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Show 'I A LITTLE SWIFT POINDEXTER H ' Senator Miles Poindexter was iu.il a l little swift in his characterization of Pi .s- "j ulent Wilson in his address at Long Iirnd ''j j last week. While it may be a fact that H , I there is more or less truth in what he iff said, yet sometimes the truth hall better Iff be unspoken, and again considerable timo If i has elapsed since the happening of which l the senator referred to, and during that Bl time the President may have changed his 1 mind. Here are sonre of the things the KB senator said. Just read them and see if HBj you do agree with us that the Senator HHj was just a little bit swift: H "President Wilson was characterized HB as 'the world's greatest menace' by Urtit- H ed States Senator Miles Poindexter at a BK mass meeting of Queens county Republi- BR cans in Long Island City, to celebrate the BH sixtv-fifth aniversary of the founding of Mm the Repubican party. mM The senator from- jashington, aitet Ky r ' IH. -r-rtfe sr'z, '.,' 'J&J3$T , hi ininn- the Pro ulcnt for delay in ratif ing the peace treaty, said he was "tht j greatest pro-German in the country.' j His theories and suggestions regarding the "democratization of industry," had j encouraged radical labor leaders to at- j tempt to bring about "a dictatorshin f the proletariat" which .means the "final j verthrow of our republican form of gv- eminent," declared the senator. Refering to the President's imputation that certain opponents of the peace treaty i and covenat were pro-Germans and Pol- i shevists, Mr Poindexter entered a vigur- I ous. disclaimer. i He declared at the same time that the i President "was forced into the war j against the Germans by an irresistible j public opinion in opposition to his" will j and tried as late as 1918 to precipitate n j negotiated peace and thus defeat the J aims of the allies." "The Reds of the world regard him as their leader," asserted Senator Poindexter. Poindex-ter. "His abuse of power in coming to the rescue of the dynamiter Mooney in fV'-fornia, fV'-fornia, the murdered Hillstrom io Utah, the anarchist Robert Minor in Frar ', and in attempting to set aside the processes pro-cesses of civil and military justice in the punishment of these criminals, has justified justi-fied the anarchists, and revolutionists in looking upon him as their friend. "As a result of his uwarranted interference inter-ference in the Fiume controversy with which we have no proper immediate concern," con-cern," said Mr. Poindexter, "he 1 J brought the Italian nation to the verge of civil war. "Without the remotest authority he . has sent to participate in the controversy over Fiume and in the fighting which now seems imminent there, American marines mar-ines and ships of war. They should be -withdrawn immediately There is no authority for their presence there. It is an affront to a friendly nation! and is a violation df every prerogative of the American Am-erican people.- RH tk IH |