Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-11
THR0NGS or CHICAGO
PEOPLE STRIVE TO HEAR
JOHNSON AND B0RAH
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lures on the presence of American
troops in Siberia and there was cheer
ing when he asserted that one of the
was the formers insistence on an
amendment to the league of nations
plan which would make it impossible
to send American boys to fight any
where except by order of their own
government.
The Interruptions grew more fire.
quent and excited as the senator pro-
ceeded. When he spoke of the power
in the hands of the president there
were cries of Take it away from
him. cat calls, booes and cheers Be
fore we talk of that let's see to it that
he is not given more power" shouted
the Idaho senator as soon as he could
make himself heard
The audience rose and cheered
wildly
THEY want us to sign on the dotted
line; they say our amendments take
time" went on the senator. and a
spectator called out, ut took Wilson
six months. ae
Yes said the speaker, taking the
cue, and it took George Washington
seven years to gain the independence
from George Ill. that they now want
to hand back to George ""
Senator johnson after speaking in
the theater, went to Grant Park where
he addressed an overflow meeting Of
several thousand persons.
Mccormick Also.
In his introductory remarks Sem
ator Mccormick said:
Eve are here tonight under cir
cumstances which are demanding at
tention all over the United States.
The president of the United States
and am speaking with all re-
spect-has negotiated treaty in de-
fanee of his own express opinion;
in defiance of the established prac-
tice under the constitution, and de-
gpite the express will of the major
ity Of the American people expressed
at the polls.
Improperly, as some of us are
told there has been interviewer in
the treaty covenant which in our
Judgment guarantees that the United
States must take part in the wars
that the treaty promises; take part
against the conscience and the judy
ment of the people of the United
States.
HE has not adduced an argument
in support OF his position. He has
not sought to- explain away honest
doubts which fill the breasts of mil
lions of his counrymen. He has inn
puted TO others motives which he
himself would never acknowledge rs
his own. BY abuse and attempted
coercion he has sought to intimidate
to drive them from their
Judgment in order that obedient to
his viii they might depart from the
obligations and the oath which they
took on assuming the office of SEN
atds of the United, St4ses.
Testing Time Has Come.
''Ihe testing time has come. We
are to learn IL senators of the United
States, by coercion and intimidation,
may, be driven from the performance
OF their sworn duty. There was 8
tim, when it seemed as though r"r-
fesentative institutions in this cnEn-
try We're to come, to an end, as IL in
the hour when we had got rid of
the autocracy abroad we were to lose
democracy at home. Thank God,
there were men who dared speak
their minds. who dared voice the
words of the silent millions who
We're unable to speak. Such man
is William Il. Borah,
There has come to our state of
Illinois, an old fighter in the interest
of the people. A friend and col
league of one whom we long loved
Roosevelt. In this hour
when the nationalism Of America is
when all that Theodore
Roosevelt held dear is in danger, i'll
is fitting that there should speak in
this hall for him, since he is mo-
longer with us. Hiram johnson, of
California; fi