Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1919 — VICIOUS CHARGES MADE AGAINST THE PRESIDENT [ARTICLE]

VICIOUS CHARGES MADE AGAINST THE PRESIDENT

Washington, D. C., May 15. President Wilson stands charged , with a new offense—that of "saving the kaiser” —and is being con- ( demned by the Republican publlc- . ity association. In a format stateI went from this association, which assists the Republican national I committee in fighting the league of nations—President Wilson is atI tacked for alleged leniency to /‘Butcher Bill.” , ‘‘The patience which the president of the United States has exhibited toward Germany, the Germans and the kaiser and his court is of a quality more vicious than virtuous,’’ says this association. "Is Bill the Butcher to get oft scot free? Is the muddle which Mr. Wilson is stirring up in Europe to screen the escape of this archconspirator against mankind?’’ the statement inquires. “Is this advance agent of antichrist, if not the apocalyptic beast himself, to find safe refuge beneath the academic skirts of a man whose Imperialism was repudiated at the polls last November?” In thus charging the president of the United States with a deliberjate purpose of affording protection and Immunity to the kaiser, and of "stirring up a muddle In Europe,” the Republican publicity organization speaks also for leading Republicans in public office and In private life. Officers of the Republican publicity association are former Senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr., president; former Senator John W. Weeks of Massachusetts, vice-

president; Representative Martin B. Madden of Illinois, treasurer; Anson W. Prescott, secretary. ,*nd Senators Gronna of North Dakota; Poindexter of Washington; Harding of Ohio, and Hale of Maine; former Senators. Works of California, and James A. Hemenway of Indiana; former Congressman George S. Fairchild of New York and Messrs. Benj. S. Hanchett of Michigan and Walter 8. Dickey of Missouri, who constitute the executive committee.