Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1919 — CONTEMPTIBLE QUITTER! [ARTICLE]

CONTEMPTIBLE QUITTER!

Washington, Sept. 26.—The Republican Publicity association today gave out the following statement through it spresident, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr., from Sts Washington headquarters: “President Wilson’s allusion to certain senators as ‘contemptible quitters,’ because of their steadfast Americanism, makes it appropriate to fourteen points in his own quitting record: “1. He was elected on a pledge for free tolls for American coastwise shipping through the Panama canal, but demanded repeal of the provision, for reasons never disclosed. Contemptible quitter! “2. He pledged pitiless publicity regarding affairs, but no administration ever equalled his in secrecy. Contemptible quitter! “3. He assured the country that no legitimate business would be inured, but his tariff legislation paralyzed industry until war orders restored trade. Contemptible quitter! “4. He-promised that-merit-rath* ern federal appointments, but has consistently violated the spirit of the civil service law. Contemptible quitter! “5. He premised that the rights of American citizens would be protected at home and abroad, but 300 Americans have been murdered in Mexico while he watchfully waited. Contemptible quitter! “6. In his first campaign, reduction of the cost of living was the paramount issue, but there has not been a day since his election that the cost of living has been as low as before. Contemptible quitter! “7. He promised that there sftiould be no ‘usurpation of governmental instrumentality by special interests,’ but he co-operated with the labbr union special interests, which forced inequitable raising of wages through governmental instrumentality. Contemptible quitter! “8. He promised economy in governmental administration, but do previous administration was so exible quitter! “9. He was elected in a campaign in which his publicity agents the country of his ‘approachability,’ but no other president' has been so

secluded. Contemptible quitter! “10. He told Germany she would >be held to ‘strict accountability,’ and then entered upon a series of notewriting which won contempt. Contemptible quitter! “11. Three days after the Lusitania was sunk, he told the world America was too proud to fight. Contemptible quitter! “12. In 1916 he insisted upon maintenance of the Washington policy of non-interference in European affairs. Contemptible quitter! “13. He stood first for self-de-termination and then for the theft of Shantung, Contemptible quitter! “14. He promised ‘open covenants openly arrived at* and then was party to negotiations unprecedentedly secret. Contemptible quitterP* J!L --