The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-04-02
TRADUCERS OF WILSON Liz
ENED TO TRADUCERS OF
WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN

Washington, D. C.--Traducers of the
President, men who have villified and
slandered him in almost every con-
ceivable way, were likcned to traduc
ers of Washington and Lincoln by
Senator Mcclellan, of Tennessee, in
speech in the Senate. The vociferous
attacks in which President Wilson is
now being assailed as an "usurper"
by some who disagree with him recall
tie attacks that were made upon his
two great predecessors, who also were
reviled rs "usurpers," declared the
Tennessee Senator. So similar are
some of the attacks being made upon
the President to those that were made
upon Washington and Lincoln that
those making them might almost be
accused Of plagiarism.
"And yet" Senator Mcclellan de-
clared, "in the audience that is here,
doubt if thegc is single one who
con remember off and the name Of a
single dctrGctor Of either one of those
great Presidents Of the United States
Washington 2n1 lincolnD. And SO,
in my judgment, when the final ac-
count is taken, it will be found that
Woodrow Wilson, just MS Washing
ton did in his day and as Lincoln did
in lis day, rose up to the full height
ind majesty of an American citizen,
and has done only those things and
has stood TO-. only those measures
that meant the glory and the prosper
ity and the happiness Of our beloved
Republic"
Quoting from JOEL Parker, form
er Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of New Hampshire, who in a pamph-
let written in 1862 sid of Lincoln:
"Tke President is not only monarch,
his is an absolute irresponsible, un-
controllable government; a perfect
military despotism," Senator Nickel
lar said of doctor" Moses, Senator
from the same State, who has over
looked no opportunity to villify the
President:
81 stop here long enough to Won
der whether the distinguished Sena-
tor from New Hampshire, who was
assailing the President for alleged
physical and mental disability the
other day, did not copy in substance
some of the language that was here
used about Abraham Lincoln. 1t
sounds very much like him. Is it pos
sible that even illness will not soften
the bitter malice Of the partisanship ?"
History Repeating Itself
Senator Mcclellan then read from
an editorial printed in New York
newspaper in 1864 whose title line
was as Mr.. Lincoln Honest?" De-
claring that the editorial was one of
the basest calumnies ever uttered
Senator Mcclellan said that it was not
baser than some of the utterances
which have been made against Pres
ident Wilson recently, and which were
as entirely without foundation.
Asking if true greatness must ever
be the victim of malicious abuse, Sen
ator Mcclellan reminded the Senate
how all the world acclaimed the Pres
ident as the unselfsh and just arbi-
ter in every settlement at the peace ia.
BILE; that the whole world, except q
bare majority of one in the Senate
was willing to accept his decisions as
to fair dealing between nations. "And
yet this majority in the Senate" he
declared, "as | believe, is being moved
more by partisanship than by patriot
ism, has for nearly year been fight
ing this just settlement and abusing
this just man simply because he is a
Democrat and not Republican. In
my judgment, if Republican had ne
gotiated this treaty every one of the
40 Republicans would have been for it,
irreconcilables and ALL"
In concluding, Senator McKena-
warned the Presidents enemies in the