HE, AT LEAST, FOUGHT IN CIVIL WAR
HE, AT LEAST, FOUGHT IN CIVIL WAR THAT John D. Works, in spite of everything else that might be said of him, at least had a record of four years in the civil war as evidence of his patriotism was...
...United States for volunteers in 1801, John I...
...Senator Johnson then obtained the floor and said: "Mr...
...But during the time that ex-Senator Works was in this chamber as a representative of his state I regarded him as one of the most sincere, one of the most conscientious and one of the most courageous men in the senate, and I have no doubt that when he wrote this article he wrote it from motives quite as patriotic as the motives which actuated him when he shouldered his musket and went to fight for his flag...
...President, there are very few of the views of John D. Works with which I am in sympathy...
...I am in little sympathy with what has been quoted here today by my colleague from California but I feel that there is one thing that ought to be said: "When this nation was In danger, when the call came from the President of the...
...The statement that specifically met the objection of Senator Phelan was the following words by Senator Works: tection against foreign aggression...
...Nevertheless I pay to John D. Works the tribute of my sincere respect and I wish that all men were at all times in their public service actuated by as high and courageous motives as those which actuate John D. Works...
...Senator Borah added the following: "I am not in entire harmony with some of the views of ex-Senator Works and with some of his views I am quite, out of harmony...
...We might be wholly fn disagreement with him, as I am, with reference to the views which he entertains with reference to war under the circumstances which confronted us at the time that war was declared...
...Senator Phelan was denouncing former Senator Works for statements made on the war...
...Senator Phelan denounced his former colleague bitterly...
...It should confine its' warlike efforts if any are necessary, to the defense of American democracy and American rights on American soil...
...Did we enter the war in defense of democracy or to uphold any great governmental principle of liberty and justice...
...There are fewer still of my views with which he is in sympathy...
...Works shouldered a musket, and, in the old uniform of bfue ho fought through that war for the preservation of the United States of America...
...HE, AT LEAST, FOUGHT IN CIVIL WAR THAT John D. Works, in spite of everything else that might be said of him, at least had a record of four years in the civil war as evidence of his patriotism was the rebuke given Senator Phelan of California by his colleague Senator Hiram Johnson in the senate recently...
...Senator Phelan referred to a statement that had been made in a coast publication...
...Not at all...
Vol. 9 • August 1917 • No. 8
