Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-07-28 | Page 20 | Asks G. O. P. Leader If Republicans Want War

ASKS G. G 00 O. O PlEADER P. P i IF REPUBLICANS WANT WAR WASHINGTON July Discus Discus Discussion sion of or the administrations administration's Mexican policy broke out again yesterday In Inthe Inthe inthe the senate Senator Lippitt of Rho Rhode e eIsland Island attacked President Wilsons Wilson's course In a II prepared speech which I included a detailed review of or relations relations rela with Mexico since the overthrow Q of or Madero and drew replies from several several several sev sev- eral Democratic senators The president boastfully proclaims what he can and will do one minute declared the senator and threatens the gravest consequences the next but he sucks the force from both by declaring In between times that that he bosh he is too proud too fight and that it is none I of or anyone's business what takes place in in- Mexico If It If the Republicans should be successful suc successful in the next national election is it their purpose then to declare war on Mexico asked Senator Thomas Thom as of Colorado It is my opinion that the American Ameri Amerl can people ought to send for another doctor for the tho Mexican patient Lippitt Lippitt Lippitt Lip Lip- pitt answered Chairman Stone of or tho the foreign relations relations re reo lations committee re responded by readIng readIng reading read- read Ing an editorial from an independent newspaper which declared that any other course than the one pursued by I President Wilson would have meant war