The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-10-01

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use made OF foreign relations. 1T is
going 10 be practically impossible for
the present administration to handle
any critical matter concerning our
foreign relations, because all for
eiGn statesmen are waiting TO see
which way the election goes. and in
The meantime they know that settle
ments would be inconclusiyc."
Makes a Bid.
q bid was made BY the president
for tho votes Of Progressiyes. He
praised the Progressive party as
having tho real red blood OF HUI
man sympathy in its veins" and de
clared the Democartlc party had
done things the ProgressiNes wanted
done.
Briefly the president referred 10
the hyphenate issue. He said back
Of that party OF the Republicans are
those who want to inject into orr
politics the politics Of Europe"
President Wilson's address fol-
lows in mari:
Il am very much Obliged to you for
giving me an opportunity to say some
very plain things about the present
campaign and about the future policy
Of this country, because young men
are very much more interested in the
future than they are in the present.
While some Of us who are older look
back upon long experience and are
able 10 take certain measurements
which may not have occurred to you,
nevertheless your knowledge is that
the world lies in front Of you and not
behind you You want to know what
sort OF world it Is going to be, and
whatesort OF guidance you are going
10 have in that world and what sort
or cooperation among you will be
effective for the service Of the world,
into which the years ahead OF you will
bring you.
- Singular Campaign.
Il do not know where. from Re
Publican quarters. you have got any
Suggestions as 10 what Is going to
happen in the years to come This Is
a most singular campaign; 1 Will not
say an unprecedented campaign be
c4lse happen 10 remember that 9th
er parties have tried to get into pow
er by saying nothing whatever. ! al
so remember with interest that they
never succeeded because tho people
OF the United States are an inquisi-
tive people and il You ask them 10 en-
trust you with the great power of
their government, they really want 70
know what you are going to do with
that government. If they entTust you
with 1t. They may not insist upon
ruur telling them what you would
have done in circumstances now past
and gone. but they will insist upon
your telling them what you intend
10 do in the future.
For a little while myself expect
cd that this campaign would be an
Interesting, intellectual contest; that
on both sides men would draw upon
some of the essential questions Of
politics in order 10 determine the
predominance OF parties. but ] am
sorry 10 say ] have found nothing to
Interest me and ! am a little bit
ashameS OF myself that ! should
have expected 1t, for ] should have
known better.
Praises His Purty.
There is fact running through
all our political history OF which 1
buHlA ~ uGLNt AtA4A4ALNA AAAE1IAAF -
Democratic party, my fellow citizens.
is the only party whose life has per-
sisted and whose yigor has continued
throughout all the history OF this
nation, and that has not happened by
accident. II has happened because
II Is the only party, ! venture TO say,
oil of whose life has been governed,
or at any rate inspired, by definite
poise-au absolute belief in the con-
troll. the capacity TO control their
own affairs and shape them in the
common Interest.
THE DemomCatic party has com
mitted many errors. the Democratic
party has made some fatal mistakes
OF action, but the reason 1t has lived
the reason it is the only party that
has apparent Immortality in our pol
tiles. is that it is the only party~that
has consistently based its beliefs up
on things and the convictions that
underlie all American history.-the
belief In the government OF the peo-
pie by themselves and their own
representatives. II has witnessed
the life and death Of two great
parties, and unless l am very much
mistaken, 1t will witness the early
disappearance OF another. II wit
messed the life. decadence and disap-
pearance of the Federalists party. II
witnessed the life. the increase. the
decentralization, the decline. and the
disappearance of the Wing party.
And then there appeared upon
the scene the Republican party, first
OF all organized for great and
definite purpose to prevent the spread
Of the institution of slavery into the
free portions oE-the United States.
That object II greatly accomplished
and then there seemed to descend
upon It the spirit of the Federallst
sud the Wing parties, and ever since
then the increasing generalization OF
that party has been evident.
What was the spirit OF those par
lies? The spirit Of those parties was
tine Of limited control OF the affairs Of
lha h1st L.