The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1915-10-22
Forgotten is the Single
Term Plank of Dem
ocrafic Platform
PRINCETON PHILOSOPHER
HAS BECOME 4 POLITICIAN
The Democratic Party Will Desy
Its Platform a III ousand
Times in 1916.
Rl :. n. MOON.


President Wilson has Yielded to tbs
narcotic delights of the power and pres
tige attaching TO the officr IL president 9
the United States. Forgntten ls th.
singie-term-plank of the Democrsfi,
platform adopted at Baltim re in 1912
faded is the memory of tn elegant rid
cule contained in the last presidentia
message to cs ngres- and directed agsins
Congressman Gardner AMI others vh
dared To cry aloud against ille inasiequaf.
means of national defens'. The milo
aud Indulgent air of amrs : a contemp
that then marked the presidents stti
tude toward the "excitabls persons j.
and out Of congress who p inted out tn,
danger of being lulIed into dreams ti
peace when the world is at ar, and uni
versal peace seems a. far "ff and i'm
probable a. il Was when the cave-mai
went out To test his club on the head o
an unloved fellow MANS lar from hi.
attitude now, but in its place has com.
a feyerish zeal for war preparation. Nc
explanation has been offered for IN
sudden reversal OF policy 10y the admin
istration and none is needed We hav
only to remember that 1916 will he th.
year OF the next general election, and tn
frantic efforts of the administration 3.
steal ''Repubscan thunder'' are no long
er matters Of mystery
Recounting the blessings of peace hss
never won an election, and that ths
president and bis advisers have recalled
this fact, is apparent from the bellicos
front now assumed by them IS a n.st'er
Of nece-sity in the face Of the threatener
disaster of being retired t. private life
Every plank Of tire Democratic platform
will be repudated if il is (. und nesdfu
so To do to appease the people who haw
lorg ago marked the DEM cratic party
for slaughter in l9i6. The Democrsti.
party will deny it, platform a Thousand
times IL such a course will enable ths
Democratic rooster to crow with veto
riou- exultation i'm November OF next
year. nor will the conscience of the Dem
ocratic party afterwards exhibit the
slightest sign of grief at its wickedness
'thongh the Bible says that Peter wepf
bitterly wi hen he had denied his Master
only three times before the scriptursl
rooster sent forth his derisive crow, and
while that occurrence was, no doubt
what suggested the rooster a. the en-
blem OF the Democratic party, yet the
Democrats have callously violated that
historic precedent when pressed, and
would no more think Of limiting the
number Of denials of their poIicies and
pledges To pitiiul three, than they
would entertain for a momrnt the horri-
BILE idea that Republican should hold
even a fourth class postms-t-rsnip under
"A Democratic administration.
Not a straw Of political hope is being
overlooked by the president in his pro-
found desire to succeed himself. Ths
charms Of the presidency h w not paIle,I
on the present occupant of the Whit
HOUSE, and he has made a hid for the
votes of women m equal suffrage state
by announcing that he frvors woman
suffrage. The Princeton philosopher has
beoome a politician, and Fanny bos-
has 'Ner exacted more unque-tionine
Obedience from his lieutenaats than In.
president = requiring from ~very Dem
ocrat who j. drawing a snltry through
the gracious favor Of Woodrow Wilson.