Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1916 — Wilson Policy Toward Mexico Is G. O. P. Target. [ARTICLE]

Wilson Policy Toward Mexico Is G. O. P. Target.

The primary lino of attack on President Wilson in the national campaign will be Mexico. Col. Roosevelt will fire has breadsides at the president’s Mexican policy. Charles E. Hughes will make this the object of his opening attack on the administration in his speech of acceptance at New York on July 31st. The principal plan of action—against Mr. Wilsort’s Mexican policy —was determined Friday by the republican national campaign committee, -in session in Now York. Mexico was the principal topic of discussion at the two hours’ meeting of the committee in the Hotel Aster. Committeeman R. B. Powell, of Nebraska, spoke during the morning to the committee, saying emphatically that the middle west is disgusted with the squabbling in Mexico, particularly now that the national guadrsmen have lx on hauled down to the border in day coaches to do rotih- . ing. —.—— —— - “Indiana is going for Hughes by 50,000 majority,” Henry Lane Wilson said. “1 have tics for thirty yearAand I never saw republican sentiment so strong. We will elect two republican senators.and eight republican congressmen out of thirteen.”