The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1915-01-29
WILSON AD-
M|N|S1RAT|ON
A FARCE
THE NEW FREEDOM
MERE FICTION
Saunders B. Moon Says "Wilses
and Bryan Diplomacy the
Jeke Of the World"

Daring the last days OF tie admins
trstion Of Roosevelt the ponderous Mr..
Taft loomed up rs the Roosevelt choice
for the next Republican presidential NOM
inee. Roosevelt was about to retire IN
private but not quiet life, and he thought
sired to have q successor who would d.
him added honor by taking mp the Roose-
welt policies and carrying them dutifully
forward as the obedient servant of =
great master. Taft was nominated and
elected. When Taft, who before his
nomination was the most devout worship
per at the Roosevelt shrine, found him
self safely ensconced in the presidential
seat, he developed q sndden and ever in
creasine indifference toward the X sose-
welt policies. and dared defy the wishes
of his erstwhile beloved patron in the
choice OF q cabinet. President Taft de-
cided that it would he better and more
gratifying tho, to have policies OF his own
and let those Of Roosevelt go hang The
taste Of power destroyed Taft's gratitude
toward his creator Roosevelt. For q
cabinet, Taft gathered together a con-
glomeration OF discordsnt spiritsmen as
much out Of sympathy with each other
and the people ~ were the soldiers OF
many races that followed the standards
OF Alexander the Great Tsft's admin
issration wss . political and moral fail
ure, but from a view point OF economics
it was . glorious, bowling success - tn
hunger that gnaws at miIIiuns OF stomachs
and the chill Of As many iIl-cI.dled
bodies do now most fervently attest.
FU several years previous 70 the year
1872 a scholar OF great philosophical at
tsinments WAS furnishing st Princeton
University in the great lite state of New
Jersey. lie wrote a book recounting the
ills of the country and prescribing rem
ediss ss unfsiling a. Swamp Root and =
~ s. This book was entitled, The New
Freedom" and its author was His Ex-
cellency Woodrow Wilson, now Presi-
dent OF the United States, the same man
whose nomination Was accomp isl.ed by
convention and whose election by q mi
nority Of the voters Of this country was
made possible by the detection OF Roose-
welt and the formatitn OF the Progressive
party. The Bryan star was waning in
1912 and Bryan saw a chance to keep
bis name and fame alive by defeating
Clark and giving the Democratic nom-
ination ~ Wilson by a spectacular con-
vention trick. Ii was not that Bryan
cared more for Wilson than tor CLARK,
but Wilson was merely the hest available
tool with which TO boost the declining
stock OF the one time boy Orator OF the
Platte" Roosevelt created Taft polit
ically and made him President, and then
when his handi~ork displessed him he
did what he could to atone for his error
by killing Taft politically and making
him that ordinary sort Of private citizen
which be ever ought 70 have been and
ever ought 70 remain. The selfishnes~ Of
Bryan and the revengefulness cf Roose-
welt made Wilson President, % we bope
that after the 4th OF March 1917, when
Mr.. Wilson will retire u private life and
resume his philosophical researches, that
he will have the honesty 70 amend al
future editions Of The New Frredom''
By adding these gords: This book /.
fiction, and whosoever tsketh it for fact
n not wise"
Well, Mr.. Wilson became President
and hungry, long suffering democrsr,
made the velkin ring with their hurrsh.
for the new chief their chief. The ne~
chief assumed the reins Of power and
prosperity fed, bot the President tbouzbl
that thrs wss only Republican trick
and that he could bring back the eood
tunes that the bray Of the Dernocrsfi,
dookey bad scared svsy. Congress ~s'
kept in ses-ion from December to Do.
ocmter and then some; laws we're p~s
ed; then more laws were pss-ed; and ye'
more laws were psssed; but laws svsile,l
nsusht- Men ~ho bad erumbled a
having 10 work overtim- during the sd.
mini-trstion Of Taft began o. grumble 81
having too many holidays. The Dem.
ocrstic Consre~ then ps->ei more lsw,
and threatened 10 p&~ . Isw making it q
grave crime Tor any one 10 complain o
hard times. As the time spprosched 70,
tbe congressional elertion President VIII.
sou in desperation uied tbe spplicsf;or
os philosophers remeik~, but philosophy
had never heretofore filed sn empty
ssomsch and t refused 10 chanee IL way.
10 srss;fy ssch devosse even - Wil.oa
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