New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-04
Sen. Sherman
Makes Attack
On President
Asserts Country Is in Hands
Of Politicians and La
Dor Leaders

unofficial and personal government"
Senator Sherman, Of Illinois, Repub-
lican, made scathing attack in the
Senate to-day on President Wilson and
the Administration, and particularly
Colonel E. NJ. House, the President s
personal friend and adviser.
When Senator Sherman began to
speak practically all the Democratic
members left their seats and went to
the cloak rooms. Most of the Repub
licans paid close attention to the
speech.
With ironical references to the
Presidents recent statement that uoli-
tics is adjourned, the Senator asserted
that. having elected the President "al-
most single handed" Colonel House and
coterie of Texas politicians "are in
the saddle and they are doing politics
IN the same old way"
Under pretense OF war powers. he
SAID, the Administration is placing con-
troll of the country in the hands of a
lew politicians and labor leaders, to be
used relentlessly for the election of
party candidates now and President
in 1920.
i denounce," he added, "a political
autocracy covertly engaged, when the
nation is in the stress of war. in nm
dermin'ng institutional civil liberty"
He continues:
Not one undertaking seized as war
measure is intended ever to be re-.
turned to its owners by the Burle-
sons, the Bakers and the Gompcrs.
ihey know, as we do, that the war is a
randy pretence to embark the govern
ment on their fantastic adventures.
Physical properties are seized. They
are used to exploit pay rolls dedicated
TO the alleged sacred cause of labor.
At the very mention of this complai-
SAINT Congress falls PROSTATE.
Payrolls. inevitably become the po-
tent rod of politics. Not a government
enterprise but will be a recruiting sta
ton to mould votes to continue such
government. 1t is political. not GOV
eminent. control. tits not government
ownership, it is political ownership. No
one knows this better than its promot.
crs. who laugh at the ease Of conceal
ing from the public their real political
purpose
Colonel House was characterized bv
Senator Sherman as "this alleged, un-
selected. unofficial assistant President. "
The Senator gave an analysis of novel
SAID to have been written by Colonel
House, which he describes as an auto
biography telling tale of politics, civil
war, love and reform, with a meat axe
showing how to get rid of the Con-
stitution.
Speaking of Colonel Houses trip
abroad, Senator Sherman said:
w hen the colonel went to Europe
as the Presidents personal envoy in
May, 1914, he abode in the capitals of
the powers. Advice he gave then in
aDundance- The faithful chronicler of
uno1nclal government informs US they
listened listened politely and went their several
degenerate ways. The views Of the
United States on the freedom of the
seas were delivered to the belligerents
In March, 1915. by the colonel On a
second trip.
In substance it meant exemption
from the capture or harm of all non
combatants and neutrals and confined
war solely to operations of the armies
and navies of the belligerents, the
oi ooiu " Hoh-conCraDand,
OF merchantmen being guaranteed
against seizure. A blockade of an
enemy nation becomes impossible. A
navy could be used only as a defence
against invasion.
"Usurped Powers of Government"
"The United States was then a neu-
tral and at peace with every govern
mcnt in the world. The offer Of Colonel
blouse changed the international law
known to every civilized country. The
PRESIDENT then had no war powers His
secret and personal envoy exercised
unofficial and usurped powers of GOV
eminent. His gratuitous advice so to
settle the c-boat dispute provoked the
oerlslon OF Germany and the impa-
thence of the Allies.
The colonel had plan next to turn
austria into a collection of internal
dlsturbances which would make the
bolshevlsts yearn for it as a vast i'm
provement over their contrivance to
dlslntegrate undesirable empires If it
mad been adopted, instead Of causing
people to look bored, the war would
have been over before the President
How the colonel could have elected
HIM second time if this debacle had
occurred the biographer prudent1y
avoids.
The colonel's and the Presidents
minds run parallel on everything of
great Importance. This is the only
thing that saves US. If they diverged,
forbear. with the limited facilities of
mere human speech, to presage the
end.
Meetings With Wilson,
Senator Sherman told of Governor
Wilson'S meetings with Colonel House.
and continued:
Here originated the parallel of
minds already related. The biogra-
piers innocence is the most touching
passage in the rollcall of human cred
ulitys The annals of American poll
les do not reveal candidate who had
Tot parallel mind with the man who
aries the delegates from a state like
exas and lot Of it's neighbors around
Nth him. This veracious political en-
yclopadia of the genesis of Demo-
cratic politics says the colonel fell i'll
or fever at a most inopportune mo-
rtent.
ut was right after the Manhattan
Club affair, when George Harvey, an
early~and sincere friend, was sacrificed
in cold blood to pacify Colonel Bryan
and Colonel Watterson.
THE Joline letter, written by the
President in 1907, desiring earnestly