Show IE OUTLINES cl CAMPAIGN ISSUES CHAIRMAN OF NATIONAL LICAN convention DELIVERS KEYNOTE ADDRESS declare that president wilton wilson and his party must be driven from power and league of nations plan be defeated Clil chicago cago the country must drive president wilson wll on and hla his dynasty from power and defeat the league ot of nations as lie he desires it declared senator henry cabot lodge dodge temporary chairman of tho the republican national convention in tits hla keynote address here at the iho opening ses session sion on june 8 defending the senates opposition ti 9 the treaty of peace as a high and patriotic duty the senator flung down this gauntlet we make the issue we ask approbation for what we have done the people will now tell us what they think or of mr wilsona wilsons Wil sona sons league and the sacrifice f lee ot of america while emphasizing the point that around the league must be wa waged ged the 1920 presidential campaign and devoting much of ul speech ta t arraign ment of the wilson administration th the senator lound found time to lay before the delegates the stand of the republican party on other salie salient tit problems facing the nation chief among these was mexico exico Nf declaring it wits was time for tile the united states to take a firm hand band in things mexican and end the disgraceful record of the last seven years senator lodge urged that this country let the mexicans choose as their president some strong and upright man who Is friendly to the united states and determined ter mined to establish order and then lend him a real and cordial support 1131 mexico exico lie lies at our doors lie he declared it Is a primary duty for us to deal with it under the monroe doctrine but nothing has been done and yet we are asked to take a mandate lor armenia salient points made by senator lodge were mr wilson and ills dynasty ills heirs and assigns or anybody that Is his anybody who with be bent nt knee lias has served hl his purpose 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 dot because they are democrats but because mr wilson stands tor for a theory of administration and government which is not american mr wilson and the autocracy he represents and all which those who believe in ills doctrines and share ills spirit represents must be put aside and conclusively excluded from tiny any future control many vital economic measures and ami especially protective tariff legislation to guart guard our industries are impossible with a democratic tree free trader of socialistic cia cla listic proclivities in the white house to accomplish such mea measures bures as these we must have as we intend to have a republican president in sa sympathy with a republican house bouse and senate sou ate the phrase government ownership means not only that the government shall own the railroads but also it Is to be feared that those who run the railroads shall own the government when the armistice with willi german germany was signed the course to be pursued was clear that course was to make the peace with germany at once and then take up for reasonable consideration the question of establishing such future relations with our associates lit in the war as would make for the future peace of the world this mr wilson prevented senator lodge charged the democratic party with responsibility for the perilous conditions of the hour and said it if the republican party falls fails to grapple it effectively the russian descent into barbarism will begin to draw near A beginning had been made he said by a republican congress in restoring economic conditions working under all the difficulties and opposition imposed by a hostile executive ile he enumerated various beneficial measures adding that the estimates had been reduced over a billion dollars ile he advocated enforcement ot of the laws against profiteering find and said it was possible to check the adrance of prices by law by providing for tile the control of credits in such manner as to give preference to the roost most essential products lie he described the railroad net act as a single great law lav which in ill any period would be sufficient to distinguish a congress us as one of high ac |