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Show BORAH GOMES TD THE j - DEFENSEJDF WILSON Says Administration Would Have to Be Divine to Make No Mistakes. BALTIMORE. Jan. TT. Senator William E. B-'-raii of Ida ho, in an address to an 'mmnse Patriot ic Defense league meeting meet-ing iii the Academy of Mumo todsy, vigorously vigor-ously dffend-rd President Wilson's admin-itiation admin-itiation and congress against wiiat he termed the "wild criticisms" of some men who, hp said, could not forget partiean-i partiean-i ship, but whose real intcn'ion was to get at the bottom o: some of the mistakes that have N?en made in the preparations for war. 1 1 o said : "There are a lew men in these crucial times who are unable, to forget their partisanship, par-tisanship, but thpy must not be taken too seriously, for. let me assure you that, as a whole, congress is straining every nerve and spending days and weeks of energy in tiie ;rreat task of turning a peace-loving peace-loving nation into a fighiinc machine and doinc everything in its power to put the nation on its strongest fighting bais. I bez of you not to judge congress by the fw who criticise. The process of transformation trans-formation is a. b'g one, and in order for no mistakes to have been made the administration ad-ministration would have to be divine." WATERLOO. Iowa, Jan. 27. Cnited States Senator W. 5. Kenyon, in an address ad-dress today, referred to what he termed tho unfortunate criticism of the admin-ist admin-ist ration by Senator t'ltamhorlain. He said that helpful criticism was needed, b'it that harmful eriti'Msm would make bad mat 'ms worse. He said that I he United State.- navy was beyond eriti-usm and wa. m his opinion, ably directed by Sr., -retire Daniels. He further said that ail incompetency in the army or elsewhere should be" eliminated immediately. |