The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-01-14
SPEECH FAILS OF PURPOSE
No Longer Adheres TO High Ideals
Expressed in Letter Before
Last Election.


ing the Republican party and warning
insurgents in his own party not to dare
to break the solidarity of Democracy,
has simply served to stitfen the back
bone of his opposition in the House and
Senate.
The Presidents speech was so plainly
and exclusively political that Democrats
as well as Republicans, called attention
tOthe prediction letter written by HIM
to Chairman Doremus of the Demo-
cratic campaign committee, wherein he
said:
every patriotic man ought to stay
on his job until the crisis is passed and
ought to stay where his job can best be
done. We must do whatever is neces-
sary to forego whatever is not neces-
sary to keep US in close and active con-
cert in order to relieve any possible
way the stress and strain put upon our
people during the continuance of the
present extraordinary conditions My
job | know now, can be done only if |
devote my whole thought and attention
to it and think of nothing but the
duties of the hour am not at liberty,
and shall not be, so far as | can now
see to turn away from those duties to
undertake any kind of political can
vass
Leading members of the Republican
party in Congress said it was so clear
the PRESIDENT was so DESTROYS of re-
election that he has cast his high-mind-
ed resolve 10 be the chief executive of
the whole nation to the winds in order
to make an attack upon the Republican
party.
The speculation caused by the Presi-
dents remark that the people would
have a chance to judge whether he
knew what he was talking about is re-
garded as being wholly unnecessary by
the leaders of both Democratic an Re
publican parties. 1t can be stated
definitely that Mr.. Wilson is a candidate
for denomination and reelection. 1t is
not a matter for speculation. He is
a candidate, and an active one. His
speech at Indianapolis was the opening
gun-fired early because of panic over
the insurgency in his own party and the
reunion of the Republican party.
1t was the patronage fight with the
members of his own party that caused
President Wilson to turn aside from
the pledge made lii the DUlemus lettc.,
just before the last election, in order to
throw down the gauntlet at Indianapolis.
One of the favorite devices of the Presi-
dent in disputes with his own Senators
is to ''go to the country with the issue,
That is what he did in Indianapolis. He
tried to brighten the insurgent Demo-
Gratis out of their opposition to his
patronage demands and at the same
time ridicule the Republican party.
The amazing inconsistencies of the
President are the chief subject of dis
cussion in Washington tonight. His
praise of the Interstate Trade Commas
sion is regarded as particularly signif-
cant. In the first place his announce
ment. as a new thing, that the COM
mission had been endowed with all the
powers of a tariff commission is not
likely to prove much of a sensation.
The tariff board, which was created
under the Taft administration, made
exhaustive reports on cotton, wool and
other schedules. but when the Demo-
Gratis were revising the tariff they paid
no attention to the scientific informa-
ton submitted by that board and
legislated it out of existence by refus-
ing to make further appropriations for
the board.
In the second place, Mr.. Wilson, as a
candidate for the Presidency. said that
he objected to the Progressive party's
program because it favored trade or
business commission and he did not
propose Ito have any commission play
ing province" to him. He was against
commissions. Now he is for them.
The Democratic party took the currency
plan of former Senator Aldrich of Rhode
Island and called it the Federal reserve
act, and yet the President said in his
speech that the Republican party has
not had an original idea in 80 years.
The President frequently has praised
the Sherman antitrust law, which was
made by Republican Congress, and
as matter of fact the only things
which the Demscrats themselves have
originated have brought distress to
business.
All these things especially the attack
upon leaders of the Republican party,
have served the purpose of stiffening
this opposition to the bill providing for
government ownership of ships which
is now pending in the Senate This is
the bill which President Wilson says he
is most anxious to have passed and to
which he devoted most attention in his
Indianapolis speech.
Democrats as well as Republicans
say that the President felt that he was