The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-06
VOTE FOR WILSON AND DON'T GAMBLE
 WITH THE FUTURE
w. G. McAdoo Urges Citi. zens Not to Imperil
 Our, Peace. \

(By W. u. MCAuOO, secretary or the Treasury.) Of transcendent importance to the
 American people is the continuance in the office of President of a man of courage, boise, experience and statesmanship. We do not gamble upon the future, we do not trifle with destiny, we do not imperil honorable peace if we keep at it's head the great man who has guided this nation s destinies during the past three years. If it had not been for President Will
 sons courage and calmnes;s, intel ligence and judgment, exalted patrio- tiSm, passionate love of humanity and justice, and stern insistence upon the maintenance of American rights and American honor through the most brilliant intellectual contest in the history of diplomacy, hundreds of thousands of the best of Americas s youth would now be rotting in name less graves, other hundreds of thous. ands would be hopeless invalids and crIpples, billions of war debt would be pressing upon the backs of the masses of the American people, pros perity would have been destroyed and gloom and mourning would be stalking in the land.
 None know better than the women of this great land what a calamity war is, and what an unspeakable crime unnecessary war is. Women are, in some respects, greater suffer- CTS from war than men, but none are more willing than women to make su- preme sacrifices for their country if war becomes necessary, and none have a greater right than women to demand that every honorable means shall be employed to peacefully settle international controversies, before resort to war.
 Are the thinking men and women of America, who are not blind fol- lowers of parties but who love honor able peace and prosperity, going to turn out of office our great President, who has gone through the fiery fur mace for them these past three years and has rendered such noble service to his own country and to the cause of humanity, and put in his place a man without any experience what ever in the complex and perilous problems which confront us, and who has not offered a single convincing reason for the dismissal of faithful, loyal and truly great public servant? Is that the way to reward great men? Has the President had a square deal, or even decent deal, by the men who seem lost to every sense of mag nanimity and fairness in their criti- cism? They have not uttered a gener- ous or just word about him.
 I,o I,; ;.t1 partisan politicians have deliberately sought to embarrass the President of the United States in the conduct of our foreign affairs for the purpose of gaining party advantage. These noisy, mischievous and unpatriotic men have on a number of occasions almost de- feated the Presidents efforts to keep the country at honorable peace with the world. They have done their ut most to thwart the Presidents efforts and to imperil the country. The su- preme test of American patriotism is to-day, what it has been from the foundation of the republic, that the impious hand of partisan politics shall not be laid upon delicate inter- national problems and that partisan warfare shall be silenced in the face of international controversy. This sacred principle of elemental patriot ism has been grossly offended against by partisan politicians, and the Amer ican people should visit upon them the sternest retribution. We must al- ways put love of God and country first, and party allegiance last.
 If the calamity of war befalls us in the near future, deliberately charge that it will result more from the par tisan attempts now being made to get control of the American government, at the sacrifice of peace, than from all other causes combined. The rights and honor of the American people are safe in the hands of Woodrow Wilson and will be upheld unf1inch- ingly in the face of the entire world.