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Show President Wil- ' son is for Tammany Washington, July 22 Congressman Congress-man Henry V. Flood, oK Virginia, who has been In )iha llmeilght as Chairman of "the iHoueeiCommlttee on Foreign Affairs, made V Big blunder blun-der In hls speech on . the Colombia treaty, beforo the Tammany organization, organiz-ation, In New York City, the Fourth of July. Tho fact that a man so prominent at this tlmo as Mr. Flood and so close to President Wilson was sent to address Tammany Is taken as evidence evi-dence that the odmlnlstratfn wishes to hold out the olive branch to that rotten political organization. If newspaper reports bo true, (and they usually are Mr. Flood attacked Itoosevelt on his Colombian policy, saying that Roosevelt would "stand beforo the bar of the country convicted con-victed and condemned for having conspired and plotted against a friendly nation; for having robbed and plundered a Ijelpless ally; for having, as President of this country betrayed tho honor of 4hls nation. Mr. Flood went on to say that the present Democratic administration In Washington had no sympathy with "the political buccaneers of 1913." Since this sp?esb, whlth was taken tak-en as the official utterance of the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee Com-mittee of the House of Representatives, Representa-tives, Congressmen are raying that If Mr. Ford Is absolutely sincere in this remarkable assertion and actu a'ly belloves the Republican Congress Con-gress deliberately committed an act of highway robbery In taking' tho Canal Zone, why doesn't ho take steps, as Chairman of tho Foreign Af fairs Committee and close f,rlqnd o President Wilson to restore the al leged stolen property to Its lawfu owner. If he really belloves what. ho said to Tammany, presumably speaking speak-ing for President Wilson, he Is, p"o-Htlchlly p"o-Htlchlly speaking, a self confessed accessory after the fact and receiver of stolen goods, If ho doesn't, ns Chairman of this powerful committee, commit-tee, tako steps to glvo Panama and tho Canal Zono back to Colombia. |