Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-10-22
THE DEMOCRATIC RECORD.
Review Of Accomplishments of Great
est Administration Since Washington.

! est Administration Since Washington.
Nothing just like the National Dem-
ocrGtic Text Book for 1914, now being
distributed, has even been issued be-
fore. 1t is a chronicle of brilliant
! achievements. It recites the fact that
since the administration Of George
Washington has a single Congress en-
acted so much legislation of big mo-
ment to all the people.
The volume opens with challenge
! i'll 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can members, would be repealed if the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 returned
to power. The final question is: do
you endorse the action of those Re-
publican leaders who excoriated the
President for not seizing Mexico City,
at the point of the bayonet, when they
knew that by so doing he would have
produced in the Western Hemisphere
what there is in the Eastern Hemis-
phere-Hell on Earth?" The Demo-
cratic triumph in this particular in
stance 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 'tWhat Woodrow
Wilson and the Sixty-third Congress
Have Achieved" in which are recited
fifty-two fuIfllments of pledges to
the people, a record not only unsur-
passed but unapproached by any other
political party in the history of the
United States.
Following this chapter is one telling
of the wonderful story of ''Watchful
Waiting" It was prepared under the
supervision of the State Department
and relates authoriatively the admira-
BILE manner in which President Wilson
handled the Mexican situation. The
text book contains number of ex-
cerpts from editorials warmly endors-
ing the result attained, which appear
ed lin Republican and independent
newspapers, particularly in the Pitts
burgh Gazette Times. owned and edit,
ted by . 9asCsd Etateg aSeDeto soTzse<
T. Oliver, and from the Ohio State
Journal The historical value of this
chapter is inestimable.
Of course, the Federal Reserves Act
and the Underwood Simmons Tariff
Act are dwe1t upon at length. The
chapters devoted to these measures
are rich in information and are writ
ten, in remarkably unbiased vein.
the facts making partisanship 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 all the Wes-
tern railroads, which would have last
ed many weeks, if not months, far
forestalled by Woodrow Wilson ap-
peaIing to the patriotism of railroad
presidents and railroad laboring men
alike. The work of the Federal board
OF conciliation and of the President
himself is brilliantly and faithfully
related, much of the official correspon-
dence in the negotiations being pub
lished for the first time. Three nota-
BILE chapters are those containing Re-
publican and Bull Moose approval OF
the acts of Democratic President
and Democratic Congress. The first
contains more than 100 excerpts from
complimentary editorials appearing in
opposition papers; the second is de-
voted to portions of speeches deliver
ed by Republican and Bull Moose
members of Congress explaining why
thew considered it their patriotic duty
to disregard party lines and follow the
Democrats, and the third contains
record of Republican and Bull Moose
votes in House and Senate for Demo
cratic measures.
What Woodrow Wilson and the Six
ty-third Congress have done for the
farmer in the way of improving his
credit and assisting him in marketing
his crops is decribed in several chap
ters. 1t shows that, upon analysis.
the agricultural problems OF the
country prove to have received more
attention than the public generally
realizes.
No less important than those deal
ing with what has been done for the
farmer are the chapters setting forth
LEGISLATION enacted and administrative
measures taken in behalf of the labor
ing man.
A perusaI of the table OF contents
shows that not subject having the
slightest political interest. has been
overlooked in the preparation of th.
important and compact little book OF
Ss2 pages. The work of compilation
was under the supervision of COM
mittee composed of Robert w. Wool
lev, chairman and editor: Senator
Benator Benjamin F. Shfvely. of In
diana; Representative 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 CORE
| spondents as D. Hastings MacAdam.