Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-05-27
united STATES AND
MEX|CO'S PROBLEM
Opinion of General Leonard
Wood, Candidate for Republi.
can Nomination for Presi.
dency, Expressed While in
Burlington for Early Break.
fast With Major Jackson

Major General Wood candidate for the
republican nomination for the presidency
OF the United States, was in the city YES
terday for few hours cut of a crowded
week and was the guest at breakfast of
MAJOR II. Nelson Jackson. After the
breakfast he with his staff and a number
OF Burlingtonans went to Montpelier.
where nc delivered an address at the Re-
publican State convention
Those with General Wood tell Of n siren
nous campaign. The party left Chicago
Monday noon after putting in Sunday and
monday forenoon hard at work on bust
ness which had accumulated at campaign
headquarters. They arrived in New York
tuesday and after some work there
took the train for Burlington, arriv-
ing here on the carly morning sleeper.
After the breakfast. which was served at
':io O'Clock. the party started for Mont
perer expecting to reach there before
nine O'Clock. At noon they left Montpelier
FOR Boston, where they were due to. ar
rive at six O'Clock. From there they go
back to New York and then take a trip to
North Carolina. after which they return
TO chicago to again clear up weeks ac-
emulation of business
captain Nicholas Roosevelt, cousin Of
the late Theodore Roosevelt, Col. r. w
Miller and Fl. J. Ryan are with General
wood on the trip. OF his aides, Roosevelt
is the only one who has not been Obliged
to lie off for a while and rest. This same
strenuous program is now on its 18th
week aitnough the pace has apparently
not affected the general in the least.
At the breakfast yesterday were Major
II. Nelson Jackson. General Wood Mayor
j. Holmes Jackson. T. B. Hanna, Paul
Kicker II. j. Ryan, John NJ Carroll.
George NJ Resett. George F. Whitney.
Col 7. w Miller, Nicholas Roosevelt. s.
f. White. j. l.. Southwick, Warren r.
Austin, j. j. Flynn and Captain w. s.
Webb.
In discussing the Mexican situation,
General Wood said that the course which
the United States would be obliged to
pursue with its neighbor in all probability
would be to serve that country as 1t
had Cuba and the Philippines, sending
United States troops there to be quarter
ed in the leading centers and as fast as
possible working up a native constabu-
larry. The MexicanS are not race of
warriors and it is not war which is to
be feared. but they are lawless and will
murder, steal and rape If left to their
own resources. By establishing such a
control over them they could be brought
up to law-abiding basis.
General Wood spoke of the enormous ex-
penses connected with such a campaign
as the present. To circularize the coun-
try thoroughly would cost a million and
half dollars. Those candidates who have
small expense accounts were not wholly
fair. The total of expense was reduced
by charging different items up to some
State organization or in some other way
covering the expenditures up. for in this
day there can he no such thing as an eco
nomical campaign. He evidenced much
interest in the outcome in Oregon where
he is running neck and neck with Hiram
Johnson, although the latter is from the
Pacific coast. He was of the opinion that
he would have good chance of winning
the State If he could have visited it, as he
has a number of good friends there.