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Show WILSON SCORED I BY A REPUBLICAN Indianapolis, Jan. 29 Sharp criticism crit-icism of President Wilson's recent I Jackson day speech and of his attl-1 tude toward congress was voiced here J tonight bj Senator Lawrence Y Sherman Sher-man of Illinois in an address at a meeting of the Indiana Republican J Editorial association. The present Congress, Senator Sherman declared, j "until recently has only registered President Wilsons executive decrees." de-crees." The southern states he said, I are legislating for the whole country coun-try " Tribute was paid to the memory of! William McKinh by Senator Sher man and other speakers. Carnations were worn by members of the asso- ' elation in honor of the martyred pree- ident. Quoting the president's declaration I that the Republican party had not had a new idea in thirty years, the sen-; sen-; ator asked : "Where has this Rip Van Winkle slept the last thirty years who now rubs his eyes and says the Republican party has not had a new idea all that time? The great national statutes of thirty years have sprung from the councils of that part lie cannot distinguish between the morning morn-ing light of Republican sunrise of things doing and done and the dusk that Is falling on the Democracy. "The president recently admitted in Indianapolis that the Democrats are a minority party and that they are still on trial The returns of the last November election Indicates that ht- Is unable to distinguish between a trial and a verdict against the defendant." de-fendant." Referring to President Wilson's election "by a minority" when the ma Jority was divided, the- senator said "If three men be In a race and two stop and quarrel, the third can walk to the goal and win But let not the victor exult In his speed, for he won not on his own swiftness, but by the quarrel of his adversaries. The less shall he invoke his deceptive strength to justify legislation to which adversaries adver-saries are both opposed. For when his adversaries shall see what has been wrought by President Wilson they will rise together and overthrow him. 'The president must and does assume as-sume the responsibility for both the legislative and executive acts of his administration. Congress until recently re-cently has onh registered his executive execu-tive decrees. The first sign of executive execu-tive independence evokes a threat against congress that disobedience to his orders will bring "deep bitterness bitter-ness to them." These are not the words of a constitutional con-stitutional president sworn to perform per-form his duties. They are the lawless proclamation of a man who has thrown aside the order and procedure of government by law and substituted the unregulated will of the arbltrai-y and accidental man. "The president assaults the United States senate In language the senators sen-ators are forbidden to use toward each other even in the acrimony of per Bona debate bile his attack is on the Republican minority, it reaches all senators who do not agree with him. "In dealing with men nothing Is gained by peremptory' orders to "shut up " This language may be used in the kindergartens An executive ex-ecutive who applies it to the United States senate betrays his inability to grasp the difference between an Independent In-dependent legislative power in the conduct of human affairs and the absolute ab-solute dominion of his arbitrary Impatience. Im-patience. " 'Cease your talking,' he says. 'You are misguided, blind, Ignorant 1 have settled everything. I have cleared the decks.' He has said how the business of the country shall be done, how the Philippines shall be governed, gov-erned, how our water powers shall be handled, how the resources of the public domain imprisoned by excessive exces-sive conseration shall be unlocked, how the great freight boats shall be run by the government at a cost or profit and then sold out to the minority min-ority shareholders or somebody else and not be guilty of a subsidy con demned by the Democratic party for half a century. He can do everything except keep the deficit from stalking through the treasury building. Resents Aspersions. "Still the Republicans are ignorant and have not had a new idca in thirty thir-ty years. Republican senators were elected by a direct vote of the people In ( 'onnecticnt, Vermont, New Hampshire, Hamp-shire, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, North Dakota. Kansas, Utah, Washington, Idaho and Illinois. Why should the chief magistrate stigmatize them as ignorant'.' They represent their constituents. "Call the roll of thirty years Labor punctuated only by the idleness of Democratic administrations; manufacturers manu-facturers were active; our foreign commerce rose with every year, neither nei-ther was it dependent on war supplies sup-plies for it volume, continuance of trade balances Restraints of trade and mononies were curbed. The first great anti-tmst act was drawn by a Republican. It is the sane level from which the heights and depths of effective legislation have since been measured " After enumerating measures enact ed during "the greatest chapters of American history', written in the years of Republican ascendancy," the senator sena-tor compared them with recent legislation, legis-lation, criticizing the present tarirf law, the federal reserve act, the trade commission act, the anti-trust bill and the Mexican policy. "The civil strife in that unhappy-land, unhappy-land, " He declared, "is directly chargeable charge-able to the vacillating, nerveless, pur-' poseless course of President Wilson's administration. He undertook to decide de-cide on the moral title of various military mili-tary dictators struggling for supremacy. supre-macy. What choice is there between Villa and Huerta"' If Jesse James were alive he could bo substituted as a great moral improvement on both "If the Republican party Is returned to power," Senator Sherman conclud ed. "t will restore the protective tariff; confidence will follow and the army of the unemployed will disperse. Business will again move in its accustomed ac-customed channels and enterprises no longer bait by the wayside." |
