Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1920 — JIM WATSON AGAIN [ARTICLE]

JIM WATSON AGAIN

Senator James E. Watson, Republican candidate for re-election to the United States senate, is reported to have said in a campaign address at Columbus, Ind., last Tuesday, that “Germany was justified in sinking the Lusitania.” It is difficult for us to believe that any man occupy-

ing the high position Senator Watson does, would be guilty of such an outrageous statement. It would be hardly expected to come from the most ardent , German “junker,” let alone a senator of a nation that lost hundreds of its citizens in the foulest outrage in all warfare. If the senator actually made - that remark he deserves the utter' condemnation of every man and woman who holds allegiance to the. flag. The calibre of a mail who could and justify the act of a hidden submarine that sent more than 1,000 non-combatent men, women and children to a- watery grave without the slightest warning, is entirely too small for the United States senate and even a place in our citizenship. Senator Watson’s espousal of a separate peace with Germany and his declaration that we never officially declared war on the kaiser lends credence to his latest remark and confirms the belief held in many quarters that he is catering to the so-called pro-Gertnan vote In Indiana to send him hack to the senate and to his position in the councils of the senatorial cabal. Senator Watson confirmed reports

that the Republican leaders favor war on Mexico when he declared in a campaign address the other day that the administration should have sent an army into the southern republic at the first signs of disturbance. In the same speech he criticized the war on Germany, all of which leads to the conclusion Chat Senator Watson is not afraid of antagonizing the Mexican vote in Indiana.