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Show Servant Usurps Power ol Mastei WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. Insist-Iryj Insist-Iryj that the president should keep hU campnlgn promise of 1018, ."I will nccopt your Judgment without cavil," tho Republican Publicity association asserts that by continued attempt at dictation, Air. Wilson is Impeaching tho intelligence and patriotism of tho people. Tho statement. Issued thru , tho president of the organlatlon, Hon Jonathan Bourne Jr., says: "Impeachment of tho people of the United States for lack of Intelligence I or patilotlsm, Is tho unavoidable Interpretation In-terpretation to be placed upon thv continued Insistence of tho president that his will must prevail and American Amer-ican sovereignty bo surrendered to 'c league ot tfHUona, Prior to tho elections of laBt November, President j Wilson appealed for election ot n I Democratic Congress as an ondorse-men ondorse-men or his administration and an expression ex-pression of confidence ns he entoredi upon the peaco negotiations. Ho assured as-sured tho people, 'I will accept your Judgment without cavil,' With that plea before them and freshly Impressed Im-pressed upon their minds, tho peoplo deliberately choso a Itepubllcan House and a Itepubllcan Senate "In splto of thnt vote, following his pr6mlso to accept the Judgment I jot tho peoplo without cavil, President jWllson wont porsonnlly to the peaco .conference, took with him only Biich men as would subordinate thoir (minds to this, aud was, for all practical prac-tical purposes, tho solo spokesman of this groat republic, Ho not merely j ignored but defied tho voice of tho ( American people, "Now when tho country has oejoro It a peaco treaty which overthrows American traditions, which Implicates this nation In tho theft of Shantung, B which blnda tho peorle of this coun- (try to engage In foreign wars at the beck and call of othervpowcrs, and which involves a maze of International Internation-al complications, making cortaln tho ', multiplication of wars, Senators aro told that they must stand by the I President or bo condemned as 'Imbeciles,' 'Imbe-ciles,' men ot 'pigmy minds,' and promoters of war. Men who wero de-jllberately de-jllberately chosen by the people In opposition op-position to tho President and In view of his promlso to 'accept your Judgment Judg-ment without cavil' are now told that thoy aro bound to accept tho ipso dixit of tho man whom tho peoplo had repudiated. "Such an attltudo as that is nothing noth-ing less than 'impeachment of tho peoplo who spoke, in tho only manner man-ner In which they'can speak, at the polls last Novombor, It Is an Impeachment Im-peachment which will bo determined in November, 1020, when the people will havo opportunity to say whethor they deslro their public servant to usurp tho power of master." |