The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-09-07
THE PEOPLE KNOW.

President Wilson will make no
swing around the states. His speech
of acceptance will be made at his
summer home and may be supple
mented from time to time by appro-
pirate short addresses. These will
enable the people to keep in sufficient
ly close touch with his views upon
issues that may arise or plans that
may be devised or conditions that
may develop.
This plan of campaigning is in
keeping with the lofty dignity of his
high Office. Besides, the great mass
es of the people of the country are
already familiar with the achieve
ments of his dministration-thei
purposes and their already developed
results
For four years he has been the
central figure of American politics.
The fierce light of publicity all that
while has beaten upon him and his
acts. Publicity has been given to his
every utterance, to his every deed. 1T
he has made blunders, the people
have had their abundant opportunity
to know and to consider them. If he
has been guilty of inconsistencies, he
has avowed them and they as we'll as
his ayowals have been given to the
world. If he has rendered loyal and
unceasing service, that has been
shown.
If he has taken seriously and with
all his energy to the sacred task en-
trusted to him four years ago, the
voters know it. If he has burned
midnight oil in his study of the ire
mendous and unforeseen problems
which have confronted him as they
have confronted no other president,
that, too, is known.
1t he has at times differed with his
party leaders, the public has been
promptly advised. If he has kept the
faith, the public knows it. If he has
shown patience and tact and states
manship, no speeches from him are
needed to enlighten the country.
II he has been bold when boldness
was demanded, diplomatic when
greater results could be secured ny
diplomacy than by impetuosity, they
who are to decide the coming con-
test, know it.
If he has kept the country out Of
war, the tragedies of which no man
could overestimate, they know it,
If he has fortified the country by
vast scheme of preparedness, they
know it.
If he has maintained his country's
honor, unsullied and above reproach
and it's respect acknowledged by the
world, they know it.
If he has been callous to the at
tacks of political enemies or captious
critics for self or party advancement,
they know it.
II he has shown his own and the
country's sympathics with those who
must suffer from the raging conflicts
that are holding civilization in state
of amazed horror, they know it,
If he wishes no unfair advantage to
come to his own people from the
calamities of those of other lands,
they know it.
If he has brought to his country,
out of these dire conditions, such a
prosperity as no nation in all history
has achieved, they know it. If by
legislation he has espoused, he has
helped all classes of our people, those
who labor and those who loaf, has
given equality in all honest endeavor
to the former and stimulus to energy
to the latter, they know it.
If the nation today, is rallying to
loftier ideals than ever before sue
cessfully appealed to it, they know it.
Therefore, in all confidence of a
vote of approval by the country, he is
resting his case upon his deeds, the
character he has shown, the policies
he has advocated; and will leave the
use of words to those who are his OPP
ponents in this campaign.