Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 257, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1920 — Page 7

BOWERS LAUDS WILSON, FLAYS . MUCKRAKERS i Ft. Wayne Editor, in Bitter Attack on President’s Foes, Upraids His Critics. EMPHASIZES RECORD

Special to The Time*. tOGANSPORT, Ind., March s.—Four hundred democrats attended the first of a series of banquets planned as a feature of the campaign In Cass county here last night. Claude G. Bowers of Ft. Wayne was the principal speaker. Mr. Bowers delivered a forceful address on the political situation of the day, telling In detail of the achievements of the Wilson administration. Mr. Bowera' speech In part follow*: “With what a magnificent record of constructive statesmanship do we approach the people. For twenty years the American people were demanding the of the currency and the scrapping of the archaic system under which a few men could control the people's currency, tyrannize through the control of credit over business and force a panic at their pleasure. And within one year of the first inauguration we had given to the nation the federal reserve system—the greatest single act of constructive statesmanship iu the last threequarters of a century. TFT MANACLES FROM ‘LITTLE FELLEKB.' “It transferred the financial capital of the country .from New York to Washington, struck the manacles from the wrist of honest business, deprived the money power of the privilege of precipitating panics at their pleasure and gave to his tory the name of Woodrow Wilson. “It djd something more: When the great hosts of Prussia swept across the Belgian border, it was the defnocratic re- j serve system that steadied the American j market, held the line for American busi j ness and saved the nation from a more devastating panic than it has ever known. J "it did something more. It made it possible for America to finance the fight against the foe and win the war. “When the democratic party was pushing this great measure to its passage 1 heard Elihu Root in the senate predict that it would prostrate business within three mouths—and today we defy any responsible leader of the opposition to pledge his party to Its repeal.'' After discussing the farm loan law, the tariff commission, and the trade commls- i sion he concluded that “the first four i years of Wilsonian democracy will chal- | lenge the admiration of history as the j greatest period of constructive states- i ntanship that, the republic has ever j known.” "And what shall be said of the record : of the republican party? 'Record?' j son the people know that the republican congress has been in session Is the fact that up to this time they have been taxed more than $3,934,000 to pay their salaries —and what have they done to egi their P:* If “Senator Watson demanded that an extra session be called a* once to the end that the railroads might he 'lmmediately' returned to private ownership. Wilson gave them eleven months to pass the necessary legislation, and after eleven m . ,h of mlseraoly bungling, he had to give them two months' grace. M.vkLs LliiMT OF MI'CKRAKERS. “They denounced and ridiculed the president because it took the peace com- I mission seven months to readjust the af- j fairs of the whole world after the great- ! est upheaval of all time, and it takes thefci ' thirteen months to pass the law for the j readjustment of the railroad question in the United States. “And legislation for the encouraing of j our foreign commerce? None. For the ' upbuilding of tie m rc out -i o? None. For the readjustment and reconstruction of business? None. For the be: efit of tue soldiers of the war? None. • Noth'ng. “There only legislation on the te-i"wa where Wilson pointed them the way; on prolutci'iiig was .. re Wilson s.u j. *:.•! a plan; and devoting the time for wuieli the people have paid thorn almost S ; uo>000 to miserable snooping investigations In search of an issue, all they have disAMUSEMENTS.

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covered is that their hero Bullitt Is a ' bolshevlst. that their idol in an English toady, that Pershing was n failure because he didn’t personally carry*a musket over the top, and that America's record In the waging of the war amazed mankind and will eland to the end of time to the eternal credit of the administration. •‘‘And yet I don’t believe that they are as stupid as they seem. I think they rpally have a program. think they know that if the people knew what that program Is before the election tlthy would be buried so deep beneath an avalanche of votes that the hand of resurrection would never drag them forth." German Army Now Numbers 400,000 PARIS, March s—The Germau army still Is 400,000 strong, according to a report received by the committee of foreign affairs from Gen. Niessel, head of i the Baltic mission. In addition there are 100,000 policing forces, officers and noncommlssoned officers. Germany also Is well supplied with tanks, machine guns and airplanes.

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HERE’S WOOD’S ‘HERO’ RECORD IN SPANISH WAR ‘Was in Rear booking for Ammunition at San Juan,’ Gen. Wilson Testifies. RECORDS GIVEN AIRING WASHINGTON, March s.—Barring the incident in the Indian campaign of 1886, for which he was awarded the medal now being made the subject of wido criticism, the military record of Gen. Leonard Wood, called "heroic" by his admirers, is confined, according to hts critics, solely to his activities during the war with Spain. Wood Is recorded as present at two actions: Las Guaslmas and San Juan Hill. Ills critics sav that at Las Guaslmas, but for his rescue and support by the colored troops, his command might havo been wiped out. At San Juan, Gen. James H. Wilson stated that Wood, during the hard fight lng, was “in the rear, looking for ammunition," and Col. Roosevelt records the fact that he sent messenger after messenger to try to find Wood, without avail. DISPUTE RAISED WITH ROOSEVELT. Testimony before the senate committee

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that passed upon Wood’s nomination to he a major general in the army in 1903, raises an interesting question: Where was Wood during the hard fighting at San Juan Hill and Kettle Hill on the first day of the battle of Santiago? Gen. James H. Wilson, who testified before the committee Dec. 8, 190,3, discussing this question, said: "Later I had another interview with Mr. Roosevelt, after ho had been elected vice president of the United States, at his home at Sagamore Hill. . . . He began In rather extravagant terms of praise of Gen. Wood, whereupon I said to him : “ ‘Gov. Roosevelt, I think you are perhaps mistaken about that. If X am correctly Informed, Gen. Wood never was under fire In his life until the Spanish war began, either in the Geronlrao campaign or at any other time. In the Spanish war he was never in but one battle, and that at Las Guaslmas, where, but for his rescue and support by the colored troops, he would have been badly handled.’ “ ‘Oh, yes,’ said Mr. Roosevelt; ‘he was at San Juan.' To which I replied, 'I beg your pardon, he was not. You know that, he was In the rear looking for ammunition.’ REQUESTED NOT TO TELL ANYBODY. “ ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘but do not tell anybody.’ Now, why be did not want me to tell anybody I do not know.” Secretary of War Elihu Root testified before the committee on the last day of the hearings and stated that President Roosevelt had informed him that Gen. Wilson was mistaken. But Roosevelt in his book, "The Rough Itlders," while he males repeated

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references to the presence of Wood at the Las Guaslmes affair. In his description of the actual assault and capture of the two San Juan hills by Infantry and cavalry troops on the first day of the Santiago fight, makes only one important referuce to Wood, which Is significant: “I sent messenger after messenger to try and find • • * Gen. Wood and get permission to advance and Just about making up my mind that dn the absence of orders I had better march toward the guns when Lieut. Col. Dorst (adjutant general of the division commander, not on - Wood’s staff), came up through the storm of bullets with the welcome command to move forward and support the regulars In the assault on the hills In front.’’ Secretary Root testified that he

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Chicken Thieves Told to ‘Take Coop,Too’ WEIftTON, W. Va., March s.—Thieve: robbed" James Brown's hen coop where upon he printed a sign advising their they were welcome to the coop, too. Last night it disappeared. ARMY FLIER KILLED. RIVERSIDE, Cal.. March s.—Lieut Raymond F. Pearson, a United State* army aviator, is dead here today as the result of a fall at Marsh field, near here, when his airplane went into a tail spin Lieut. Pearson bad been flying here sis months.

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