The Nome daily nugget., 1914-01-02


 Wilson and hs party might bc used as the heading of an editorial If w' l ,,ere addicted t0 the habit of writing heads for editorials. But we are not like some of our esteemed contempor- 1 [, ries. we hope that what we write will b.. sufficiently plain so that the reader will grasp the general idea, at least. without our putting a head on 1t. When Mir. Wilson was inauguratcd ,,any papers. of his own party as well as of other political persuasion pre- dicted that hls greatest fight In get ing hts policies adopted would hd
 with members of his own party who were the most actively for him during the pre-convention campaign. U was the radical element of tn" ,a.rty that lent the most strength to Mir. Wilson's candidacy before the convention and 1t was felt by mr- that after he was safely In the White House the conservatives would at- tempt to tie his hands in so far as rcdical legislation was concerned. It was Mfr. Underwood. who is clas siiied, not only as q conservative but reactlonary democrat. who sur rendered his own views on free raw materials and piloted the administra- tion bill through the lower house Of congress. It w.s Senator Simmons. ar other reactionaiy. who led the fight in the senate for the administration bill. So far ns the tariff bill is an indication President Wilson had far less trouble with the conservative and r {, eac ctionary members of his own party fin congress than he did with the rad lea, members from the north and west. The same thing happened with tho currency bill as with the tariff bill. The radicals like Henry of Texas. gave the administration . good deal of trouble. After again vainly appealing to them for support tho president was fcrccd to turn to the conservatives. led by Underwood, and it was duo to the efforts of Underwood and Clark. both conservatives. that the presidents hill was passed as he had drafted it and not as the radical element wanted to amend 1t.
 ah AR reason why Mir. Wilson took William Jennings Bryan into the cabinet. Many people wondered when the erstwhile ca ndidatc was selected to flll the im- portant position of secretary of state Many even thought that 1t was the price which Mir. Wilson had to pay for tho nomination. But Woodrow Wilson is deep. Deeper than many have as yet given him credit for heinz His policy of starving Hucrta ont Financially shows that. and 1t may be due to a hit of this unexp,oitcd deep Ness.
 It might be interesting to. figure on
 
 what would. or might. have happened # Bryan had not been taken into the ce binet end thereby placed in a posi- ton where he was forced to support the president and the administration policies.
 AS n member of Mir. Wilson's off, cial family he has surrendered his own expressed views on asset currency md guaranty of deposits and has openly endorsed Mfr. Wilson's theaories on these subjects. If he were not in the cahinct there can bc little doubt that he would have stood with Congress man Henry and the radicals for Arr. Efynn was their acknowledged lcador before the sccretaryship of state. once he hecamc a member of the Wilson cabinet. however. he bowed to the de- sires of his chief and deserted Henry and his inhurRent element and they could do little save hinder for a time the passage of the bill.