Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-04-24
MOST NEWSPAPERS
SUPPORT PRESIDENT
REVIEW or NEW YORK WORLD
SHOWS SENTIMENT THROUGH
OUT COUNTRY.

tnelf size is the only size ana tnaI
he president is fighting singlehand-
ed against the sentiment of the coun-
Try, the following editorial from re-
cent issue of the New York World
shows a different state of affairs TO
exist.
The editorial is entitled. Where
the Newspapers Stand, and reads:
''To the high credit of American
journalism, an overwhelming major
ity of the leading newspapers Of the
United States, without regard to par
ty lines, are stanchly supporting
President Wilson on the Panama tolls
issue.
Most of the Democratic press
would naturally be with a Democratic
president, but among Mr.. Wilson's
strongest supporters are Republican
and Progressive newspapers of COM
handing influence.
"In New York City only the Even
ing Mail and the Hearst papers are
opposing the repeal. The World, the
Evening Post, the Sun, the Times,
the Tribune, the Herald, the Press,
the Globe and the Brooklyn Eagle
favor the repeal of the coastwise ex-
emption clause. In the state press
the percentage in favor of repeal is
quite as emphatic.
with three or four exceptions all
the leading Southern newspapers are
sustaining the presidents policy. On
the administration side of the issue
are the Louisville Courier Journal,
he Richmond Times-Despatch, the
Richmond News-Leader, the Balti-
more Sun, the Charleston News and
Courier the Chattanooga Times, the
Louisville Post, the Knoxville Sentl-
mel, the Savannah News, the Raleigh
News and Observer, the Mobile Regis
ter, the Macon Telegraph, the Atlanta
Constitution, the Atlanta Journal, the
Florida Times Union, the Vicksburg
Herald, the New Orleans States, the
Columbia State, the Macon News, the
Memphis Commercial Appeal, the
Fort Worth Record, the Galveston
News, the Augusta Chronicle and the
San Antonio Express.
'In the East the Springfield Re-
publican, the Boston Post, the Bos-
ton Globe, the Hartford Times, the
Providence Journal, the Boston
Transcript, the Boston Advertiser
the Hartford Globe and the New Hav-
en- Journal Courier are on the side o.
he president.
although some of the Eastern
Progressive newspapers like the New
York Mail, the Philadelphia North
American and the Pittsburg Leader
are in favor of the coastwise exemp-
ion, the great Progressive papers of
the Middle West are strongly on the
side of treaty obligations. These in
,lude the Chicago Tribune, the Kan
sas City Star, the Detroit News and
he Detroit Tribune.
There are = few papers in the
Middle West like John r. McLean's
Cincinnati Enquirer, the Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune, the Kansas Cit!
Journal, the st. Louis Globe Demo
,rat and the Detroit Free Press which
ire against the president, but mos
If them are on the other side. The
chicago Inter Ocean, the Chicago
: Record Herald, the Chicago Journal
he Duluth News Tribune, the st.
louis Post Dispatch, the st. Louis
Republic, the Cleveland Plain Dealer
he Illinois State, the st. Paul Pho
leer Press, the Topeka State Jour
lal, the Sioux Falls Press, the Mil
yankee News, the Des Moines Capt.
al, the Milwaukee Free Press, the
Nebraska State Journal, the Omaha
World Herald and many others are
firm for repeal.
I'm the Rocky Mountain states
some of the Republican papers like
he Salt Lake Tribune and the Salt
lake Herald are sustaining the coast
wise monopoly, but others like the
idaho Statesman are quite as ardent
IN the presidents side.
Most of the leading Pacific coast
newspapers and some Of the New
Orleans newspapers are protestin'
against repeal or the reputable anc
prominent Eastern newspapers that
oppose the president Philadelphia has
the largest percentage, but the Rec
ord and the Public Ledger are up
holding the administration regardless
If Philadelphia's traditional attitude
,oward any sort of subsidy or re
bate.
"Out of 1876 leading newspapers o.
he United States on The Worlds eX
change list, we find 107 supportine