The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-19
PRESIDENT PLEADS
FOR REELECTION
OF ALE DEMOCRATS
Writes Letter as Indorse-
mentiof Majority Mem.
bers of Congress.
REVIEWS ACHIEVEMENTS
OF HIS ADMINISTRATION
Declares Party Is Only Instru-
ment by Which Anything
Can Be Done.
OUTLINE OF FUTURE PROGRAM.
Sation Not Likely to Reject Team
SO Full Of Spirit of Pub.
lie Service.
REVIEWS ACHIEVEMENTS
OF HIS ADMINlSTRATI ION
oUrLINE OF FUTURE PROGRAM.
Nation Not Likely to Reject Team
SO Full OF Spirit of Pub.
lie Service.

WASHINGTON. October Is.-Presl-
dent Wilson made public to-day4a letter
20 Majority Leader Underwood. OF tho
House. In which he reviewed the
achievements or iiin administration,
outlined. the program for the next ses-
sion OF Congress. and declared "the
Democratic party Is now IN fact the
only Instrument ready to the country g
hand by which anything can be ne
complished."
The President wrote the letter ar an
Endorsement Of all Democratic members
OF Congress In leu OF speeches he said
he would like to make In every congres- :
s.onal district. lie predicted victory
Tor his party In the elections because
every thoughtful man sees that a
change of parties Just now would get
the clock back. not forward" and be-
cause "a practical nation Is not likely
to reject such a team, full of the spIrit
OF public servIcc. and substitute In
the midst OF great tasks. either n party
upon which n deep Generalization has
fallen or u party which has not grown
to n stature that would warrant It's as
suming the responsible burdens of
state"
The legislative program begun dur
Ing the present Congress was declared
by the President to have been begun
= to destroy, private control and set
!.
pie Of the country had been served by
this Congress as they have never been
served before.
oGTLISIs Of WORK
ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED
Outlining the work already accom-,
plished, Mr. Wilson mentioned the re-
form OF the tariff, the passage of the
new currency BILL, the antitrust hills
and the handling of foreign problems
He said he doubted II there hns ever
been Encr exhibition OF teamwork
or OF unhesitating devotion TO the fuI-
tillment OF party pledges."
Prais,ng e,new tariff bill, the Presi-
dent asserted that private control had
shown It's sinister face on every hard
In America. had shown II for long
time. and sometimes Very brazen.y, in
the trusts and In the virtual domination
of credit by small groups or men, lie
said that high prices did not Epring
directiy from the tariff, but out OF the
suppression OF competition. which
hourished more easily under the pro-
'tection OF high tariff. He declared
. that the panic which opponents OF the
new bill predicted had not come, and
that despite the European war, there
had been sufficient time to prove the
success of the act.
The trade, commission bill and the
Clayton antitrust bill were spoken of
as designed TO make ,Gen In a small
way of business as free to succeed as
,Eien In big wa:. and to Kill monopoly
In the seed" He added that ':Inonopo-
lies are built up by unfair methods of
cd by the new legislation. .Afonopoly
is TO be cut off at the roots" he de-
clared.
TO DESTROY MONOPOLY
AND MAINTAIN COMPETITION
''lf our party were to be called upon
TO name the particular point OF prii,ci-
plc in which 1t differs from It's oppo.
ncnts most sharply. and in which IL
feels itself most definitely sustained
by experience continued the Presi-
dent. 'wc should no doubt say that ii
was this: that we would have. no deal
ings with monopoly but reject Ii alto
Sether; while our opponents were ready
TO adopt II into the realm of law, and
seek merely TO regulate 1t and moder-
& ate 1t In It's operation, 1t is our pur-
pose to destroy monopoly and maintain
competition as the only emectual In
strument of business liber tyr
Justice has been done the iaborer de-
clared. the President, and his labor As
no longer to be treated as If it were
merely an inanimate object OF com
merce disconnected from the fortunes
and happiness of living human be-
ing. TO be dealt with as an object OF
sale and barter"
or the currency bill, Mr.. Wilson said:
I'VE have created a democracy or cred
II such as has never existed in this
country before" He declared that
''oredit is now at the disposal of every
inarwho can show energy and assets,
and because control of the system rested
with the government, said ut Is self
government as we'll as democracy"
1t was impossible to complete rural
credit legislation, the letter added, but
the Federal reserve act itself "facili-
:ates and cnlargesl agricultural credit
Ia an extraordinary degree"
Speaking of the program for the next
session of Congress, the President mem
toned Legislation for building up the
American merchant marine, and the
Completion OF great program for the
conservation of our natural resources
ond the development Of tho watcrpow-
or of the country"
Without n Congress In close SYM
$i.athy with the administration.y wrote
tho President, "a whole scheme OF
reace and honor and disinterestedS SER,
vice to the world cannot be brought
ito its fullErealization.'
UNDERwOOD .p.iAIsEs
MAGNIFICENT LEADERSHIP
An era OF peace with foreign nations
and domestic prosperity was predicted
& for the American people by Majority
Leader Underwood, of the House, In. a
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