Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-10-02
ISSUE ClEAR.CUT
IN THIS DISTRICT
SUPPORT OF WILSON in POLITI-
CAL AND MILITARY CRISIS
Is AT STAKE.

ohC anu Oul Ouc ISSUE III ILLS GALL
paign," said Charles Drury, cand-
date for congress in Southwestern
Washington, just after his return
this week from trip to the Grays
Harbor cities. THAT ISSUE" he con-
tinued. lis the supreme one Of sup
porting President Wilson in this po-
litical and military crisis in the his
tory of the world.
ITO be loyal to the destiny of this
nation we must support the man who
is leading the nation forward on the
highway Of greatest achievement
reaching up to this mighty destiny.
ours is not the destiny of war
torn Europe. We do not look across
the water for criterions. The con-
gresham, our own among them, who
are today fighting Wilson are of
those, l fear, who do this. Only re-
Gently these antagonistic statesmen
were pointing our administration to
the diplomats of Europe as the very
glass of fashion and mold of form
in state-craft. They made invidious
comparisons between what they term
ed brilliant European diplomacy and
our frank open-handed statesman
ship which arrives at every issue on
schedule time.
European VS.. Wilson Diplomacy.
LET the millions of mothers of
Europe who will never see their sons
again, and the multiplied millions of
children there who will never again
see their fathers give their voice on
European diplomacy and what it has
brought them to and contrast it with
the Wilson diplomacy and what it
has brought this country to. This
nation today is more prosperous than
any nation under heaven, and it has
more of peace and tranquility than
any other country the world over.
1.-THE Woodrow Wilson diplomacy
did it.
"This Is the reason that nine out
of every ten men you meet are Will
son men. From ocean to ocean Will
son is the political idol, and this dis
trict needs a congressman to repre-
sent it in Washington who is true to
this constructive sentiment of the
people.
1.-THE election of congressman is
simply the business proposition of
sending a competent man to Wash
ington to handle the job. II there Is
a feeling Of antagonism against the
administration in an applicant for
the place. he is not competent. He
will not be able to do business as our
representative with the administra-
ton for he stands in hostile attitude
to the very men whose help he must
have IL he accomplishes anything.
That's definite. When we send q
minister or ambassador to another
nation to handle our affairs there we
do not send a man that detests the
government and on every occasion is
bitterly antagonistic. No. We send
a man who is in full accord and har-
mony with that government. That's
constructive. That's business.
"The congressman this district
sends to Washington should be on
the same footing Of good fellowship
and harmony with the Wilson gov
eminent that our ambassador is on
with the government to which we
send him.
There's q New Spirit Now.
MANY congressman do not under.
stand the political omens that are
everywhere apparent to the ordinary
mind. The old issues, the issues we
have known since the days of our
grandfathers, are not the things the
people are today fighting hardest for
The Wilson administration has ham
mered out in the crucible Of politics
an entirely new nationalism and the
cry in the heart of every patriotic
man today is for congressman to sup.
port the man who is making these
issues law-making them law faster
than any administration ever made
history before.
II have seen a great deal of this
congressional district in the past two
months. l know first hand the mind
of the voter of Southwestern Wash
ington, and the dominant desire in
the heart of nine out Of every ten oil
them you meet is to earnestly endorse
at the coming election what President
Wilson has done, and to uphold what
he is now doing by electing a con-
gresham who will go down to Wash.
ington and support the Wilson poll.
cies,"