Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-06-08
Must Drive Wilson
From Pcwer, Says
Lodge to COP.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Chicago June S.-The country must
drive President Wilson and his "dy-
nasty" from power and defeat the
league of nations as he desires it, de-
clared Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
temporary chairman Of the republican
national convention, in his keynote
address here today.
Defending the senate's opposition
to the treaty of peace as "A high and
patriotic duty, the senator flung down
this gauntlet:
I'VE make the issue: we ask ap-
probation for what we have done.
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 ar
raignmenr of the Wilson administra-
ton, the senator found time to lw'
before the delegates the stand of the
republican party on other salient
problems facing the nation.
Chief among these was Mexico
Declaring it was time for the United
States to take firm hand in things
Mexican and end the "disgraceful
record" of the last seven
years, Senator Lodge urged
that this country let the Mex
leans choose as their president some
strong and upright man who is
friendly to the United States and de-
|termined to establish order and then
lend him a real and cordial support
Mexico lies at our DOORS" he de-
clared cit Is a 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.'h
Must Clean House.
Salient points made by Senator
Lodge were:
"Mr. Wilson and his dynasty. mis-
heirs and assigns. or ANYBODY that is
his. anybody who with bent knee has
served his purposes, must be driven
from all control, from all influence
upon the government OF the United
States.
"They must be driven from office
and power, not because they are
democrats, but because Mr.. Wilson
stands for a theory Of administration
and government which is not Amer
lean.
1.-THE return Of the democrats to
power with Mr.. Wilson or one of his
disciples still the leader and master
OF q great party, which before his
advent possessed both traditions and
principles. would be a long step in
the direction of the autocracy for
which Mr.. Wilson yearns and a heavy
blow to the continuance OF free rep
resentative government as we have
always conceived and venerated 1t.
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 conclusively excluded from
any future control.
The defeat Of the present admin
istration and all it means transcends
In Importance every other question
and all immediate and dominent Is
sues are bound up with 1t. Without
that defeat every chance Of the right
settlement OF the mighty questions
before us, so sorely needed now and
not later, will depart.
ITO 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 pro-
tected, we must have government
or the people, duly chosen by the
people, and never must there be per-
mitted any government by a single
man or by group of men, or by an
organized minority.
MANY vital economic measures
and especially protective tariff leg
islation to guard our industries, are
impossible with Democratic Free
Trader of Socianstic proclivitfes in
the White House. To accomplish
such measures as these, we must
have, as we Intend to have, a repub-
lican president, in sympathy with a
republican house and senate.
THE rise of prices, the high cost
OF living which reach daily into
every home, is the most pressing. as
1t Is the most difficult and essential
problem which confronts us. Some
OF the sources Of this trouble can be
reached by legislation, altho not all,
put everything that can be affected
by laws should be done at once,
"Profiteering, the charging of ex-
tortionate and unjustified prices,
which is stupid as well as unlawful,
are subject now to ample punitive
laws. Those laws should be enforced,
Others If necessary added, and the
offenders both great and small should
be pursued and punished
"The most essential remedy for
high cost COZ living) is to keep UP
and increase production and partic-
ularly should every effort be made to