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Show ! WJLSONIAN EGQ- friSM STILL PRE-I PRE-I r DOMINATES ! s "".Washington, Match 2 The Ilepvib t lican Publicity association tluoiigh I -Itg president Hon. Jonathan llournt, ft Jr., today garo out tho following J statement from Its Washlntgon head- V; quarters Hh '"The country did not nxed the addl ' tlonal proof furnished by tho Wllso'i Lansing correspondence to become convinced of the devouring egotism that dominates tho president's pei- sonallty. In li Is work at Paris Mr. Wilson demonstrated that he would permit no thought of his country's welfare' to stand In tho way of tho - realization of his ovfn personal am- I htlloiiB. In his letters to Secretary Lansing the President says In effect, that although he may be prostrate 1 ' for months with Illness and unable to give the slightest attention to cxe cutlve affairs, nobody else until have the temerity, to exercise a gitidlnc I hand meanwhile. The Republic may drift along as best It can until It suits the Presidential will to take the reins again. . "Mr. Wilson chooses to say Hut, if the secretary of Btate 'sumonmed' W i the 'headg of departments togetlict. J Mr. Lansing writes that he 'requrst- TB el'- them to 'meet In' conference.' It w Is Inconceivable that the secretary av Rttmed a .right to order thq ra'jlnct X together. JIo says that ho conferred with some of the other (.ecrrtUu les, m . and found that they were of oplnp-X oplnp-X ' Ion that 'It was wise for us to confer Informally together on Intcr-depnrt-flf mental matters and matters as .to B which action, could not be postpiuol f until your medical advisers permitted m you to pass upon them.' ' i "Such matters occur every d.iy. It Had nobody taken the Initiative In . directing their settlemenl as tln-y prc-V prc-V seiited thcnmelves. chaos would Iit.vo I iesultcd In many branches of the gn' : einment partlculnily as regards our foreign affairs. Various questions In-'; In-'; tlvlng our pnitlclpation In anango- ' meiits uniler tho peace t'icaty haC 'o be met piomptly, Instructions had lo v bo sent to our representatives In Par- ' Is, reputation for tho sinking of tho ! German ships at Skapa Flow damand ed ntlcntlon, tho coiit.orerj ullh England over the disposal of (iernuui merchant ships had to be Met. the Carrarfza Jenkins Incident, pi 'i.titted of no delay, and tho wltndtiiwul nf our troopg fiom Siberia hod to ho con Bldeted. In addition a mii'-llu'.i nf departmental matters called or attention, atten-tion, without which tluo public business busi-ness would have suf feted. "Under tho Constitution It was the mandatory duty of the vice president to assume the presidency and guide the executiro department of the government gov-ernment until such tlnuo ns the president's presi-dent's disability should be temoved. Mr. Marshal, showed no Inclination to meet the emergency for which th ofllce of vlco president was cieated, and to save the situation Mr. Lansing did what any other man In tluj circumstances cir-cumstances would have done. Mr. Tumulty, (ho president's personal: representative, attended all tho cabinet cab-inet meetings, and presumably conveyed con-veyed lo the president such reports of them as his physicians permitted him to hear. "Even among the President's most ardent supporters In Congress and other blanches of the government, thete hag not been heard a murmur, of criticism of Mr. Lansing's course. It remained for .Mr, Wilson suddenly to discover an assault upon his personal per-sonal prerogatives and an 'assumption i of presidential authority' iu what his secretary ot state has don. It Is impossible that any considerable num ber of people will condemn Mr., Lansing. Lan-sing. Regardless of political affiliation affilia-tion they will realize that situations had 'to be met, that tho piesldcnt could not meet them, that the vice president, declined to obey the plain mandate of tho Constitution that ho meet them, and that Secretary Lansing Lan-sing was the .only official of the government gov-ernment with the courage to put devotion de-votion to country befoie adherence to nn Individual and piovide a way for the government to function" |