whip her by themselves" shouted Sen
ator Williams. I'VE feel our metal
we still have the spirit and we lave
he boys. What's the use of muck
raking the administrations
The Mississippi senator said the
charges reminded him of the man WHO
went to see a statue and proclaimed
the head divine, the breast superb, the
legs those of an athlete, but found a
small defect on the right heel and
wrote 346 pages about the defect"
Whats the sense of it," he declare :
Aren't we all doing our level best to
win the war? Isn't every republican
trying to help win the war except q
few pacifists who have nearly ended
their political lives
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