The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-15

| triot. He would seek his own reelection 1 as he came upon horseback up the bloody | highway of contending armies.s
 l The American people have never yet re- 1 pudtated war president and never will. l We naturally a red blooded, fighting 1 race or course our army could invade Mexico and march in triumph to it's cap- i ital, but after the war was over other ar mics would march-an army of widows | and orphans army of cripples and | men broken in health, army of pen stoners and an army of tax collectors 1 gathering up the earnings of the people | to pay the great war debt. All America | wants peace-peace with honor
 When When Ameriean n1ir soil -as invaded 1 the States troops into Mexico upon their puni- | tive expedition. They are there now. and, have no doubt, will remain as long as there is a possibility of the capture and punishment of the murderers who invaded | American soil needed for the pro lection of American lives along the border Wilson's Achievements.
 MT. James then attacked the Repub lican platform and its attitude on the 1 ship subsidy question, criticised se verely the Republican attitude on the rural credits and antitrust propositions and closed with a glowing eulogy of President Wilson, concluding with these words:
 The Democratic party is proud of the achievements of Woodrow Wilson. He has brought prosperity and plenty to 1oo,- 0o0, 900 Americans. He has given work to every willing hand in the republic Every toiler has the full dinner pail-fun to over flowing.
 He has by legislation taken labor out of the brutal category of inanimate things and treated the toilers men with hearts that beat and lips that pray, and they are no longer subjected to oppressive in functions or federal court manipu1attons. He has dignified the associated toi1ers of the field and the factory, men seeking by organization and association to brighten IIl "a wealth producers and creators of the na- ton. He has freed the industries of the republic He has liberated the business of the nation.
 President Wilson has provided a fed eral trade commission whose duty it is to destroy favoritism, weed out unfair advantage and give to industry every where an equal opportunity. He has gtv- en to individualism high hope and new life He drove from the treasury of the nation ship monopoly that was enjoy ing subsidies the canal tolls of millions of dollars a year and at the same time proclaimed to the world that treaty made with America was more than a ''scrap of paper" but was, indeed a, bond of honor that should be faithfully kept. He has struggled amid the worlds war with the great nations of the earth for the freedom of the seas and the rights of Americans and of neutrals everywhere He has stood for the law of neutrality which was written before the war com menced and agreed to by the nations of the earth and could not be changed, dur
 
 some or the demands of others
 With critics all about him. with patience and strength and great foresight. he has kept a nation at peace with honor. He has driven from the control of the finances of the people of this nation an oIigarchy of wealth and substituted in its stead a just government. interested only in sup plying the legitimate business needs of the country with sufficient currency to meet dts demands and requirements. It ought not to be necessary to nominate him in partisan convention. Patriotism in this world crisis should rise above pol tttcS, and all parties should rejoice at an opportunity to proclaim him the whole hearted and happy choice of republic of peaceful freemep.
 Four years ago they sneeringly called Woodrow Wilson the schoolteacher Then his class was assembled within the mar row walls of Princeton college. They were the young men of America Today he is the world teacher. His class is made up of kings, l1aisers, czars princes and potentates. The confines of the school room circle the world. His subject is the protection of American life and American rights under international law.
 The saving of neutral life, the freedom of the seas, and without orphaning a sim gle American child, without widowing a single American mother, without firing single gun, without the shedding of a sin militant spirit that ever brooded above battlefield an acknowledgment of Ameri- can rights and an agreement to American demands.
 ESaSS WHIT F1OnOEs
 He truly demonstrated that principle is mightier than force, that diplomacy hath it's victories no less renowned than war Shall we by his defeat tangle again the we say to the warning countries: '-Open again these settled international ques- tions; his was not the voice of his coun- try?''
 In the bloodiest crucible of all history he has kept the stainless banner of the republic flying above 100, 900, 900 of people n aa6 nd years of great trial. of difficulties and complications crowdingY upon each other like waves of an angry sea, with enemies 1 powerful from without and critics and traducers from within, with abuse cruel as 1t was cowardly, he emerges as ma 3estic and powerful as a mountain. after a storm, loved by all who believe in jus tice and feared by those who temporize with wrong
 He elevates himself to that lofty but lonely eminence occupied by George Wash 1ngton, Abraham Lincoln and woodrow Wilson, the three worst abused but best | beloved Americans the republic ever knew.
 He neither bullies the weak nor fears the strong. He deals with the military | lord with his millions of soldiers in the | held demanding Justice for the American I people, protection of American lives and | American rights as he does with the l followers of revolutionary torn Mexico
 For the honor of our flag the preserva 1 ton of our Hves,- the protection of our l rights he would challenge the world to | ooAA1i1ct' ~ TOT poilIical personal preferrnent l oE party NoVantage he would not indict the s1ghtes< wrong nor impose the smalI- est injury. Mexico and Germany England | and Austria look alike to him when Amer lea IS involved He might overlook the | wrong of the weak. but never the insult of f the strong. o-
 He has struggled for peace. His fon6- est hope, his most fervent prayer is for i the peace, not only of his own beloved | country, but of all the world When<the last great day shall come, and beforg the l court Of God the nations of this earth shall march in judgment review who is | it that would have our president exchange places with the blood bespattered mon archs of the old world? can sec biro 1 with the white light streaming uDor, his | head and hear the Master say, Blessed | are the peacemakers, for they shall he called the children of God"
 President Wilson has kept o,,r ,a+,o,