New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-24
II KEPT US OUT OF WAR
NEMESIS OF DEMOCRATS

Washington. Sept. PILE kept us
on a. war that celebrated shbo-
~ 90 raac been inverted y
Tcs'ma,,,r Gcrc-al Burleeon. which
wr, mainly re pOn,ih,c for I've b.
f-4t a. Charles Evan Huahcs IN the
..mraien OF 1910 is return W. 10
pla-ne the Democrats. and. under tie
surface. is one Of tn great movirr
causes - the uHmietakahle trend
toward the election OF Harding and
Coolidge, and a Republican Senate
and House.
This is accentuatcd by the fact
that Governor Cox has assumed the
rnt'rc Wilson burden by declaring
that whatever the President has
promised he will fulfill. Whether his
declaration includes the promise t.
keep us out OF war may be gathered
only from his statement that tn.
league will help prevent further
wars.
Members OF congress are recalling
20 their constituents the utterance OF
President Wilson in 1914.
-"Am-rica should lead her own life
We can not form alliances with those
Who are not going our way. We
need not and we should not. form
alliances with any nation in the
world Those who are right, thosc
vho hold their honor higher than
their advantage, do not need ALI
ance'
And they recall'that at Shadow
Lavr N 1910 he stated that these
gentlemen ~(neaning the Republicans
w Il never Get us into war because
hey viii never have the opportunity. %
There is no longer any doubt that
great numbers OF voters were swayed
from Hughes to Wilson BY such
statements, any more than there IS
doubt that it was best that the war
be fought. The point in the minds
Of the voters who have memories is
that the Pres dent and the Democrat
plenty OF evidence that the President
and his advisers realized that the
war was inevitable.
\; the time the Lusitania was m
the President made no move. And
Immediately after that event Cover
ror Cox said in his newspaper:
We have not heard of man
Americans biting their finger nails al
lie thought of submarine activities.
All OF us feel sorry for a merchant
yesse, that is sent TO the bottom OF
the sea whether armed or unarmcd
feel sorry also for the man-oi-
wa, tina, is sunk Immediately after
encounter. We sympathize with
the soldiers who are losing their
in the trenches with miserable
humanity in general. But our skirts
are clear as regards the activities Of
the German u boats They have
committed M crime against US. They
have PLAYED the part of combatants
and respected our borders. We feel
sorry for the men who have lost their
ir the war and for the women
and children who have been made 70
through no fault of their own.
Put il il not our war. il Is the war ri
Britain and Germany and we
ire not, going "a interfere with either
SIDE 50 long as our rights are re
,pectsd"
The President -~epudiated his frs
and is today proposing
-fz- alliance wi-h Furooean powe-s
which Governor Cox has accepted
-i-hou' the SLIGHTEST change. Al
most az soon as ~ Inauguration W.
7~-- VIZ -7s drcia-c1 And -heu
he Democratic leaders Tor .hr fi-e'
inc denounced GERMANY for sink
nr the Iusi'ania. Now another
is A. hand and TIE same
promises arc being mad. with the
-es-'. tha. Reorhii~ar= -rn1'nr for
congress are from TIRE STUNT ask
ng, VII You be buncoed again."