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Show BITTER ATTACK IS IDE UPON THE PRESIDENT Governor O B Colquitt of Texas Declares Administration Adminis-tration Greatest Failure Fail-ure in History. NOTHING DONE THAT DESERVES PRAISE Foreign Policy Declared Imbecile; Tariff Law Condemned, Party Platform Violated By 0 B COLQUITT Governor of Texas Br International News Pervlce. IIOUSTOV Texas, Dee "6 The Wilson administration has been the greatest failure in the historv of the pres dencj The south is a laud 1 teral ly flowing with m Ik and honcv it has baAo one of the jbig;pgt and best crops In Its history and yet because of the utter incompetency of the men in charge of the government its business is prostrated its credit is impaired and thousands of its people are starving The administration s tariff law was pledged to lower the cost of living and it has had the contrary effect. By putting raw material on the free list and keeping the protective tariff on manufactured goods it has condemned American farmers by hundreds of thou sands to peonage and has enabled toe manufacturers getting their raw material mate-rial cheaper to charge higher prices for their goods which they have done. Hides were free-listed and shoes have gone higher This is true of vir ally ev ery single item similarly treated in the administration tariff law The Amer ican farmer gots less for his raw ma terials the American working man pays more for the finished product and both are robbed to further ennch the protected manufacturing trusts and combines British Dictation. The administration s fore gn policy has been imbecile. It has allowed Eng land to jji tate conditions as to cotton shipments to European countries that enabled English sp nners to rob the American cotton growers of half the value of their crop England stopped Vmerican shipments until the English spinners had bought their supply at 6i 2c a pound and stored it m Texas and other southern warehouses Then England consented to declare cotton not contraband and France fol lowed suit a day or two later Our f'overnment weakly subm tted to Eng and s diPtat on playing into the hands of the Englih spinners and betraying the American cotton growers as com pletely as if this country were an Eng fish vassal state If I had been president I would have served not ce on England s prem pr that our foreign trade n cotton and other noncontraband commod ties was going forward with or w thout England s con sent and f necessary I would havo sent Amer can ironclads to England s door to enforce that notice Platform Violation The administration s repeal of the Panama canal toll exemption law m violation of the party s national plat form was another weak surrender to England If free tolls for American ships had not been repealed h ndreds of American owned el ps flying a for e en flag would have come under the Amer can flag to get the benef t of the exempt on and we would today have an American n erchant marine competent to carry our goods to fore gn markets We have no such merchant mar ne aud to supply it the Wilson admin stration is propos ng to spend money taxpayers money buying a subsidized national sh pping serv ce The W Ison Bryan management of the Mex can affa r has been a failure They landed an army n Vera Cruz to fo ce Huerta to salute the flag and ia o brought t back w thout getting tl salute n ev now asl congress to approp ato b 00 00 to pa tie px penscs of that r i cu ous exped on For what What d d t a conipl shf I set all Mex co afla e aga nst the An ericans not onlj n "Mexico but in (Coutinued on Page Ten) GOVERNOR COLQUITT of Texas, who sees nothing m the administration of President Wilson to praise and much to condemn. BITTER ATTACK IS MADE WILSDA (Continued from Page One) Texas where all along the north bank of the r o Grande the o are ten Mex cans for one Amer can It brought on a. re gn of ter or all along the Texts border so that when the federal go eminent refused to affo d protection for our people in the r own state I was forced to send 1200 Texas troops down there to g ve it Mex can bandit gangs were crossing the border into Texas raid ng and ter ror z ng our scattered people Women and ch ldren were huddled together n br ck houses always menaced w th mur der and worse My desk was flooded w th teleg an s from chambers of com merce, bankers stockmen and other re sponsrjle c t zens prajing for protec tion all along our lb00 m le f ront er The federal governme t had only siitj troopers at Brownsville to cover more than two thirds of that long bdr der When I rushed the Texas state troops down there, stat on ng a om pany at each of the pr nc pal border towns I nstructed them not to cross the r ver nor in any way to v olate the neut al tv laws but at all costs to pro tect the lives and p operty of Texas people. Garrison s Telegiam Secretary of War Gar lion tele graphed me that he thought t unwise to have tvio nuhtary forces occupying the same terr tory under separate com manders and suggested that I withdraw the state troops I wired hoi that I would w thdraw the Texas troops when he sent an equal numbe. of regulars to replace them at every place where our men wore stat oned I understand they had every thng prepared at Wash ng ton to have me mdcted by a federal grand jury and put n a federal pr son on the a sumption that I meant to n vade Mexico a palpable absurd ty which only men utterly gnorant of the s tuat on could have entertained It is a fact that the whole country does not know that when our Texas troops ar I rived m Brownsv lie the Mex can com mander at Matamoros across the nver offered to surrender that c ty to he troops of Un ted btates cavalrvmen The commander at Matamoros evidently bel eved that the Texas troops meant to take his citv and thought the United states troops were more fr endly than the Texans The Wash ngton concep t on of our business on the border was as ridiculous as that of the Men an commander Bandits Encouraged W Ison and Bryan have stood b en couraging erne gang of band ts after an other while people were be ng butch ered all over Mex co while the vast Vmer an nterests n that country were andloday the Mex can chaos s worse than at any t .me s nee Madero was as sassuiated Vila s the dictator of tho country and I understand that all he wants la to bo chief of pol ce of the Cty di Mexico with control of the gambling conceas ons in the cit es oi Mexico and Juarez. Our government has kept England and Germanv from restoring ordlr in Mexico and has tself done nothing but contribute to the disorder and lawless ness by its acillat ng watching and wa ting policy if ft ean be called a pol cy The property interests bf I Mexico and the big exploiters of Mex ican resources have got control pf the s tuation absolutely and these same m terests have got the ear of our eov eranient at "ttashington. Take Antitrust Laws. The adm lustration s antitrust laws are barefaced fakes so far as protecting protect-ing the people from trust opp ess on is concerned These laws l lease nobody no-body so well as tho Standard O 1 the steel and other great trusts I bel eve 1 at f rat that the federal reserve banking act was the adminis tration s one mer tonous ach evement but now bankers tell me t is go ng to prove a failure The control of the system in practice appears to rest n hew York City instead of m Wash ington I am fully con need the nat onal elect on of 1916 will end the Demo crat c regime The policies of the Democrat e national adm niatrat on hav e wholly failed e ther to curb mo nopohes or lower the cost of 1 vino1 for the people, and they have mate" nally contributed to depr ve millions of wage earners of employment The administration valorized $20 000 000 worth of corporate secur ties owned in the north and east by a treasury department order to nat onal banks to loan money on 1 sted secun t es at not less than the clos ng quota tions of July 1914 but the same ad ministrat on when asked to allow the people to use a quarter of a b lUon dollars of their collect ve credit for two or three years to save them from los nc $o00 000 on the r cotton crop regarded the valor zat on as v olat e of sound government Misery m South The president stood n the road and condemned the south which made more widespread miser" than t has known n three generat ons He v ndicated an obsolete theory of pol t cal economv I but he m ghty near ru ned the country ? do ng it J i I ra sed among my personal fr ends f in Texas more than $10 000 for the Wilson campa gn fund and the only favor I asked of h m was that he ap point men who would aid tho Texas state government to enforce the law alone the Mexican bo der It was my came t des re to assist n making the Den o rat e nat onal admin strat on a success b t I wouldn t sacr f e the honor of my state nor the welfare of i her people to w n the fa or ot any ad i imn 6trat on j At no time have I fa led to get , courteo s treatment from the leadors S of the Mexican revolution sts I svm ; path ta w th the Mexican people b t I also svmrath ze w th Amer cans who have property nghts n Mex co that ij ouffht to have been p otected 1 |
