Evening star., 1915-01-03
SECRET OPPOSITION
BY FOES OF WILSON
Enemies Within Party Begin
Propaganda to Block
denomination.
PROPOSE TO NAME CLARK
WITH PRESIDENTS ASSENT
Adjournment of Congress March 4
Would Give Executive Chance
to Tour Country and Talk.

| Special Dispatch 10 The Star
NEW YORK, January THE New
York Evening Post, under the caption
WILSON'S Enemies Fight Him in Sc
cret, published the following story.
| under Washington date line, today:
Propaganda Against Wilson
definite propaganda against Presi-
dent Wilson and his administration is
now in circulation throughout the coun-
try. 1t Is regarded thus far as the out
put of the well known democratic op-
ponents of the President, who oppos-
who q have given. him grudging support
and who are out to defeat him for re-
nomination and reelection in 1916.
notwithstanding the fact that it is
the belief of all genuine democratic
leaders in Washington that President
Wilson must be renominated in 1915 as
the best hope" of the party at the
presidential election, the propaganda
now in force has for its sole purpose a
demonstration of the theory entertain
ed by the Presidents opponents within
his own party that even if nominated
he cannot be elected.
Up to this time there have been few
signs of political activity on the part
of the Presidents friends. The propa-
ganda against the administration, con-
Quoted along much the same lines as
used in a similar campaign against
President Taft when he was in the
White House, is proceeding practically
unchecked.
that it is passing unnoticed in admin
istration circles. On the contrary, no
step on the part of the opponents OF
the President is being overlooked, and
sooner or later day of reckoning Will
come. -
Dro.;dan+ Wilson has done less trav-
cling out of Washington than any OF
his recent predecessors. He has mao
Congress on his hands almost lnces-
sanity since he came into the Whlte
House. He has devoted himself to the
comnIetion of the democratic legisla-
tive program promised by the Balti-
more platform.
On Things Accomplished.
When. the President does go to the
country and show himself he will go on
the basis of actual performances rather
than on promises to be kept or broken
promises to be explained. The strength
Of this position cannot be overestimat-
ed in the opinion of the Presidents
friends.
At the present time the administra-
tion is bending every effort to have the
legislative program of Congress com
pIeted by March 4, so that adjournment
| can be made without Il special session,
this year. If nothing unforeseen shail
happen Congress may be permitted te
20 home March 4 until the regular ses.
sion next December, something that
has not happened in Washington since
1907.
| Unless the war shall produce some
complex situation requiring the entire
II time of the President in Washington
! during this long breathing space, 1t l:
not a violent assumption that the fres
ident will be seen and heard by the
country during the coming summer
If the President has in mind presen
itatiou of the views of the administra
ton on the state of the union. there i:
a no more logical time in slght thar
the coming summer. A year from now
presidential politics will begin to boil
and in June, 1916. the delegates to thu
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