The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-04-02
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house ON Tuesday and the certainty
that it win get similar treatment In
the Senate, when the vote is taken
ought TO restore harmony in the
parry. President Wilson and Speaker
Clark, the two strongest individuals
in the contest, can both afford tc
be liberal and magnanlmous.
The President shows some feeling
ever things that have been gaid o.
the administration Ia the course o.
the tolls exemption debate, and, per
haps, he shows more than the situa
tion justifies or expediency suggests
There have been some shots fired al
the administration, Of course, but pol
itics is a shooting game, and the Pres
ident holds a record for ,naIksman
ship himself, and should not Object
10 a little practice at the targets by
others. Altogether too much has beer
said about "disloyalty'' to the admin
istration by leading Democrats IN
congress, and the attacks that have
been made upon Speaker Clark have
been extreme and without warrant.
An attempt has been made, and, per
haps, with some success. to make a
breach in the party and define factions
that shall come to IA clinch before the
next election. Already political pro
phets are predicting a contest for the
n@nination between Clark aud VIII
son, and that even before they know
how Mr.. Wilson viii interpret the
plank in the platform declaring in ia
vor of a single term for President and
pledging the nominee OF the Balti-
moreconvention to the principle speei-
acally II Is remarkable how entirely
these peopleignore the strong ground
on which the opponent of the repeal
measure stand, by reason Of the fact
that exemption of American coastw's
from canal tolls is one of The
planks OF the Baltimore platform.
President Wilson attempts to argue
this down by saying that anothe
plank OF the platform declares agains
any form of subsidy and the exemI \
ton law is in effect subsidy tE
American shipping, but that can HARD
ly be accepted as a valid contentionE
Mr.. Wilson did not make any poinE
Of il when he accepted the nominaS
ton and approved the platform no
in any OF his speeches during IND
which led to his electiona
The President, indeed. has not attcmr
ted TO put the case for repeal of th4
exemption clause on any ground of
principle, but has stuck to the arg d
ment that # is requisite 10 an advau
tageous handling of our fo:cign poliH
cy. In short, he has urged It as
expedient, and that puts IL
whole case at point which make
proper almost any contention that ma
be made against repeal.
There is no reason why this della
should make any serious breach
he Democratic party. unless temp
gets the best OF the parties chiefly e 81
jagged and concerned in tie conte
ion, ana ii Is particularly inoumbel
IN the President to guard asainI
such an effect upon the adsainistr
ion. lie can best afford 10 preserJ
his e1uanimity, too, since II is certa
le Is to have his way about the ma
er And he should make some allo
'nces for the difficulties that SON
congressman are experiencing in
'udiatlng plank of the party pl
orm on which they may. perha,
rave laid particular stress. The Pr,
dents insisteaee ON Il Reputation
his plank of theplatform, on the
ual inyalidity of the plank, lndet
las raised question that is boul
Q bring up good many issues I
ere the next party convention is he
md he viii have to admit very wi,
altitude for discussion.
Get togetherl That's the thing
AE !
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