Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1912-10-23
WILSON ON LINCOLN.

. CnarleS u. h1lleS. CHAIRMAN OF
. the Republican national commit
. tee, has issued the following:
. At this time. when the negroes
throughout the United States are
: celebrating in various ways the
. fiftieth anniversary of the first
: proclamation of emancipation
and when the Democratic candi-
date for the presidency, Woodrow
: Wilson, is appealing to the peo-
! pie of the western states to sup
! port him, it is fitting that the
chairman of the political commit
: tee organized to further the cause
! of the candidates of the Repub-
: hcan party for president and vice
] president should call attention to
: an expression Of opinion by Gov
] ernor Wilson at period in his
7 career when possibly he never
!. dreamed of being candidate for
/ a political Office.
!. That expression of opinion was
!. made in his capacity of historian,
!. and it adds to the cumulative tes-
/ timony that he was until he be
!. came a candidate and that he is
!. now un-Ameriean IN his views Of
: public questions and at heart
!. contemptuous of more than one
: class of American citizens and
!. out of sympathy with their aims.
I their purposes and their beliefs.
!. 1t was on Sept %. 1862. that
: President Lincoln issued a proc
!. lamation giving formal notice
/ that unless the southern states
. returned TO their allegiance to
!. the Union within a hundred days
!. he would declare the slaves with
] in their borders free, and it was
!. on the LIST of January. 1868, fol-
] lowing, that definite proclama-
: ton of emancipation was issued.
] OF this GROWING event of the ca
I reer of the immortal Lincoln,
] Woodrow Wilson says in his
! History of the American Peo-
j pie" written forty years after
: ward:
"The proclamation when it
: came was no law, but only his
lineoln's) deliberate declaration
! of policy for himself and for his
party. and changed, as he meant
: that it should change, the whole
. air of the struggle and of politics
! as we'll"
: 1t is safe to say that not even
the most radical uhreconstructed
: southern man would attribute TO
! Lincoln this motive which it re-
! manned for the historian Wood
] row Wilson alone to discover,
: that Lincoln abolished slavery
. to further his own political ambi-
! tons and those of his political
party. The statement adds proof
! to much already at hand that
Woodrow Wilson forty years aft
I er the war was and presumably
still is devoid of sympathy for
! the motive and results of the
! civil war.
The quotation from the Demo
cratic candidates writings proves
that he is not reliable historian
nor a fair commentator. 1t goes
to show what has been often as
! serted, that Governor Wilson is
] not at heart an admirer of or a
! believer in American institutions,
as his other writings and speech
: es show that he is not a eulogist
of American industries nor de-
! fender of American labor. He
continuously ISLANDERS millions Of
adopted citizens from abroad
. who have become good Ameri-
cans. He sneers at trade unions,
. and apparently he would If he
could close every American mill
. and buy in foreign markets, be-
cause in the first place he is an
. aristocrat born and bred and be-
cause he wants the American
) people to buy where they can
buy the cheapest.
Everything that can be learned
about Governor Wilson from his
writings, from his speeches and
from his manner of living indi-
cate that he is not the type Of
man who can successfully appeal
for the support of the American
people.