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Show SENATOR LEWIS I Blames Republicans for Treas- onable Attacks Upon Ad-ministrations Ad-ministrations Mexican Policy. ENCOURAGED OUTLAWS H President . Held Up Before World as Unworthy Respect of Foreigners or Support of Countrymen. Washington, Aug. 5. Senator Lew- Is, the Democratic whip, spoke in the senate today in reply to the attack up-on up-on the administration made by JM Charles E. Hughes in his speech of accepting the Republican presidential nomination. Republican strictures upon the ad-ministration's ad-ministration's Mexican policy, Senator Lewis denounce'd as "treasonable." He announced that the clause of the Republican platform repudiating inter-ference inter-ference in the internal affairs of Mexico was responsible for the mas sacre of troops at Carrizal. "Not until the captains of the Re-publican Re-publican party shot at the president of the United States did the Mexican -, outlaws shoot at the soldiers of the American president," he said. The platform declaration, Senator Lewis characterized "as a summons to Car-ranza Car-ranza and Villa to revenge the en- 'M trance of American soldiers into Mexl- . co and the Interference of America, in. . m i her internal affairs. f1 v "It was the Republican convention," 'M said Mr. "Lewis, "which slew the sol-diers sol-diers at Carrizal and he assailed ef-forts ef-forts of the Republican leaders to make Mexico the issue "without regard to facts, equity or justice." "Revolt against the government at Washington as to Mexico for that is the issue," he declared. "Denounce the president as to Mexico far that is the issue. Make contemptible your own country before the world when-ever when-ever you can for that is the issue. Humiliate your own fellow man by holding hfs country and his president up before the world as unworthy the support of his countrymen or the re-spect re-spect of foreigners." oo " |