The Hartford republican., 1914-08-07
FALLING tide
FOR wilson
Administration Weiged In
Impartial Scales.
James Davenport Whelpley Writes
For Literary Digest His.
Latest Impressions.

The fall elections will eocn show
what the country thinks of the DEM
ocratic administration. Some are say
ing that the Wilsonian defeat of Huer
Ia and the rising tide of prosperity
will bring Democratic victory; 9TH
ers argue that the Presidents fever
ish haste in pushing his program thru
Congress betrays fear that he will
soon have a hostile law-making body
to deal with. Meanwhile, we have the
judgment of dasnterested British
! observer VINO tries to tell his readers
at home how the President stands
after a year and half Of power. He
has shown strength and wisdom,
writes James Davenport Whepley in
The FOrtnightly Review Uondon),
but he has now reached and passed
the greatest height of his political
power" Mr.. Whelpley, a British
Washington correspondent, thinks
that this failure lin influence was
manifested by the manner in which
the repeal of the Panama tolls dis
crimination was passed. President
Wilson's betrayal Of his inexperfence
in forming a program for Democratic
legislation rouseh up enemies in his
own political household, we are told.
OF the result Of the new Panama
Tolls Bill on the Presidents prestige
this writer says:
There are striking Indications that
this victory in Congress marks the
beginning of the decline Of the politi-
cal strength and popularity pf Pres
ident Wilson himself. He became
President at a time when his party
had Ion" been out of power. He at
once formed legislative program
which would have staggered more
experienced leader. With consider
able sagacity and a realization of the
shortness of the day in political life,
me forced his program upon party
somewhat ligintheaded over victory
and anxious to conserve the party
strength by presenting solid front
to the Opposion. The period of light
headedness has gone, however, and
the glamour of the new and unaccus-
toned has passed from over the Wis.,
icn Of the Democratic floor leaders.
President Wilson now finds critics
wlbhin his own party, and partially
successful rebellions against the auto
cratic control he has exercised sor
the past year are not infrequent. He
has, in snort, reached and passed the
greatest height of his political pow
er.
ITO the political weather experts
in Washington and elsewhere the
barometer shows signs of falling, and
if history repeats itself, the fall. l.once
begun, will accumulate momentum
ON its way. No longer has the Presi-
dent but to express his will and wit
ness its immediate accomplishment.
That he may have realized this would
could to pass is not impossible, for
no intelligent man who has studied
political psychology as closely as
President wilson could fail to realize
the inevitable escape in time of the
party majority in Congress from his
strict and forceful guiding hand. TO
use homoly expression, he has
made hay while the sun shone,' and,
to give him the credit that should be
his, he probably knew that to carry
out even a large part of his political
program he mus, las the Old frontiers
men used to say, go while the going
Is good He has accomplished much
Of what he started ont to do,and has
Dnly been year at It, 1t is a record
Of big achievement. for even II he has
bo fight harder IN the future for what
le gets add yield 20 greater degree
Of compromse,ha can but congratu-
late L!mseh upon the distance already
and accept the waning of his
power wtn more or less philosophy.
The fignt against the trusts is next
dealt with by ais well-informed jour
nalist. who remarks:
The Old World mas long ago dis
that the greatest forces for
The expansion Of foreign trade are
big Industrial combinations command
ng unlimited capital. The New
World, now needing foregn TRADE
nearly as much as the Older bonn
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