Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1914-11-14
THE WILSON POLICIES BRING
DEMOCRATIC DISASTER.

Will SiIpiipoio Gnu ~
have expressed their condemnation OF
the Wilson administration and the
Wilson policies.
1t is no unusual thing for an add
ministration, especially one response
bic for tariff law, to fail to hold in
its second year the popular support
that carried it into office. But never
before has the expression of popular
disapproval been so unmistakable.
The campaign eliminating in last
Tuesdays election was fought
throughout the nation on the slogan
Stand by the President When the
Democrats issued their campaign
textbook they headed it Thank God
for Wilson," Though intended to aid
the election of Congressman, the great
er part of the book was given over
to the Presidents utterances. The
precise extent to which the Democrat
ic majority in Congress has been re
duced is not at this moment certain.
The loss, however, as result of this
species of argument is heavy.
In almost every State the President
has his personal representatives run
ming for Office
In Pennsylvania he aided with a
personal letter the Senatorial ambi-
tons of A. Mitchell Palmer. Mr..
Palmer's defeat is SO overwhelming
as to make his candidacy appear gro
tesque.
In Illinois the personal representa-
tive of the President, campaigning as
the original Wilson man" was Rog-
ed C. Sullivan. Sullivan is beaten by
a stand-pat Republican.
In Connecticut the Democratic
nominee. Governor Simeon E. Bald
win, possessed in the fullest degree
the Presidents support, and is him
self man of great personal force
and popularity. Governor Baldwin
goes down to defat with the national
leader he so blindly followed.
In the New York Senatorial contest
Ambassador Gerard Wilson APP
pointee. received the fullest admins
tration support. High personal char
acter, magnificent record in his dit
fcult post at Berlin availed him moth
ing. He went down to defeat on the
one single issue of his affiliation with
the national administration.
The New York contest for the Gov
ernorshp followed the rule establish
ed over the country In point OF per
sonal fitness for the Office there was
little choice between the candidates.
Each had been an admirable public
servant in the office he holds today.
But the voters clearly swept away all
the confusing issues involved and
voted down Governor Glynn in token
of disapproval of his party as now
nationally led.
1t is only too clear that Sulzer, Da-
venport, the religious issue-all ex
traneous matter of that sort, had lit
tie bearing in New York. The admin
istration supported Glynn He identi-
fed himself with the administration
Therefore he was Overwhelmingly
defeated.
In November 1912, the voters of the
United States elected Woodrow Viii
son President of the United States
upon platform which appealed tc
them, and which they took seriously
The nominee it later appeared, die
not
They remembered that that plat
form promised a tariff revision tina
would mot injure nor destroy legiti
mate industry"
But the tariff law enacted strucl
down American industry, aimed tC
produce needed revenue and opened
no new markets for our trade.
The platform favored the exemp
ton from tolls of American ships en-
gagged in coastwise trade passing
through the Panama Canal
But the President forced Congress
to levy tax on our ships equal to
that on British or foreign ships,
The platform promised protection
for American citizens abroad.
The administration elected on tina
platform has failed to protect Ameri
can citizens anywhere, and fatty re
fused to protect them in Mexico
where American citizens have beer
robbed and murdered by hundreds.
The platform promised an adequate
navy The Democratic party, dom
mated from the White House ha:
starved the navy to the point of dan
gerous weakness.
The platform promised to foster our
merchant marine. The President, by
executive order, prohibited the en-
forcement of that part of the tariff
law which, by granting preferential
duties TO imports in American bot