The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02
OLNEY'S CAMPAIGN
 LETTER
Democratic Leaders Look to Missive to Aid in Doubtful Congress Districts in
 North and South.
A CALAMITY TO WEAKEN
 PRESIDENT, SAYS WRITER

E1cAaTo O1hey B 4eLter 70 Col. George Harvey. praising the Wilson Admin istraion, will have a good effect throughout the country. The Demo cratic National Committee is sending 1t out as campaign literature.
 MT. olney's hearty support of the Democratic Administration will help in doubtful Congressional districts in the north and east.
 The O1ney letter was made public by Secretary Garrison of the War De- pertinent in speech at Springfield. Mass.
 ''If the Wilson Administration had occupied itself since March, 1913, in settling itself in the saddle and in planning for great things to be done in the future, it would have pursued the customary course and could not easily have been censured.' says MT. O1ney to Col. Harvey
 Unparalleled Assiduity. "But the fact is.'' he, added. ..that during the period the National Gov ernment has devoted itself to it's du-. ties with an assiduity quite unparal- 1eled. has undertaken and brought to conclusion much important work work largely constructive in it's na- ture and bound to permanently in f1uence for good the fortunes of the s country.
 "A high protective antiduated tar if, for example, full Of absurdities and abuses, has been subjected to a reasonable downward revision. has been .supplemented by an income tax which puts upon wealth a larger and fairer share of the burdens of taxa tion. and signaMzes the passing. nev- CT to return. of such legislative crudi- ties and exuavagances as the Ding ley bill and the Payne-Aldrich bill.
 .tTha Federal Reserve bill inaug- urates a new era in the financial his tory of the country. and in the 5ndg- ment Of bankers. business men and experts generally, will gradually but surely do away with the confusion and chaos which have heretofore dis graced American finance.
 '"The trust legislation and the Alas ka Rat1road bill also embody Iegis- lation which may fitly be described as essentially constructive. It is not claimed. it is not to be claimed. that these measures, or any of them. are the last words on the subjects they relate to.
 Trusting In His Leadership
 ..If the Democratic party showed gfeat sagactty in picking woodrow wilson for the Presidency. it has shown no less in trusting itself to his leadership. It was that trust which brought about the repeal of the Panama Canal tolls exemption through the votes of many Congress men who honestly doubted the jus tice and wisdom of the repeal They now unquestionabH plume them selves upon their action.
 rThey now unquestionabIy realize that. because of that repeal and of the Presddentss Mexican policy. and because Of the good faith. sincerity, disinterestedness and law-abiding- ness which mark the Presidents .,,. |, I,a+1, +1,-.a ,,.z 41 United States today occupies a. po- sition. of supreme importance, in the world.
 .It Is the one great power not party to the awful carnage which is now desolating Europe and making modern civilization seem a sham and reproach. It acts in foreign rela- ton through it's President and is the one agency through which ending the war can be urged upon the be1n- gerents with the best chance of a hearing.
 A Calamity to Weaken Him
 gro weaken the Presidents pres tige at this crisis, to make 1t appear that he and his Administration are 1 not trusted and supported by the American people. would be calam- ity. At this 5uncture. and until dis credited by some overt act of the American people. the President Of the United States is not a Democratic as- set merely, nor even an American asset. but an asset of the civilized world. ..-+@.
 "It is due to ourselves. to the un- happy warning nations, and to hu-