Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1916 — DENIES ROOSEVELT CHARGES [ARTICLE]

DENIES ROOSEVELT CHARGES

Owen Discusses Killing of Americans in Mexico Under Three Presidents. Phoenix, Arizona, October SI. — Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma in a speech here yesterday replied to statements of Theodore Roosevelt on his . recent Western campaign tour that during President Wilson’s administration “over 500 Americans and 300 Chinese” have been killed in Mexico. “Mr. Roosevelt’s promises are untrue,” declared Senator Owen. “Under Roosevelt’s own administration at least sixty Americans were reported killed; under Taft fiftyseven Americans; under Wilson 119 citizens and thirty-eight soldiers and marines during nearly four years of revolution. During Taft’s administration 386 foreigners were reported to the state department as killed in Mexico and during Wilson’s administration only 230 were reported, Including seventeen British, thirty-eight Spaniards, four Germans, four Japanese and seven Chinese. “Roosevelt’s statement that the President had abandoned 3,000 Americans exposed to a mob at Tampico is a base campaign canard and calumny. “Admiral Mayo ordered his boats in and Captain Dougherty of the British navy requested Admiral Mayo to permit British marines to remove all foreigners to prevent loss of life. This was done and all Americans were sent home by Admiral Mayo without any loss of life. Captain Dougherty put his request on the ground of protecting British subjects from exposure to battle in the streets of Tampico which would have occurred if United States marines had landed. The United States had just killed over 100 Mexicans at Vera Cruz.”