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ASsA|lS WILSON REGIME
NAMESAltE, ONCE MEXICAN
MINISTER, SPEAKS
President Is Pictured AS An
Autocrat Seeking Pon1p and
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Ogdersburg, N. Y, September
ICorrespondence of The Associared
Press. l-President Wilson was de-
scribed as an "autocrat of secretiVe
methods and unknown purposes ana
his administration characterized as
"a reign of autocracy and incompet-
ence" in a speech before republican
meeting here this afternoon by Hen
~ Lane Wilson, of Indianapolis, for
merly American ambassador to Mex
leo.
Mr.. Wilson said that the democrat
lie national convention at san Fran
cisco endorsed the Wilson admins
tration but rebelled cat the dictation
of the French Lick political syndi-
cate" and nominated Governor Cox.
"Eor the moment els nomination
was believed TO be the signal for the
throwing off of the shackles or VII
sonism," continued the speaker, nut
this belief vas soon dissipated Tor the
standard bearer Of the democratic
party made his pilgrimage to Canos-
"a and standing bareheaded in the
presence of the autocrat OF Amer
lea. made his submission, received the
autocratic blessing and the autocratic
kiss of peace and went on his way 10
make America safe for democracy.
THE mantle of Elijah with all its
patchwork OF autocracy, wastefulness,
internationalism, secrecy, arrigance
and intolerance was transferred 10
Elisha and humbly accepted by Eli
to Dr. Jekyl."
Comment Had Edge.
The greater part of Mr.. Wilson's
speech was devoted to an exhaustive
commentary upon President Wilson's
administration. Some of the speak
er's comments We're:
"The reign OF violent prejudice, Of
private feud, of petty injustice and
autocratic procedure initiated by Sc
cret conclave was inaugurated. His
president Wilson's) cabinet became
q mere cipher and his councils wete
directed by petty men Of unknown
origin. Intrigue took the place Of
statesmenship and by the advice and
counsel Of as unwholesome a group
OF court favorites, political satellites
and adyenturers as the world has ever
known, the country was hurried from
one astonishing innovation into an
other, from one danger to worse.
3 The American people have been
pertinent in internationalism and IN
the exploitation of new doctrines for
eign to the spirit of our institutions
and infmical to our highest and best
interests.
Shirt Tall Diplomacy.
ITO this has been added what might
be appropriately described as shirt
tail diplomacy, phrase which aims
to describe the state Of mind that in
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the night and see what our neigh
bors are doing and, IL they are doing
It, to tell them not to do it.; and IL
they aren't doing to tell them to do
it."
This restless and opaque visioned
diplomacy" the speaker said, lied to
the extension of American sovereign
ty over Hayti and Santo Domingo,
to the overthrow of one Mexican
president and the autocratic inves-
titutre of another and has cost Us the
friendship of Italy, the bitter cri-
ticisms Of France, the cold distrust
Of Great Britain and the reproachful
complaints of China"
TOO much false altruism and not
enough plain, everyday common
sense" was one Of the speakers
Characterization Of the Wilson adj
ministration. And then, too, it must
not be forgotten that he kept US out
of war;" the former ambassador con-
tinued. THAT is to say he kept Theo-
dore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood
out of the war. Then he took us into
the war unready, unprepared and un-
dressed before the eyes of the werld
at an added cost of $4,000, 900 900, ac-
cording to the testimony given be-
fore the United States senate"
President Wilson, the speaker said,
appointed four nobodies and him
self as delegates to the peace con-
ethnologists, etymologists, psychol-
ogtsts, geographists, secretaries, val
cts, hotel cooks and fiddlers, sailed
across the ocean with oriental pomp
and ceremony to make the world safe
for democrcy."
The speaker reviewed what he
called the "untfmely fate" of four of
Mr. W.Son's fourteen points at the
hands of the peace conference,
prevail of the conference to "the
great robbery of Shantuhg."
League Is Failure.
Mr. Wilson criticized the covenant
OF the League Of Nations along the
lines upon which ii. WIS attacked in
the senate. Whether Cox or Harding
be elected president, Mr.. Wilson said,
1t would not be possible to secure
the approval Of this covenant by the
United States senate and that the
League of Nations is "a failure and a
by word and Kissing among the
nations of the earth"
Mr.. Harding, the speaker said, had
declared that If elected president, he
would Immediately set out to accom-
plish peace with Germany. This, Mr..
Wilson said, could be accomplished
by resolution of congress without
treaty with Germany and afterward
I'VE can call together the nations of
the world for the creation of an as
seeiation Of independent nations
which may become the instrumentality
world without threatening the SOW
ereignty of the nations"
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