The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-03-13
One YEAR
I OF WILSON
Has Broken PrecedentS and
Dominated Congress.
=.
All That He Has Done With An
Eye To Coming
Elections.

a Washington, March 10.-One full
= year of Woodrow Wilson as President
OF the United States is completed on
the 4th OF March. Reviews are In.
evhable. and although the Democrat.
&c National Committee sought to an
ticipate them by a ten months sum-
mary, each individual IN the country
will be well contented with his own
opinion OF the congenially isolated fiji
ure in the White House and his OF
fetal acts. All cities will agree upon
certain points. however. They will
rate the intelligence OF the Presl-
dent as Of a grade Of keenness
matched by few of his predecessors.
The" viii concede. too, that in his
absolute control Of Congress Presi-
dent Wilson stands alone.
Samuel G. Blythe has said bluntly
that Wilson dominates Congress be-
cause he knows more than 1t does.
That is rough way OF putting 1t,
yet no one can observe from week TO
week the mental habits OF this re-
markable man and ponder his intel
lectual equipment without realizing
that he is a personality which, trans
lated unexpectedly from the class
room to the arena Of national gov
srnment. confounds the experienced
and demonstrates its own mysterious
quality most effectively in getting
everyday results. A stubbornness that
carries equally stubborn men along
with II and guides them as II pleas
Us cannot be measured with the Or
binary rule. II springs from some
ihing more potent than will pow
er. Grover Cleveland was less yielding
than Wilson, Mckinley no less sauve-
ly firm, Roosevelt more doggedly OBJ
stinate, yet none could, nor dared
try, command such implicit obid!-
ence. Free sugar has hardly an hon
est defender outside the White House,
yet il Is in the law, and Senator'S
have risked their seats to vote 1t
there. The prime fruitaee OF the
year Is absolutism. Washington, ac-
customed for a hundred years to lean
on precedent, has said this mastery
could not survive the early PATRON
age era of the cordial summer and
the chilling fall. Yet q second year
is opening. and Consress believes
the country would resent a revolt.
Mr.. Wilson's first year closes with
the White House more at odds with
public sentiment over the Mexican
question than over all other issues
put together. His management OF
legislative questions has been we'll
nigh flawless. In point Of accomplish
ment, at least. He has personally
conducted every item of Legislation
until Congress has lost the faculty
OF initiative. Significant of this
wondrous change Is the hope of the
gentlemen in charge of the antitrust
programme that they may be able to
turn back upon him for revision of the
interlocking directoratos and the In
terstate Trade Commission hills. Mr..
Wilson has allowed Congress little
pride of authorship, and in an i'm
passe like the present 1t is only
natural. now, for Congrcss TO try to
evade responsibility for making i'm
portant decisions.
In the foreign field the failure is
as stupendous as the domestic policy
has been triumphant, If success Is
to be measured by the prestige Of the
United States among nations. Huerta
In Mexico, constitutionally II blood
lily seated, Is snubbed, while Peru
overturns her Government In a night
and the new one commands our in
slant recognition. For the dollar Dip
lomacy of Taft aud Knox in China
is substituted tho Wilson hundred
cent, negotiation-nOt a cent for the
six-Power loan. but $s0.0oO.000 for
river control If the Red Cross will
do the work Of the State Department!
Peace treaties are signed by the score
which would arbitrate even the ma
tional honor. and q golicy IL pursuit.
In Mexico whose doubtful SUCCESS
may be achieved only through un-
1peskable hloodshed and physical.
financial and moral prostitution OF
that unhappy "rpubilc." A Score