Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-10-27
HOW ENCLISHMAN
VIEWS CONTEST
FOR PRESIDENT
Correspondent Of London OBJ
server Gives Views on Per-
SonaIitieS of Two Candid
ates and Campaign Issues,

In four weeks umc-that is. @
Tuesday November THE citizens d
the United states many thousands O.
women citizens among thcmj Will cas-
s,+1 b~-as-s pi-seiciI srhey vi
do this In circumstances Of immcns
Interest To the world no people u
Europe can be- indifferent 20 the pop
ular choice Of a ruler OF nearly 100,
O00. 600 people And they will do +
m tanRlc Of Influences and interest
such az. perhaps no modern natioI
has exporienccd As the weeks go By
the governing issues become less oh
seuro Before the end Of this monh
they should be "a great deal clearer
and harder than they are today Il
will be TO our advantage II, in tho
meantime. we In England acQuaint
ourselves as far as possible with the
record and character Of the opposing
candidates
Mr.. Wilson After -Four Years
Upon one aspect Of Mr. Wilson'S
term there can be little serious dis
pute In domestic policy he viii rank
among the presidents who have been
AT once fortunate and successful His
election, more than most, was an adj
vouturous experiment For barely two
years he had been governor Of the
state Of New Jersey ana that, with
the exception Of eight years as head
of Princeton university, represented
his only experience of executive au-
thority. Even so, however, It was
vastly more than Lincoln could lay
claim to whoh he was called 20 lead
the nation In 1860. Mr. Wilson set
out with two advantage. First, he
followed Mr. Taft, who had not been
able 10 continue the Roosevelt tradi-
ton Of making the white House the
vital center OF the national lifo. The
American public. therefore. was ready
for active leadership Secondly he
was prepared with a legislative pro-
gram ana got ahead with it during
his first year OF office. Mr.. Wilson
al once established his asccndanCy
over congress, and, az the events of
The past few months have shown, he
has retained IT,
lie has carried through more logis-
ntion OF importance than any of his
recent predecessors. and II would be
iccurato to say that most of IT Is on
itlcd 10 be called national rather than
iart mh As head of the republic too,
Mr.. Wilson has been dignified and
OF II
oloqucnce which II a great
asset Not seldom-as In the message
On the Panama tolls and the historic
announcement of May last on the
League OF Nntions--hc has expressed
he higher mind OF America with sin
yulur force. Probably we may say
hat, If the world had remained at
peace. Mr. Wilson would In four years
have 80 dominated the general sense
If the American public that his re-
election In 1916 would have been AS
,crtain as was that Of Mr. Roosevelt
N 1904.
As War President
The European catastrophe, OF
course. has made this impossible A
democratic president appealing to the
,ia.,or,,o ,,,o, ,is .recard I'm DANES.
n. ,ff,irs ~ an. nhing. n prostdcnt
-, .t,I,o, ,a,.,,. ,ooLin,,. ro-elpction ut
4 time Of the acutest world crisis. is
luitc another.
/ submit that the primary fact to
.oatt,, l., ,,t. corroc,,or Ia .tbut since
.ott ma ,oIdor ~ thc offtrc couId
,,,.o Neon recardcd In ruropo. as "A
.,.,,,,,i,t,l.. s,,c.,..f,,l ,r,.ident If thp
.r,,i,oa s,,tes Ncnfrnut, hcinq as
~, non. ',,rac. tho ,no,it,ll. nolic, of
~. vvag,,,rc,o,, ,oyorrmcnt tho man
.hoso ANA. A. v.,s to r,rry tho Motley |
ny off.., ,,nId ho .artat, Of onl,
,,. u,,g co,d,,,natl,n H., ono stdo /
~ tho othcr ar n, both Mr. Wilson !
has bcen required to act for great /
which is the most cxtraor-
Iinary amaIram In the world II con-
aims millions of Germans and pro- |
icrmnns. millions belonging to other |
.,uropcap races who must be counted |
irst of gu MS anti Russian. and !
therefore, racinlh neutral. millions OF .
rood Americans who are gcographi-
ally SO remote from Europe that they |
.aunot have AMY feeling of RESPONSE
,iIuv i'm connection. with the terrible
.pony Of Europe IL has been MIR
Wilson'S part to represent All these
IL wei as those two ncrgely contrast
"a parties of the eastern statcs-thc
IRISH. with their bitter memories OF
.astlir 20 England and the groups
4 older Americans who are passion
tely pro-allics. Is H. then. amy Won
or tbsl tho denun,iYtfnps. of prrsi-