The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-04-03
WHAT ANSWER

Let no Democrat in Congress think
that he can build himself up by tearing
the President down.
Let no DEMOCRAT in Congress think
that he can advance his own political tor
tunes by discredting the Administration
of his own party.
Let no Democrat in Congress think
that divided Democracy can command
the popular confidence at the polls.
When the November elections are
held, every Democrat will have to stand
or fall by his party's record No man
will be judged by himself alone. He will
be judged by what his party has done
and what it has left undone.
The success that the Democratic party
has thus far achieved has been brought
about by the harmony of action under
the leadership OF the President. There
may be Democrats in Congress who be-
lieve that they are better fitted for such
leadership than Woodrow Wilson.
There may be Democrats in Congress
who think that if the party could be per-
suaded to revolt against the President,
their opportunity of leadership would
come next. If SO, they are living in
FOOLS paradise.
If the Democratic party cannot COM
mand public confidence under Wilson's
leadership, it cannot maintain harmony
of action under anybody's leadership. If
it cannot win under him, it cannot win at
all. That applies to 1916 no less than to
1914. Everv Democrat who is fighting
the President for the profit OF the coast
wise shipping monopoly is fighting for
Democratic defeat and for Democratic
disaster
All of the elements of opposition to
the President and his policies are ON the
side of Democratic dissension. This is
their opportunity. If they can split the
Democratic party, they see the way open
to the repeal of the Underwood Sim
mons Tariff. They see the way open to
the amendment of the Banking and Cur
rency Law for the benefit OF Wall
street. They see the way open to de-
feat the Administration trust legisatio on
and break the Sherman Anti. Trust Law.
They see the way open to the undoing
of everything that the Wilson Admins
tratron has done. They see the way
open to the restoration of Special Prvi-
lege and its establishment in power.
All of this sordid crew has wrapped
the American flag about it, and in the
name OF cash register patriotism is now
marching against the President. Public
opinion has been manufactured by the
same processes by which Lemuel Ely
Quigg used to accelerate it for the profit
of the Metropolitan traction corrup-
tionists. And this opinion is Haunted
by the men who are trying to turn it into
dollars and cents for themselves.
The time is past when The Panama
Canal Tolls bill can be judged alone on
its economic merits and dement's The
time is past when it can be judged alone
on the issue of treaty obligations. A
new issue has been created. Is the
Democratic party to be split by the ene-
mics Of Democratic principles? Is a
Democratic President to be repudiated
because he has kept the faith? Is the
Democratic party to drive itself out of
power and sink back into the impotent
minority in which it has found itself
most of the time since 800?
Nobody can decide this question ex-
cept the DEMOCRATS in Congress. The
President is not on trial. They are on
trial. If they pull him down, they pull
themselves down, they pull their party
down, and Democracy will wander in the
wilderness for another sixteen years.
What answer, gentlemen OF the House
and Senate2-From New York World.
II Al. - l. r