The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-10-21
THE RECORD SET FORTH

WILSON ENDORSED. BY MANY
POLITICAL OPPONENTS.
What He and the Democratic Party
in Congress Has Done for the Peo.
pie.
Nothing just like the Democratic
Text Book for 1914, now being dis
tributed, has even been issued before.
1t is a chronicle of brilliant achieve
ments. It recites the fact that not
since the administration OF George
Washington has single congress en-
acted so much legislation of big mo-
ment to all the people.
The volume opens with a challenge
in the form of twenty-five questions
addressed to the Republican party,
asking which of the great measures
passed by the ,Sixty-third Congress,
and invariably supported by Republi-
can members, would be repealed if
the Republican party should be re-
turned to power. The final question
is: do you endorse the action of
those Republican leaders who exo-
rated the president for not Selling
Mexico City, at the point of the bayo-
net, when they knew that by so doing
he would have produced in the west
ern hemisphere what there is in the
eastern hemisphere-hell on earth?"
The Democratic triumph in this par
ticular instance is heralded in the
caption printed on the front cover:
"War in the East, Peace in the
West! Thank God for Wilson,"
The opening chapter of the book
proper is entitled What Woodrow
Wilson and the Sixty-third Congress
Have Achieved" in which are recited
fifty-two fulfliments of pledges to the
people, record not only unsurpass-
ed but unapproached by any other
political party in the history of the
United States.
Following this chapter is one tell
lux VI IllS "OuuOI lul SIoiS VI " oSSAA
full Waiting" It was pref ared under
the supervision of the state depart
ment and relates authoritatively the
admirable manner in which President
Wilson handled the Mexican situa-
ton. The text book contains num-
Der of excerpts from editorials warm
Iy endorsing the result attained,
which appeared in Republican and in
dependent, newspapers, particularly
in the Pittsburg Gazette-Times. own
ed and edited by United States Sen
ator George T.: Oliver, and from the
Ohio State Journal. The historical
value Of this chapter is 1nestimable.
Of course, the Federal Reserve Act
and the Underwood-Simmons Tariff
Act are dwelt upon at length. The
chapters devoted to these measures
are rich in information and are writ
ten in a remarkably unbiased vein,
the facts making parsianship unnec-
essary.
Under the caption, "The President
Prevents the Greatest of Strikes" is
told for the first time and in detail
the story of how a tie-up of ell the
western railroads, which would have
lasted many weeks, if not months,
was forestalled by Woodrow Wilson
appealing to the patriotism of rail
road presidents and railroad laboring
men alike. The work of the federal
| board of conciiation and of the pres
ident himself is brilliantly and faith
fully related, much of tie official cor
respondence in the negotiations be-
There notable chapters are those con-
tanning Republican and Bull Moose
approval of the acts of Democratic
congress. The first contains moro
than 100 excerpts from compliment
tary editorials appearing in opposi-
ton papers; the second is devoted to
portions of speeches delivered by Re
publican and Bull Moose members of
congress explaining why they consid-
cred it their patriotic duty to disre-
gard party lines and follow the Dem
ocrats, and the third contains rec
ord of Republican and Bull Moose
votes in House and Senate for Demo
cratic measures.
What Woodrow Wilson and the
Sixty-third' Congress have done for
the farmer in the way of improving
his credit and assisting him in mar-
keting his crops is described in sew
eral chapters. 1t shows that, upon
analysis, the agricultural problems
of the country prove to have received
more attention than the public gen.
orally realizes.
No less important than those deal
ing with what has been done for the
farmer are the chapters seeting forth
legislation enacted and administra-
tive measures taken in behalf of the
laboring man.
A perusal of the table Of contents
shows that not a subject having the
slightest political interest has been
overlooked in the preparation of this
important and compact little book of
352 pages. The work Of compilation
was under the supervision of COM
mittee~c composed of Robert W. Wool
ley, chairman and editor: Senator
Benjamin F. Shively of Indiana; Rep
resentatives E. T. Taylor of Colorado,
and E. E. Reed of New Hampshire.
and former Governor. of the Canal
Zone, Richard F. Metcalfe. Most of
the chapters were written by such
we'll known Washington correspond
ents as D.. Hastings MacAdam, Otto
Praeger and Maurice Splain.
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