The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-02
PRESIDENT SOON TO SWING AROUND
 THE BIG CIRCUIT
Will Open a Campaign for America and American
 People
lspeeiaI to The Farmer.l

Washington, Jan. 2.--TIliS is the first of 1915 which is going to be President Wilson's year. That is to say that woodrow is going to the bat for him self during the year 1915. and the uni form he will wear will be that of the Home Team, the American peoples team. He is not going to bat for the purpose of fattening his own indiVid- ual batting average, but for the pur- pose of getting the rooters to shout ing for their home team, and to show the folks at home in this country that they have not alone a first division team at the bat for them, but that they have a pennant winning aggre- Eation that will stay at the top if all the American people will take their minds off from the European situation and let their ffrst thlloghts be of America
 If the newSpapermen in Washington, and other n1oulders of public opinion have caught the idea of the Wilson policies during the past two years they have not been able to give them the circulation and the whooping up thaa they gave to MT Roosevelt's | ideas and MT. Taft's views when they came into the presidency. President l Wilson has stayed on the job and ali of his statements, when he made any. were clear and to the point. But he has done nothing to get the niche on i dy and William Howard used to i'll l almost every day. The only sspectacu- | lar thing that MT Wilson has done is to show a patience that puts him in a class with Job.
 Now why did President Wilson re- frain from going before the public lwitF speeches and new ideas during I the first year of his term
 Because he had been before the people in the campaign that elected | him and he did not want to commit | himself or his party to any new lines of thought until the program of the 63rd Congress was finished He I wanted the spotlight to be kept con ] tinua1ly upon Congress which was I doing the work, and not upon the | EPresident. Tn a great country like T ours it is easy to confuse the issues nents that are clamoring for the at ltention of Congress. Matters that in- lterest one section more than another i are being urged all of the time and because of this pulling and hauling 1 there were many people who said that wilson and the Democratic par | ty would never show cohesion long l'enough to puts it's house in order by I passing the big National measures be- fore Congress. But the party has shown that it had cohesion and good leadership and 1t withstood the. shock
 
 and still remains in power
 l Americans who would never for l sake the Republican party under any conditions will have to admit thai I 1915 is a year in which they can feel sl grateful to the fact that their couln- try is capable of producing a party i in opposition to theirs that is able I to take over the reins of govern I nent and proceed in trying times I and find all of the fault they may there still remains the fact thai American constitutional government i is a beacon for the entire world and that the United States can change ad. manifestations and gain an expression of the will of it's people without af- l fecting the foundation that was bull by the founders. Although there is g variance in the views of many o1 our people there are none who hold thoughts for the future of the Ma ton with the idea of effacing the government of the people, unless i is the special privilege class whe gained control of and wrecked ths Republican party and even they be. lieve that thefr way is the best fol the Nations welfare.
 President Wilson is going to make his first speech in 1915 on Jaeksor Day, Jan. 8, in Indiana, and he is no going to open a campaign for vii son or the party He is going to opeI a campaign for America and tn, American people, There is a plac, in the sun for every American il America. and many times the number
 of Americans who breathe Arnericar
 air today. The leaders of the Demo cratic party in Washington belevi that after the President has swuns around the circuit and talked witt
 the people and the people begin tt think matters over with the Presiden
 that the people are going to get to cr 0f k0 THrI r AZ
 Idea, and, with a little regard fo, ; the rights of the other fellow. 1911
 will bring usr nearer to realization
 of the New Freedom"