The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-06-09
LODGE DECLARES
WILSON MUST GO
Senator Condemns Presidents Policy
on League of Nations and
Mexico in Keynote
Address


drive president Wilson and his "dy-
nasty" from power and defeat the
League of Nations as he desires it,
declared Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
temporary chairman of the Republic
an National Convention, in his key
note address here today.
Defending the Senate's opposition to
the treaty. of peace as high and pa
triotic duty, the Senator flung down
this gauntlet.
eve make the issue. We ask ap-
probation for what we have done.
The people will now tell us what they
think of Mr.. Wilson's league and the
sacrifice of America"
While emphasizing the point that
around the league must be waged the
1920 Presidential campaign, and de-
voting much of his speech to arraign-
ment of the Wilson administration
the Senator found time to lay before
t delegates the stand of the Repub-
lican party on other salient prob.
lens facing the nation.
Chief among these was Mexico. De-
claring it was time for the United
States to take firm hand in things
Mexican and end the "disgraceful rec
ord" of the last seven years, Senator
Lodge urged that this country let the
MeXicans choose as their President
some strong and upright man who is
70 f1,o 1osk kol
termined to establish order and then
lend him a real and cordial support.
mexico lies at our DOORS" he de-
clared. "It is primary duty for us
to deal with it under the Monroe Doc
trine, but nothing has been done, and
yet we are asked to take mandate
for Armenia"
Salient points made by Senator
Lodge were:
"Mr. Wilson and his dynasty, his
heirs and assigns, or anybody that is
his, anybody who with bent knee has
served his purposes, must be driven
from control, and from all influence
upon the Government of the United
States.
! They must be driven from office and
power, not because they are Demo-
Gratis, but because Mr.. Wilson stands
for theory Of administration and
government which is not American.
! "The return of the Democrats to
power with Mr.. Wilson or some of his
disciples still the leader and master of
a great party, which before his ad-
vent possessed both traditions and
principles, would be long step in the
direction of the autocracy for which
Mr.. Wilson yearns and heavy blow
to the continuance Of free representa-
tive government as we have always
conceived and vencrated it.
"Mr. Wilson and the autocracy he
represents, and all which those who
believe in his doctrines and share his
spirit represent, must be put aside and
conclusivcly excluded from any future
control.
"The defeat Of the present admins
tration and all it means, transccnds
IN Importance every other question
and all immediate and dominant is
sues are bound up with it, Without
that defeat every chance of the right
settlement of the mighty questions be-
fore us, so sorcly needed now and not
later, will depart.
"To maintain law and order and a
stable government where justice rules
and the right Of all men, high and
low, rich and poor, shall be protected.
we must have a government of the
people, duly chosen by the people, and
never aust there be permitted any
government by single man or by a
group Of men, or by an organized mi
nority.
"Many vital economic measures ana
especially protcc We t>rif lcgiala-
ton to GuWd or industries, are i,n-
possible with y Democratic free trader
o. Socialistic proclivitics in the White
Nouac. TO accomplish such measures
as these, wc must have, as we mi, nd
to have, Republican President, in
sympathy with q Republican Ilolsc
and Senate.
"Thc rise of prices, the high cos,
: living which reach daily into every
home, is the mort pressing, as it is
the most difficult rld most essential
problem which confronts us. Some or
the sources OF this trouble eau b.