The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-16
Friday, April 10, 1915
PRESIDENT WILSON'S CHANCE
FOR REELECTION
(Capital NeWs)

n6SOJa declares JndJ ii Jueie
should be a return of prosperity
before the next general election
nobody can defeat Woodrow Will
son for the presidency.
Senator Clapp is probably cor
rect. No president with the
possible exception Of Roosevelt,
has ever done so much for the
people at large as has President
Wilson, yet no president, not
even Cleveland, has had to meet
and contend with such a cOnspir-
acy to discredit him, even to the
extent of plunging the country
into temporary bankruptcy and
ruin, as has President Wilson.
There has not been repre-
sentative of Big Business, not a
special interest, nor a reaction
airy politician or a special inter-
est-serving newspaper in the ma
ton but has been a part of the
conspiracy to ruin the president,
even if to do so meant TO ruin the
country.
In their efforts, they have had
the aid and encouragement of the
Mexican situation which was left
to the president Ivy Taft, and they
have had the aid and support of
conditions brought about by rea-
son Of the frightful European war
a war whose worldwide cOnse-
quences in disaster to commerce,
to industry and to labor has
never before been Witnessed.
They have taken full advantage
of the opportunity, dishonest
though its use has been, to cause
the people of this nation TO dis
regard the fact that the effects
of the European war have been
even more disastrous to other ma
tions than to this one. They
have done their utmost to cause
our people to forget that in South
American countries, in Spain, in
Holland, in Italy, in Greece, in
Norway and Sweden; in fact, in
every nation, commerce has been
paralyzed, industry has nearly
ceased and every activity has been
thrown out of gear and new con-
ditiOns have had 90 be brought
about by reason of the war il
Europe. Every world activit,
has been founded upon free in.
tercourse between all other ma.
tions. AS soon as that free in.
tercourse was stopped as between
half the commercial world by rea.
son of the war, it was necessar.
that the other half of the com.
mercial world should suffer unit
new alignments and new paths
were made.
If, as Senator Clapp says, Pres.
ident Wilson shall succeed il
bringing order out of this wOrl,
disorder; if he can succeed il
bringing about a general resump
ton of commerce out of thii
world paralysis of commerce;
he can reestablish business pros.
perity out of this world annihil
alton of business, nobody, who
ever he may be, can defeat hin
for reelection.
And it now appears to be GER
tain that this is exactly what tn
president and his advisors ar
doing. In spite of the politica
conspiracy of the Republican pol
iticians and Republican news
papers to ruin and crush ever.
industry for political gain; il
spite of the paralysis caused b,
the European war and in spit
of every other handicap and op
position, it is being generally ad
mitted that prosperity has re
turned and that the hum of in
dustry is again heard in ever
hamlet, town and city and upol
every farm, in every forest an
in every mine in the nation.
Should the next three month
witness such an increased ac
tivity as the last three have see
and there is no reason to douh
but this will be the case, the or
all over the land will be for NOR
help instead of more bread for tn
unemployed and the nation wi
be in the midst of its creates
and best era of prosperity-bes
because built upon a truer an
better foundation.