Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-09-03
WILSON
AS AUTOCRAT
Master of Secretive Methods
and Unknown Purposes,
Says Henry Lane Wilson

BY The Associated Press
OGDENSBURGH, N. Y, Sept. 3
President Wilson was described as
an "autocrat of secretive methods
and unknown purposes" and his ad-
ministration characterized as "a
reign of autocracy and incompet-
ence." in a speech before a Republic
can meeting here last night by Hem
~ Lane Wilson, of Indianapolis,
formerly American ambassador to
Mexico.
Mr.. Wilson said that the Demo-
cratic national convention at San
Francisco endorsed the Wilson ad-
m~inistration, but rebelled 'at the
dictation of the French Lick political
yndicate" and nominated Governor
Cox. For the moment this nomi-
nation was believed to be the signal
for the throwing off of the shackles
of Wisconsin," continued the speak
er, but this belief was soon dissi-
pated for the standard bearer of the
Democratic party made his Pilgrim
age to Canossa and standing bare
headed In the presence of the auto
crat of America, made his submits
sion, received the autocratic bless
ing and the autocratic kiss of peace
and went on his way to make Amer
lea safe for democracy.
The mantle of Elijah with all its
patchwork of autocracy, wasteful-
ness, internationalism, secrecy. ar
rogance and intolerance was trans
ferred to Elisha and humb1y accept
ed by Elisha. MI. Hyde was trans
zformed into DR.. Jekyl."
The greater part of Mr.. Wilson's
speech was devoted to an exhaustive
commentary upon President Wilson's
administration. Some of h speak"
er's comments were:
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
a mere cipher and his councils were
directed by petty men of unknown
origin. Intrigue took the place of
craftsmanship and by the advice and
counsel of as unwholesome a group
of court favorites, political satellites
and adventures as the world has
ever known, the country was hur-
ried from n astonishing innova-
ton into another. from one danger
to a worse.
The American people have been
asked to join in an adventurous ex-
pertinent in internationalism and in
the exploitation of new doctrines for
eign to the spirit of our institutions
and ininical to u highest and best
interests.
ITO this has been added what
might be appropriately described as
'shirt-tail diplomacy a phrase
which aims to describe the state of
mind that induces us to get up in
the middle of the night and see
what our neighbors are doing and,
If they are doing it. to tell them not
to do 1t: and If they aren't doing to
tell them to do it."
This restless and opaque-vision-
ed diplomacy" the speaker said,
lied to the extension of American
sovereignty over Hayti and Santo
Domingo, to the overthrow of one
Mexican president and the %autocra-
5tic inyestiture of another and has
cost us the friendship of Italy, the
bitter criticisms of France, the cold
distrust of Great Britain and the
reproachful complaints of China.
Too much false altruism and not
enough plain, everyday common
Eense,'' was one of the speakers
transformations of the Wilson ad-
ministration. "And then, too, it
must not be forgotten that he kept
us out of war;" the former am
bassador continued. THAT is to say
he kept Theodore Roosevelt and
Leonard Wood out Of the war. Then
he took up into the war unready.
unprepared and undressed before
the eyes of the world at an added
cost of $4,000, 000. 900. according to
the testimony given before the
United States senate"
President Wilson, the speaker
said. appointed four nobodies and
himself as delegates to the peace
conference and then with a retinue
of ethnologists, etymologists, psy-
biologists, geographists, secretaries,
Wallets, hotel cooks and fddlers,
sailed across the ocean with orien-
tai pomp and ceremony to make
the world safe for democracy"
The speaker reviewed what he
called the "untimeiy fate" of four
of Mr.. Wilson's fourteen points at
the hands of the peace conference.
declaring hat Japan obtained the
approval of the conference to the
great robbery of Shantung."
Mr.. Wilson criticized the cove
nant of the League of Nations along
the lines upon which it was attack
ed in the senate. Whether Cox or
Harding be elected president. Mr..
Wilson said, 1t would not be posi-
Bile to secure the approval of this
covenant by the United States sen-
ate, and that the League of Nations
is "a failure and a by-word and a
kissing among the nations of the
earth"
Mr.. Harding. the speaker said.
had declared that If elected presi-
dent, he would Immediately set out
to accomplish peace with Germany.
This. Mr.. Wilson said, could be ac-
complished by resolution of cor
gress without a q ATTY with Ger
many and afterward I'VE can call
together the nations of the world
for the creation of an association
OF Independent nations which may
become the instrumentality of ac-
complishing the peace of the world
without threatening the sovereignty
of the nations"