Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1919 — JAMES HAM. FINDS WEST PEEVED AT WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

JAMES HAM. FINDS WEST PEEVED AT WASHINGTON.

CHICAGO, May 12.—James Hamilton Lewis, retiring Democratic whip of the Senate, who was defeated for re-election by United States Senator Medill McCormick of Illinios, returned to Chicago yesterday after a Western trip to resume the practice of law. He expressed surprise at sentiment in the Pacific coast and mountain states complaining ‘against everything going on with the administration.’ He said the West and coast demand that the soldiers be brought home at once; that they are against soldiers being sent to Siberia or Germany, and are opposed to any European. alliance. “They are for the United States taking control of Mexican affairs and by force stopping the outrages on Americans and their property,” he continued.. “In this only was there a warlike spirit.” Then, he said he had been “afrightened” by the “boldly inaugurated scheme of those opposed to all orderly government to fill the new army and navy with officers and members who on any order to fight disorder or lawlessness would mutiny and take charge of the government after the manner of the Russian soldiers and navy.’