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Show DISCUSS MEXICO IS i ISSUE OF CAMPAIGN ; ii . ' ;l ! j Senator Lewis of Illinois Bit-' Bit-' terly Arraigns Republican Candidate for President. i '"WASHINGTON', Aug. 5. Mexico as a political issuo in the national eam-'. eam-'. paiRn was discussed in tho senate to- day, Senator J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, Il-linois, assailing the Republican party . and Mr. Hughos, its presidential candidate, can-didate, for attacking (lie administ ratum "without regard to facts, equity or i ( justice," and Senator Pall of New AIox-! AIox-! ico replying. i Senator Lewis bitterly denounced the ! i Republican leaders for their assaults upon President "Wilson's Mexican pol-; pol-; icy, characterizing them as 1 ' treasonable. treason-able. " Responsibility for the death of American soldiers at ('arrival he placed at the door of tho Republican party, charging that "not till the captams of the Republican party shot at the presi-i presi-i dent of the United States did the Mex-! Mex-! ican outlaws shoot at the soldiers of the American president? ' ' !! He referred to opponents of the gov-, gov-, 1 eminent 's course in Mexico as "blood- tarnished votaries, headed now by the ; I Dewly-apopinted cnie of this political , . hierarchy, the nominee for president of , 1 the United States, Charles Evans !! Hughes." " ' An assertion by Senator Lewis that the United States at one time was about : 1 to recognize "General" Villa as head ;; of the de facto Mexican government ; 1 was seized upon promptly by SenatoT I Fall, who declared that this admission .. ' would give the Republican party its :, best weapon of the campaign. "We knew that the administration was at one time ready to reeopnize J thief, assassin, murderer Pancho Villa, I but this is the first time I have heard ! a follower of the administration admit ' ! it, " he said. ; Senator Fall described Senator Lewis's Lew-is's attack as a "most remarkable ! harangue," and declared that, despite ! the opinions of Democratic leaders, Mexico would be a ringing issue in the : campaign and that thousands of refugees refu-gees from Mexico would be asking why the administration did not live up to its platform pledges. |