The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-17
SPENCER I'm DUTCH
German American Republicans ;Sofs
on Senator's 18th Of July
Speech. ss;s
By A. T. EDMoNSToN Y

MI s#r speech. III
By A. T. EDMONSToN ,,
II Jefferson City, July I4.Th,
League of Nations was the theme tai
Fourth Of July addresses by Gov
ernor F. D. Gardner at Higginsviile
Governor Joseph W. Folk, and nav NJ
l.. Cole, Chairman Of the Republics
Estate committee, at Bland and
|Owensville, Gasconade county, and
the Republican United States Sen.
ator from Missouri, Selden P. Spen-
I|cer, at Fredericksburg, the State Of
I|Virginia, many miles away from the
900 Missouri Republicans of either
German parentage or birth, who,
Through their votes last November,
made his election certainty. And
thereby hangs this tale. EN-
| The Fredericksburg speech of SEN
ator Spencer, when it becomes
known to his mighty host Of Ger
man-American constituents here at
( home-4o,ooo of them-will 50 badly
tear his toga that he can no longer
! expect to wear it after the election of
| November, 1920. 1t has hopelessly
put him ''in dutch" with this power
full wing of the Missouri Republi-
can party. What is even worse is
that Missouri G. O. P. leaders, to
hold their powerful allies, the. Ger
man-American voters, in line in the
state for the next election, will have
to 60 as far, probably, as to prove
that Senator Spencer was suffering
from the heat and complication Of
other ailments when he made the
Fourth of July address in Virginia
and did not know what he was talk
ing about and did not mean it.
The Fredericksburg audience of
Senator Spencer consisted, mainly,
of Americans by birth whose fore
fathers were the original settlers of
Virginia and Maryland, it was up to
him to deliver an Grafton which was
truly and entirely American, and he
did so.
After denouncing the German race
in no gentle language and scoring I
some telling points which thorough 7
ly aroused the enthusiasm of the I
hearers and drew round after round
Iof applause, Senator Spencer de-
clared that ALI immigrants, Germans
as those Of ether t4aaef faatief4H
ties, should. be deported unless they
Ifamiliarized themselves with the
English language.
The truthfulness of the address
was not questioned by the citizens of
the little Virginia city who heard it
and probably not one of the audience
raised the point that Senator Spen- I
Ger was 1900 miles from the German
American Republicans who gave him :
his $4,000 plurality over his Demo- Ic
cratic opponent and made his cleo "
ton certainty, or accused him of Y
the thought that he was so far away
from home and in such remote small V
city that his speech would never a
reach Missouri.
around the world the utterances of IL
Senator Spencer aaginst the German Il
race first travelled to Washington, D
d. G., a city but few miles from !,
Fredericksburg and from there sped ,
on electric wings to old Missouri
and is now here the sole subject of e'
discourse when hypenated German az
American Republican voters meet &C
lnywheTe. Dire vengeance is prom q
sed the Senator by this powerful II
action of the Republican party when p,
ne opportunity presents itself at the /.
election of November, 1920. g
The TRADE against the German we
ace, the sires of the 10000 Missouri ca
Iernan-American Republicans, came pr
liter Senator Spencer had unbosomed &c
himself on the League of Nations as sp
reactionary and unprogressive Re- tn
publican through declaring it need
d many amendments before it would IL
re accepted and ratified by the IRE m
'ublican) Senate. M
1t is needless to say that both
Governor Gardner and former Gov TO
rnor Folk held their audiences er
pell-bound until the closing word. IS
'eforc gatherings totaling $4,000 o;p
1en, women and children the two, IN
ach in Missouri cities a hundred ca
1iles apart, ably defended the ISIS
league of Nations covenant and en-
hatically demonstrated that when lic
republican politicians such as Sen we
tors Spencer, Lodge, Borah and tn
>nox opposed President Wilson's I'M
ompact between the leading nations +
+ the world to forever end war, do
Q for the sake and only reason that inf
MS widespread peace movement is an
f Democratic origin. tn,
The Higginsville victory celebra- tn;
on drew the largest crowd for a on
altering of any kind in the history frc
central western Missouri, fully Al
5000 men, women and children be- Tsp
lg in attendance. The enthusiastic me
vatiNn Governor Gardner received LOT
hen he reached the close of his adj lcol
ress clearly demonstrated that |pal
lafayette and all surrounding coun- lvoi
es heartily endorses and stand for lwh
resident Wilson's League of Ma
ons. Among other speakers were
=. Burris A. Jenkins, editor Of the Ifir,
ansas City Post. and Col. Ristine of Ian
exington. lime
At Bland former Governor Folk leta
,oke to an assemblage of over 6-dpes
70, and At Owensville to over 4.ooo AZ,
en-, women and children. The lSul
ltriotic enthusiasm disDlaved NV fhA HIM