Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1919 — DEMOCRATS BLAME WILSON [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATS BLAME WILSON

SAY HE KILLED THE PARTY AFTER BEING LIFTED FROM OBSCURITY. Francis J. Finneran, president of 1 the Democratic Club of MiassachuI setts, ihas sent to Homer Cummings, Chairman of the democratic national committee, a letter signed by Mr. Finneran and two Massachusetts senators and fifteen Massachusetts representatives, demanding that the national committee repudiate the action of President Wilson, who, according to the words of the letter, “wrecked the party after we had lifted him from obscurity.” The signers of the letter, in addition to Finneran, are Senators George E. Curran and William J. Fofley and Representatives Thomas F. Donovan, Thomas H. Green, Dennis F. Reardon, James W. Hays, John P. Englert, John B. Cashman, John J. Carey, Patrick J. Mellody, Jaimes J. Kelley, Joseph B. Aigen, William J. Frances, Daniel C. Murphy, James H. Brennan, Thomas A. Niland and William J. Manning,, all democratic members of the legislature from Boston. The letter says: “We, the undersigned democrats of Massachusetts,, request you to call a meeting of the northern and western members of the national committee and repudiate the actions of Woodrow Wilson, who wrecked the party after we had lifted him from obscurity, making him governor and then president. He has held the parity up to ridicule by the following acts: “First—By appointing incompetent men to positions of responsibility, the most glaring examples of which are Postmaster General Burleson, Secretary of War Baker and Fuel Administrator Garfield.” Point four says: “By his idle promises at Washington’s tomb when he declared he would demand independence of small nations, and by refusing to take up the question at the peace taible of the liberty of Egypt, India, reland and South Africa and recognizing England’s right to govern Egypt.” Point seven: “By his policy in Mexico, his recognition of Carranza, an anarchist and anti-American, and the toleration of the murder of over 300 Americans in Mexico without a declaration of war.” Point fourteen: “By his policy of shipping vast amounts of foodstuffs to Europe and spending $100,000,000 for food at the expense of America, thus causing the v present high cost of living which confronts fche American people.” “We hope immediate action will !be taken so that we can build up our party anew and let the people forget that he was ever a member of our party and make it possible for us to elect a northern or western democratic president in 1920.”